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Taking care of your privacy

We take the same care of your information as we do your health. We are always looking at ways to improve our website, and use a range of tools that help us to make sure that it meets your needs. Any personal information you give us will remain confidential and will be held in accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998).

Analytics tools

The St George's Healthcare website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evalate your navigation around the St George's Healthcare website. We use this tracking tool to help improve the website and to make sure that users get access to the information they need straight away. Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States and may be accessed by third parties if required to do so by law, or where third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google does not associate your IP address with your data.

If you do not wish for St George's Healthcare to track your activity on it's pages you can disable Javascript which will stop the tracking code from executing. For more information about disabling cookies in your web browser visit www.aboutcookies.org

Social networking tools

This website also uses cookies to store whether or not you have enabled sharing. When you press the enable sharing button this website stores a cookie on your computer that the website looks for, if you have this cookie then it will allow you to share the websites pages on your favourite social network, if you click disable sharing it will remove this cookie.

When sharing has been enabled this website adds the Facebook like button, the Twitter tweet this button and the Addthis sharing tools. These buttons may access the contents of the webpage you are visiting if you are logged in. If you do not want these services to track the pages you visit while on the St George's website then press the disable sharing button.

Submitting your personal information on forms

This website also contains forms that require personal information. When these forms are submitted they send this data to a script to be processed and that processed data is then sent to an email address within St George's Healthcare. We never share your data with other parties and you can expect the same confidentiality as you would if sharing this information with us in person.

Further information and help

For more information on Cookies and Google Analytics read the links below:

If you would like to know more about the technology used by St George's Healthcare on it's website then please contact communications@stgeorges.nhs.uk