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Cookies on our website

Taking care of your privacy

Your privacy is important to us. Our privacy notice covers what we collect and how we use, disclose, transfer and store your information. 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 data protection law (Data Protection Act 2018 and EU General Data Protection Regulation).

This notice explains how this website uses information. To find out how we collect, store and use information about you or your visit, see our Privacy Notice.

 

What are cookies?

Cookies are files saved on your phone, tablet or computer when you visit a website.

They store information about how you use the website, such as the pages you visit.

Cookies are not viruses or computer programs. They are very small so do not take up much space.

Our use of cookies

  • make our website work, for example by keeping it secure
  • measure how you use our website, such as which links you click on (analytics cookies)

We do not use cookies to collect personal information about you or to identify individual users. Any cookies used by this website are either on a per session basis or to help us monitor our website, to improve it for future visitors.

Google Analytics sets a number of cookies to help us evaluate the use of our website, for example the number of visitors we have and the pages visited. Read Google’s overview of privacy and safeguarding data.

When you enable cookie sharing on St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s website a cookie is set up to save your choice.

When sharing is enabled the social media buttons set up cookies on your computer; these enable you to share the content of the page without needing to login again to any networks you may be logged into.

The Youtube players found on this website also use cookies to help measure how many times each player has been used. The information gathered by these third party players is anonymous but is stored outside of St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s control.

 

Opting out and removing cookies

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust understands that visitors to its website may not wish to be tracked when they navigate through the site. You can use the following methods to opt-out of cookies being placed on your computer.

Cookie / Service
Way to opt out
Google Analytics
Opt-out of Google Analytics (Plugin)
Google Adsense
Opt-out of Google ads
Quantcast / ScribD
Opt-out of Quantcast
AddThis
Opt-out of AddThis

In most browsers if you search for cookies in the xstgeorges.nhs.uk domain it will display all the cookies we use on this website.

Cookies on our website

Cookie name
Use
More information

 

_umta, _umtb, _umtc, _umtz. _ga
Google analytics
These cookies are used by Google Analytics to track visitors as they navigate the website. All information is anonymous and visitor IP addresses aren’t collected.

 

_gads
Google Adsense
This cookie is used by the adverts running on the website to track the number of times that visitors see that particular advert. All information is anonymous and visitor IP address aren’t collected. You can find more information on this cookie on Fendix Media’s website.

 

Quantcast cookies
Scribd player
These cookies are used by the Scribd player to gather information on users using it’s services.

 

SGHsharing
Social media sharing box
This cookie determines if the visitor has enabled social media sharing

 

AddThis
AddThis Buttons
These cookies are used by AddThis and it’s assorted social networks to see if a visitor is signed in already to their accounts on the relevant network

 

ccNoPopUp
Cookie Control
This cookie sets if you have disabled the popup box explaining about cookies

What this means for you?

On visiting St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s website Google Analytics and Google Adsense cookies are set up and accessed on your computer.

These cookies are used to anonymously track your journey through our website and to register the number of times you have seen one of the adverts on our pages. This data is not associated with your IP address nor with any user identifiable information. When you press the play button on our Youtube embedded player the service provider sets up cookies so they can track how many times you have viewed the content inside the player.

The players will not put any cookies on your computer if you don’t press the play button and use the alternate links provided. When you enable sharing tools on St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s website a cookie is set up on your computer that tells the website that you’ve enabled sharing. We do this because when you enable sharing the sharing tools will automatically access cookies already set up on your computer by the social networks you belong to.

These cookies are used to see if you are already logged on to the social network and make it easier for you to share. By default sharing is disabled to prevent these tools from accessing your information if you don’t want them to.

 

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 University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on its website then please email gesh.comms@stgeorges.nhs.uk