Cookies policy

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.

  • Cookies make our website work as you'd expect by:
  • Remembering your settings during and between visits
  • Improving the speed/security of the site
  • Allowing you to share pages with social networks like Facebook.

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission
  • Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks Pass personally identifiable data to third parties Pay sales commissions.

Visitors to our websites

When someone visits www.hct.nhs.uk we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting either of our websites. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

Remembering your search settings Remembering your preferences such as colours and text size. There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Third party functions

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video.

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. The 'Help' function within your browser should tell you how. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of all the websites you visit.