Privacy Policy

North East and North Cumbria ICB are the Data Controllers for this website under the Data Protection Act 1998. We will process your data in accordance with the Data Protection Act. The purpose of the privacy policy is to inform you as a user about what information we collect when you visit the service, how we use the information, whether the information is disclosed and the ways in which we protect users’ privacy.

Your rights

We analyse information to see what is most effective about our website and associated services to help us identify ways to improve it and to make it more effective. We may also use information for other purposes, which we would describe to you at the point when we collect the information.

What information do we collect on this website?

When you use this site, we use technology to collect information indirectly – such as your internet address. This is commonplace across all internet services to enable the investigation of issues such as malicious use. This information is then kept in our internet access logs.

We collect information directly from you in a number of ways. One way is by using cookies. Cookies are small files of information that save and retrieve information about your visit to our site, such as how you entered our site, how you navigated through the site and what information was of interest to you. This information is collected for a number of reasons, for example, to help develop the website and associated services.

The cookies we use identify you merely as a number. If you are uncomfortable about the use of cookies, you can disable them by changing the settings in the preferences or options menu in your internet browser. However, disabling cookies may affect our ability to provide services to you; if certain cookies are disabled you may not be able to access the service.

We use the following cookies on this site:

Google Tag Manager
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This cookie is used by Google to track whether you have consented to their use of cookies to analyse site use

__cfduid .jquery.com
Cookie associated with CloudFlare, it used to speed up page load times. It does not contain any user identification information.

_ga .gstatic.com
This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.

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gtm_debug www.googletagmanager.com
gtm_preview www.googletagmanager.com
These are session cookies used by Google Tag Manager. They are used to analyse site usage and statistics.

WordPress functions

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This cookie is used to remember your cookie preferences. It persists for 12 months.

We also collect information when you give it to us. For example, you may register to use the message-posting facility. When we collect this type of information, we will notify you as to why we are asking for information and how this information will be used. It is completely up to you whether you provide it, but not providing information may affect our ability to provide services to you.

Your data is kept under secure conditions

We take appropriate steps to maintain the security of your data on our service. The open nature of the internet means that data may flow over networks without security measures and may be accessed and used by people other than those for whom the data is intended. Our intention is that this should not happen and we take measures to ensure that it does not.