Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System uses personal and confidential information for a number of purposes. Find out how we use your information here.
Information on this page explains our website privacy policy and how we will use and protect any information about you that you give us when you visit this website.
This privacy statement only covers the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System website, and the Your Voice Your Health website. It does not cover all sites that can be linked to from this site, so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site and read the privacy statement on that site.
From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (ie: name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include bulletins, email updates and website feedback.
Entering your details in the fields requested enables Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Any information you provide to Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System will only be used by us, our agents and service providers and will not be disclosed unless we are obliged or permitted to by law to do so.
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System website or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on our platforms, we may use whatever information is available to us about you to stop such behaviour. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met or when you no longer wish to continue your subscription.
Under the Data Protection Act we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We use leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it. We do not pass on your details to any third party or other government department.
If our privacy policy changes in any way, we will publish an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing the page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss and alteration of information under our control.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work more efficiently, and sometimes provide useful information to the owners of the site.
There are some cookies necessary to this site functioning, such as interacting with our accessibility toolbar. These cookies will usually remove themselves when you close your browsing session. More information can be found in the ‘Necessary cookies’ section.
We use some additional cookies, such as Google Analytics, to help us gather information and improve the website. You have the option to deny use of these cookies; more information can be found in the ‘Additional cookies’ section.
You can find more information on cookies from the Information Commissioners Office.
Necessary cookies
The following cookies are necessary to our site functioning.
| Cookie | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| cookieconsent_status | Persistently records your option regarding additional cookies. | 1 year |
Necessary accessibility cookies
The following necessary cookies allow the functions within our accessibility toolbar to work optimally.
| Cookie | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| accessibility-controls | Records option regarding additional cookies. | End of browsing session |
| saveFontSize | Allows the website (CMS) to record if the user’s font size selection. | End of browsing session |
| contrast-mode | Allows the website (CMS) to record the user’s contrast mode selection. | End of browsing session |
| googtrans | Allows the language of page content to be changed and records the language selected. | End of browsing session |
Additional cookies
The following third-party cookies are used for analytical and media purposes.
If you do not accept use of these additional cookies, some third-party media content – such as YouTube, Vimeo or Google Maps – may not load on this website.
Analytics cookies
In order to help us to improve the content, format and structure of this website we record and analyse how visitors use the using Google Analytics.
You can read Google’s extensive information on data practices in Google Analytics.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics on our website by denying additional cookies or by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
| Cookie | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|
| _ga | Distinguishes user for Google Analytics. | 2 years |
| _gid | Distinguishes user for Google Analytics. | 1 day |
| _gat | Throttles request rate for Google Analytics. | 1 minute |
| _ga_{ID} | Persists session state for newer versions of Google Analytics. | 2 years |
| _gat_gtag_UA_{ID} | Persists session state for older versions of Google Analytics. | 1 minute |
| __utma | Distinguishes user and session for Google Analytics. | 2 years |
| __utmb | Determines new session or visit for Google Analytics. | 30 minutes |
| __utmc | Determines new session or visit for Google Analytics. | End of browsing session |
| __utmz | Stores traffic source for Google Analytics. | 6 months |
Embed cookies
We may use embeds from YouTube, Google Maps or Vimeo on our site to display content. That content uses the following third-party cookies. Where possible, we will use privacy-oriented settings to ensure as few cookies as possible require consent.
These additional cookies that remain, and the content from which they stem, will not display on the site unless you choose to ‘Accept additional cookies’.
| Cookie | Source | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| CONSENT | YouTube (.youtube-nocookie.com) | Google cookie tracking consent with analytics and/or ad integration. | 2 years |
| CONSENT | Google Maps (.google.com) | Google cookie tracking consent with analytics and/or ad integration. | 2 years |
| __cf_bm | Vimeo (.vimeo.com) | Vimeo ClouldFlare layer which filters out requests from bots. | 30 minutes |
Captcha cookies
We use Google reCAPTCHA in order to verify whether or not you are a human when submitting data to the website. Most of the time, this will only be present on pages containing forms.
| Cookie | Source | Path | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _GRECAPTCHA _grecaptcha |
Google (www.google.com) | /recaptcha | Provides risk analysis to Google spam protection. | 6 months |
If you have any questions about these terms and conditions or the practices of this website, please email us at hiowicb-hsi.communications@nhs.net.