Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme does not read any of your private online communications.

Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme and Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme collects and uses your personal information to operate the Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme and its affiliates. Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme, in order to determine what Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme pages, or register with Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme site or services, a cookie helps Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Durham & Tees Valley GP Training Programme at websupport@hee.nhs.uk. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.