Terms and conditions
Please note the consultation ran until 15 September 2009 – at this stage we cannot take additional responses on board.
This online consultation is being administered by Dialogue by Design on behalf of the Department of Health.
Our policy is to respect and protect the privacy of anyone who visits the Dialogue by Design website.
Where you are asked for personal information via the online form, this information will only be used for the purpose of conducting the consultation exercise, and will not be used for any other purpose without your permission. At all times, your information will be held in a secure manner. The information will be passed back to the Department of Health once the consultation has been completed.
If you are concerned about providing your personal information online please contact us on 020 8683 6602 and we will arrange alternative means for you to provide this information.
We collect IP addresses only for the purposes of system administration and to audit the use of our site. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that while your user session will be logged, you will remain anonymous to us. As a necessary part of our website function we need to use cookies; these cookies are not malicious. If you reject our cookies it will not be possible to take part in any of our web-based processes. This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Copyright
This consultation website is driven by a proprietary application developed by Dialogue by Design. No part of this application may be copied or adapted without written permission from Dialogue by Design.
Disclaimer
We make every effort to represent the information passed on to us by our client accurately on this website. We cannot accept responsibility for any inconvenience, loss or damage caused as a result of inaccurate information on these pages. Dialogue by Design provides links to websites maintained by other organisations as part of our service, but we cannot accept any liability for their accuracy or content nor do we endorse any externally linked sites.
Any views or opinions expressed are those of the consultees. The opinions expressed do not represent the views of the Department of Health or Dialogue by Design.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or data protection issues generally, or if you have any comments or questions about the accuracy of information on this site please contact: [email protected]
Freedom of information
We manage the information you provide in response to this consultation in accordance with the Department of Health’s Information Charter.
Information we receive, including personal information, may be published or disclosed in accordance with the access to information regimes (primarily the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004).
If you want the information that you provided to be treated as confidential, please be aware that, under the FOIA, there is a statutory code of practice with which public authorities must comply and which deals, among other things, with obligations of confidence. In view of this, it would be helpful if you could explain to us why you regard the information you have provided as confidential. If we receive a request for disclosure of the information, we will take full account of your explanation, but we cannot give an assurance that confidentiality can be maintained in all circumstances. An automatic confidentiality disclaimer generated by your IT system will not, of itself, be regarded as binding on the Department of Health.