Terms & Conditions
Copyright
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The material on this site is subject to copyright protection of Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust unless otherwise indicated. The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust copyright protected material (other than the Royal Arms and departmental or agency logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium for research, private study or for internal circulation within an organisation. This is subject to the material being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. Where any of the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust copyright items on this site are being republished or copied to others, the source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged.
The permission to reproduce Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust protected material does not extend to any material on this site that is identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders.
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust encourages users to establish hypertext links to the site.
Links policy
All links from this website are selected using our links policy. Links are provided for information and convenience only. We cannot accept responsibility for the sites linked to, or the information found there. A link does not imply an endorsement of a site; likewise, not linking to a particular site does not imply lack of endorsement.
You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site. However, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The pages must load into the user's entire window. You must not use the NHS logo to link to our site without prior permission.
Accuracy
Every effort is taken to ensure that the information contained in this website is both accurate and complete.
Availability
We cannot guarantee uninterrupted access to this website, or the sites to which it links. We accept no responsibility for any damages arising from the loss of use of this information.
Intellectual property
The names, images and logos identifying Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are the proprietary marks of the NHS. Copying our logos and any other third party logos accessed via this website is not permitted without the prior approval of the relevant copyright owner.
Virus protection
We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus programme on all material downloaded from the internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system that may occur while using material derived from this website.
Privacy statements
On 26th May 2012 the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) imposed an EU directive designed to protect internet users' privacy.
The law says that sites must provide "clear and comprehensive" information about the use of cookies.
In computing, cookies are small text files that help organise and store browsing information.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust website does not store or capture personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address that is automatically recognised by the web server.
We do not use cookies for collecting user information and we will not collect any information about you except that required for system administration of our web server.
This system will record your email address and other information if volunteered to us by you. This shall be treated as proprietary and confidential.
It is assumed that by accessing this website you accept the way that we use cookies. However if you have any objections to the way this website functions in terms of its use of cookies, please contact 01244 366381 or email: countess.feedback@nhs.net to register your concerns.
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