The SHFA is delivered by Public Health Scotland (PHS), the national agency for improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of the people of Scotland
We fully respect your right to privacy when using our services. Here you will find details of our privacy practices and what we do to maintain your right to privacy.
We collect information about you and your organisation when you access any of our services online. We only collect the information we ask from you, that you give us and where required consent to it being processed for the purpose of providing Public health Scotland services.
We process your information for the purpose of providing you with services from Public Health Scotland. This includes some or all of the following:
We may also disclose the information to a third party where we have a legal obligation to do so. Public Health Scotland will not sell your personal information to any other organisation.
The information we collect about you and your organisation is stored securely in Public Health Scotland systems hosted in the UK/EU.
The website is hosted on a secure server by a third party in the UK/EU, and is maintained by Public Health Scotland staff.
The principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) require us to make sure your data is accurate, kept up-to-date and that we keep it for no longer than is necessary.
To meet these requirements
Under the General Data Protection Regulation there are a number of rights relating to Data Protection.
You can find more information about these rights in the Public Health Scotland Privacy Notice and on the Information Commissioner’s website.
Due to changes in EU legislation, which came into force on 26 May 2012, we need to inform you about cookies we store on your device.
To allow us to meet the legislation we have implemented an 'implied consent' solution. You will see a bar across the top of the site informing you that cookies are used, and inviting you to acknowledge the message by clicking 'OK'. You do not need to click OK and the site will continue to function as expected. If you click OK the information bar will be removed on all pages and on subsequent visits to this site.
A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. These can be used for many purposes. This website uses different types of cookies.
All the cookies we set on this site are deemed to be minimally intrusive in terms of your privacy. By continuing to use this site you imply that you consent to these cookies being set.
This is a small cookie used to store your cookie preferences.
We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the site.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
We use a number of tools and external applications, in particular Google Analytics and Google Custom Search, to enhance visitor interaction on our site. These services will set a cookie called 'PREF' which Google uses to track user preferences from one site to another.
These cookies are used on some sites when completing online forms, logging in to the site or using other functions. They do not contain any personal information and for the most part are automatically deleted when you close your browser. This site does not use any functional cookies.
If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. You can access them through some types of browser. Search in your cookie list to find our cookies if you wish to delete them.
More information about cookies, including how to block them or delete them, can be found at AboutCookies.org
Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser, however they will not be able to remain logged into the website myISD feature and will have to login each time to use this section of the website.
This list shows all cookies used by the Information Services Division website, and what each is used for
Cookie Name | Purpose | Expiry |
__utmb | Google Analytics cookie. This stores the domain name (hash code) of site, pages viewed this session, current time. | 30 Minutes |
__utmc | Google Analytics cookie. This stores the domain name (hash code) of site. | At end of session |
__utma | Google Analytics cookie. This stores the domain name (hash code) of site, a unique visitor id (randomly generated number), time of first visit, time of previous visit, current time, number of sessions since first visit. | 2 years |
__utmz | Google Analytics cookie. This stores the domain name (hash code) of site, time when cookie last set, total number of visitor sessions, number of different channels or sources through which this site was reached, source of the last cookie update, search hit tag identifier (or just 'organic' if reached via normal search hit), search medium, keyword phrase used to find site. | 6 months |
PREF | Saves the user's Google identifier, time of first receiving this cookie, last time when preferences were set, checksum for data integrity. This third-party cookie is placed by Google to track a user's preferences from one Google site to another. | 2 years |
This website is compliant with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) Guidance on the rules on use of cookies and similar technologies and the related Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
Privacy and data protection enquiries relating to this website may be made in writing to:
Public Health Scotland
Gyle Square
1 South Gyle Crescent
Edinburgh
EH12 9EB