Terms and Conditions of this website

Copyright

© Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust 2011.

The material on this site is subject to copyright protection of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust /the Crown unless otherwise indicated. The Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust/Crown 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 Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust/Crown 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 Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust/Crown 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.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS 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.

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 Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS 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.

Your Privacy

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust website uses cookies from Google Analytics. A cookie is a small piece of data that a website transfers to your computer’s hard drive when you are visiting it.
 
The cookie does not collect personal information such as name or email address as it is only used to collect anonymous information, for example, browser type. It will not give us access to your computer.

This website's content management system uses traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used so that our website can be tailored to the customer’s needs. It is the local NHS policy to only use this information for statistical analysis purposes. The data is then removed from the system.

Any data you submit via a web form is handled confidentially and stored securely in line with the Data Protection Act only for the purposes of responding to your enquiry.

For further details of how your personal information is collected and used, please view our W3C compact privacy policy.

Take Down Policy

Every effort is taken to ensure that the information contained in this website is both accurate and complete.

To help us maintain a high quality website, please inform us if you suspect a page or resource is inaccurate or in breach of copyright. You can report these things by sending an email with details of the nature of your complaint to online@yas.nhs.uk.

Please include your contact details and specific details of the material in question (e.g. title, author, URL, etc.)

On receipt of a complaint we will follow the below process:

• Make an initial assessment of the validity of the complaint
• Withdraw the item in question from public view while we investigate the complaint.
• Return a written acknowledgment that the complaint has been received.
• The complaint will then be reviewed by the corporate communications team. If the grounds of the complaint are considered plausible, the material will be either permanently withdrawn or necessary changes will be made to the satisfaction of all parties before the material is returned to the website.

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us.