Conditions of Use

These are the conditions of use for this website.

General
Your use of the evolving practice website (‘the site’) must at all times obey these terms and conditions (‘Conditions of Use’). Using the site means that you agree to follow these Conditions of Use. Access to the site will be entirely at the discretion of the Scottish Health Council.

Information you provide
 
We ask you for information about yourself when you register to use the site, and you must keep this information up-to-date. Your personal information will be protected and only be used by us in limited ways, as explained in our Privacy Policy below.
You may not use the site to distribute or store material which breaks any law or regulation.

Use of on-line Information
 
You are allowed to use the information available on this site, but you must not

• sub-licence, rent, lease, transfer or attempt to assign the rights of the on-line Information to any other person
• allow any other person to use the Information if it breaks these Conditions of Use

Copyright

You may not use the website in a way which will infringe the copyright, any trademark, trade secret or any other intellectual property rights of others or the privacy, publicity or other personal rights of others.

Privacy Policy

The Scottish Health Council is fully registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 (‘the Act’).  More information about the Act is available on the Internet at www.dataprotection.gov.uk. Although you have to give us personal information before you can use some parts of this website, the Scottish Health Council will make sure that this is kept secure and protected.

Information you provide

In some areas of our website we ask you to provide information (for example when creating your account).  We will ask for information such as your name and contact details so that we can get in touch with you about case studies you add or websites you recommend.

Any personal information that you give us will be kept confidential and will only be used for the reasons that have been specified above. We will not give your information to outside organisations (apart from organisations processing the information on our behalf) unless you have given us your permission. Whenever we intend to give your personal details to other organisations we will ask for your permission first.

Disclaimer

We (Scottish Health Council) hope that this website will be useful to you, but we accept no responsibility and offer no warranties for the content of the website or your use of it, as far as the law allows us to exclude such liability.

All use of this website is subject to Scots law and the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts and is subject to this disclaimer. Any views given on the site are not necessarily those of the Scottish Health Council or anyone connected with us.

The Scottish Health Council is not responsible for the content of external websites which link to or are linked to by this site. This is because:

• The Scottish Health Council does not produce or maintain them
• The Scottish Health Council cannot change them
• They can be changed without the Scottish Health Council’s knowledge or permission

Some external links may be to websites that also offer commercial services. If a link to a particular website is included on our site, it does not mean that the Scottish Health Council officially endorses that website, its owners, products or services.