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Cookies policy

What are cookies?
A cookie is a small amount of data sent to your computer or mobile phone from a website. This means the website can recognise your device (your computer or mobile phone) if you return to the same site. A cookie often includes a unique identifier, which is a randomly generated number. This is stored on your device's hard drive. Many cookies are automatically deleted after you finish using a website.

Cookies are not programs and do not collect information from your device. Cookies make your experience of using websites faster and easier. They allow websites to create a customised view of pages to which you navigate. For example, they are commonly used to authenticate or identify registered users of a website without requiring them to sign in each time they access it. Other uses include maintaining a 'shopping basket' of goods a user has chosen to purchase, site personalisation (presenting different pages to different users) and tracking the pages a user has visited on a site for analysis purposes.

Cookies may come with or without an expiry date. Cookies without an expiry date exist until the browser is closed, while cookies with an expiry date may be stored by the device until the expiry date passes. You can restrict or block cookies set by www.uhbristol.nhs.uk/ but this may limit your use of some functionality, such as using the accessibility menu or signing in to the UH Bristol governors or Occupational Health client areas of the website. All our pages will still be viewable even with cookies disabled.

How to manage your cookies
Cookies are sent to your browser (whether you use Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari or any other browser) by a website and then stored in the cookies directory of your device. To check and update your cookies settings, you will need to know what browser you are using and what version of it you have. You can usually find this out by opening the browser (just as though you were going to use the internet) and then clicking on 'Help' and then 'About'. This will give you information about the browser version you are using. To find out how to allow, block, delete and manage the cookies on all standard web browsers, go to http://www.aboutcookies.org/ and select the browser and version you are using. You'll also find information about how to delete cookies from your computer. If you use a mobile phone to browse sites that use cookies, please refer to your handset manual for guidance.

Cookies used on www.uhbristol.nhs.uk
You may come across the following cookies on this site:

Font Resizer
Purpose: This cookie is necessary for the font resizing functionality. This functionality can be found in the accessibility menu and aims to help make the site easily legible for all users.

Members Login
Purpose: This cookie is necessary to keep users logged in to the UH Bristol governors or Occupational Health client areas for the duration of their session. Any user of these areas will have been provided with additional log in details by the Trust, there is no other requirement to sign in to access content on www.uhbristol.nhs.uk.

Third party cookies used on www.uhbristol.nhs.uk

You may come across the following third party cookies on this site:

Google
Domain: google.com
Purpose: University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust uses Google cookies to record information about which pages you have landed on and how you have navigated through the site. This data enables us to understand:
Which pages people visit on the site
Which internet browsers are being used
What is popular
Which interactive tools are used
For more information visit Google Privacy Center: transparency and choice

For more information about how we look after your information and your rights including your right of access please see the Trust's Privacy Notice.

Copyright restrictions

Copyright restrictions: Commercial use or publication of all or any item displayed is strictly prohibited without prior authorisation from University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring any licence by University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust to use any item displayed.

Documents may be copied for personal use only on the condition that copyright and source indications are also copied, no modifications are made and the document is copied entirely. However, some documents and photos have been published on this site with the permission of the relevant copyright owners. All rights are reserved on these documents and permission to copy them must be requested from the copyright owners (the sources are indicated within these documents/photographs). Unless otherwise stated all images are copyright University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.