Cookies & Privacy

Cookies & Privacy

Thank you for visiting our site. If you wish to reproduce any material or have any feedback or questions, please contact the appropriate team:

We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may change this policy by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

Email Correspondence

In the interest of providing an effective response to your queries and suggestions, your email may be forwarded to the most appropriate NHS organisation for reply. If you do not wish this to be the case, please indicate this in the body of the message.

Information We Collect

We may collect the following information when you make an enquiry:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • IP address
  • Time zone
  • Preferred email client
  • Preferred language

What We Do With This Information

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with further information about our service.

We may use the information to improve our products and services.

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Cookies

We use cookies on this website.

A cookie is a small file which is placed on your computer's hard drive with your implied consent. Cookies allow web applications to remember you and personalise your experience. The website can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Session Cookies

This site uses essential session cookies for the operation of the website.

How to Disable Cookies

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

If you disable cookies, your experience of some parts of the website may be affected.

Google Analytics & Conversion Tracking

We use traffic log cookies from Google Analytics to identify which pages are being used, this is an essential part of monitoring and improving our electronic communications. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We use this non-identifiable aggregated traffic information for statistical analysis purposes.

We also use conversion tracking to understand user behaviour.

Controlling Your Personal Information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information.

We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please contact us (see links above).

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us (see links above).

Linking from the Devon Formulary and Referral Website

Our website contains links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website.

We are not responsible for the content or reliability of the websites we link to and cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy policy applicable to the website in question.

We do not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them.

We aim to replace broken links to other sites but cannot guarantee that these links will always work as we have no control over the availability of other sites.

Due to the very nature of the internet, we cannot guarantee our site or other sites we link to will always be available to you.

Linking to the Devon Formulary and Referral Website

We do not object to you linking directly to pages on this site. We reserve the right to move or change our website URLs at any time. Rather than deep linking we recommend linking to section homepages, which are less likely to move or change.

However, we do not give permission to suggest that your website is associated or endorsed by the Devon Formulary and Referral Website.

Disclaimer

The information contained within the Devon Formulary and Referral Website is aimed strictly at healthcare professionals only, within primary and secondary care in Devon. Members of the public seeking advice on any medical or medicine-related matters should not read and/or rely on any information contained on this website and should instead contact NHS 111 or speak with their GP, pharmacist or nurse.

The Clinical Effectiveness team and Devon Referral Support Service have endeavoured to ensure that the information contained on this website is accurate at the time of publication but cannot accept any liability whatsoever (whether in contract, tort or otherwise, including breach of statutory duty), excluding any liability which cannot be excluded by law, for any loss, damage, expense, or inconvenience caused by reliance on this information.

We welcome feedback; if you discover any information on our pages which you believe to be inaccurate or misleading please contact us using the "contact us" button on the relevant page.

As the information on this website is aimed at healthcare professionals only it should be read, interpreted and/or applied in light of the healthcare professional’s own professional knowledge and understanding and supplemented as necessary by appropriate professional publications and product literature. Healthcare professionals should never rely solely on the information contained on this website and the Clinical Effectiveness team and Devon Referral Support Service shall have no liability whatsoever (whether in contract, tort or otherwise, including breach of statutory duty), excluding any liability which cannot be excluded by law, for any reliance on such information. Please refer to BNF and/or product literature for full details of cautions and contra-indications.

Information within this site should not be relied upon as a substitute for professional medical care by a qualified doctor or other health care professional.

Commercial use of content on the Devon Formulary and Referral Website

Content on the Devon Formulary and Referral Website is not permitted to be used for commercial, marketing, or promotional purposes.

Content on the Devon Formulary and Referral Website can be appropriately and accurately referenced in educational materials or for medicines information purposes. Any information provided must be factual, accurate, not misleading and not promotional in nature. It must not link or be accompanied by any company promotional material.