Privacy policy

Sussex Partnership is committed to protecting your privacy, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, and will not use any information we may hold about you for any purpose other than that for which it was collected.

We do not automatically capture or store personal information through our websites except in the cases outlined below.

This privacy notice only covers www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk. Other sites will have their own privacy notices and we cannot be held responsible or liable for how they may use your data.

At certain times you may be asked to fill in information about yourself on the site, e.g., when filling in a form. This information will only be used for the purpose stated in each case. Sussex Partnership will not distribute personal information collected in this way to any third party, other than in limited cases where it is bound by law to do so.

Sussex Partnership may analyse statistical trends based on responses to forms etc. to help to improve services; however, this analysis will not include identifiable personal information.

Although Sussex Partnership will always treat the information you provide with the strictest confidence, we cannot guarantee the security of the internet. It is possible, though very unlikely, that someone other than Sussex Partnership could access and read information sent to us in this way. If you feel concerned about this, please use another form of contact, e.g., telephone or post.

Sussex Partnership uses cookies to help understand how people use this website and to enhance their experience of it by, for example, capturing which pages are most popular, how long people spend on each page and what links they use to access the information they are seeking.

On occasion Sussex Partnership may embed content from another website, for example a YouTube video. You may be presented with cookies from the third-party website when using a page with this content. Sussex Partnership does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third-party websites for more information about these.

You can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, or you can set it to automatically reject them. Rejecting cookies may inconvenience you in browsing our website.

How we use cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work more efficiently, and sometimes provide useful information to the owners of the site.

There are some cookies necessary to this site functioning, such as interacting with our accessibility toolbar. These cookies will usually remove themselves when you close your browsing session. More information can be found in the ‘Necessary cookies’ section.

We use some additional cookies, such as Google Analytics, to help us gather information and improve the website. You have the option to deny use of these cookies; more information can be found in the ‘Additional cookies’ section.

You can find more information on managing and deleting cookies on About Cookies.

Necessary cookies

The following cookies are necessary to our site functioning.

Necessary accessibility cookies

The following necessary cookies allow the functions among our accessibility tools to work optimally.

Additional cookies

In order to help us to improve the content, format and structure of this website we record and analyse how visitors use the using Google Analytics.

You can read Google’s extensive information on data practices in Google Analytics.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics on our website by denying additional cookies or by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

While the information contained in our patient information leaflets has been written and checked by our clinical teams, they are intended to complement the advice of professional healthcare staff only. They should not be used without appropriate medical advice.

Procedures should only be undertaken by healthcare professionals and Sussex Partnership will not be liable for injury, loss or financial impairment as a result of actions taken by individuals after reading the materials.

Care has been taken to describe the treatments in a sensitive manner. Due to their nature, you may find some of the content distressing.

If you have any questions, please contact your GP or consultant. NHS 111 also provides a wealth of health information.

Most information available is in Adobe PDF format and you will need Adobe Acrobat to view it.

All material on this website, including text, graphics and photographs, is copyright of Sussex Partnership unless otherwise stated.

Text and graphics may be freely reproduced for the purpose of personal, educational or private research use. However, all text and graphics contained in the website, including photographs and the Sussex Partnership logo, are not authorised for any purposes unless permission is first obtained from Sussex Partnership.

Sussex Partnership maintains this website and is committed to the highest standards of information quality. While every attempt has been made to provide up-to-date and accurate information, Sussex Partnership gives no warranty, either expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information on this website.

Neither does Sussex Partnership confirm that the site will be uninterrupted or error free, or that defects will be corrected. Similarly, confirmation cannot be given that the site is free of computer viruses. As a result, Sussex Partnership accepts no liability for any loss, damage or inconvenience caused as a result of patients, staff and/or members of the public using the site.

Sussex Partnership provides links from this website to other sites to provide you with additional information but cannot guarantee that such links will always work, and makes no representations as to the quality or accuracy of these sites. Sussex Partnership does not endorse any external sites and is not responsible for their content.

Sussex Partnership may name or link to apps which have been developed by a third party. The app's developer is solely responsible for their app's advertisement, compliance and fitness for purpose. Unless stated otherwise, apps are not supplied by the NHS and the NHS is not liable for their use. 

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