Privacy Policy
NHS Sunderland Talking Therapies (The service) is provided in partnership between, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland Counselling Service, Sunderland MIND and Washington MIND. As a body established under statute with functions to provide goods and services for the purposes of the health service in England. In order to fulfil these functions, the Service needs to collect and process certain information about you (‘personal data’).
This makes the Service a ‘data controller’ for the information that the Service collects and processes about you and makes you the ‘data subject’. Maintaining the right of confidentiality to individuals is an important commitment for the Service. The Service also aims to be open and transparent about how it is handling the public’s personal data and restore their sense of control over their personal data.
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust is the holder of the system which is used by all four partner organisations to handle and process your data. The Trust Fair Processing Notice can be found online at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Further information about the remaining partner organisations can be found by clicking on the following links:
Who we are
This Privacy Policy describes how Sunderland Talking Therapies collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information obtained from visitors (“you” or “your”) of sunderlandtalkingtherapies.co.uk (the “Website”). By accessing or using the Website, you acknowledge and accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments or emails may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Your data is strictly confidential and is only processed and used by the relevant department to respond to your inquiry.
