Conditions of Use
These are the conditions of use for this website.
General
Your use of the Tissue Viability Practice Development Toolkit ('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 NHS Quality Improvement Scotland.
Toolkit content is valid on day of download/print. As it is the user’s responsibility to ensure the most up to date version of the tools is used, please check this website regularly for updates.
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 be used by us only 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-license, 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. The tools from this website cannot be rebranded with your logo.
Privacy Policy
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland is fully registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 ('the Act'). More information about the Act is available at
www.dataprotection.gov.uk. Although you have to give us personal information before you can use some parts of this website, NHS Quality Improvement Scotland will make sure that this is kept secure and protected.
Information you provide
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 (NHS Quality Improvement Scotland) 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.
Clinical knowledge is constantly changing. As new information become available, changes in treatment, procedures, equipment and the use of drugs become necessary. The developers and contributors have taken care to ensure that the information given in this toolkit is correct and current. However, users of this toolkit are strongly advised to confirm that the information complies with the latest legislation and standards of practice.
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 NHS Quality Improvement Scotland or anyone connected with us.
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland is not responsible for the content of external websites which link to or are linked to by this site. This is because:
- NHS Quality Improvement Scotland does not produce or maintain them
- NHS Quality Improvement Scotland cannot change them
- They can be changed without NHS Quality Improvement Scotland'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 NHS Quality Improvement Scotland officially endorses that website, its owners, products or services.