Family Nurse Partnership Privacy Notice
January 2021
The Family Nurse Partnership National Unit (FNPNU) is commissioned by Public Health England (PHE) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) to support the delivery of Family Nurse Partnership locally. The programme is run by PHE under licence from the DHSC.
PHE exists to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and to reduce health inequalities. It is an executive agency of the Government, sponsored by the DHSC. You can find out more about Public Health England and what it does here. View the Public Health England Personal information charter providing details of how PHE uses information. The FNPNU supports the delivery of the FNP early intervention programme locally and oversees the programme nationally.
Website privacy
Information on this page explains our website privacy policy and how we will use and protect any information about you that you give us when you visit this website.
This privacy statement only covers the FNPNU website (www.fnp.nhs.uk). It does not cover all sites that can be linked to from this site, so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site and read the privacy statement on that site.
What information do we collect?
FNP e-Bulletin sign up [please note that publication of the e-Bulletin has been temporarily paused]
The FNP e-Bulletin is a monthly update on latest news, developments to the programme and information from the early intervention community. Registering to receive the e-Bulletin is optional and is done by selecting the ‘E-BULLETIN’ tab on the website toolbar to access a form requiring entry of first name, last name and email address.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable FNP NU to send you the monthly e-Bulletin. Any information you provide to FNP NU will only be used by us and will not be disclosed unless we are obliged or permitted to by law to do so. If you no longer want to receive monthly e-Bulletin emails from us, you may opt-out via the unsubscribe link included in such emails
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on www.fnp.nhs.uk or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on www.fnp.nhs.uk, we may use whatever information is available to us, about you, to stop such behaviour. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested and remove it if the purpose has been met or when you no longer wish to continue your subscription.
Content
We strive to offer accurate and up to date web content. However, the ever-changing nature of our work and context means that inaccuracies are sometimes unavoidable. Whilst we welcome feedback to correct errors, responsibility for the use of any information found here lies solely with the user. You also assume the risk of computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other destructive code by downloading files from this website. To report an error or inaccuracy please contact FNPComms@phe.gov.uk.
Links
The FNP National Unit is not responsible for the content or reliability of linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. Listing should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. While we endeavour to keep all links up to date we cannot guarantee that these links will work all the time and we have no control over the availability of linked pages. To report a broken or dead link please contact FNPComms@phe.gov.uk
The Data Protection Law
Under the Data Protection Legislation – General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. The personal information is protected on secure computer systems and can only be seen be a small number of staff who have been GDPR trained to protect confidentiality and do not allow unauthorised access to it. We do not pass on your details to any third party or other government department
Changes to our policy
If our privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing the page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss and alteration of information under our control. Our website uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates to encrypt information between the browser and web server, preventing hackers from stealing any data communicated
Use of cookies
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- Enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task
- Recognising that you may already have given a username and pass word, so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested
- Measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast
- You can manage these small files yourself through your browser setting.
Please note that the cookie providers listed below may distribute the gathered cookie information with other third-party websites for activity tracking. You can find out more about the policy of each cookie provider on their respective privacy pages.
Current cookies
Google Analytics (_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz): These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. It is not possible to identify or gather individual’s personal information through the collection of these cookies.
We occasionally use our records of the pages users have visited on this website to analyse trends, administer the site and track users’ movements. Our records do not contain any personal information about users.
How to control and delete cookies
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
However, if you wish to restrict or block the cookies which are set by our websites, or indeed any other website, you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘Help’ function within your browser should tell you how.
Alternatively, you may wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your machine as well as more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.
If you wish to view your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You’ll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.
For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.
To opt-out of third-parties collecting any data regarding your interaction on our website, please refer to their websites for further information.
Your rights
PHE is an executive agency of the government, sponsored by the DHSC. We are listed under the Department’s registration with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
You have a range of rights including the right to get a copy of your information, ask for any inaccurate information to be corrected, object to your information being used and ask for your information to be deleted. Not all of these rights are automatic.
You can exercise your rights by contacting Public Health England at:
Public Information Access Office
Wellington House
133-155 Waterloo Road
London SE1 8UG
Email: FOI@phe.gov.uk
You also have the right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office if you have any concerns about how the FNPNU and Public Health England uses and protects any personal information it holds about you.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or the practices of this website, please contact us at:
FNP National Unit
Nursing, Maternity and Early Years Directorate
Public Health England
Wellington House
133-155 Waterloo Rd
London
SE1 8UG
Or email: FNPComms@phe.gov.uk