The information we collect
We use cookies on our website, to collect information about your use. When you visit the website you can allow or disallow it to store cookies on your computer, by customising your cookie preferences using your web browser’s preferences/options/tools.
We also receive your contact and other related details if you choose to complete any of our web forms. If you do not wish for any sensitive data or information about your health or your personal contact details to be stored on our webserver or within our trust please do not use these forms.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Category | Description | Duration |
| wordpress_ | 2 | WordPress cookie for a logged in user. | session |
| wordpress_logged_in_ | 2 | WordPress cookie for a logged in user | session |
| wordpress_test_ | 2 | WordPress cookie for a logged in user | session |
| wordpress_test_cookie | 2 | WordPress test cookie | session |
| wp-settings- | 1 | Wordpress also sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year |
| wp-settings-time- | 2 | Wordpress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. | 1 year |
| PHPSESSID | 1 | To identify your unique session on the website | session |
| SESS | 1 | To ensure that you are recognised when you move from page to page within the site and that any information you have entered is remembered. | session |
Why we collect this information
We collect information about you so we can personalise your use of the website and we can analyse data in order to improve our content, marketing and the services we offer to you. We also use this data to better understand how the investments we make return value to us, for example online advertising or partnerships with other organisations.
We also collect aggregated information about every single link and page on our website, so we can measure the website’s performance. This allows us to create more of the pages that users like and to remove unused content.
Data protection
Yeovil District Hospital is registered with the Information Commissioner in the UK as a ‘data controller’ in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998, our registered data controller number is Z732882X. Further details of the registration are available at www.ico.org.uk.
Security
Keeping information about you secure is very important to us. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information which you send to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Questions?
If you have any questions concerning anything on this page, please contact us here contact us.
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Address: Yeovil Hospital, Higher Kingston, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 4AT
Telephone: 01935 475122
