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Privacy Statement


Read the TRFT Library & Knowledge Service (LKS) Privacy Statement: this explains how we, the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Library & Knowledge Service uses and protects your data in the delivery of our information services. 
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We have also explained below how we use and protect your data in relation to use of this website.  Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any queries or would like any further information. 

Privacy Policy for the website of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Library & Knowledge Service
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to explain how we, The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Library & Knowledge Service, protects, uses and shares personal information collected and received from you through this website (https://www.trftlibraryknowledge.com). Your data will only be used by us in ways stated in this policy and in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679. 


Please note: Our Weebly service is hosted in the USA. Data submitted through our website is processed by Weebly, Inc. Whilst every care is taken by us to protect your data in the UK, the USA has its own Privacy Laws and although some states are adopting GDPR regulations, this is not a statutory requirement.  Please refer to Weebly's updated Privacy Policy to find out more about how Weebly secures, shares, and uses personal information that it collects and receives from website users. 

How do we collect data?

We collect information through this website in two ways: 

  1. Personal information provided by you: we offer the facility for our website users to submit data through online forms
  2. Cookies and tracking technologies placed on the site by Weebly.

Our policy is divided into two sections: the first section covers our use of online forms; the second is concerned with how cookies and tracking technologies are used on our site. 


Online forms

Why do we collect data from you?
We offer our website users the facility to submit data in order to:
  • Respond to your requests for information (literature searches; book or journal requests; training enquiries; general enquiries)
  • Respond to your request to register you as a member of the Library & Knowledge Service
  • Respond to your suggestions for how we can improve our services and collections
  • Respond to your request to register for a training course. 

What information do we collect?

The information collected is set out clearly in each of our online forms and includes: 
  • your name
  • your home and/or work addresses
  • your employer, place of work and job role
  • phone numbers and email addresses
  • details of the information that you require
  • whether you would like to opt in to any of our alerting services or join our email distribution list. 

How we store, use and share your data

Information submitted by our website users via our online forms is processed by Weebly: site users are advised to refer to Weebly's Privacy Policy to find out more about how Weebly stores, shares and uses data submitted to the website. 

We (the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Library & Knowledge Service) use the information submitted through the online forms to:
  • process and respond to your request for information, a resource, training or current awareness services
  • register you as a member of the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Library & Knowledge Service
  • keep you up to date with new services and resources where you have specifically asked to receive those updates. 

Your data is stored securely and deleted as soon as it is no longer required for our records or day to day operation, in accordance with the GDPR. We do not share data submitted through our online forms with any third parties. 


Cookies and tracking technologies

IP addresses, browser and session information may collected by Weebly where there is a legitimate interest (see Weebly's Privacy Policy). 

This website uses cookies.  Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.  We do not make use of cookies to collect any private or personally identifiable information.  We use cookies solely to aid the proper technical functioning of the website. We use session cookies, permanent, persistent, or stored cookies and third-party cookies (cookies set by a domain other than that of the website being visited by the user).  We've listed all the cookies we use in the table below

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org  or www.youronlinechoices.com/uk.  Deleting cookies may affect the performance of certain sections of this website.  

​​By continuing to use this website without changing your cookie settings you are consenting to their use.  

You can use the button below to choose to opt out of all cookies on this site: 

This website uses marketing and tracking technologies. Opting out of this will opt you out of all cookies, except for those needed to run the website. Note that some products may not work as well without tracking cookies.

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These cookies are from Google Analytics and 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 vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Click here for an overview of privacy at Google


This website is available in a different format to allow it to be used optimally on a smart phone. These cookies overrides the mobile site and delivers the full version of the website to mobile devices if the user selects this option.


This third-party cookie from Twitter is set for the browser to remember the guest id to display the latest news from our Twitter account.


This third-party cookie from Google Maps stores your options such as preferred zoom level.  Most of the cookies expire 10 years after your last visit to a page containing a Google Map


These third-party cookies are set by Quantserve and are related to advertising that may track your behaviour on our website. Opt out of Quantserve tracking


This third-party cookie is written by Google Remarketing for the purpose of showing advertisements to users who have previously visited our site as they browse other websites on the internet.


This session cookie is used in various parts of our site to help preserve the choices you make above in a session. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser.


These cookies are used by Weebly (the web hosting service for this site) and are described by Weebly as 'strictly necessary for the operation of the service by Weebly'. 



This policy was last updated on 2nd June 2021. 
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