Terms and conditions

Access to and use of this site ('medicinesforchildren.org.uk') is provided by Medicines for Children partership programme (MFC), which is run by Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group (NPPG) and WellChild subject to the following terms:

By using medicinesforchildren.org.uk you agree to have accepted these terms and understand that no legal relationship is created between you and MFC. If you do not agree to these terms please do not access and/or use medicinesforchildren.org.uk.

  • These terms are subject to change at any time by MFC. Any such changes will be posted online. Please check these terms on a regular basis to make sure you are aware of any changes made by MFC. Your continued use of medicinesforchildren.org.uk after changes are posted indicates that you agree to these terms as updated and/or amended.
  • The resources on medicinesforchildren.org.uk contain information about medicines for children. Professional guidance should always be obtained before acting on any information provided on medicinesforchildren.org.uk.
  • In no circumstances shall MFC be liable for any direct or indirect losses or damages arising out of or in any way connected to medicinesforchildren.org.uk.
  • Attempts are made to ensure that medicinesforchildren.org.uk functions properly and that information contained within medicinesforchildren.org.uk is accurate. However, MFC provides medicinesforchildren.org.uk on an "as is, as available" basis without any guarantees of any kind. Every effort will be made to correct or delete errors and or inaccurate information brought to the College's attention where appropriate. Such information should immediately be reported to MFC.
  • MFC does not guarantee that resources on medicinesforchildren.org.uk will be available at all times, are error free, or that medicinesforchildren.org.uk and its server are free of bugs and viruses.
  • Access to medicinesforchildren.org.uk is recorded and may be stored and used for statistical analysis.
  • All copyright belongs to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacists Group and WellChild 2008-2011.

Privacy policy

This section explains how the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health uses any information you give to us, and the way we protect your privacy. Protecting the privacy and personal data of visitors to our site is highly importance to us.

Data Protection Act

In accordance with the Data Protection Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We will only use your information for the purpose as described and we do not pass on your details to any other government department or third party unless you have given us permission to do so. You have a right to access your personal data and rectify any inaccuracies. If you have any concerns about personal details or images on this site, please contact us.

Site usage

We do not use cookies for collecting user information. Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site to enable us to improve the layout of the site. The data we gather in this way does not contain any personal information or information about which other sites you have visited.

If you provide feedback on our website we will only use it to develop and improve the site. We do not store feedback but analysis of feedback may be kept.

Coverage

This privacy policy only covers the website www.medicinesforchildren.org.uk. It does not cover links within this site to websites owned or administered by other organisations, including the Medicines for Children partners.

Changes to the policy

If the privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on the website. Regularly reviewing the Legal Information 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.

Glossary of terms
  • Cookies are files containing information about visitors to a web site (e.g. user name and preferences). This information is provided by the user during the first visit to a web server. The server records this information in a text file and stores this file on the visitor's hard drive. When the visitor accesses the same web site again the server looks for the cookie and configures itself based on the information provided.
  • Log files are files created by a web or proxy server which contains all of the access information regarding the activity on that server.