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Under no circumstances shall Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust be liable for any special or consequential damages arising from the use or reliance on information contained within this web site.

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Every effort is made to ensure that the information provided on this site is accurate and up to date, but no legal responsibility is accepted for any errors, omissions or misleading statements.

We do not accept any liability for the use made by you of the information; neither do we warrant that the supply of the information will be uninterrupted. The website is provided on an “as is” basis. All material accessed or downloaded from the website or links to other websites is obtained at your own risk. It is your responsibility to use appropriate anti-virus software.

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Privacy notice

Go here for – Privacy Notice for Patients – Data Protection Act 1998

Visitors to our websites
When someone visits www.devonsexualhealth.nhs.uk we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our websites.

Use of cookies by the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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The cookies we use and why:

Tracking cookies

Tracking cookies allow us to measure how many people access this website, which pages they visit, how they find the site and other related information. We use this information to maintain and improve the website, for example by ensuring we can cope with the volume of visitors and by making changes to reflects users’ preferences.

The tracking cookies we use are provided by Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc.

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