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How we use your information

1. Who we are

Health in Mind is an NHS organisation providing courses and other types of therapies that help with stress, anxiety and low mood.  Whatever the reasons are for feeling down, relationships, money or work, we offer a service that may help you feel positive again. 

Health in Mind has qualified Counsellors, CBT therapists, Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and Primary Care Mental Health Practitioners. We also have practitioners qualified in EMDR, Interpersonal Psychotherapy and Mindfulness.

2. Website privacy statement

Health in Mind is committed to protecting your privacy, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and will not use any information we may hold about you for any purpose other than that for which it was collected.

Health in Mind does not automatically capture or store personal information through our websites except in the cases outlined below. Under no circumstances is your data used for anything other than the purpose for which it has been collected.

This privacy notice only covers http://www.healthinmind.org.uk/. Other sites will have their own privacy notices and we cannot be held responsible or liable for how they may use your data.

At certain times you may be asked to fill in information about yourself on the site, e.g. when filling in a form. This information will only be used for the purpose stated in each case. Health in Mind will not distribute personal information collected in this way to any third party, other than in limited cases where it is bound by law to do so.

Health in Mind may analyse statistical trends based on responses to forms etc. to help to improve services; however, this analysis will not include identifiable personal information.

Although Health in Mind will always treat the information you provide with the strictest confidence, we cannot guarantee the security of the World Wide Web. It is possible, though very unlikely, that someone other than Health in Mind could access and read information sent to us in this way. If you feel concerned about this, please use another form of contact, e.g. telephone or post. 

 3. Full information about Health in Mind’s use of your medical information 

In addition to the uses made of information about you from your use of this website, there is a full statement regarding Health in Mind’s use of your information for clinical purposes Confidentiality :: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

 4. Cookies

Health in Mind uses cookies to help understand how people use this website and to enhance their experience of it by, for example, capturing which pages are most popular, how long people spend on each page and what links they use to access the information they are seeking.

Health in Mind may also use cookies to enable the website to ‘remember’ details that you voluntarily give, such as when you complete online forms, so that you do not have to repeat the information next time you use the website.

On occasion Health in Mind may embed content from another website, for example a YouTube video. Using a page with such content you may be presented with cookies from the third-party website. Health in Mind does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third-party websites for more information about these.

This website utilises the Recite Me software to enhance our accessibility. SPFT and Recite Me are not collecting any personal data via Recite Me. Anonymised usage data is collected when the accessibility tool is active. Recite Me do their best to ensure all reasonable compliance with UK/EU Cookie Laws.

You can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, or you can set it to automatically reject them. Rejecting cookies may inconvenience you in browsing our website

4. Patient information leaflets

While the information contained in our patient information leaflets has been written and checked by our clinical teams, they are intended to complement the advice of professional healthcare staff only. They should not be used without appropriate medical advice.

Procedures should only be undertaken by healthcare professionals and Health in Mind will not be liable for injury, loss or financial impairment as a result of actions taken by individuals after reading the materials.

Care has been taken to describe the treatments in a sensitive manner. Due to their nature you may find some of the content distressing.

If you have any questions, please contact your GP or consultant. NHS 111 also provides a wealth of health information.

Most information available is in a PDF format and you will need Adobe Acrobat to view it. 

5. Copyright

All material on this website, including text, graphics and photographs, is copyright of Health in Mind unless otherwise stated.

Text and graphics may be freely reproduced for the purpose of personal, educational or private research use. However, all text and graphics, including photographs and the Health in Mind logo, contained in the website are not authorised for any purposes unless permission is first obtained from Health in Mind.

Health in Mind maintains this website and is committed to the highest standards of information quality. While every attempt has been made to provide up to date and accurate information, Health in Mind gives no warranty, either expressed or implied, as to the accuracy of the information on this website.

Neither does it confirm that the site will be uninterrupted or error free, or those defects will be corrected. Similarly, confirmation cannot be given that the site is free of computer viruses. As a result, Health in Mind accepts no liability for any loss, damage or inconvenience caused as a result of patients, staff and/or members of the public using the site.

6. External links

Health in Mind provides links from this website to other sites to provide you with additional information but cannot guarantee that such links will always work, and makes no representations as to the quality or accuracy of these sites. Health in Mind does not endorse any external sites and is not responsible for their content.

7. Website maintenance

This website is maintained by Sussex Partnership foundation Trust Digital team.