Privacy policy

Health information

The health information on this website is intended for use solely by patients of The Beacon Practice. Although we have made efforts to ensure that it is accurate, it is not intended as a substitute for a medical consultation. If you are ever in any doubt about information you read or you are unsure what to do, you should consult a qualified medical practitioner, such as one of our GPs

Content

While efforts have been made to ensure that the information contained on this website is correct and up-to-date, this cannot be guaranteed. The practice cannot be held responsible for harm, loss or damage or any other liability resulting from inaccuracies in this website, or actions taken in response to information on this website.

Third-party links & content

Links & content

This website may include links to third-party websites. While we have made a reasonable effort to only link to sites we consider reliable, these links are used to provide further information and are not intended to signify that the Practice endorses such websites and/or their content. The information on such third party websites is not under our control and may change without our knowledge. The Beacon Practice takes no responsibility for any harm, loss or damage suffered as a result of using the linked websites or as a result of using the information published on any of the pages of the linked websites.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Google analytics

The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behaviour.

Google Analytics (Google Ireland Limited)

• Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
• Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
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Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience whilst visiting the website.  Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer/device.  This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer/device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website.  This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use of saving of cookies from this website onto their computer’s hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and it’s external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it.  This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.  You can read Google’s privacy policy for further information: http://www.google.com/privacy.html

Other cookies may be stored on your computer’s hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts.  Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer.  No personal information is stored, saved or collected.