Disclaimer
The Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) collaboration operates this website to bring together public health-related information for Scotland. Any information appearing on this website is issued as general information and does not constitute a warranty by the ScotPHO collaboration, or by any other organisation, nor should it be taken as advice. No responsibility can be accepted by the ScotPHO collaboration, or by any other organisation, for action or inaction as a result of information contained on this website. Readers should take specific advice in respect of specific situations.
The use of and access to pages on the ScotPHO website is subject to the terms and conditions set out below and the disclaimer above. By using or accessing this website, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
The ScotPHO website is hosted by Scotland's Health on the Web (SHOW).
Copyright
For details of copyright relating to the ScotPHO website, please see our copyright statement.
Warranties
The resources contained on the ScotPHO website, including all files that are authorised for download or access, are provided on an "as is" basis and without any warranties. Although files are virus checked these cannot guarantee that files are free from computer viruses and no warranty is given that files downloaded or accessed from this website are free of computer viruses. No warranties are made as to fitness-for-purpose, quality or completeness of information. The ScotPHO collaboration excludes any liability for any errors or omissions in information provided on or linked to from this website.
Reliability of information
The ScotPHO collaboration does its best to ensure the accuracy and reliability of information on this website. However, no guarantees are made that the information contained on this website, or on associated or linked-to websites, is accurate, complete and current at any given time. Information presented on this, or on associated or linked-to websites, may be changed at any time. The resources made available on this website are intended to assist users in understanding public health in Scotland and are for information only. This website is not intended in any way to replace the advice of your doctor. Nothing on this website is intended to constitute advice to you. Specific advice should be sought in specific situations from a properly qualified health worker. Content on this website is governed by a number of policies and guidelines. Users of this website agree to inform the ScotPHO collaboration if they should come across any material on this website which they consider to be potentially in breach of any of the published ScotPHO policies, or any relevant legislation, in order for the appropriate remedial action to be taken.
Availability of the ScotPHO website
Although this website has been tested and should work correctly under normal circumstances, there are many factors both within and outside of the control of the ScotPHO collaboration which may prevent the website from being available to users of the world wide web. No responsibility is accepted by the ScotPHO collaboration for any losses that may arise from an inability to access resources on this site. Where a user finds a specific error in the coding of a web page, or where he / she considers a page to be in breach of accessibility or other published policies of the ScotPHO website, it is a condition of use of this site that the ScotPHO collaboration be notified in order that appropriate action may be taken.
Governing laws
The terms and conditions of use of the ScotPHO website shall be governed by the laws of Scotland.
Links to other websites
The provision on this website of a link to another website does not constitute any authorisation to access material held at that location. Links to sites are provided for information purposes only and no responsibility is accepted for the quality of resources to be found on such websites. The contents and material made available on linked sites are completely outwith the control of the ScotPHO collaboration and as such no liability is accepted for any damages resulting from accessing or failing to access these sites. No endorsement is expressed or implied by the presence of a link on the ScotPHO website. The contents of a linked-to website may change without our knowledge and, as a result, links may break or may terminate on pages which were not the original targets of a link. No responsibility or liability for the privacy of personal information is accepted for linked-to websites as these are beyond our control.
The ScotPHO Twitter account is managed by staff from the organisations that make up the ScotPHO collaboration. For further information on the ScotPHO collaboration see our About ScotPHO web page.
If you follow us you can expect regular tweets covering some or all of the following:
- Notifications about new ScotPHO publications.
- Key messages from ScotPHO publications.
- Pre-announcements of publication dates for forthcoming ScotPHO publications.
- Retweets of others' tweets that we believe may be of interest or relevance to ScotPHO Twitter followers.
- Live coverage of events where work relating to ScotPHO is being presented.
- Tweets may contain hyperlinks, images, video and audio.
If you follow ScotPHO we will not automatically follow you back. Being followed or retweeted by ScotPHO does not imply our endorsement or agreement of any kind. We will monitor and update our Twitter account during office hours Monday to Friday only (excluding public holidays). Twitter may occasionally be unavailable and we accept no responsibility for lack of service due to Twitter downtime.
We welcome feedback and ideas from our Twitter followers. We will endeavour to read all tweet replies and ScotPHO mentions, and will ensure that any emerging themes or helpful suggestions are given due consideration. However, we will not necessarily reply individually to every tweet reply or mention we receive. All direct messages received via Twitter will be read, actioned and replied to as appropriate. See our Contact us web page for our contact details for official correspondence, general enquiries and information requests.
Enquiries
Disclaimer, Terms and Conditions, and Links policy enquiries can be made to ScotPHO at the following email address: phs.scotpho@phs.scot.
