British National Formulary
This privacy policy applies only to the British National Formulary website at http://bnf.org.
This website is owned and controlled jointly by the British Medical Association, of BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JP, and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, of 1 Lambeth High Street, London, SE1 7JN. (Referred to as "we", "us" and "the publishers" in this policy).
We track information provided to us by your browser, including the type of browser you use, the time and date of access, other information that does not personally identify you, and your IP address.
If you register for access to the BNF text you will be asked to provide your name, a password, and a valid email address. We also ask you to tell us your professional status and the type and location of the organisation you work for.
We also log requests to our search services.
Information collected from visitors' browsers is aggregated for statistical analysis in our website log files. You cannot be identified individually from this data. We may share this aggregate data with third parties.
Your name, IP address and log-in details (email address and password) are used to administer access to the BNF text. We do not disclose, rent or sell any personally identifiable information collected at this site to other organisations or companies. We communicate with you by email (using the address you supply) when you send us a request for registration. We may also use this address to contact you if we suspect your use of this website breaches our Terms of Use.
Your email address is kept in a file for easy reference, but not disclosed or sold to third parties.
Information about your professional status and place of work is used to ensure that our services and any future developments are relevant to our visitors.
Information about requests to our search services is used for researching the efficacy of our software tools.
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
We use cookies to control access to the BNF text on this website. We use a type of cookie sometimes referred to as a 'persistent cookie'. This cookie resides in the cookie file of your browser for 15 minutes from the time you enter your log-in details or until you close the browser window displaying the BNF (whichever occurs first). It allows you access to this area of the website for up to 15 minutes.
You must set your browser to accept cookies in order to access the BNF text on this website. However, if you want to stop cookies being stored on your computer in future, please refer to your browser manufacturer's instructions by clicking "Help" in your browser menu. Further information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.AboutCookies.org.
Occasionally we ask visitors to complete a short questionnaire before entering our website. These questionnaires may be in place for several days. We use cookies so that you do not have to fill out the questionnaire more than once during the study period. This is a persistent cookie that expires at the end of the study period.
We do not use cookies to track what other sites you have visited.
The BNF.org website contains links to other sites. The publishers are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website (http://bnf.org).
The use of personally identifiable information collected in the way described above is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example to administer the registration process) are granted access to personally identifiable information.
The publishers are not responsible for the security of information transmitted via the Internet.
Please refer to our Contacts page for information about how to contact us if you have any questions about this privacy statement.
