Carers in Cancer

Supporting Carers of Cancer Patients

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Privacy and Confidentiality

Statement:

Carers in Cancer is run as a professional caring and ethical group. Your privacy and confidentiality is a priority in any and all cases. We store only data you have submitted for the purpose of contacting us in the first instance and do not share, use or sell any of this private information. We are exempt under the conditions of the data Protection Act as we do not store your personal details on any database or computer system. We will not use email or any other electronic means to contact you at any time unless you have subscribed to our news letter. All our Volunteers are screened and CRB checked before undertaking any duties with other carers not members of our support group. We are not a registered charity and receive no funding** and rely on the goodwill of others to support the aims of the group. (** we have received grant funding only appropriate to specific projects from other related charities.) We do not collect personal information given to us during our visits to you as a carer, unless we refer you to a specialist service provider, and only when permission is granted by you.

Web Site Information 2010

This web site is run by carers in cancer, a not for profit self help group for cancer carers. It isn't a site for cancer patients(but if may help you to understand the needs of carers as well) and it isn't a "How to be" a carer site. It was produced by previous carers who have personally experienced cancer with input from health care professionals where needed.

We do not have offices and our operation which is web based is run entirely by volunteers, who have given up their time to support new carers or those that are facing difficult emotional feelings or require practical help.

The web site URL or web address is owned by us, and no copies must be made of it at all and we reserve the right to copyright ©of the material used, produced and displayed unless it has been provided by third party sources. We also acknowledge and respect third party owners rights to material displayed and permission will always be obtained from the owner before being added to this website.

Website Technical information 2010

This web site uses SSL (secure socket Layer) technology on pages requesting further information from you.

This simply means the data you enter such as your name etc is encrypted before being sent to us, so its difficult for computer hackers to obtain this whilst in transit over the internet

How many information sites have you visited without this protection?

We will use best practise in any work undertaken, volunteers receive training delivered by Macmillan Cancer Support as well as our own in house training. We are not however part of this organization or associated with it, but share some of its aims towards its cancer carer population.

We have tried to design our website to make it easier to read, so you don't get bogged down half way through navigating it. We will always try to ensure only accurate information is sourced, but we cannot guarantee this to be factually correct or up to-date.

We have tried to make our site easy to navigate using industry guidelines, but we know we can only do our best to achieve this by trial and error, if you see any errors or broken links please do email us.