Using this website
About this website
Written by healthcare professionals, this website is packed with useful information to take you all the way from the early stages of pregnancy to your baby’s first birthday. We’ve split the site into four sections. These cover pregnancy, giving birth, early days at home with your baby and your baby’s development over her first year.
Throughout the website we’ve referred to your baby as ‘she’. We felt it made it easier reading than saying ‘he or she’ throughout. So, whether you have a ‘he or she’ – we hope you enjoy this website, your pregnancy and the newest member of your family when ‘he or she’ arrives.
Disclaimer
NHS Health Scotland websites are provided 'as is', without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.
The information contained on NHS Health Scotland websites is provided as general information only and does not constitute advice to you.
We do not warrant that the functions within material contained in this website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy or reliability of the materials. In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of, data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of NHS Health Scotland websites.
The Ready Steady Toddler! website is maintained for your personal use and viewing. Access and use by you of this site constitutes acceptance by you of these Terms and Conditions that take effect from the date of first use.
Privacy policy (information about your visit to our website)
NHS Health Scotland websites do not store any information that would, on its own, allow us to identify individual users of this service without their permission. Any cookies that may be used by NHS Health Scotland websites are used either solely on a per session basis or to maintain user preferences.
When users enter the Ready Steady Toddler website their computers will automatically be issued with 'cookies'. Cookies are text files which identify users' computers to NHS Health Scotland's servers. The website then creates "session" cookies to store some of the preferences of users moving around the website, e.g. retaining a text-only preference. Cookies in themselves do not identify individual users, but identify only the computer used and they are deleted on departure from the website.
Many websites do this to track traffic flows, whenever users visit those websites. The Ready Steady Toddler website uses third-party cookies to measure use of the website including number of visitors, how frequently pages are viewed, and the city and country of origin of users. This helps to determine what is popular and can influence future content and development.
For this purpose, the NHS Health Scotland uses Google Analytics to measure and analyse usage of the website. The information collected will include IP Address, pages visited, browser type and operating system. The data will not be used to identify any user personally.
Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user.
This privacy statement only covers the Ready Steady Toddler at www.readysteadytoddler.org.uk. This statement does not cover links within this site to other websites.
Intellectual property
The names, images and logos identifying NHS Health Scotland are proprietary marks of NHS Health Scotland. Copying of our logos and/or any other third party logos accessed via this website is not permitted without prior approval from the relevant copyright owner.
Requests for permission to reproduce our logo should be directed to the Publishing Manager.
Publishing Manager
NHS Health Scotland
Woodburn House
Canaan Lane
Edinburgh
EH10 4SG
General enquiries:
Tel: 0131 536 5500
Fax: 0131 536 5501
Email: publications@health.scot.nhs.uk
Hyperlinking policy
Hyperlinking to the Ready Steady Toddler! website
You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site. We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on our site. However, we do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The Ready Steady Toddler! pages must load into the user's entire window.
Hyperlinking by us at the Ready Steady Toddler! website
We are not responsible for the content or reliability of the linked websites. Listing should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of linked pages.
Virus protection
We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.