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Terms and Conditions

The use and access of pages of the NHS Scotland vaccination appointment management website at vacs.nhs.scot and the registration service for people who have not yet received their first vaccination at register.vacs.nhs.scot is subject to the terms and conditions set out below. By continuing to use or access these websites, you agree to these terms and conditions.

Copyright

Content on this website is subject to copyright.

Warranties

The resources contained on the NHS Scotland vaccination website at vacs.nhs.scot and the registration service for people who have not yet received their first vaccination at register.vacs.nhs.scot are provided on an "as is" basis and without any warranties. This includes all files that are authorised for public or password protected download or access.

No warranty is given that files downloaded or accessed from this website are free of computer viruses. Although files are virus-checked we cannot guarantee that files are free from computer viruses.

No warranties are made as to fitness-for-purpose, quality or completeness of information. NHS National Services Scotland does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in information provided on or linked to from this website.

Reliability of information

NHS National Services Scotland uses its best efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of information on its websites. However no guarantees are made that the information contained on these websites, or associated or linked-to websites, is accurate, complete and current at any given time.

Information presented on these websites or associated sites may be changed at any time.

The resources made available on this website are intended to assist users in Scotland in their use of the National Health Service 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 service providers (by email at nss.showteam@nhs.scot) if they should come across any material contained which they consider to be potentially in breach of any relevant standards, regulations or legislation in order for the appropriate remedial action to be taken.

Availability of the websites

vacs.nhs.scot website is provided by ServiceNow who are contracted to provide development services.

register.vacs.nhs.scot is provided by NHS National Services Scotland.

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 NHS National Services Scotland which may prevent the website from being available to users of the World Wide Web.

No responsibility is accepted by NHS National Services Scotland 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 this website, it is a condition of use of this site that the NHS National Services Scotland's web team be notified in order that appropriate action may be taken. Notification can be made to the email address: nss.feedback@nhs.scot

This should not be used to raise queries around the vaccination rescheduling process. Notification email should only be sent where there is an error message present such as a ‘404 Page Not Found’ that would prevent you from accessing the portal.

Governing laws

The terms and conditions of use of the vacs.nhs.scot and register.vacs.nhs.scot websites as provided by National Services Scotland, the Common Services Agency of the National Health Service in Scotland shall be governed by the laws of Scotland.

Links to third party internet sites

The provision on the vacs.nhs.scot 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 informational 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 our control 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 this 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.