About this site

This website aims to provide you with key information about the UK Biobank. We hope you will find this website easy to use and enlightening. This site has been redeveloped by the UK Biobank in conjunction with fourquarters IS Ltd.

Website Feedback
We appreciate your feedback about this site. Please send us your comments, using the feedback form.

Site map
Navigate your way around this site.

Linking to our site
Our policy on link usage and contact for further details.

Technical help
Assistance with web technologies used on the site.

Disclaimer
Copyright and other legal logistics.

Privacy statement
Our handling of your personal information.

Linking to our site

All material contained on the UK Biobank website is protected by copyright laws, documented in our Disclaimer.

UK Biobank encourages and permits links to its website, and it is not necessary to request permission to make any such links. However, we do reserve the right to request the removal of any link.

The UK Biobank logo may not be used without prior permission, which may be requested by emailing Feedback Form. A link to UK Biobank site must not be used to imply endorsement of your website, related products or services, or for any other commercial purposes. Your site must not conflict with the aims of UK Biobank.

If you require a descriptive text about UK Biobank to use on your site, you may use the following:

“ UK Biobank is a long-term national project to build a detailed resource for health researchers. It will follow the health of more than 500,000 UK volunteers aged 40-69 years when recruited for many decades

UK Biobank is funded by the Department of Health, the Medical Research Council, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Wellcome Trust medical research charity. The project hopes to help approved researchers to develop new and better ways of preventing, diagnosing and treating common illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, arthritis and dementia. ”

Requesting a link to your site

The UK Biobank website includes links to external sites. We only link to sites that we believe provide useful information that will be of interest to our users. UK Biobank has no control over any such sites, does not endorse the content, operators, products or services of such sites, and is not responsible or liable for the content, operators, availability, accuracy, quality, advertising, products, services or other materials on or available from such sites.

If you would like to request a link to your site please contact us using the Feedback form.

UK Biobank may contact you if we decide to add a link to your site. Requests will be granted or refused at the discretion of the UK Biobank communications team. We will not enter into any correspondence about decisions.

Technical help

Users who have seen earlier versions of this site are advised to clear their cached internet files. In Internet Explorer, this can be done via the Tools -> Internet Options -> Delete files function when exploring this site for the first time.

To make the best use of the UK Biobank site, the following help and software downloads are suggested:

Web standards

This site complies with W3C Web Standards for HTML5 and CSS3, and properly segregates structure and presentation between them. It has been tested on modern browsers and gracefully degrades for older browsers.

Browser versions

This site has been designed to be viewed in DOM-compliant browsers. Examples of such browsers are listed below. If you would like to update your browser, click on one of the following links:

Printing

To print a page in this site, simply send the page to your printer by clicking on your browser’s Print button.

Downloading files

To make the best use of this website, you may need to download the following software:

PDF files

Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files are usually electronic versions of printed documents that can be sent via email, downloaded from websites and printed on most printers. To view PDF files, Acrobat Reader software needs to be installed on your computer. This application is small, easy to install and available free from the Adobe website.

Video files

Digital video files on the UK Biobank website will normally be QuickTime movie files. To view movie files, QuickTime needs to be installed on your computer. The plug-in is available free from the Apple website.

Some video files are available in RealPlayer format. The Real website has more details on downloading the plug-in and viewing files.

Disclaimer

The material contained in the UK Biobank website is provided for general purposes only. Although we endeavour to ensure that the content is accurate and up to date, the UK Biobank accepts no responsibility for loss which may arise from reliance on information contained in this site or other sites which may be linked to our site from time to time.

Copyright Notice

The contents of these pages are © UK Biobank Limited 2007. Reproduction is only permitted in accordance with the licensed terms below.

Licensed Terms

  • In any event the copying of any material is only permitted if it is copied in full with no amendment or editing.
  • Translation is permitted on the basis that you take full responsibility for the accuracy of the translation.
  • You may print copies of any item in hard copy for your personal use or for use by others within your organisation.
  • You may also download any item to a local hard disk provided it is for your personal use or access by others within your organisation.

The supply of any copy to a third party is permitted for their personal use provided that:

  • It is acknowledged that the UK Biobank web page is the source of the material including the UK Biobank web address (www.ukbiobank.ac.uk) in the copy of the material;
  • The third party is informed that these licence conditions apply to him and he must comply with them;
  • It is not supplied as part of another work or publication; and
  • It is not supplied directly in return for commercial gain.

Any requests to reproduce materials outside the scope of this licence should be addressed via the Feedback Form .

Privacy statement

UK Biobank’s site does not automatically capture or store personal information, other than logging the user’s IP address and session information such as the duration of the visit and the type of browser used. This is recognised by the Web server and is only used for system administration and to provide statistics which UK Biobank uses to evaluate use of the site.

UK Biobank does not use cookies for collecting user information from the site.

Summary of Terms

Browser

Used to locate and display Web pages via a software application. The most popular ones are Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Cookie

Message given to a web browser by a web server. The message is then stored by the browser in a text file called cookie.txt. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, this message is sent back. A cookie’s main objective is to identify users and personalise their visit by customising web pages for them for example by welcoming them by name next time they visit the same site. A site using cookies will usually invite you to provide personal information such as your name, e-mail address and interests.

IP (Internet Protocol)

All networks connected to the internet speak IP, the technical standard which allows data to be transmitted between two devices. TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is responsible for making sure messages get from one host to another and that the messages are understood.

IP address

If you are connected to the Internet you have one, for example it may look something like this 198.184.98.9

Web Server

Delivers (serves up) web pages to your computer.