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.
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Linking to our site
Our policy on link usage and contact for further details.
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Disclaimer
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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.
The 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 enquiries@ukbiobank.ac.uk. A link to the 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 the UK Biobank.
If you require a descriptive text about the UK Biobank to use on your site, you may use the following:
“ UK Biobank is a long-term national project to build the world’s largest information resource for medical researchers. It will follow the health of 500,000 volunteers aged 45-69 in the UK for up to 30 years.
The UK Biobank is funded by the Department of Health, the Medical Research Council, the Scottish Executive, and the Wellcome Trust medical research charity. The project will help approved researchers to develop new and better ways of preventing, diagnosing and treating common illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease . ”
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. The 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 email enquiries@ukbiobank.ac.uk.
We 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.