MS-PINPOINT

Privacy and cookies

This site is deliberately quiet: no analytics, no advertising, no tracking. This page lists everything it stores in your browser, and points to how the study itself handles patient data.

Cookies

This website sets no analytics, advertising or tracking cookies, and shares nothing about your visit with data brokers or advertising networks. That is why there is no cookie banner: the law asks for consent to non-essential cookies, and we simply don't use any.

The site keeps two small things in your browser's own storage, both strictly functional and never sent anywhere: your light/dark theme choice, and — if you start the study opt-out form — a draft of what you've typed, kept for 15 minutes so an interruption doesn't lose your work. The draft never includes your NHS number.

Embedded videos

Video embeds on this site are click-to-play: nothing is loaded from YouTube until you press play on a video. When you do, the player loads from YouTube's youtube-nocookie.com privacy-enhanced domain. Google may still set cookies of its own once a video is playing — that is a choice you make by pressing play, not one made for you by visiting a page.

The study's data, not the website's

The research itself never touches this website: hospital records and MRI scans are anonymised inside the hospitals, and the study only works with fully anonymised data that is impossible for anyone — including the research team — to link back to an individual patient. How that works, and how to opt out, is explained at Opt out of the MS-PINPOINT study. If you use the opt-out form, the details you submit are encrypted and used only to action your request.

Questions about privacy? Email a.eshaghi@ucl.ac.uk.