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Links Policy

Links from this website have been chosen solely for the convenience of our users. The HPA does not engage in link exchanges or link farming.

The following sets out the terms under which Health Protection Agency allows third parties to link to its website. If you set up a link to the Agency's website you are bound by these terms and conditions.

Association with Health Protection Agency

You should not seek to associate the Health Protection Agency with your site or any non- Health Protection Agency content.  Nor should you suggest any endorsement or approval by the Health Protection Agency of you, your website or any non-Health Protection Agency product or content.

Framing and context of Health Protection Agency content

We do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site.  Our pages must load into a user's entire window.   Nor should you insert any graphic into, or play audio content over, Health Protection Agency website content, nor allow a pop-up to appear simultaneously with Health Protection Agency website content.

Restrictions on sites which can link to the Health Protection Agency website

We do not permit a website to link to the Health Protection Agency website if it contains material which is libellous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene, or is in any way a breach of the laws of England and Wales or infringes any third party intellectual property rights.

Termination and Removal of links

The Health Protection Agency may, at any time and without notice, terminate your right to link to the Health Protection Agency website. If we contact you to remove your links to the Health Protection Agency website, you must do so immediately.

Text links to the Health Protection Agency website

If you wish to link to the Health Protection Agency website, you should describe the Health Protection Agency in this way:

The Health Protection Agency – an independent organisation dedicated to protecting people's health in the United Kingdom .

You can use the following source code for this link:

<a href="http://www.hpa.org.uk/" target="_blank" title=" The Health Protection Agency – information on health protection from diagnosis, prevention, and control of infectious diseases, to environmental hazards from chemicals, poisons, or radiation.”> The Health Protection Agency (HPA) – an independent organisation dedicated to protecting people's health in the United Kingdom .

  • title=" The Health Protection Agency... ": this text is read by speaking browsers and is visible to users when their mouse hovers over the link.   It will also help search engines by associating words with the Health Protection Agency.