Website Policy

EPF’s website presents the activities of the organisation and aims to provide free information for patients and chronic disease specific patient organisations.  The EPF website provides information to help capacity building and to keep visitors up to date with the most current developments in the health political arena.


1. Confidentiality
    Any information such as email addresses, telephone numbers and other  
    related contact details that is collected through our website is kept strictly  
    confidential and will not be shared with any third parties, unless required by
    law. Any information used is solely for the purpose of our own statistics.

2. Transparency of Funding
    The EPF website as part of our operational activities is funded by unrestricted
    grants from sponsors in line with our code of ethics and funding framework.
    The project part of the website is funded through grants from the European
    Commission.

3. Editorial Content
    Nicola Bedlington, Director validates the editorial content of this website. All
    authors of this website are not medical doctors.  Any supplementary content
    that may be added which has been written by a medical doctor will be clearly
    stated.

4. Honesty in Advertising and Editorial Policy
    EPF’s website does not host any form of advertisement. 

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