1. Sponsorship
The Tobacco Control Unit (TCU) is funded mainly by the Catalan Institute of Oncology (CIO) and the Department of Health, as well as by the grants for research projects or interventions from public institutions (Instituto de Salud Carlos III; EU FP7 program, H2020; AGAUR, Government of Catalonia) or private (Council of Nursing Colleges of Catalonia, TV3 Marathon Foundation, Global Bridges).
2. Confidentiality
We are obliged to ensure adequate mechanisms to prevent external interference in the data that the user has provided to TCU professionals, for example by using encryption. We guarantee that communication through this web is carried out with users (professionals and citizens) and not with an impostor considering ethical and legal confidentiality regulations.
3. Informed consent
In cases when it is necessary, we are obliged to present to the user with the terms of use/processing the data of this portal for their free-will acceptance or deny. We keep a copy of this consent. Also, we timely inform about the period during which the information is stored and whether or not the subject of an investigation.
4. Operating procedure standard
Limits and risks. We have a work plan that frame our standardized clinical and research practice in the context of professional training, scientific evidence, professional and ethics codes.
5. Quality
If interventions are recommended, it is obligatory that they are effective and the sources information used have a high quality and could be contrasted.
6. Adherence
If treatments are recommended, they would be exclusively the ones that have proven the most effective ones and of the first-line for the problem they are applied for. Patients´ health and their improvement are always considered as a prior objective to any other possible goal.
7. Commercial practice
Currently the TCU DOES NOT COLLABORATE with any commercial company and, therefore, there is no information that could be considered as advertising. In the case of the sponsorship other than above mentioned ones, it will be clearly indicated and clear and objective policy will be applied differentiating explicitly clinical, educational and promotional information and at no circumstances it will be allowed for advertisers to decide or modify editorial content. The advertising material will be clearly defined with the word “Advertisement” at an easily visible place.
8. We stricktly follow Spanish and Catalan laws
We follow the codes of clinical practice ethics in general of all the different health professionals involved in this website.