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This site is owned and run by the Mental Health Foundation, the UK charity for everyone’s mental health. Registered Charity no. (England) 801130, (Scotland) SC 039714. Company Registration no: 2350846

Disclaimer

Although every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that the information on this website was accurate at the time of publication, we accept no responsibility for any errors, omissions or misleading statements on this site or on any site which you may be able to access through a link on this site.

We exclude to the fullest extent permitted by law all representations or warranties with respect to the content of this site whether express or implied including but not limited to any warranty or representation that the server from which the site is available is free of viruses or bugs.

We exclude all liability to any third party anywhere in the world for any injury, damage, direct or indirect loss, consequential or economic loss or any other loss suffered as a result of the use of or reliance upon the information contained in this website to the maximum extent permitted by law. For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this paragraph shall restrict or exclude our liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence.

Content

All content is copyright of the Mental Health Foundation. We reserve the right to edit, amend or delete all content.

Your posts

We encourage you to share with us and others about how mindfulness has impacted on you life. We respectfully request that when posting a message, you stick to the following rules.

• To respect the views of other people, even if you disagree with them
• To avoid posting the same message several times
• To not disclose personal information which may leave you or anybody else vulnerable to abuse, this includes providing personal details including emails, postal addresses or telephone numbers
• To not criticise individuals or organisations or seek to disparage them
• To not use abusive or offensive language
• To not post on behalf of anyone else
• We reserve the right to edit or remove inappropriate messages posted on this website.

Medical

The medical information published on this site is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between you and your GP or medical advisor and does not constitute medical advice. Always consult a suitably qualified doctor on any specific medical problem or matter. If you need someone to talk to urgently and in confidence - the Samaritans offer emotional support 24 hours a day on 08457 90 90 90. You can also email the Samaritans.

Linking to the Be Mindful website

We positively encourage you to link to this website to raise awareness of mindfulness. You do not need to ask our prior permission to link to this site, but we would really appreciate an email to notify us of any such link. We reserve the right at our discretion to require the removal of any link established by a third party between our site and any third party website.

If you would like to provide text to accompany the link, please use the following:
Be Mindful website
Find out more about clinical evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapies and listen to others experiences of how mindfulness has helped them by visiting the Be Mindful website. By visiting the Be Mindful website you can also:

• Watch videos.
• Listen to podcasts.
• Find out about courses in your area.
• Purchase a report or a surgery toolkit.
• Share your experience of mindfulness.
• Lend your support for increased access to mindfulness on the NHS.

The Be Mindful campaign is brought to you by the Mental Health Foundation.

Linking from the Be Mindful website

We do not accept responsibility for the content of the sites we link to. We do not sponsor, endorse or otherwise approve of any information or statements appearing in a linked site (nor in sites referred to in or linked to a linked site) and we are not responsible if a linked site is not working properly. It is your responsibility to enter into and comply with any software or other licences required to access or use any linked sites and any material they contain or link to.

Mindful courses and practitioners

If you are looking for mindfulness:
The mindfulness courses and practitioners listed are for information only and including them does not mean the Mental Health Foundation endorses any services they may provide. We recommend you always do your own research and ensure that any practitioners you work with or courses you attend are certified by the relevant bodies. Find out more about choosing a therapist on the Talking Therapies factsheet on the Mental Health Foundation website.

We reserve the right to suspend or delete any of the details of courses or practitioners for whatever reason without being required to justify this. We will not be liable for any lost earnings that are caused by suspending or deleting details of courses or practitioners.

If you are adding your Mindfulness course into Google Maps:
Providing us with the details of Mindfulness-based courses you are running will help us in our campaign to raise awareness of Mindfulness. All courses are listed free of charge, but will do reserve the right to amend, edit or delete details of your course posted on this website.

Data protection

In relation to personal information on this site, we comply with the requirements of the UK’s Data Protection Act 1988 governing the obtaining, use, retention, security and transfer of personal information. However, we cannot accept responsibility for the use of personal information once transferred or on linked sites.

Privacy policy

We recognise and respect the right to privacy of all visitors to this site. If we receive or require personal information from you for a particular purpose, we will not use this information for any purpose other than that stated, or pass it on to anyone else, except with your consent or as required by law.

If you wish to sign up to the Be Mindful campaign and to receive email updates, it is important that, to protect your privacy, you register yourself rather than ask a third party to register on your behalf. Please register only in your own name.

Copyright

All of the materials on this site are the copyright or other intellectual property of the Mental Health Foundation, unless otherwise indicated, and all rights are reserved. Any materials belonging to the Mental Health Foundation may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium for research, private study or for internal circulation within an organisation subject to

(i) the materials being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context and (ii) where any of the copyright items on this site are republished or copied to others, the source of the material being identified and the copyright status being acknowledged.

None of the materials produced by the Mental Health Foundation may be used for any other purpose and/or for any commercial purposes without prior consent from the Mental Health Foundation, for which you may be required to pay a licence fee. Please email us webteam@mhf.org.uk

The permission to reproduce Mental Health Foundation protected materials does not extend to any material on this site which is identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders.

If you have any questions about the Terms and Conditions, please email webteam@mhf.org.uk