1. What we collect
An email address, if you type one into the subscribe form. A name, email address, topic and message, if you use the contact form. That is the entirety of what you actively give us.
We do not ask for a date of birth, an address, a phone number, a treatment history or anything about your health, and you should not send us any of that. This is a publication, not a clinic.
2. Why we hold it
An email address is held for one purpose: to send the monthly briefing. Contact form messages are held to answer them and to keep a record of corrections.
We do not build a profile about you, we do not score you, and we do not track what you read.
3. Where it is stored
Subscriber records are stored in a key value store operated by our hosting provider, Cloudflare, which also serves this site. The record consists of the email address, the form it came from, the date and the country code the request arrived with.
The site is a set of static files. There is no user account, no login, no comment system and no user generated content.
4. What we do not do
We do not run an advertising network. We do not use third party advertising cookies. We do not embed tracking pixels from social platforms. We do not sell, rent or share the subscriber list, including with newsletter sponsors, who buy a line in an email and not the people who read it.
We do not use analytics that build a profile of an individual visitor across sites.
5. How long we keep it
Subscriber records are kept until you unsubscribe or ask for deletion, and are removed after that. Contact messages are kept while a matter is open and for a reasonable period afterwards so that a correction has a record, then deleted.
6. Your rights
You can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, and ask for it to be deleted. Ask through the contact form and we will do it.
Unsubscribing is one click in any email and takes effect immediately.
Your rights under UK data protection law are explained by the Information Commissioner's Office, which is also where you can complain if you think we have handled your data badly.
7. Links to other sites
We link to regulators, health services, professional bodies and research indexes. Those organisations have their own privacy practices and we are not responsible for them.
Two archive pages on this site carry a single disclosed editorial link each, described in our editorial standards. The same applies: once you leave, you are on somebody else's site.
8. Changes
If this page changes materially, the review date at the foot of the page changes with it. We do not make quiet changes to it, for the same reason we do not make quiet changes to anything else.