Your privacy on this site

People come here to look up things they have not told their friends about. So the short version is this: we do not know who you are, and we have not built anything that could find out.

No accounts, no cookies

There are no accounts on this site. There is nothing to sign up for in order to read a page, nothing to log into, and no profile of you anywhere.

We do not use cookies. No tracking cookies, no advertising cookies, no "essential" cookies that turn out to be analytics. That is also why you have never seen a cookie banner here — we do not need your consent for something we do not do.

There are no advertising networks, no social media tracking pixels, no embedded videos or social posts, and no third-party fonts or scripts loading from someone else's server and quietly logging your visit.

The Safety Checker keeps nothing

When you use the Safety Checker, the condition and the treatment you chose are put in the address bar and nowhere else. They are not saved to our database, not written to a log we keep, and not attached to anything about you.

That has a consequence worth knowing: the answer lives entirely in the link. If you copy that link and send it to someone, you are sending them what you asked about, so share it deliberately. And if you would rather not leave it in your own history, clear the page from your browser as you would any other.

The same goes for the medication selector on our condition pages. What you tick changes what the page shows you, and it stops there.

One preference is remembered: if you switch the site to the dark appearance at the bottom of the page, that choice is kept in your browser's local storage, on your device only, and never leaves it.

What our analytics counts

We use Umami, a privacy-focused analytics tool, and only when it has been switched on for this site. It counts page views and where visitors arrived from. It does not use cookies, does not follow you between sites, and does not build a profile of an individual visitor.

We use it to see which pages people actually read, so we know what to write next. We cannot use it to see what any particular person looked at, because it does not record that.

Like any website, the server that hands you these pages processes your IP address in order to send you the page at all. We do not keep those records to analyse them.

If you give us your email address

The newsletter signup is the only place on this site that asks you for anything. It is optional, and nothing about the site changes if you ignore it.

If you do sign up, your email address goes to MailerLite, the service that runs our mailing list, and is stored on their systems under their privacy policy. We use it to email you when something new is published, and for nothing else. We do not sell, rent or share it, and every email has an unsubscribe link that works immediately.

Getting in touch about your data

Because there are no accounts and nothing is recorded about your browsing, there is usually nothing for us to look up, correct or delete. The one exception is your email address, if you gave us one — you can unsubscribe yourself from any email we send, or ask us to remove it entirely.

If this page ever stops being accurate — if we add a feature that needs to remember something — we will change it here first, and say what changed.