Privacy, contact and feedback
Content date: 14 November 2026
You can read the guide without an account. Website comments prepare an email draft for you to review and send. Visit feedback is submitted to a private database when you select Send and is not shown to visitors.
What happens on this site?
- Your browser remembers your language preference. The site does not provide a medical record. Website-comment drafts open in your email app. Visit ratings and optional names and comments are stored privately for the site owner; entries older than 90 days are removed when new entries arrive. This form is not for medical questions. Separate aggregate search and article-usefulness counters are described below. The hosting provider may process technical connection data under its policy.
Email feedback and sharing links
- The feedback form prepares a draft for review. You then choose whether to open your email app to send it; you can edit or cancel before sending. Sending takes place in your email app. The recipient can see your email address and the information you choose to send; feedback is not anonymous. WhatsApp sharing lets you choose the recipient yourself and is not a way to contact the doctor. Each external service has its own privacy policy.
My topics
- Saved topic identifiers are stored in this browser on this device. Remove a topic from My topics to delete that selection. Anyone who receives a reading-list link can see its selected topics. Treatment-plan entries remain in page memory while it is open. Printing or sharing does not clear the entries; use Clear or reload the page to erase them, especially on a shared device.
Traffic statistics through Google Analytics
- The site uses Google Analytics to understand general traffic, pages read, sources of visits and device types. Google may use cookies and browser identifiers under its privacy policy. We do not send internal search text, visitor names or visit-feedback comments to this service.
Optional aggregate counters
- Search statistics are off by default. You can enable or disable them under Optional usage statistics in the footer. Browser Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control disables automatic counting.
- When enabled, only whether a search had results, a predefined category and page language are sent. Search words are not sent. We do not record sessions or create a visitor identifier. Only your preference is saved on your device.
- The article usefulness buttons are optional and separate from search statistics. Nothing is sent before you select an answer; only the article code, answer and page language are sent. This rates the explanation, not clinical care.
- The site stores daily totals and removes totals older than 90 days when new counts are recorded, without individual visitor records, IP addresses, emails or device fingerprints in the counters database. Technical connection data processed by the hosting provider remains subject to its policy. These are usage counts, not unique patient counts.
Minimize personal information
- For website comments or visit feedback, include only general feedback. Your own name is optional in the visit form; do not include other people’s names, record numbers, diagnoses, reports or urgent medical questions. Use your treating facility’s channels for clinical information.
Privacy requests
- For feedback sent by email, reply within the same email conversation with your privacy request. For visit feedback submitted through this site, use the website feedback email and give an approximate submission date without medical details. Identity checks may be needed. For information held by a hospital or external service, use that organization’s privacy channels.
Your choice and updates
- Feedback is optional and does not affect your care. You can review or cancel the message before sending. Ratings and messages are not published as promotional testimonials on this site. Sending a message does not give general permission to republish your information. This page will be updated if the site’s operation changes.