Privacy Policy

When you are weighing up a hip replacement, a lot of the reading happens late at night, and that reading ought to stay private to you. I built Health by Haidee (“we”, “us”) to gather the smallest amount of information it can. This page walks, in plain terms, through the questions people really do ask.

What this policy applies to

It covers healthbyhaidee.com and nothing else. It explains what can happen when you open an article, click through somewhere, or write to me. The outside sites I link to are not part of it; each of those keeps a policy of its own.

What do you actually collect?

Hardly anything, and not one detail about your health unless you choose to share it:

• The message itself. Write to me on the Contact page and I receive what you send and anything folded into it, a name or an email address, say.
• The bare mechanics of serving pages. Delivering the site securely means my hosting and content delivery network handle the technical groundwork, things like your IP address and the browser you happen to use.
• Counts with no names attached. I may keep running totals, which articles draw the most readers, for one, as a way of seeing which writing earns its keep.

What should I never send you?

Keep the clinical specifics with you: imaging, scan results, photographs of a wound, surgery dates, the implant you have, your medical history. I am in no position to advise on any of it, I have no part in your care, and plain email is not a safe home for sensitive health information. Should something like that land with me regardless, it joins no record and is deleted the moment I have replied.

Why hold anything at all?

Three aims, and no fourth: to hold the site up and keep it secure, to see which writing actually helps people so I can give it more room, and to reply to the notes you send me.

Any tracking, any ads?

No, neither. Your details are not for sale, no advertising profile bears your name, and nothing here shadows you across the web. What measuring I do passes through an analytics tool chosen for its restraint, taking in as little as it can manage, masking IP addresses, and never tracking you onward to other sites. Cookies you can clear or block from your browser at any time you please.

Who else handles my data?

Only the two services without which the site could not run: a content delivery network and the restrained analytics tool just mentioned. Further than those two, nothing personal about you moves anywhere unless the law leaves me no choice.

How long do you keep it?

I hold a message just until your enquiry, and any sensible follow-up to it, is settled, and then it goes. The pooled analytics linger no longer than a general trend needs to be legible.

What are my rights?

Where you live may give you grounds to see what I hold, correct it, have it deleted, limit it, or object to a particular use. To act on any of that, write via the Contact page, and my reply will track what the law calls for.

What about children?

The site is meant for adult readers, not for children, and I will not knowingly gather anything from someone who has not reached the age of valid consent in their own country.

How is the little you hold protected?

I keep sensible technical and organisational safeguards around it. No journey across the internet is ever flawlessly secure, though, so I am careful rather than ready to promise the impossible.

Will this policy change?

Quite possibly, as the site moves on. The “Last updated” line above shows the version in force, and staying with the site after a revision is how you accept the new wording. If a passage is unclear, reach me on the Contact page.