Privacy Policy

Who is responsible for the website

Updates in Medicine is responsible for the information described in this policy. For privacy enquiries, contact contact@updatesinmedicine.com.

Information we collect

When you subscribe, we ask for your email address and, if you choose to provide it, your first name. We store your subscription status in the website’s database and use Brevo to deliver confirmation emails.

If you email us, we receive your address and the information you include in your message. Our hosting provider may process technical information such as your IP address, browser details, requested pages and security events in server and security logs.

How we use information

We use subscription details to manage the free email updates you request, maintain your subscription status and honour unsubscribe requests. We use correspondence to reply to enquiries. Technical information is used to deliver, maintain and protect the website.

We do not use subscriber addresses for unrelated marketing or share them with advertisers. A separate, clear choice would be required before either use.

Newsletter subscriptions

Newsletter signup is optional. After submitting the form, you must confirm your address using the email we send before receiving selected medical research, guideline updates and clinical reviews from Updates in Medicine.

You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any newsletter email, or contact us for help. Future paid services would require a separate voluntary sign-up. Free subscribers will not be charged or automatically moved to a paid plan.

Legal basis and consent

Where consent is the applicable legal basis, we rely on your choice to sign up and confirm your email address to manage and send the updates you request. You can withdraw consent by unsubscribing. Where applicable, we rely on our legitimate interests in responding to correspondence and operating and securing the website, balanced against your privacy rights.

Service providers and international processing

The website is hosted through OpenAI Sites on Cloudflare infrastructure. Newsletter signups and confirmation status are stored in the website’s database. Brevo processes confirmation-email delivery and receives the recipient’s email address and message content. We do not import the subscriber database into Brevo. Previous delivery records may remain with Resend, and subscribers who joined through the previous Kit form may still have records with Kit.

These providers may process information outside your country. Please review Brevo’s Privacy Policy, Resend’s Privacy Policy and, for subscriptions made through the previous form, Kit’s Privacy Policy.

Cookies and analytics

Updates in Medicine uses its own first-party aggregate statistics to understand which pages are read and how the website can be improved. It counts page views, estimated visits, article reads, broad arrival sources, country and device type, including visits to the newsletter page. Email providers may separately measure email delivery or engagement. We do not connect article-reading activity to subscriber email addresses.

The page path and broad source are sent to this website. Country is derived from the request at the network edge, and device type from the browser’s user-agent information. We store daily totals, not individual visit records, IP addresses, full referrer URLs or user-agent strings. The daily totals are kept for up to 24 months. Estimated visits are entries from another site or a direct opening, not counts of unique people.

Our first-party statistics use no tracking cookie or browser storage. The first-party uim_analytics preference cookie is created only when you opt out; it remembers that choice for up to one year. It is not an advertising or tracking cookie. You can change your choice below. No site statistics are recorded after you opt out. Newsletter emails operate separately from this setting. We also respect supported Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals for our statistics.

The website currently uses no advertising cookies, cross-site tracking, Google Analytics or social-media tracking pixels. External websites linked here have their own privacy practices.

Retention and security

We keep subscriber records while needed to manage active subscriptions, honour unsubscribe choices and meet applicable obligations. We review these records periodically. We keep enquiries while needed to respond and meet any applicable record-keeping obligations. Technical-log retention depends on the hosting provider’s settings and policies and is being confirmed.

We use access controls and the security measures provided by our hosting and newsletter services to protect information. No online service can guarantee absolute security.

Your privacy rights

You can contact contact@updatesinmedicine.com to request access to, correction of or deletion of information we hold about you, or to raise a concern. Other rights may apply depending on the law that covers your information. You may also raise a concern with a relevant data-protection authority where applicable.

Unsubscribing stops future newsletter emails. A limited record may be kept where needed to honour your opt-out request.

Children, changes and contact

This website is intended for doctors and other medical professionals and is not directed at children. We will update the date above when this policy changes and provide additional notice when a change materially affects how we use personal information.

For any privacy question, email contact@updatesinmedicine.com.