Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
My website address is https://healthfactsbydoctorpasindu.com/. I am a Medical Practitioner from Sri Lanka interested in sharing my knowledge in medicine with the general public in a simplified manner.
What personal data do we collect and why we collect it?
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. These visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
However, you may be able to access certain limited areas without disclosing any personal and identifiable piece of information. The information we get here is not traced back to an individual and is not used on its own to identify anyone.
Most browser software can be set to reject all cookies. If your browser is set to reject, websites that are cookie-enabled will not recognize you when you return to our site. It’s important to note that some website functionality may be lost.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Currently, we are using Google Analytics to analyze the audience of the website and improve our content. No personal information is collected from Google Analytics. For further information on the privacy policy concerning Google Analytics, please click here.
With whom we share your data with
We may also share personally identifiable information with third parties as described below. When you are interacting with one of these companies, a specialized privacy policy may apply and will be presented to you at such time.
We may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party’s site. We recommend you review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
It is very important to note that we have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
In addition, this website may contain affiliate marketing links to other third-party websites and when you click on these links and buy a certain product from those websites, we will get a small commission with no added cost to you. These earnings will be used for the maintenance of this website.
How long we retain your data?
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights do you have over your data?
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
The content published by our site can’t be modified or erased by the reader or user. However, we welcome your suggestions about any change through mail or comments below any articles.
Uses and Disclosures Information
The personally identifiable information that you provide will be used to provide the services you have requested or authorized. The information provided by you (your email ID, email addresses, and the content of emails) will not be shared. This is done to protect your identity.
Your data will be recorded and saved on our database and it will be used by us or we may also share personally identifiable information with third parties.
The information provided on healthfactsbydoctorpasindu.com is designed to complement but not replace, the relationship between a patient and his/her own physician. Any person above age 18 can use our information unless it has a very serious health concern.
Moreover, the information provided here should not be used over the professional opinion of the physician of a patient with a particular illness that needs continual and follow-up treatment for that illness, although the information provided here may aid in the management of that illness directly or indirectly.
Privacy Policy Changes
For any significant change in the policy, we will take steps to inform you in a timely fashion. For minor changes, we may or may not inform you. However, when the changes can significantly affect the way we handle personal information, we will not apply the changes without giving you a choice.
Marketing and Advertising
Third-party vendors, including Google and/or other ad networks, may be placing and reading cookies on user’s browsers, or using web beacons to collect information enabling them and their partners to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites on the Internet.
Click on the link to check How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps or paste the following link on your web browser.
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Likewise, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
We may target advertising and marketing based on the information you provide upon registration. For instance, a user we know is a neurologist may be served neurology-related advertisements on both our site and third-party websites. We serve these ads with the use of cookies and web beacons. Additionally, we may geographically target its advertising to registered and unregistered users based on IP address.
We may also personalize the services and the advertising that registered users see based on individual interests.
Additional information
Children’s Privacy
We are committed to protecting the children. Professional Sites and Services are solely for adults over the age of 18.
Copyright
The content available on this website, www.healthfactsbydoctorpasindu.com, is the intellectual property of the website owner. This includes text, graphics, images, and other materials. Copying or reproducing any content in part or in its entirety is strictly prohibited without prior written consent from the webmaster of www.healthfactsbydoctorpasindu.com.
We appreciate your interest in sharing our content. However, to ensure accuracy and proper attribution, permission is required for copying.
Linking back to our website is always encouraged and appreciated.
Privacy Questions or Concerns
For privacy questions or concerns about our website or services, please drop an email to one of the following email addresses.
healthfactsbydoctorpasindu@gmail.com OR awpasindu@gmail.com
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Health Facts by Doctor Pasindu is for informational purposes and should not be considered medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendations.
Effective Date from 02 July 2024
