Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. Learn how we protect your information.
Introduction
ConditionStories ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and use our services.
By using ConditionStories, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
Information We Collect
Information You Provide
- • Contact information when you reach out to us
- • Feedback and suggestions you submit
- • Any information you voluntarily provide through forms or communications
Automatically Collected Information
- • IP address and browser information
- • Pages visited and time spent on our site
- • Search queries and interactions with our content
- • Device information and operating system
How We Use Your Information
- ✓ To provide and maintain our service
- ✓ To improve user experience and website functionality
- ✓ To respond to your inquiries and provide customer support
- ✓ To analyze usage patterns and improve our content
- ✓ To comply with legal obligations
Patient Story Privacy
Important Note About Patient Stories
All patient stories and medical cases displayed on HealthCases are:
- • Completely anonymized with all personal identifiers removed
- • Sourced from public medical forums and communities
- • Shared with the original intent of helping others
- • Processed to ensure no private health information is exposed
Information Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to third parties. We may share information only in the following circumstances:
- • When required by law or legal process
- • To protect our rights, property, or safety
- • With service providers who assist in operating our website (under strict confidentiality agreements)
- • With third-party advertising partners, including Google, who may use cookies and other technologies to serve personalized advertisements
- • In connection with a business transfer or merger
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.
Your Rights
You have the right to:
- • Access the personal information we hold about you
- • Request correction of inaccurate information
- • Request deletion of your personal information
- • Object to processing of your personal information
- • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
Advertising and Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, and understand where our visitors are coming from. You can control cookies through your browser settings.
Third-Party Advertising
We use Google AdSense and other third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements when you visit our website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
Google AdSense: Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
These third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites. This allows them to provide personalized advertising content that may be more relevant to your interests.
Your Advertising Choices
You have control over personalized advertising:
- • Opt out of Google personalized ads: You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings
- • Opt out of third-party cookies: You can opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info
- • Browser settings: You can also control cookies through your browser settings, though this may affect website functionality
Additional Information
For more information about Google's privacy practices, please visit Google's Privacy Policy.
If you would like more information about advertising practices and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.