Privacy Policy

Overview

This Privacy Policy explains the information this website may receive when you browse dradrianmercer.com, submit a public comment, or contact the site by email.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics 4 to understand website traffic and how visitors use public pages. The standard Analytics implementation can collect information such as the number of users, session statistics, approximate location, browser/device information, page views, and enhanced-measurement events. Google Analytics also uses a first-party cookie such as _ga to distinguish users and sessions when analytics storage is enabled.

Information about how Google processes data is available through Google’s privacy documentation. You can also use Google’s Analytics opt-out tools where available.

Comments

If you submit a comment, the site receives the comment text and any optional display name you provide. Comments are moderated before public display. Please do not include medical records, diagnoses, contact details, or other private health information in a public comment.

Email and professional inquiries

If you email adrianmercer.md@gmail.com, the information you send will be received through the email service used for that mailbox. Do not use email for urgent medical needs or confidential clinical communication.

Hosting and technical logs

This website is hosted using Netlify. Like most web hosts, hosting and security infrastructure may process technical information needed to deliver pages, operate serverless functions, prevent abuse, and maintain service reliability.

How information is used

Information received through the site may be used to operate and secure the website, understand aggregate traffic, moderate comments, respond to professional inquiries, diagnose technical problems, and improve content.

Advertising and sale of personal information

This website does not currently run display advertising through Google AdSense. If advertising, affiliate, or additional tracking services are added later, this policy should be updated before or when those services are introduced. The website does not currently sell personal information collected through its own comment or contact features.

Retention and security

Information may be retained for as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described above, subject to the settings and retention practices of the services involved. No internet service can guarantee absolute security.

Children’s privacy

This website is intended as general health education for a broad audience and is not designed to knowingly collect personal information from children through account registration. If you believe a child has submitted personal information through a comment, contact us so the issue can be reviewed.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated when the website’s features, analytics, advertising, or service providers change. The date at the top of this page shows the latest published revision.