Privacy Policy for ghkh.site
This privacy policy explains how Global Health Knowledge Hub ("ghkh.site", "we", "us") collects, uses and protects information when you visit https://www.ghkh.site. We are an educational health website. We do not ask for, and do not want, your medical records, patient names, hospital numbers or any identifying health details.
1. Information We Collect
- Information you give us: your name, email address and message when you use our contact form or email us.
- Automatically collected information: like most websites, our hosting platform (Google Blogger) and analytics may record your IP address, browser type, device, pages visited, referring site and time of visit.
- Tool data: our symptom checker, BMI calculator and heart rate calculator work entirely in your browser and send nothing to us. The blood pressure tracker stores readings only in your own browser's local storage on your device; we cannot see them, and you can delete them at any time with the Clear button or by clearing your browser data.
2. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device. We and our partners use them to keep the site working, remember preferences such as dark or light mode, measure visits and show advertising. You can control cookies through your browser settings; blocking some cookies may affect how the site works.
3. Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertising
We use Google AdSense (publisher ID pub-1648504352534234) to display advertisements. Please note:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
- You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info.
- Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at How Google uses information from partner sites.
We use Google AdSense pub-1648504352534234 third-party cookies and advertising partners to serve ads. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies (including the DoubleClick DART cookie) to serve ads to our users based on their visits to this site and other sites on the internet. Users may opt out at https://adssettings.google.com. Our AdSense publisher ID is pub-1648504352534234.
For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, we ask for consent through a Google-certified consent management message before personalised ads or related cookies are used.
3b. Amazon Associates
Global Health Knowledge Hub is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, ghkh.site earns from qualifying purchases. When you click an Amazon link, Amazon may set cookies to track the referral; see Amazon's privacy notice for details.
4. Analytics
We may use Google Analytics or Blogger statistics to understand how visitors use the site in aggregate, for example which pages are most read. This helps us improve content.
5. How We Use Information
- To reply to messages and correction reports.
- To operate, secure and improve the website.
- To display advertising that keeps the site free.
- To comply with legal obligations.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use contact messages for marketing.
6. Third-Party Services
The site is hosted on Google Blogger, ads are served by Google AdSense, and pages may load fonts or scripts from Google. Links to external sites such as WHO, CDC, NIH and NHS are governed by those sites' own privacy policies.
7. Data Retention
Contact emails are kept for up to 24 months so we can follow up on corrections, then deleted. Server and analytics logs are retained according to Google's own retention settings, generally not longer than 14 to 26 months.
8. Data Security
The site is served over HTTPS (TLS encryption in transit). Email is protected by our provider's security. No online service is completely secure, so please do not send sensitive information.
9. Your Rights (GDPR, UK GDPR and CCPA/CPRA)
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data we hold about you, to object to or restrict processing, to withdraw consent and to complain to a data protection authority. California residents may request to know and delete personal information and may opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising. Email contact@ghkh.site to make a request; we respond within 30 days.
10. Children's Privacy
This site is intended for a general adult audience. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has sent us information, contact us and we will delete it.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy. The effective date at the top will change and significant changes will be noted on this page.
12. Contact
Data protection questions: contact@ghkh.site, Lahore, Pakistan. See also our terms of service and medical disclaimer.