No cookies, no analytics, no forms, nothing sold. Here is the whole of what happens when you load this page.
This is a plain, static website. There are no accounts, no forms, no cookies set by us, no advertising, and no analytics or tracking of any kind. We do not know who you are, we do not build a profile of you, and we never sell or share anything.
Two things happen that are worth naming honestly: our host keeps brief server logs, and the page loads its typefaces from Google Fonts. Both are described below.
To be specific, because many health sites do all of these and we do none of them:
This site is hosted on Vercel. Like essentially every web host, Vercel records basic technical information when a page is served: the IP address making the request, the page requested, the time, and the browser's user-agent string. This is standard infrastructure logging — it is how a host serves traffic, blocks abuse, and notices outages.
We do not use those logs to identify individuals or to track anyone across visits, and we do not combine them with anything else. They are retained by Vercel under its own policy and are subject to Vercel's privacy terms, which you can read at vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy.
The typefaces on this site are served from Google Fonts. When your browser fetches them, Google receives your IP address and the standard request headers — the same as for any third-party resource on any website. Google states that it does not use Google Fonts requests to build advertising profiles.
We flag this because it is the only third-party request this site makes on page load, and because under GDPR it has been treated as a disclosable transfer. If you would rather not make that request, a content blocker or privacy-focused browser will stop it; the site remains fully readable in your system fonts.
We link out to PubMed, the Hydrocephalus Association, NIH, hospital pages, and other organisations. Once you follow a link, you are on their site under their privacy policy, not ours. We have no visibility into what you do there.
The donation link goes to REaCH Org, our fiscal sponsor, and payments are processed by PayPal. We do not operate that checkout, we never see your card or bank details, and any information you give during a donation is handled by REaCH Org and PayPal under their own policies.
Email addresses on this site are ordinary mailto links. If you write to us, we receive what you chose to send — your address, your name if you give it, and whatever is in the message — and we keep it only as long as needed to reply and to keep a record of the correspondence.
Please do not email clinical details. Email is not a secure or confidential channel, we cannot give medical advice (see the Medical Disclaimer), and we would rather not hold your or your child's health information at all. If you need clinical help, contact your care team.
Our mail runs on Google Workspace, so messages you send are stored on Google's servers under Google's terms.
Much of this site concerns a condition most often diagnosed in infancy, and it is written largely for parents. The site itself is not directed at children, and we knowingly collect nothing from anyone of any age — there is no form, no account, and no tracking, so there is nothing to collect.
Rights of access, correction, deletion, and portability under laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA apply to personal data a site holds about you. Because this site collects nothing, there is in almost every case no record of you for us to produce or erase.
The exception is email: if you have written to us and would like that correspondence deleted, ask and we will delete it. Write to info@hydrocephalus.me.
This is an educational and research website, not a healthcare provider, health plan, or clearinghouse acting in that capacity, and it holds no medical records. HIPAA governs protected health information held by covered entities and their business associates; it does not apply to this site. Dr. Krishnamurthy's clinical practice is a separate matter, governed by his institution's own privacy notices.
If we add anything that changes the picture — a contact form, a mailing list, analytics — we will update this page and change the date at the top before it goes live, not after.
Questions about this policy: info@hydrocephalus.me.