Healthiz
Privacy Policy

Privacy for Healthiz readers.

Healthiz is a small Melbourne-based editorial site. We collect the minimum practical information needed to publish the site, respond to messages, protect the service, understand aggregate readership, and attribute affiliate referrals where applicable.

Site
https://healthiz.me
Region
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

1. Information we collect

We may collect information you intentionally provide, such as your name, email address, topic, and message when you contact us. If newsletter features are enabled, we may collect the email address used to subscribe and basic subscription status such as opt-in, confirmation, unsubscribe, or bounce state.

We also receive standard technical data when you visit the site: IP address, browser type, device category, referring page, pages viewed, approximate time, and server logs. This is used in aggregate where practical and is not used to build sensitive health profiles.

2. How we use information

We use information to operate and secure the website, reply to reader or partner messages, correct articles, understand which topics are useful, prevent abuse, maintain legal records, and improve navigation. Contact form details are used to handle the specific inquiry rather than for unrelated marketing.

Healthiz publishes general wellness information only. We do not ask readers to send medical records, diagnoses, prescriptions, payment card details, government IDs, or private health histories. If you include sensitive medical information in a message, we will treat it carefully but cannot provide medical advice.

3. Cookies, analytics, and affiliate attribution

The site may use cookies, local storage, or similar technologies for basic site operation, analytics, spam prevention, and affiliate referral attribution. Affiliate links may set cookies on a merchant or network site so that a referral can be tracked if you choose to buy something.

Affiliate attribution does not change our editorial standard. We do not receive your full medical history from affiliate partners. Depending on the partner, we may receive limited reporting such as a click, order category, commission amount, transaction status, or cancellation/refund status.

4. Service providers and disclosure

We may use hosting, email, analytics, spam-prevention, affiliate-network, and security providers to run the site. These providers process limited information for us or for their own disclosed purposes. We do not sell reader contact messages.

We may disclose information if required to comply with law, enforce site terms, investigate abuse, protect readers or the site, or complete a business transfer such as a domain or asset sale. If the site changes ownership, reasonable steps should be taken to keep this policy available or replace it with an equivalent notice.

5. Retention

Server logs are generally kept only as long as needed for operations, debugging, security, and backup cycles. Contact messages may be retained while an issue is active and for a reasonable period afterwards for recordkeeping, corrections, and accountability. Newsletter records are retained until you unsubscribe or request removal, subject to anti-abuse and legal records.

6. Your choices and rights

You can avoid sending contact forms, unsubscribe from newsletter messages, disable non-essential cookies in your browser, and contact us to ask for access, correction, or deletion of information associated with your email address. Some records may need to be retained for security, legal, fraud-prevention, or accounting reasons.

If you are in Australia, the UK, the EU, Canada, or another region with privacy rights, you may have additional rights depending on your local law. We will respond in a practical, good-faith way appropriate for a small editorial publisher.

7. Children and health safety

Healthiz is intended for general adult readers. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Wellness content is informational and should not replace advice from a qualified clinician, especially for pregnancy, chronic conditions, medication use, injuries, eating disorders, mental health concerns, or urgent symptoms.

8. Updates to this policy

We may update this policy when the site changes providers, analytics, newsletter tools, affiliate networks, or legal requirements. The current version should remain linked from the footer so readers and affiliate reviewers can inspect it.

9. Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent to contact@healthiz.me. Please include the page URL or message context so we can route the request correctly.