Privacy Policy
Last updated: [DATE]
This Privacy Policy describes how [PUBLICATION NAME], operated by [OPERATOR NAME], may collect and handle information when visitors use this website.
Contact: [CONTACT EMAIL]
Business Address: [BUSINESS ADDRESS IF APPLICABLE]
Information Collected Automatically
The website’s hosting infrastructure may automatically process technical information necessary to deliver and protect the site.
Depending on the actual configuration, this may include:
- IP address;
- browser information;
- device or operating-system information;
- pages requested;
- referring page;
- date and time of a request;
- server and security logs.
This information may be processed for website operation, reliability, security and abuse prevention.
Hosting provider: [HOSTING PROVIDER]
The operator should update this section to describe the hosting provider and practices actually used.
Information You Submit
If you contact [PUBLICATION NAME], we may receive the information you voluntarily provide, such as your name, email address and message.
Do not submit Johns Hopkins authentication credentials or sensitive institutional records.
We do not need this information to answer editorial questions.
Analytics
Analytics status: [INSTALLED / NOT INSTALLED]
If analytics are used:
Analytics provider: [ANALYTICS PROVIDER]
Update this section to accurately describe the provider, information collected and technologies actually used.
If analytics are not installed, state that clearly rather than leaving placeholder claims suggesting otherwise.
Advertising
Advertising status: [INSTALLED / NOT INSTALLED]
Advertising provider: [ADVERTISING PROVIDER]
If advertising or advertising-measurement services are installed, update this policy to describe those services accurately.
Do not identify a provider before it is actually implemented.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
The website may use cookies or similar browser storage for:
- essential site functionality;
- security;
- consent preferences;
- analytics, if enabled;
- advertising, if enabled.
The categories actually enabled should match the Cookie Policy and consent interface.
External Resources
Our articles may link to Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine or other external services.
When a visitor leaves [PUBLICATION NAME], the destination site’s own privacy practices apply.
We do not control those external services.
Johns Hopkins Credentials and Sensitive Records
[PUBLICATION NAME] is not a Johns Hopkins authentication or record-management system.
Visitors should never submit:
- JHED passwords;
- MFA codes;
- student login credentials;
- employee payroll credentials;
- Social Security numbers;
- direct-deposit information;
- medical information;
- MyChart passwords.
If sensitive information is accidentally submitted through a contact method, contact us at [CONTACT EMAIL] so the operator can review the appropriate response.
Retention
Personal information should be retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for its purpose, security needs, operational requirements and applicable obligations.
Actual retention practice: [DESCRIBE ACTUAL RETENTION PRACTICE]
Do not insert an arbitrary fixed retention period.
Privacy Choices
Depending on the site’s actual technologies and the circumstances applicable to a visitor, users may have choices concerning:
- non-essential cookies;
- analytics;
- advertising technologies;
- information directly submitted to us.
Privacy requests may be sent to:
[CONTACT EMAIL]
The availability of specific legal rights depends on applicable circumstances and law.
Security
The operator should use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards appropriate to the information actually processed.
No internet service can guarantee absolute security.
Children
[INSERT CHILDREN’S PRIVACY PRACTICE IF APPLICABLE]
If this is a general-audience informational publication that is not directed to children, state that accurately.
Changes to This Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated when the site’s technology, providers or information-handling practices change.
The date at the top should be revised when material changes are published.