Privacy Policy
FertilityOnline® respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, how we may use it, when it may be disclosed, and the choices available to you.
This Policy applies to the FertilityOnline® website, email communications, downloadable guides, contact features, subscription forms, and related online interactions under our control.
1 Who We Are
FertilityOnline® owns and operates the website available at https://www.fertilityonline.net.
References in this Privacy Policy to “FertilityOnline®,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to FertilityOnline®. References to “you” and “your” refer to visitors, subscribers, readers, and other individuals who interact with the website or our communications.
Questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices may be sent to [email protected].
Back to top ↑2 Scope of This Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected through:
- The FertilityOnline® website
- Contact forms and direct email communications
- Newsletter and mailing-list registration
- Free-guide and digital-resource forms
- Website comments or interactive features, when available
- Email engagement and website analytics
- Our official social-media interactions, where applicable
This Policy does not govern information collected independently by third-party websites, retailers, social networks, media platforms, or service providers acting under their own privacy policies.
Back to top ↑3 Information We Collect
The categories of information we may collect depend on how you interact with FertilityOnline®.
| Category | Examples | How It May Be Used |
|---|---|---|
| Contact information | Name and email address | To send requested guides, respond to messages, manage subscriptions, and provide website communications. |
| Communication information | Email subject, message, question, feedback, and correspondence history | To understand and respond to your request and maintain appropriate communication records. |
| Subscription information | Newsletter registration, consent status, language choice, and unsubscribe preference | To manage newsletters, requested resources, and communication preferences. |
| Technical information | Internet Protocol address, browser type, device type, operating system, approximate location, referring page, and timestamps | To operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the website. |
| Usage information | Pages viewed, links selected, guide downloads, time spent, and navigation activity | To understand how visitors use the website and improve content and performance. |
| Email-engagement information | Whether an email was delivered, opened, or selected, when supported by the email provider | To evaluate communications, reduce unwanted messages, and improve subscriber content. |
| Social-media information | Public profile name, username, message, or interaction when you contact us through a social platform | To respond to your communication and manage official social-media interactions. |
We may also collect other information that you voluntarily choose to provide.
Back to top ↑4 How We Collect Information
We may collect information:
- Directly from you when you complete a form
- When you subscribe to receive a newsletter or free guide
- When you email or otherwise communicate with us
- Automatically through cookies, server logs, and similar technologies
- Through email-delivery and engagement tools
- Through embedded media and third-party website functions
- From social-media platforms when you interact with our official accounts
You may browse many public portions of the website without directly providing your name or email address.
Back to top ↑5 How We Use Information
We may use personal information to:
- Provide requested guides, downloads, or educational resources
- Send newsletters and related educational communications
- Respond to questions, comments, and contact requests
- Manage subscription and language preferences
- Operate, maintain, and improve the website
- Understand how visitors use our pages and resources
- Protect the website against spam, abuse, fraud, and security threats
- Diagnose technical problems and maintain website availability
- Maintain business and communication records
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our policies
- Protect our rights, property, users, and service providers
We will not use personal information for a materially different purpose without providing appropriate notice or obtaining consent when required.
Back to top ↑6 Legal Bases for Processing
When privacy law requires a legal basis for processing personal information, we may rely on one or more of the following:
- Your consent, such as when you subscribe to receive newsletters or promotional communications
- Performance of a request or agreement, such as delivering a guide you requested
- Legitimate interests, such as operating, securing, understanding, and improving the website
- Legal obligations, including compliance with applicable laws, legal process, or recordkeeping requirements
- Protection of rights and safety, when reasonably necessary to prevent fraud, abuse, or harm
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent for future processing, subject to applicable legal limitations.
Back to top ↑7 Cookies and Similar Technologies
FertilityOnline® and its website service providers may use cookies, pixels, server logs, locally stored objects, software development tools, and similar technologies.
These technologies may support:
- Essential functions: security, page delivery, accessibility, and website operation
- Preferences: remembering choices, settings, or language preferences
- Analytics: understanding visits, traffic patterns, and page performance
- Email measurement: understanding delivery, opens, and link engagement
- Embedded services: displaying videos, podcasts, social content, or other third-party features
You can usually adjust cookies through your browser or through any cookie-management options displayed on the website. Blocking some cookies may affect website functionality or embedded content.
8 Email Communications
When you provide your name and email address to receive a guide, newsletter, or other resource, we may use that information to deliver the requested material and send related educational communications.
Email services may be administered through Mailchimp or another email-delivery provider. These providers may process contact, delivery, and engagement information on our behalf.
You may unsubscribe from nonessential marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the email.
Even after unsubscribing from marketing communications, we may send limited administrative or transactional messages when necessary to respond to your request, confirm an action, or comply with legal obligations.
Back to top ↑9 How Information May Be Disclosed
We do not disclose personal information indiscriminately. Information may be provided in limited circumstances to:
- Website-hosting and technical-service providers
- Email and newsletter-delivery providers
- Analytics, security, backup, anti-spam, and performance providers
- Professional advisers, including lawyers or accountants
- Government authorities or courts when legally required
- A successor organization in connection with a merger, restructuring, financing, or transfer of business assets
- Other parties when you direct us or provide consent
Service providers are permitted to process information only as necessary to perform their contracted functions, subject to their agreements and applicable law.
Back to top ↑10 Service Providers
FertilityOnline® may rely on companies that provide services such as:
- Website hosting and WordPress infrastructure
- Website security, backups, and spam protection
- Email delivery and mailing-list management
- Website analytics and performance measurement
- Video and podcast embedding
- Cloud storage and technical support
- Social-media functionality
The exact providers and technologies used may change as the website evolves.
Each provider may maintain its own privacy, security, retention, and international-transfer practices.
Back to top ↑11 Third-Party Websites and Embedded Media
The website may contain links to or embedded content from third parties, including:
- Amazon
- YouTube
- Spotify
- Mailchimp
- Social-media platforms
- PubMed and academic journals
- News and professional websites
When you view embedded media or follow a third-party link, that provider may collect information directly from your browser or device.
FertilityOnline® does not control third-party privacy practices, tracking technologies, security measures, or data-retention policies.
Review the relevant third party’s privacy policy before providing personal information or using its service.
Back to top ↑12 Amazon and External Purchases
Books and other products featured on FertilityOnline® may be purchased through Amazon or another independent retailer.
When you follow an external purchase link, the transaction is completed through the third party—not through FertilityOnline®.
FertilityOnline® generally does not receive or process your complete payment-card information, Amazon password, billing details, or external account credentials.
The retailer’s privacy policy and terms govern its collection and use of purchase and payment information.
Back to top ↑13 Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising
FertilityOnline® does not intentionally sell personal information in exchange for money.
We do not knowingly disclose personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as part of our own business activities.
However, independent third-party services, embedded content, social platforms, or external websites may collect information directly and use it according to their own policies.
If our practices change in a manner that legally constitutes selling or sharing personal information, we will update this Policy and provide any required notice or opt-out method.
Back to top ↑14 Sensitive and Medical Information
FertilityOnline® is an educational website and does not request medical records, genetic reports, laboratory results, identification documents, financial-account information, or detailed treatment histories through its general contact channels.
If you voluntarily include sensitive information in a message, we may process it only as necessary to review and respond to that communication, subject to applicable law.
Information submitted to this general educational website may not be protected in the same manner as information provided within a separate clinical relationship or through a secure medical portal.
Back to top ↑15 Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including:
- Providing requested resources
- Maintaining newsletter subscriptions
- Responding to communications
- Maintaining security and operational records
- Resolving disputes
- Complying with legal obligations
- Enforcing our agreements and policies
Newsletter contact information may generally be retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion. Limited suppression information may be retained to ensure that an unsubscribe request continues to be respected.
Technical logs and analytics information may be kept for shorter or aggregated periods unless longer retention is needed for security, legal, or operational purposes.
Backup copies may remain temporarily until they are overwritten or securely deleted in accordance with normal system processes.
Back to top ↑16 Data Security
FertilityOnline® uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
Measures may include website security tools, controlled access, encrypted connections, software updates, backups, anti-spam technologies, and trusted service providers.
You are responsible for protecting your own device, email account, passwords, and internet connection.
Back to top ↑17 Your Privacy Choices
Depending on your location and the laws that apply, you may be able to:
- Request confirmation of whether we process your personal information
- Request access to personal information associated with you
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information
- Request deletion of certain personal information
- Request a portable copy of certain information
- Object to or restrict certain processing
- Withdraw consent for future processing
- Unsubscribe from marketing communications
- Appeal certain privacy-request decisions where applicable
To submit a privacy request, email [email protected] with the subject line Privacy Request.
We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Verification may involve confirming control of the email address associated with the information.
We may deny or limit a request when permitted by law, including when information must be retained for legal, security, fraud-prevention, or recordkeeping purposes.
We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.
Back to top ↑18 United States Privacy Rights
Residents of certain United States jurisdictions may have privacy rights under state law, subject to legal thresholds, exceptions, and applicability requirements.
Texas residents
When the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act applies, eligible Texas consumers may have rights relating to access, correction, deletion, data portability, and opting out of certain targeted advertising, sale, or profiling activities.
Where required, you may appeal a decision regarding a Texas privacy request by replying to our decision or emailing us with the subject line Privacy Appeal.
California residents
When California privacy law applies, eligible California residents may have rights to know or access personal information, request correction, request deletion, opt out of certain sale or sharing, and limit certain uses of sensitive personal information.
FertilityOnline® does not intentionally sell personal information for money and does not knowingly sell or share personal information belonging to consumers under 16.
Authorized agents
Where permitted by law, an authorized agent may submit a request on your behalf. We may require proof of authorization and may separately verify your identity.
Back to top ↑19 European, United Kingdom, and International Rights
Individuals in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction with comprehensive privacy legislation may have additional rights, including:
- The right to be informed about processing
- The right to access personal data
- The right to request correction
- The right to request erasure in qualifying circumstances
- The right to request restriction of processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to object to certain processing
- The right to withdraw consent
- The right to complain to an appropriate supervisory authority
These rights are not absolute and may depend on the circumstances, legal basis, and jurisdiction involved.
Direct your request to [email protected].
Back to top ↑20 International Data Transfers
FertilityOnline® is operated from the United States and uses service providers that may process information in the United States or other countries.
Privacy and data-protection laws in those countries may differ from the laws where you live.
Where required, we or our providers may use contractual, organizational, or other legally recognized safeguards for international transfers.
By interacting with the website from outside the United States, you understand that information may be processed in countries other than your own, subject to applicable legal requirements.
Back to top ↑21 Children’s Privacy
FertilityOnline® is intended primarily for adults and is not directed to children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 without appropriate parental consent when such consent is legally required.
Individuals below the age of legal majority should use the website only with the involvement and supervision of a parent or legal guardian.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information to FertilityOnline® without appropriate authorization, contact us so that we may review and, where appropriate, delete the information.
Back to top ↑22 Automated Decisions and Profiling
FertilityOnline® does not use personal information to make solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning website visitors.
Website analytics and email tools may automatically categorize technical or engagement information for reporting, security, or communication-management purposes.
Those activities are not used to determine medical eligibility, diagnose conditions, approve treatment, or make clinical decisions.
Back to top ↑23 Do Not Track and Preference Signals
Some browsers provide “Do Not Track” or privacy-preference signals.
Because there is not one universally applied response standard for every type of browser signal, the website may not respond uniformly to all signals.
Where applicable law requires recognition of a valid opt-out preference signal for activities that constitute sale, sharing, or targeted advertising, we will take reasonable steps to honor the signal when technically supported and applicable to our practices.
You may also control many cookies directly through your browser or any cookie-management controls provided on the website.
Back to top ↑24 Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in:
- Our website and educational resources
- Technology and service providers
- Data-handling practices
- Legal or regulatory requirements
- Security and operational needs
The updated Policy will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.
When required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent before applying a materially different practice to personal information previously collected.
Back to top ↑25 Contact Us
Contact FertilityOnline® to ask a privacy question, update your information, withdraw a subscription, or submit an applicable privacy request.
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