Privacy Policy

We do not ask you for, or collect, any personal information on this website. There is no account, no newsletter, no sign-up, and no comment form.

Like virtually all websites, our hosting provider (Vercel) automatically processes standard technical request data — such as your IP address, browser type, and the pages requested — for the purpose of delivering the site, security, and basic performance. This is handled by Vercel under its own privacy policy; we do not use it to identify individual visitors.

Vercel's servers are located outside Türkiye (in the United States and other regions). This means the limited technical processing described above may involve a transfer of data abroad, carried out under Vercel's own safeguards and privacy policy.

We do not set advertising or cross-site tracking cookies, and we do not build visitor profiles. Any cookies are limited to those strictly necessary for the site to function.

To understand which articles are read and roughly which countries our readers come from, we use a privacy-friendly, cookieless visitor analytics service (Vercel Web Analytics). It counts page views in aggregate only — it does not use cookies, does not store your IP address, and cannot identify you individually.

Article pages also display public view and listen counters. These are simple per-article totals stored without any visitor identifier — no cookies, no IP address, nothing that can identify you. Your browser only remembers locally, for the duration of your visit, that it has already been counted, so refreshing a page does not count you twice.

Our pages link out to our social profiles (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest) and to external medical sources (such as NHS, Mayo Clinic, PubMed). When you follow these links you leave ostomyfan.com and become subject to those services' own privacy policies. We are not responsible for their content or data practices.

Our content is curated with AI assistance and human review. Nothing on this website is medical advice. For your own situation, please consult your own clinician — they know your case best.

Images on this website are AI-generated illustrations. They are not photographs of real patients and do not depict real, identifiable individuals. We also embed a machine-readable “AI-generated” marker in the file metadata (the IPTC Digital Source Type standard); social platforms may strip it when re-encoding an upload, so our written disclosure is the primary notice. See our Sources & Licensing policy for details.

The operator of this website, OstomyFan, acts as the data controller for the limited technical processing described in this policy.

Even though we do not collect personal data through accounts or forms, you can still reach us about any information that may relate to you. Under Turkish data protection law (KVKK, Art. 11) and, where it applies, the EU GDPR, you may ask whether data relating to you is processed, and request access, correction, deletion, or object to its processing.

Send any such request to ostomyfan@gmail.com or via a direct message on our Instagram, @ostomyfan. We aim to respond within 30 days, in line with KVKK Art. 13.

This website is general awareness information and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone, including children.

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page reflects the most recent change.

If you have any questions about this policy or this website, you can reach us at ostomyfan@gmail.com or via a direct message on our Instagram, @ostomyfan.