Last updated: October 25, 2026
This policy explains what information Portland Plant Medicine (portlandplantmedicine.com) collects when you visit, why, and what choices you have. Portland Plant Medicine is responsible for (the “controller” of) the information described here, and you can reach us at privacy@portlandplantmedicine.com. The short version: we don’t ask you for any personal information, we don’t use tracking or advertising cookies, and we don’t sell or share data about you.
Information we collect
Server logs. Like almost every website, our web server automatically records basic technical details about each request: your IP address, the date and time, the page you asked for, the address of the page that linked you here (the referrer) and your browser’s user-agent string (for example, the browser and operating system name). We use these logs only to keep the site secure and working, for example to spot attacks or fix errors. They are deleted automatically after about seven days. Our legal basis for this is our legitimate interest in keeping the site secure and available.
Information you send us. If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you choose to write. We use it only to reply to you. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering messages people send us, or, if you’re asking to exercise a privacy right, our legal obligation to respond. We delete the correspondence within 12 months after our last exchange, unless we need to keep it longer to deal with a legal claim.
We do not have user accounts, comments, newsletters or contact forms, and we never ask for information about your health. Keep in mind that the server logs above record the address of each page you open and any words you type into our site search. On a site about mental health, that can hint at a topic you’re interested in. We don’t use the logs to build a picture of any visitor, and they’re deleted after about seven days.
Cookies and tracking
This site does not set cookies for visitors. We don’t use analytics, advertising, social media widgets or tracking pixels, and our fonts and images are served from our own server, so your browser doesn’t contact third-party services when you read our pages.
If we ever add analytics or another tool that collects information, we’ll update this policy before it goes live and explain what it does.
Links to other websites
Our articles link to other sites, such as health agencies and research journals, so you can check our sources. Those sites have their own privacy policies, and we’re not responsible for how they handle your information.
Who processes your information
The site runs on a server we rent from our hosting provider (Hostinger), which stores the server logs on our behalf. The server is located in the United Kingdom. Emails sent to our address pass through our domain registrar’s email-forwarding service (Namecheap) and are stored by the provider that hosts our inbox, which may be in the United States. These providers handle the information only to run these services for us. We don’t sell, rent or share personal information with anyone else, except where the law requires it.
Children
This site is written for adults and is not directed at children under 13. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, or to restrict or object to how it’s used. This includes rights under the EU and UK GDPR and California privacy law. Because we keep so little, and only for a few days, there’s usually nothing stored about you. If you’d like to ask anyway, email us at privacy@portlandplantmedicine.com and we’ll respond within 30 days. If you’re in the EU or UK and aren’t happy with our answer, you can also complain to your local data protection authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office).
Changes to this policy
If we change how we handle information, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.
Contact
Questions about privacy: privacy@portlandplantmedicine.com.