Consumer health data
This is the consumer health data privacy policy for The Psilocybin Record.
This site is a legal reference publication. It records what the law says about psilocybin in each jurisdiction, and it is free to read. There are no accounts, there is no form that asks you anything about your health, and we never ask why you are reading.
Washington state defines consumer health data broadly enough that reading pages about psilocybin law could be argued to fall inside it. We do not think looking up the law says anything about your health, and this site infers nothing of the kind. But that argument is not ours to settle, so to the extent the definition reaches what we collect, this is the policy the law asks for. Nevada and Connecticut describe consumer health data in similar terms, and this answers those too.
What follows is the same collection set out in our privacy statement, written out the way this law asks for it. In plain terms:
- What we collect.
- Two systems measure readership here. One is a page counter run by our host, which sets no cookies and keeps no personal record. The other is Google Analytics, which uses cookies and which you can turn off at any time. Between them they record the page you looked at, the approximate city the visit came from, your browser and device type, and the site or search that sent you. That is the whole of it. There is no name, no health information, and nothing you typed, because no page here asks you a question about yourself. If you sign up to track changes you give us an email address; that list is described in the privacy statement and it is never joined to anything above.
- Where it comes from.
- Your visit to this site, and nothing else. We do not buy data about you, we do not receive it from anyone, and we do not combine what we have with anything from elsewhere.
- Why we collect it.
- To count how many people read the record, to see which entries get used, and to decide what to fix and what to build next. It informs decisions about the site, not decisions about you. It is not used to advertise anything to you, here or anywhere else.
- Who receives it.
- Google LLC processes the analytics layer on our instructions. Vercel Inc. hosts this site and runs the page counter. Those two, and nobody else. We do not sell it, we do not share it for advertising, and no ad network, data broker, or other publisher receives anything from this site.
- Your rights.
- You can ask what we hold about you, ask who has received it, withdraw your permission for the analytics that uses cookies, and ask us to delete what we have. Using any of them costs nothing, and we will not give you a worse site for it.
- How to use them.
- One of them is already yours: Privacy choices, in the footer of every page. Decline or opt out and the analytics described here stops. The page counter keeps running, because it stores nothing on your device and holds no record of you to stop. For anything else, write to privacy@psilocybinlegalization.com and tell us what you want. We answer within 45 days. If we say no, reply and ask us to review it; an appeal gets a fresh look and a written answer.
Reading about the law is not a diagnosis, and we do not treat it as one.