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Privacy Policy

This page explains what happens to your data on Bio-Hacking.Blog and in our free Chrome extension, Check the Study. The short version: we do not run ad networks, we do not sell data, and we do not build profiles of readers.

The website

Bio-Hacking.Blog is hosted on WordPress.com, operated by Automattic. Like any website, it records standard traffic information such as page views, approximate location, referring site, and browser type, which we use only to see which articles are read. We do not run advertising trackers and we do not sell or rent any of it. Automattic’s handling of that data is covered by the Automattic privacy policy.

If you email us at lee@stutz.science, we use your message and address only to reply to you.

The “Check the Study” Chrome extension

The extension finds the research behind a health claim. It has no account, no server of ours, and no analytics. It stores nothing about you, on your device or anywhere else.

What it sends, and where

  • Your search text. When you right-click a selection or type in the extension, that text is sent to the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s PubMed search service (eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) and to the public WordPress.com search API (public-api.wordpress.com) purely to run the two searches you asked for.
  • Study identifiers, when you use “Scan this page”. The extension reads the page you are on inside your browser to pick out PubMed IDs (PMIDs), PubMed Central IDs (PMC IDs) and DOIs. Only those identifiers and the page title leave your browser, to the same two services, so the citations can be looked up. The page content itself is never transmitted to anyone.

What it never does

  • It does not collect, store, or transmit your browsing history.
  • It does not read pages in the background. It only looks at a page when you click “Scan this page”, and only at the tab you are on.
  • It has no analytics, no tracking pixels, no advertising, and no third-party SDKs.
  • It does not sell or share any data, and it is not used for creditworthiness or lending.

The two services it queries have their own policies: the NLM/NCBI web policies and the Automattic privacy policy.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, we will update this page. Questions about anything here: lee@stutz.science.