Privacy Policy

Looking into a knee replacement often means reading about your own health late at night, and that reading should stay private to you. We have built Save Your Knees (“we”, “us”) to hold as little data as possible. This page answers, in plain terms, the questions people actually ask about privacy.

Which site does this cover?

This policy applies to saveyourknees.org only. It explains what may be involved when you read an article, follow a link, or contact us. It does not cover the external sites we link to, such as the NHS or the National Joint Registry, each of which has its own policy.

What do you actually collect?

Very little, and nothing about your health unless you choose to send it:

• What you send us. If you use the Contact page, we receive your message and anything you put in it, such as a name or email address.
• Routine delivery data. To serve pages securely, our hosting and content delivery network process technical basics such as your IP address and browser type.
• Grouped, anonymous statistics. We may record aggregated figures, for example which guides are read most, so we can tell what is genuinely useful.

What should I never send you?

Please do not send us clinical details: your X-rays, scan results, wound photographs, surgery dates, implant type, or medical history. We cannot give individual advice, we have no clinical role in your care, and email is not a secure channel for sensitive health information. If you send such details anyway, we will not add them to any record and will delete them once we have replied.

Why do you collect anything at all?

Three reasons only: to keep the site running and secure, to understand which content helps people so we can prioritise it, and to reply to messages you send us. That is the entire list.

Do you track me or run ads?

No. We do not sell your information, build an advertising profile, or follow you around the web. Where we measure traffic we use a privacy-conscious analytics provider configured to minimise what it sees, including IP anonymisation and no cross-site tracking. You can clear or block cookies in your browser at any time.

Who else handles my data?

Only the infrastructure providers that make the site work: a content delivery network and a privacy-conscious analytics provider. We share personal information beyond this only where the law requires it.

How long do you keep it?

We keep your correspondence only as long as it takes to deal with your enquiry and any sensible follow-up, then remove it. Aggregated analytics are retained no longer than needed to read general trends.

What are my rights?

Depending on where you live, you may be entitled to access, correct, delete, or restrict the information we hold, or object to certain uses of it. To exercise any of these, write to us via the Contact page and we will respond as the law requires.

What about children?

This is a resource for a general adult audience and is not aimed at children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone below the age of valid consent where they live.

How is the little you hold protected?

We apply reasonable technical and organisational measures to safeguard it. No internet transmission is ever completely secure, so while we take care, we cannot promise absolute security.

Will this policy change?

We may revise it as the site develops. The “Last updated” date above shows the current version, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the revised policy. If anything here is unclear, reach us through the Contact page.