Privacy and terms

Who we are

The Women's Longevity Institute is an independent educational publisher in Australia. For privacy questions, email [email protected] with the subject “Privacy”.

We are not a clinic, and we are not a health-service provider. Please do not send us health information you expect to be handled as a medical record. We do not have a records system for that, and we do not want one.

Educational purpose

Pages on this site are for general education. They are not medical advice. Reading them does not create a professional relationship of any kind. Acting on them is your own decision, ideally with a qualified health professional when the decision is about your health.

What we collect

At this stage the site is static. We do not run an account system, a comment system, or an embedded form. We do not set analytics cookies, and we do not use advertising trackers.

If you email us, we receive what you choose to send: your email address, any name you include, the subject, the message, and the routine metadata that arrives with email. If you ask to join the founding reader list, we keep that request so we can contact you when the list opens.

We do not ask you to send sensitive information. If you include it anyway, we will use it only to understand the message, and we would rather you did not.

Why we use it

We use email details to reply, to honour a request to join the founding reader list, and to handle corrections or editorial notes. That is the purpose of collection.

We do not sell personal information. We do not use it to build an advertising profile. Asking to join the reader list means we may later email you about new briefings. You can ask to be removed, and we will remove you.

Australian Privacy Principles

We are a small publisher. Some small businesses sit outside the Australian Privacy Principles because of a turnover exemption. We still handle enquiries in line with those principles. This is our house standard. It is not a government certification, and it is not a statement that we provide a health service.

• We tell you, on this page, what we collect and why, before you write to us (APP 1 and APP 5).
• Where we can answer without it, you do not have to give us your name. An email address is enough to join the interest list (APP 2).
• We collect only what an email conversation needs (APP 3). Unsolicited attachments are not something we want; please do not send records we did not ask for (APP 4).
• We use the information to reply and, if you asked, to keep you on the interest list. We do not use it for unrelated marketing (APP 6 and APP 7).
• We do not disclose personal information to overseas recipients as a business practice. Ordinary email may still pass through providers that store mail outside Australia. That is one reason not to send sensitive details (APP 8).
• If we have your details wrong, tell us and we will correct them (APP 10 and APP 13).
• We take ordinary care with the inbox: access limited to the people answering mail, and no casual forwarding. Email is convenient. It is not a sealed archive (APP 11).
• You can ask what we hold about you, and you can ask us to delete a reader-list request. We will do that unless we need the note to resolve a correction or to meet a legal obligation (APP 12 and APP 13).

If you are unhappy with how we handled your information, write to us first. You can also contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

When this notice will change

A form, a mailing-list service, or any analytics tool would change what we collect. We will update this page before that happens. Silence under today's notice is not consent for a future tool. If you joined by email, we will not move you into a new system without telling you what changed.

Terms of use

By using the site you agree to the following. These are house rules for a small educational publisher. They are not a substitute for advice from a lawyer, and they are not medical advice.

• Content is general education, offered in good faith as a synthesis of published research. It is not a complete review of every paper, and it is not a personal plan.
• We do not warrant that the site is free of error, or that it will stay available.
• You are responsible for how you apply what you read, including any decision to start or change exercise.
• You may link to our pages. Please do not copy whole briefings, or present our wording as your own, without written permission.
• Do not misuse the site, attempt to interfere with it, or send unlawful, abusive, or misleading email.
• We may update or remove pages. The founding edition is a starting point, not a promise of a publishing schedule.
• These terms are governed by the laws of Australia.

Contact about privacy

Email [email protected] with the subject “Privacy”. The public address is also on the contact page.