Privacy policy
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You can use freeclinics.us without creating an account or telling us anything about your health. This page explains the limited information that is collected when you visit, who collects it, and the choices you have.
The short version
- We don't have accounts, sign-ups, or forms that ask about your health.
- Google provides our ads and our visitor statistics, and uses cookies to do so.
- Our web server keeps standard technical logs for security.
- We never sell your information for money.
- You can turn off personalized ads and block cookies at any time.
Information collected when you visit
Server logs
Like almost every website, our server records basic details of each request: your IP address, the page requested, the date and time, your browser type, and the page that linked to us. We use these logs to keep the site running, investigate errors, and block automated abuse. Server logs are deleted after 12 months.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how many people visit, which pages are useful, and what kind of device and approximate location (city or region) they visit from. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technology to do this. We use this information only in aggregate and do not use it to identify you.
Clinic search and your location
When you search by ZIP code or city, or press "Use my location" on our clinic search page, the nearest clinics are worked out in your browser. Your location is only requested if you press that button, and it is never sent to us or stored. Our analytics records that a search happened and whether it used a ZIP code, city or location, but not what you searched for.
If you email us — for example to report a listing — we receive your email address and whatever you include in the message. We use it only to reply and to fix the listing, and we don't add you to any mailing list.
Health information
We never ask for your medical history, insurance details, income, or any other health information, and the site has no forms that collect it. Please don't send us health information by email.
Be aware that the pages you view — for example, a page about STD testing or mental health care — can suggest a health interest. Those page views are visible to Google Analytics and Google's advertising service as described below. If that concerns you, use a private browsing window, block third-party cookies, or opt out of personalized ads.
Advertising and cookies
freeclinics.us is funded by ads served by Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this and other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
You can control this:
- Turn off personalized advertising in Google's My Ad Center.
- Opt out of personalized ads from many other vendors at aboutads.info.
- Read how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
- Block Google Analytics with Google's browser add-on.
- Block or delete cookies in your browser's settings.
Visitors in the European Economic Area, the UK, and Switzerland are shown a consent message and can accept or refuse advertising cookies before they are used. In those countries, Google Analytics and advertising cookies stay switched off until you accept them; until then, Google receives only cookieless signals that do not identify your browser.
Your rights under US state privacy laws
Some states, including California, give residents the right to know what personal information is collected, to request its deletion, and to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for targeted advertising. We do not sell personal information for money. Personalized ads served by Google may count as "sharing" under these laws.
Visitors in US states with these laws are shown a privacy message with a "Do not sell or share my personal information" option. You can also opt out with the controls listed above. To make a request about information we hold (such as emails you've sent us), contact hello@freeclinics.us. We will not treat you differently for using these rights.
Children
The site is meant for adults looking for care for themselves or their families. It is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them.
Links to other websites
Clinic listings link to clinics' own websites. Once you leave freeclinics.us, that site's privacy policy applies, not ours.
Changes and contact
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top of this page. Questions about privacy: hello@freeclinics.us.