Data Rights

Keiran Latchford Sep 18 2025

Scope and Role

This Data Rights and U.S. Privacy Notice applies to the website pigeonsonthegate.com, operated as Health Messengers at the Gate in the United States. It explains our practices under U.S. privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the CPRA) and similar state laws, and provides a Notice at Collection. This page does not constitute a Privacy Policy replacement but focuses on individual data rights, collection disclosures, and how to exercise those rights.

Notice at Collection

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of personal information, depending on your interactions with our site:

Identifiers: such as IP address, device identifiers, and approximate location derived from IP.
Internet or Network Activity: such as pages viewed, time stamps, referral URLs, and interactions with site features.
Device and Technical Data: such as browser type, operating system, screen resolution, and cookie data.
User Content and Communications: such as messages or inquiries you submit to us.
Inferences: such as inferred interests to improve content relevance.
Sensitive Personal Information: we do not seek to collect sensitive personal information. If you voluntarily submit health-related information in a message, we treat it as personal information, not as protected health information under HIPAA.

Sources of Personal Information

Directly from you when you contact us or submit content.
Automatically from your device and browser via cookies, pixels, and similar technologies.
From service providers that support analytics, security, hosting, and site functionality.

Purposes for Collection and Use

Provide, operate, and maintain our website and content.
Measure and improve site performance, usability, and content relevance.
Detect, prevent, and investigate security incidents, fraud, and abuse.
Comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms.
Respond to your inquiries and requests.

Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described above, to comply with legal obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce agreements. Retention periods vary by data category, usage, and applicable law.

Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate the site, remember preferences, conduct analytics, and improve content. You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Some cookies are essential to the site’s core functionality and cannot be disabled without affecting service quality.

Disclosures to Service Providers and Third Parties

We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients for business purposes:

Service Providers: hosting, security, analytics, content delivery, and support services under contracts restricting their use of the data.
Legal and Compliance Recipients: government authorities or other parties as required by law or to protect rights, safety, and security.

We do not knowingly allow service providers to use personal information for their own independent purposes beyond permitted business uses.

Selling or Sharing Personal Information and Targeted Advertising

We do not sell personal information for money. We also do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, nor do we engage in targeted advertising using personal information collected across non-affiliated websites for profiling purposes. If our practices change, we will update this page and provide opt-out mechanisms consistent with applicable law and honor recognized opt-out preference signals where required.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residence, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information, subject to legal exceptions and verification:

Right to Know/Access: You may request confirmation of whether we process your personal information and access to that information.
Right to Delete: You may request deletion of personal information we collected from you.
Right to Correct: You may request correction of inaccurate personal information.
Right to Data Portability: You may request a portable copy of certain personal information.
Right to Opt-Out: You may opt out of sales, sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising, or targeted advertising, where applicable. As noted above, we do not engage in these practices at this time.
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: Where applicable, you may request that we limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information. We do not use sensitive personal information for additional purposes that would trigger this right.
Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise your rights, please submit a verifiable consumer request using the contact information in the Contact Information section below. Please describe your request with sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate, and respond. We will confirm receipt, outline our verification process, and respond within the timeframes required by law.

Verification and Authorized Agents

For your security, we may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. Verification may include matching information you provide with data we maintain. Authorized agents may submit requests on your behalf where permitted by law, provided they furnish proof of authorization and we can verify the consumer’s identity.

Opt-Out Preference Signals (GPC)

Where required by law, we honor browser-based opt-out preference signals such as Global Privacy Control (GPC) for applicable opt-out rights. If we do not conduct sales/sharing/targeted advertising, these signals will not alter our processing.

Appeal of Denied Request

If we deny your request, you may appeal our decision by replying to our response and indicating “Appeal” in the subject line. We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal and provide an explanation of our decision, including any further rights you may have under applicable law.

Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration, or disclosure. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Children’s Privacy

Our content is intended for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can take appropriate action.

Health Information and HIPAA

Health Messengers at the Gate provides educational health content and is not a healthcare provider, health plan, or healthcare clearinghouse. We are not acting as a business associate to such entities when operating this website. Information you choose to submit to us (including health-related details) is handled as personal information under applicable consumer privacy laws, not as protected health information under HIPAA.

International Users

This website is operated in the United States and is intended for U.S. users. If you access the site from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be processed in the United States and other jurisdictions with different data protection laws than your country of residence.

Changes to This Notice

We may update this page from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or the law. The Effective Date below indicates when this page was last revised.