Privacy Policy
At Privately Ask, we believe access to sexual, reproductive, and bodily health education should always protect user dignity and personal confidentiality.
Anonymous Health Literacy
No registration or account creation is needed to access guides, clinical answers, or quizzes.
Protected Inquiries
Quiz scores and reading progression remain stored locally in your browser's memory, never sold to brokers.
1. Information We Do Not Collect
Because we do not require user accounts, Privately Ask does not request, store, or sell:
- Personal identifiers such as legal names, personal physical addresses, or phone numbers.
- Individual medical records, sexual histories, or personalized diagnoses.
- Protected health information (PHI) regulated under HIPAA.
2. Google AdSense & Third-Party Cookies
To keep our educational content free and accessible to users worldwide, this website may display advertisements provided by Google AdSense and third-party advertising vendors.
- • Third-Party Vendors: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites on the Internet.
- • Google Advertising Cookies: Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- • Opting Out of Personalized Advertising: Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendor use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
3. Functional Cookies & Local Storage
We use minimal functional browser storage for user convenience:
- Language Preference: We store your selected language in local storage and a functional cookie (
googtrans) so your reading preferences persist across page navigation. - Quiz Progress: Non-identifying state is held temporarily in your browser session to calculate instant quiz results.
4. GDPR & CCPA/CPRA Privacy Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction (such as the European Union or California), you may hold rights regarding data access, deletion, and non-discrimination. Since Privately Ask does not store personal profiles, we do not have personal files to distribute or sell. For inquiries regarding data protection policies or audit logs, you may reach our compliance team.
5. Children's Privacy (COPPA)
Privately Ask is an educational resource intended for general public health literacy. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children under the age of 13.
Effective Date: September 2026. For privacy questions, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected] or visit our Contact Page.