Privacy policy

Short version: we collect very little, we do not sell anything about you, and the tool you would most worry about — the journal matcher — never sends your text anywhere.

Last updated 22 August 2026.

What we do not collect

• We do not require an account. There is nothing to sign up for.
• We do not require your name, email, institution or any personal detail to use any tool on this site. The one exception is an optional feedback prompt, described below, which you can always dismiss.
• We do not sell or share personal data with data brokers.

The journal matcher

The matcher is worth stating separately, because pasting an unpublished abstract into a website is a reasonable thing to be cautious about.

Your abstract never leaves your browser. When you use the matcher, your browser downloads our subject index as a static file and performs the entire comparison locally. There is no server to send text to — this is a static site. We could not read your abstract if we wanted to.

The same is true of the search boxes and the APC finder: filtering happens in your browser against a downloaded file.

What is collected automatically

Like any website, our host records standard request logs — IP address, browser user-agent, page requested, timestamp. These exist to serve pages and detect abuse, and are retained by the host under its own policy.

We use Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-FVH04N7VPK) to understand which pages are useful. Google may set first-party analytics cookies such as _ga on this domain. We do not use this data to build advertising profiles or to sell personal information. Google's processing of this data is described in Google's privacy policy.

Optional feedback prompt

After you have viewed several pages, a one-time prompt may ask whether you would like to leave a short review and, optionally, an email address so we can follow up. It appears at most once per browser, it is entirely optional, and dismissing it changes nothing about how you can use the site.

If you submit it, the review text and any email address you provide are stored in a plain text file on our server. We do not use it for marketing, we do not sell or share it, and we do not use it to identify what pages you visited. If you want a submission removed, email help@biomedicalpublications.com and tell us roughly when you sent it.

Cookies

Google Analytics may set first-party cookies used only to measure site use. We also store your light/dark theme preference in your browser's local storage. The theme preference never leaves your device and is not sent to us. Clearing your browser data removes both.

External links

Journal pages link to publishers, OpenAlex, DOAJ and the ISSN Portal. Once you follow a link you are subject to that site's privacy practices, not ours. We have no control over what they collect and no visibility into it.

Some links in our guides may be affiliate links, which can set a cookie on the destination site to attribute a referral. See ourdisclosure. Pages containing such links say so at the top.

Advertising

If we introduce advertising, this page will be updated before it appears, and any advertising that sets cookies or processes personal data will be gated behind a consent choice that defaults to refusing non-essential processing.

Your rights

Because we do not hold accounts or personal records, there is generally nothing of yours for us to access, correct or delete. If you believe we hold something about you, contact us via the terms page and we will tell you what we have and remove it.

Depending on where you live you may have rights under the GDPR, the UK GDPR or similar laws. We aim to hold so little that exercising them is unnecessary.

Children

This is a professional reference tool for researchers and clinicians. It is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the date at the top changes and the change will be described here rather than made silently.