Privacy

What this site does not do

• No cookies. None are set, by us or by anyone else, so there is no consent banner — there is nothing to consent to.
• No JavaScript. Not one line executes anywhere on this site. Nothing measures your scrolling, your reading time, your mouse or your device.
• No analytics. No analytics service of any kind, first-party or third-party, self-hosted or otherwise.
• No third-party requests at all. Every file your browser fetches to display these pages comes from this domain: the HTML, the one stylesheet, the five self-hosted font files, the favicon. There is no content delivery network, no font service, no tag manager, no advertising, no embedded video, no map, no social widget, no comment system and no tracking pixel.
• No local storage. Nothing is written to your browser’s storage, because nothing is running that could write it.
• No account, no login, no newsletter. There is nothing to sign up to and nothing to log in to. There is exactly one form on this site — the contact form — it is the only thing here that sends us anything, you only reach it by choosing to, and what it stores is set out below.
• No data sold, shared, brokered or traded. There is nothing to sell, and if there were, we would not.

This is checkable and we would rather you checked it than believed it. Open your browser’s developer tools, switch to the network panel, and reload any page here. Every request should be to biodrainmedical.com. If one is not, that is a defect and a correction, and we want to hear about it through the contact form.

What the server records

Asking for a web page means telling a server where to send it. That is not a choice anyone here made; it is how the protocol works. When your browser requests a page, the server that answers writes an ordinary request log line, which is roughly: the requesting IP address, the time, the method and path requested, the status code returned, the number of bytes sent, and the user-agent string and referrer your browser supplied.

That log exists to serve the site and to keep it standing up — to see that pages resolve, to find broken addresses, and to absorb the kind of automated traffic that any domain with an old link profile attracts. It is not joined to anything else, not used to build a profile of anyone, and not used to work out who read what.

The site is a set of static files served from Cloudflare’s Pages platform, so the request logs are generated and held by that host under its own terms rather than by us. We will not pretend to control a retention schedule we do not set. What we control is that nothing is added to it: no analytics layer, no session identifier, no beacon, no enrichment. If the host ever changes, that will be a dated entry in the change log.

If you write to us

The contact form is the only way to send us anything, and it is the only place on this site where you type something that leaves your computer. Submitting it stores a row in a private database that one person reads. That row holds what you typed — your message, and the name, address and subject line if you filled them in — plus two things your browser sends with any request: the IP address it came from and the user-agent string. Those last two are stored to make abuse of an open form traceable, which is the only reason an unauthenticated form on a domain with this link history can stay open at all.

The database is not shared with any other site we publish, is not readable from the public internet, and nothing in it is used for anything except answering you and fixing the site.

• We use what you send to answer you, and, if you are reporting an error, to check the error and publish the correction.
• A published correction names the person who found it only if they ask to be named. The default is that it does not, and the correction is published either way.
• We do not add you to anything, because there is nothing to be added to. There is no mailing list, no newsletter and no announcement list.
• We do not forward your message to a manufacturer, a distributor, a waste contractor or anyone else, and we could not usefully do so if we wanted to.
• There is no automatic deletion schedule for correspondence, and we would rather say so than invent one. Ask us to delete your message and we will.

Two honest limits. The form reaches us over HTTPS, so it is not readable in transit the way plain email is — but it is stored, by us, indefinitely, and a stored message is a message that exists. And if you ask for a reply, the reply is an email, with all of email’s ordinary lack of confidentiality. If you are writing about something sensitive at your own workplace, consider what you would rather not have in writing, leave the address blank if you do not need an answer, and if you do, give a personal address rather than one your employer administers.

Links off this site

Outbound links here go to primary documents — the eCFR, an agency, a state code publisher, a journal, an archive — and to nothing else. There are no affiliate links, no sponsored links, no tracking parameters appended to any address, and no links to any other property this publisher operates.

Following one of those links takes you to somebody else’s server, which has its own logging and its own policies that we have no part in and no view of. Several of the documents this site relies on are held only by agencies and archives that log access; that is theirs to describe, not ours.

If any of this changes

It will be a dated entry in the change log and a rewritten page, never a quiet edit. The claim that this site makes no third-party requests is made in the footer of every page, so it has to keep being true of every page, and any addition that would break it is a change to the publication rather than a detail of its implementation.

There is a commercial reason to keep it true as well as a principled one, and it is worth stating rather than leaving implied: a site that publishes nothing and sells nothing has no use for an audience it can measure. What it needs is to be worth citing. Measurement would cost more than it could return.

Questions about any of this go through the contact form. How this publication is paid for is set out at Independence and funding.