Privacy Policy

Effective date: June 2025

At Neurosurgery Wiki, accessible at https://neurosurgerywiki.com, we are committed to maintaining your trust and protecting your privacy. This website is dedicated to the critical analysis of neurosurgical literature and does not require user registration or collect personal information beyond basic analytics.

1. Who We Are

Neurosurgery Wiki is an independent academic platform dedicated to critical thinking, scientific rigor, and editorial freedom in neurosurgery. It is operated by neurosurgical professionals from around the world, working in a blinded and unbiased manner, with the aim of providing transparent, evidence-based commentary on the literature.

2. Comments

Visitors may leave comments on articles or posts. When doing so, we collect the data shown in the comment form (name, email, and comment content), along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help with spam detection and moderation.

We use the Gravatar service to optionally display a user profile image. An anonymized hash of your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to determine if you have an account. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy.

Your comment will be visible publicly once approved by the moderation team. Email addresses are never published.

3. Media Uploads

Visitors cannot upload media files. All visual content is added exclusively by the editorial team. No EXIF or GPS metadata from users is collected.

4. Cookies

This website uses minimal cookies strictly for:

  • Language or display preferences

  • Security functions (e.g., rate-limiting or firewall services)

We do not use cookies for advertising or user profiling.

You may disable cookies in your browser settings without affecting core navigation.

5. Embedded Content

Some articles may include embedded content (e.g., YouTube videos, external PDFs, or Twitter posts). These embedded elements behave exactly as if the visitor had accessed the external site directly.

These external services may collect data, use cookies, or track your interaction. We recommend reviewing their respective privacy policies.

6. Analytics

We use anonymized analytics (e.g., Google Analytics or Plausible Analytics) to monitor traffic and improve site performance. IP addresses are not stored in personally identifiable formats.

7. Data Sharing

We do not share, sell or rent personal data with third parties. Since there is no user registration or login functionality, no account-related data is collected.

8. Data Retention

We do not retain any user-submitted data because the site does not allow user-generated content. Only server logs (standard for all websites) are stored temporarily for technical and security purposes.

9. Your Rights

In accordance with the GDPR , you have the right to:

  • Know what data we process (which is minimal or none)

  • Request deletion of any data linked to your identity (none should exist unless you contact us directly)

For any request, contact us via Contact Page.

10. Contact

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you may contact the site administrator using the form available at:
👉 https://neurosurgerywiki.com/contact

Summary

This site does not track you aggressively, does not show ads, and does not ask for your data. We are committed to scientific transparency, not surveillance.