Privacy on mybone.health
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Privacy on mybone.health

Plain-English notes on what this site tracks, why, and how to opt out

I want you to know exactly what this site does with your visit, in language that matches how I write everything else here.

Nothing on this site sells or shares your personal information for money. There is no data broker in this pipeline. What follows is a straight description of the three tools that touch your visit, what they see, and how you can stop them from seeing it if you would rather they did not.

This page was last updated on August 26, 2026.

Google Analytics

I use Google Analytics to see how many people read a given post, which pages people arrive on first, and roughly where readers are in the world. The information is aggregate. I cannot see who you are as an individual, and I do not try to.

Google Analytics does read some information from your browser to make its counts work. That includes the pages you view on mybone.health, how long you stay, your general location (usually a city or region), the type of device you are on, and whether you arrived from a search engine or a link on another site.

If you would rather not appear in these counts at all, Google offers a browser add-on that opts you out of Analytics on every site that uses it. It is at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Meta Pixel

Meta Pixel is a small piece of code from Facebook that lets me measure whether Facebook ads for the book or the blog are actually reaching people who care about the topic. Without it, running an ad on Facebook is close to guessing.

The pixel reports back to Meta when you visit a page here, when you download the free cheat sheet, and when you click through to Amazon to look at the book. It does not send your email address, your name, or anything you type into the cheat-sheet form. It sends anonymous signals tied to your browser.

Meta uses those signals to help me understand which posts and which ads are working, and to show similar content to people whose interests look like yours.

If you do not want Meta collecting this information, you have three ways to stop it: turn on your browser's built-in tracking protection (Safari, Firefox, and Brave block Meta Pixel by default), install a content blocker like uBlock Origin, or adjust your Meta ad preferences at accounts.meta.com/ads-preferences.

The email list

If you download the calcium and protein cheat sheet or subscribe to updates, you are joining an email list I run through Kit. Kit stores your email address so I can send you the PDF and occasional notes on bone health. That is the only reason it exists.

Every email from me includes an unsubscribe link at the bottom, which works with one click. When you unsubscribe, Kit removes you from the list. You do not need to contact me to make it happen.

I do not share the list with anyone, and I do not sell it. I do not run any kind of tracking on the emails themselves beyond whether they arrived and whether you opened them, which is standard for any newsletter.

Cookies, briefly

Google Analytics and Meta Pixel both set cookies in your browser. That is how they recognize a returning visitor as the same person over time. Kit sets a cookie only if you actually submit the form. Nothing on this site sets a cookie that reads any of your other browsing outside mybone.health.

Your browser's settings can block all cookies from third parties (Google and Meta count as third parties here), and both Analytics and the pixel will stop working if you do that.

Children

This site is written for adults navigating an osteoporosis diagnosis, and it is not directed at children under 13. I do not knowingly collect information from children.

Questions

If any of this is unclear, or you want your email removed from the list and cannot find the unsubscribe link, message me on the site's Facebook page and I will take care of it.