Privacy Policy

At Heart Score Calculator (accessible via https://heartscorecalculator.com/), safeguarding the privacy and digital security of our visitors is one of our primary commitments. This Privacy Policy document outlines the types of information that are collected, recorded, and utilized by Heart Score Calculator, and explains your legal rights under modern privacy frameworks including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA).

If you have additional questions or require further clarification regarding our data practices, please do not hesitate to contact our compliance team via email at privacy@heartscorecalculator.com.

1. Scope and Applicability

This Privacy Policy applies solely to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website regarding the information shared and/or collected on Heart Score Calculator. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via communication channels other than this website.

2. Consent

By utilizing our website and interactive clinical tools, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms and data handling practices.

3. Information We Collect

We believe in strict data minimization. Depending on your interactions with Heart Score Calculator, we may collect the following limited categories of information:

• Direct Communications: If you contact us directly via email (e.g., for technical support, feedback, or editorial inquiries), we receive your name, email address, the contents of your message, and any attachments you elect to send.
• Automated Technical Data (Log Files): Like standard internet publishers, Heart Score Calculator follows a standard protocol of utilizing log files. These files log visitors when they navigate the platform. Information collected includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamps, referring/exit pages, and the number of clicks. These data points are not linked to any personally identifiable medical information and are used solely for analyzing usage patterns, administering the platform, and maintaining cyber-infrastructure reliability.

4. Cookies and Web Beacons

Heart Score Calculator uses standard "cookies" (small text files saved on your device) to store information including visitors' preferences, user interface selections (such as preferred measurement units, e.g., mg/dL vs. mmol/L), and the specific pages on the website that the visitor accessed. The information is utilized to optimize user experience by customizing web page content based on browser type and system display characteristics.

5. Google AdSense & Advertising Partner Disclosures (Mandatory Clause)

Google is an approved third-party vendor on Heart Score Calculator. Google uses cookies, specifically the DoubleClick DART cookie, to serve advertisements to our website visitors based upon their visit to heartscorecalculator.com and other websites across the Internet.

Please note the following critical advertising disclosures:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's previous visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to our site and/or other sites across the internet.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's official Google Ads Settings.
• Alternatively, visitors can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt-out page at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/ or the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) opt-out portal at https://optout.aboutads.info/.
• To learn more about how Google processes information when you visit partner sites, please review Google's official disclosure: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

6. Third-Party Advertising Networks & Web Beacons

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Heart Score Calculator. These technologies automatically receive your IP address when ad serving occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Heart Score Calculator has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

7. Google Analytics Protocol

We utilize Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager, measurement ID: G-N82FW2JE58) to anonymously analyze overall site performance, page load times, device categories, and popular calculator tools. Google Analytics uses cookies to evaluate user interactions without identifying individual individuals. You can prevent Google Analytics tracking across all websites by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

8. CCPA / CPRA Privacy Rights (California Consumer Protections)

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), California residents have specific statutory rights concerning their personal data:

• Right to Know: You have the right to request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about you.
• Right to Delete: You have the right to request the deletion of any personal data collected about you, subject to legal exceptions.
• Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: You have the right to direct a business that sells or shares personal data not to sell or share your personal data. Heart Score Calculator does not sell, rent, or share personal data with data brokers.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: You will not receive discriminatory treatment or diminished calculator functionality for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.

If you make a request, we are required by law to respond to you within 45 days. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact our privacy desk at privacy@heartscorecalculator.com.

9. GDPR / UK Data Protection Rights

For visitors residing within the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom, our processing of data complies with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation). We ensure every user is entitled to the following data rights:

• The Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions.
• The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
• The Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
• The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization or directly to you.

If you submit a request, we have one calendar month to respond. To exercise any GDPR rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy@heartscorecalculator.com.

10. Children's Online Privacy Protection (COPPA Compliance)

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important to us. Heart Score Calculator does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. Our educational medical calculators are intended for adult patients, healthcare professionals, clinical trainees, and researchers.

If you believe that your child has provided personal information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately, and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

11. Data Security and Infrastructure Safeguards

We deploy robust administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect the integrity of our platform. All data transmissions between your browser and Heart Score Calculator are encrypted utilizing industry-standard Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3 / SSL) with 256-bit encryption. Our servers are secured behind firewalls and monitored for suspicious traffic patterns.

12. Third-Party Websites and External Medical Links

Our calculation documentation and editorial analyses contain hyperlinks to respected external medical organizations (such as the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, European Society of Cardiology, and peer-reviewed journals like NEJM, JAMA, and Lancet). We do not operate or control these third-party platforms. When clicking an external link, we advise you to consult the individual privacy policy of each external site you visit.

13. Updates to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy periodically to reflect technological changes, statutory updates, or modifications to our operational framework. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last Updated" timestamp at the top of the document. We recommend reviewing this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates.

14. Contact Information and Regulatory Inquiries

If you have any questions, regulatory inquiries, or feedback regarding our privacy practices, please contact us through any of the following channels:

• Compliance Desk: privacy@heartscorecalculator.com
• General Support: support@heartscorecalculator.com
• Contact Form: https://heartscorecalculator.com/contact/
• Mailing Entity: Heart Score Calculator Digital Publishing Team