Governance, Privacy, Terms & Intellectual Property Policies

1. Introduction & Scope

Public Health Concern Nepal ("PHC-Nepal", "we", "our", or "us"), operating at www.phcnepal.com and through our creative innovations including www.exam.phcnepal.com, www.mchcare.lovable.app, www.mhcare.lovable.app, and www.healthdoc.lovable.app, is firmly committed to protecting the privacy, confidentiality, and data autonomy of our visitors, readers, healthcare professionals, and academic contributors.

This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, process, store, and safeguard information when you access our digital portal, use our interactive epidemiology tools, read health policy circulars, or interact with third-party advertising networks like Google AdSense.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information in two ways: information you provide voluntarily, and information collected automatically through cookies, analytics, and server logs.

• Voluntary Information: When you subscribe to our weekly outbreak dispatch, submit a contact message, apply for or submit a vacancy notice, or contact our editorial desk via WhatsApp, you may provide your name, professional designation, institution, email address, and message content.
• Automatic Technical Data: Standard server logs record your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser user-agent, operating system, referring/exit URLs, date/time stamps, and clicked pages to maintain server security, diagnose performance bottlenecks, and combat cyberattacks.
• Zero Sensitive Health Log Guarantee: Interactive calculators (e.g. 2×2 Epi Calculator, Cochran Sample Size, Asian BMI, Child Vaccine Timeline) and mental wellness screening tools (PHQ-9, GAD-7) run entirely in your local browser runtime. We do not transmit, log, or harvest private patient or individual clinical health answers.

3. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising (DART Cookies)

To support our free public health reporting, disease surveillance dashboards, and educational note repository, we partner with Google AdSense and authorized third-party advertising vendors to display advertisements on our website.

4. Legal Grounds & GDPR / CCPA Compliance

If you reside in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, California, or jurisdiction with comprehensive data protection laws:

• Right to Access: You may request confirmation of any personal data we hold about you.
• Right to Rectification & Deletion: You may request correction or deletion of your email from our newsletter database at any time.
• Non-Discrimination: We will never discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.
• No Sale of Personal Data: We do NOT sell, rent, trade, or monetize your personal identifying data to any third party for commercial data brokerage.

5. Compliance with Nepal's Individual Privacy Act 2075

PHC-Nepal strictly complies with the Individual Privacy Act 2075 (2018) of Nepal. Any data submitted within the territory of Nepal is processed in accordance with national statutory privacy mandates and ethical research review standards of the Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC).

6. Contact for Privacy Inquiries

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your data rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: