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What this site records when you read it, why, and for how long.
Last updated: 13 September 2026
This English version is provided for the reader’s convenience. The French text is the authoritative one. Where the two differ, the French version prevails.
You can read this site without giving anything. No account, no form, no newsletter, no comments, no cookies, no advertising tracker. Audience measurement does exist, it runs on the site’s own server and does not know who you are. The rest of this page sets out what remains, because something always remains.
Who is responsible
| Data controller | Alexandru Stroescu, publisher of the site |
|---|---|
| Address | Happiness Clinic, Villa 865A, Jumeirah Street, Umm Suqeim 3, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Contact | contact@psychiatryevidencebase.com |
The full details and the professional identifiers are on the legal notice page.
What is recorded
Two things, and nothing else: the technical server logs, and audience measurement running on that same server.
| Data | Why | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Server logs: IP address, date and time, page requested, browser type, response code | Server security, attack detection, fault diagnosis | Legitimate interest, article 6.1.f GDPR |
| Audience measurement: page viewed, date and time, the page that brought you here, browser, operating system, approximate country and city | Knowing what is read, and deciding what to write next | Legitimate interest, article 6.1.f GDPR, under the consent exemption provided by the CNIL for audience measurement |
The logs are produced and kept by the host o2switch, on servers located in France, for a limited period and for those purposes alone. They are neither used for statistics, nor cross-referenced with anything else, nor passed to anyone.
Audience measurement, in detail
The tool is called Independent Analytics. It is installed on the site’s server and calls no external service: the measurement goes from your browser to psychiatryevidencebase.com, and nowhere else. No third-party company receives anything, and no data leaves France.
It places no cookie. So as not to count the same reader twice, it computes a fingerprint from the IP address and the browser, salted with a value renewed every month. The practical consequence: nobody, not even the publisher, can follow a reader from one month to the next.
Why there is still no cookie banner. The CNIL exempts from consent those audience measurement tools that serve the publisher only, follow nobody from one site to another and share nothing with third parties. That is the case here. The exemption removes neither the duty to inform, which this page does, nor the duty to allow objection, which the next paragraph provides for.
Refusing to be counted. Write to contact@psychiatryevidencebase.com. Your address will be added to the ignored list and your visits will stop appearing in the statistics. No justification is asked for.
Cookies
No cookie is placed on your browser when you read the site.
WordPress places cookies when someone logs in to the administration area. That concerns the author of the site only. An emoji display test, specific to WordPress, writes a temporary value in your browser’s memory, a value that disappears when the tab is closed and serves no other purpose.
The site therefore displays no consent banner, not out of negligence, but because there is no cookie to accept. The audience measurement described above places none either.
No call to any third-party service
The fonts are hosted here. Poppins and Inter used to be served through Google Fonts, which passed the reader’s IP address to Google. They are now served by the site’s own server, in France. That transmission no longer exists.
The site loads nothing from outside. No embedded video, no share button running a social network’s script, no map, no advertising font in disguise. The links to LinkedIn, PubMed or the health agencies are plain links: nothing leaves until you click.
The simulators
The clinical simulators on the site, clozapine monitoring, cardiometabolic monitoring and the others, compute entirely in your browser. The dates and values you enter do not leave your device, are sent nowhere, and are kept neither by the site nor by its host. Close the tab and nothing remains.
This is a matter of substance, not a technical detail: these tools handle data which, entered by a clinician, may concern a patient.
What the site does not do
- No profiling, no automated decision-making.
- No sale, no sharing, no renting of data.
- No advertising, no retargeting.
- No collection of health data.
- No transfer of data outside the European Union.
Your rights
The GDPR gives you a right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction and objection over data concerning you. Write to contact@psychiatryevidencebase.com, and you will have an answer within one month.
An honest clarification: since the site collects neither a name, nor an email address, nor an identifier, there is in practice no data allowing you to be identified from the technical logs. A request for access will therefore, most often, only confirm that absence.
If an answer does not satisfy you, you may refer the matter to the French data protection authority, cnil.fr.
What will come later
Two developments are planned, and neither is active today: a newsletter and an area reserved for subscribers. Each will involve new data, a new recipient and a new legal basis.
The rule this site sets itself: this page is amended before such a function goes live, never after. If you are reading this and none of them is set out here in detail, then none is in place.
Changes to this page
Any change is signalled by the date at the top of the page. Earlier versions are not publicly archived, but the revision history is kept on the site side.
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