Privacy notice

Understand your data choices.

Arthroplasty Courses is an independent directory. This notice explains the information used to operate the site and respond to requests. Updated October 22, 2026.

Course submissions

The free submission form collects course details, an official URL, a contact email and your notes. New submissions are stored in the private Hostinger review queue outside the public website, with consent time, privacy-notice version and a reference number. New records older than 90 days are removed on the next successful form submission; automatic email notifications are not enabled. They support editorial review and follow-up; they are not published automatically, sold, or added to a marketing list. An organizer email appears publicly only if it is already an official public contact.

Historical course submissions in the separate older backend are retained in the private review archive until the publisher removes them. There is no automatic deletion schedule for that older archive. You can request access, correction or deletion through Contact.

Contact, corrections and sponsorship requests

These forms collect your name, email, optional organization and URL, request category and message. Commercial requests also record the placement of interest. We use this information to review and respond to the request, including any proposal you ask for. An accepted request records the time, privacy-notice version, consent and a reference number.

Requests are stored in private Hostinger files outside the public website. New requests older than 90 days are removed on the next successful form submission; this is not a daily scheduled deletion service. Records are reviewed manually and automatic email notifications are not enabled. Information copied into a separately agreed commercial relationship needs its own stated recordkeeping terms.

Abuse prevention and hosting

The form service uses a daily salted hash of the connection IP address to limit repeated requests. It does not write the raw IP address into form records. The anti-abuse bucket is replaced on the next request after the UTC day changes. Hostinger and the separate submission backend may also maintain operational and security logs under their own service settings.

Optional Google Analytics

Google Analytics 4 loads only after you select “Allow analytics.” When enabled, Google receives usage information such as page views, browser and device details, approximate geographic information and enabled interaction events. Analytics cookies may distinguish browsers or visits. These measurements do not establish a visitor’s professional occupation.

We do not intentionally send form field values, email addresses or confidential course enquiries to Analytics. The initial page-view URL and referrer omit query strings and fragments. Advertising personalization and Google Signals are disabled in the tag configuration. See how Google uses information from partner sites for Google’s processing information.

Your choice is stored in this browser’s local storage for future visits. Choose “Privacy choices” below or in the footer to change it. Declining disables future measurement by this tag and clears accessible Analytics cookies; it does not erase data already processed by Google. If browser storage is unavailable, your choice applies to the current page only.

Advertising and external sites

The site currently accepts commercial proposal requests. Display-ad scripts are not enabled by the current site code. Before introducing advertising cookies or a new provider, this notice and the consent implementation must reflect that service. See our sponsorship policy.

Following an organizer, hotel or other external link takes you to another service with its own privacy practices. We do not process course-registration payments or receive your payment-card details.

Contact and data requests

Use Contact and select “Privacy or deletion request.” Include a previous request reference when available. The publisher may need enough information to locate the record and verify the request without disclosing another person’s data. Do not send passwords, payment details, identity documents or patient information.

This directory is intended for professional education research. Changes to these practices are recorded on this page with an updated date.