Privacy Policy
DudeMD values your privacy and aims to be clear about how information is collected, used, and protected when you visit our site.
Introduction
DudeMD ("we," "our," or "us") values your privacy and is committed to being transparent about how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit dudemd.com or interact with our content. This Privacy Policy explains our practices in plain language.
Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
Information you provide directly: Your name, email address, username, password, profile photo, and any messages or content you submit when creating an account, contacting us, or participating in community features.
Information collected automatically: When you visit our site, we and our third-party partners may automatically collect: IP address, browser type and version, device type and operating system, pages visited and time spent, referring website or link, general location (city or region — never precise GPS location), cookie identifiers and similar tracking technologies, advertising identifiers, and UTM/campaign parameters from links you clicked to reach us.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to: operate and improve the website and its features; personalize your reading experience and recommendations; respond to your messages and support requests; send newsletters and email communications (where you have subscribed); measure and analyze site traffic and content performance; serve relevant advertising through third-party ad networks; comply with legal obligations; and detect and prevent fraud or abuse.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to help the site function and to understand how visitors use it. These include:
Essential cookies: Required for the site to function, including authentication and session management.
Analytics cookies: We use Google Analytics 4 to measure traffic and understand how visitors interact with our content. Google Analytics collects data such as pages visited, time on site, and general location. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Advertising cookies: We work with Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses the DoubleClick cookie and other advertising cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. These cookies allow Google and its partners to serve interest-based advertisements to you across the web.
Social media and tracking pixels: We use the Meta Pixel (Facebook Pixel) to measure the effectiveness of our content and advertising on Facebook and Instagram. The Meta Pixel may collect your IP address, browser information, and pages visited.
You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect some site functionality.
Opting Out of Personalized Advertising
You have several options to opt out of personalized advertising:
• Visit Google's Ad Settings to opt out of Google personalized ads.
• Visit www.aboutads.info to opt out of many third-party vendors' interest-based advertising.
• Visit Facebook Ad Preferences to control how Meta uses your data for advertising.
Consent Management (EEA, UK, and Switzerland)
If you are visiting from the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we are required to obtain your consent before placing non-essential cookies on your device. We use Google's Funding Choices consent management platform to present you with a consent banner and to record your preferences. You may withdraw or update your consent at any time by clicking the "Privacy Settings" link in our site footer, or by clearing your cookies and revisiting the site.
Until consent is granted, non-essential cookies (including advertising and analytics cookies) are not activated.
US State Privacy Rights
Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and other states with applicable privacy laws may have the right to: know what personal data we collect and how it is used; request deletion of your personal data; opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data; and non-discrimination for exercising your privacy rights.
We do not sell your personal information. To exercise any of these rights, contact us through our contact page.
Third-Party Services
We use the following third-party services that may collect data about you in accordance with their own privacy policies:
• Google AdSense & Google Analytics — Google Privacy Policy
• Meta (Facebook Pixel) — Meta Privacy Policy
• Supabase — authentication and database hosting
• Cloudinary — image hosting
• Resend — transactional and newsletter email delivery
• Vercel — website hosting and infrastructure
Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your personal information. We may share information only when necessary to: operate the site through trusted service providers (listed above); comply with legal obligations or respond to lawful requests; protect the rights, safety, or property of DudeMD, our users, or the public; or complete a business transaction such as a merger or acquisition, in which case you will be notified.
Data Retention
We retain your information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy. Account information is retained while your account is active. If you delete your account, we will delete or anonymize your personal data within a reasonable period, except where retention is required by law.
Your Choices
You may: update or delete your account information through your account settings; unsubscribe from email communications at any time via the unsubscribe link in any email; manage cookie preferences through your browser or our consent manager (EEA/UK/Switzerland users); and contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data.
Children's Privacy
DudeMD is intended for a general adult audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected such information, we will take reasonable steps to delete it promptly.
Security
We implement reasonable technical and organizational safeguards to help protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, or loss. However, no website or internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. When we make material changes, we will update the date at the bottom of this page. Continued use of the site after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
Contact
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your data, please contact us through our contact page.
Last updated: June 13, 2026