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Email is voluntary

If you email hello@churchofpeptides.com, the site receives the address, message, attachments, and other information you choose to send. That information is used to respond, review corrections, and maintain appropriate correspondence. Do not send medical records, payment details, passwords, or other sensitive information.

No accounts, forum, checkout, subscriber form, or advertising pixels

The current site does not offer user accounts, comments, private messaging, purchases, or a newsletter signup form. It does not ask visitors to identify themselves for ordinary reading and does not use advertising pixels.

Cloudflare Web Analytics

The site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to measure aggregate traffic and page performance. The beacon can process information such as the requested page, referring site, approximate location, browser or device characteristics, and performance measurements. Cloudflare states that Web Analytics operates without cookies. Church of Peptides does not use this tool to request visitor names or email addresses, identify individual readers, or create advertising profiles. Cloudflare processes this information under its privacy policy.

Google Analytics only if you accept

Google Analytics remains off unless you select Accept in Analytics choices. Accept and Decline are equally available; declining does not affect reading. After acceptance, Google Analytics uses cookies on only the home, About, Editorial, Evidence, Privacy, Copyright and Disclaimer pages. It is not loaded on peptide records, articles, stories, Subject One journeys, search pages, or other pages outside that list.

The permitted pages send their general page address and title, with query strings and URL fragments removed. Referring addresses are reduced to their origin (for example, https://example.com/), without paths, queries or fragments. Google also processes technical information such as browser/device characteristics and connection information to provide analytics. Reports describe visits and acquisition; this is not anonymous collection merely because reports are aggregated. We do not send search terms, form contents, reading progress, names, email addresses, medical information or a site User-ID. Google Signals, advertising personalization and enhanced measurement are disabled for this setup.

Your choice is stored on this browser for 30 days under cop-analytics-choice-v1. Analytics cookies are configured with a 30-day lifetime without extending their expiry on each visit. You can reopen Analytics choices in the footer and select Decline at any time. This disables further collection, removes accessible Google Analytics cookies for this site and reloads a page if the tag was running. Withdrawal does not erase information Google already received. Google Analytics event-level and user-level retention are set to two months, without resetting retention when a visitor returns. Aggregated standard reports are not governed by that retention setting. Browser Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signals keep optional Google Analytics disabled. The existing Cloudflare measurement described above is separate from this choice.

Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services. Google processes data under its privacy policy. Questions or requests can be sent to hello@churchofpeptides.com. This limited, opt-in setup will not count all visits and cannot reconstruct visits from before it was installed.

Hosting and security data

The hosting and infrastructure providers may automatically process limited technical information—such as IP address, browser or device type, requested page, timestamps, and security logs—to deliver, secure, and troubleshoot the site. Their handling of that information is governed by their own terms and privacy practices.

Limited use and retention

Correspondence is not sold or rented. It may be retained only as reasonably needed to answer a message, document a correction, maintain records, protect the site, or meet legal obligations. Reasonable safeguards are used, but no email or internet system can be guaranteed completely secure.

Other sites set their own rules

The site links to regulators, journals, trial registries, companies, and other third parties. Visiting those services is governed by their own privacy notices and practices.

A general-audience publication

Church of Peptides is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

New features require a new notice

If subscriptions, advertising, community features, payments, additional analytics, or other data-collecting tools are added, this notice will be revised to explain what changes before those features launch.