Privacy

Who publishes this site

Recent HealthTech is published by Dr. Omar Hagag, founder and responsible publisher of Recent HealthTech.

The newsletter

If you subscribe to “Get Recent”, your email address is collected to send you the newsletter, and for nothing else. Subscribing takes one confirmation message: your address is held as pending until you open the link in that message, and only then does it become an active subscription. The confirmation link lasts 48 hours; an address that is never confirmed is removed seven days after its link expires.

The newsletter is sent through Resend, an email service, which holds your address in order to send it and records unsubscribes, bounces and complaints. Unsubscribing takes one click on any issue, or a visit to the management link in it, and is honoured immediately: an unsubscribed address is never written to again. The version of this policy shown to you when you subscribed is recorded with your subscription.

A suggestion

If you suggest a company through the form, the details you give are read by a person and kept as a draft until they decide what to do with them. The email address you give is not stored as an address: it is kept only as a keyed hash that cannot be read back, and it is used only to limit how many suggestions one address can send.

Analytics

When analytics is switched on (it is off until a measurement key exists, and none does today) this site uses PostHog, hosted in its European Union region, in PostHog’s cookieless mode. In that mode nothing is stored in your browser: no cookie, and no local or session storage. To count visitors, PostHog’s server derives a hash from your connection address, your browser type, this site and a value that changes every day, and discards the address once that day’s events are processed. Visits from the same browser and connection on the same calendar day are linked; the link ends at the day boundary, no profile is built, and no visitor is recognised from one day to the next.

What an event contains: the page’s address without its query string, a section, a record’s slug, a count, a size bucket, or an outcome. What an event never contains: a search term, a form value, an email address, a web address with its parameters, or an error message. Nothing links a visit to a newsletter address or a suggestion. If your browser sends the “Do Not Track” signal, nothing is sent at all.

Hosting, the database and logs

The site is served by Vercel, and its records are held in a database provided by Supabase, in a European Union region. Serving a page leaves a short-lived request log with the hosting provider (the address the request came from, the time and the page) which is used to operate the service and is not combined with anything above.

What your browser keeps

For visitors, this site sets no cookie and writes nothing to browser storage. The only cookie it ever sets is the sign-in cookie for the private editorial workspace, which exists only for the people who edit the library.

What you can ask for

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time from any issue. You can ask for the personal data this site holds about you (a newsletter address, at most) to be shown to you or deleted, and it will be. Write to the publisher at the address below.

You can reach Recent HealthTech at hello@recenthealthtech.com.

How long things are kept

A pending newsletter address: until it is confirmed, or seven days after its confirmation link expires. An active subscription: until you unsubscribe. A suggestion: as a draft or a record in the library, without the address. Analytics events: in PostHog, as counts and slugs that identify no one.

This policy

This is version privacy-2026-09-launch of the privacy policy, last updated on 16 September 2026. When it changes, the version changes with it, so that what you agreed to when you subscribed can always be told from what came later.