1. Information We Collect on This Website

We collect minimal information necessary to deliver educational content, maintain cybersecurity, and respond to legitimate inquiries:

• Direct Contact Submissions: When you voluntarily submit an inquiry via our contact form, we collect your name, email address, phone number (if provided), and message content to fulfill your inquiry.
• Public Q&A Contributions: Inquiries submitted through the Ask Dr. Caplan educational portal are published publicly for general health education. Do not post protected health information (PHI), confidential records, or personal identifying data in public forum submissions.
• Technical & Log Data: Like most web servers, our infrastructure logs standard access details including IP addresses, browser user agent strings, referring URLs, operating systems, and timestamp data to ensure uptime and mitigate malicious traffic.
• Cookies & Local Storage: We utilize essential session cookies and performance measurement cookies to ensure smooth site navigation, preserve comment preferences, and remember display choices.

2. How Information is Used

Information collected via this website is utilized exclusively to:

• Address and respond to direct media, clinical, or professional inquiries.
• Publish de-identified educational responses in public medical Q&A threads.
• Maintain the performance, accessibility, and security of BenjaminCaplan.com.
• Comply with applicable legal, regulatory, and professional oversight standards.

We do NOT sell, rent, monetize, or trade visitor data or personal information to data brokers, commercial advertisers, or third-party marketing networks.

3. Third-Party Integrations & Embedded Media

Certain pages on this site incorporate secure third-party components to deliver rich multimedia and forms:

• YouTube Video Feeds: Embedded lectures and channel feeds connect to YouTube/Google servers, which may log interaction data in accordance with Google’s Privacy Policy.
• Secure Forms: Direct contact intake is processed through secure, encrypted JotForm infrastructure.
• Substack: External links to Dr. Caplan’s newsletter (Doctor-Approved Cannabis) connect to Substack Inc., which operates under its own privacy disclosures and provides instant one-click unsubscribe controls.

4. Data Security & Retention

We maintain technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect information submitted through this website. Routine server logs and contact records are retained only as long as necessary to fulfill the operational and administrative purposes outlined above.

5. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights regarding your personal data, including the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information retained by our administrative office.