Effective Date: May 7, 2026
Last Updated: July 3, 2026
Overview
This Privacy Policy describes how Hantavirus.com collects, uses,
stores, and handles information in connection with this website,
related contact email addresses, source submission forms,
source-tip submissions, and
public-information features. Hantavirus.com is an informational
news and visualization resource, not an official public-health
authority, medical provider, emergency service, or clinical
decision-making tool. This policy applies only to information
collected by Hantavirus.com and does not apply to external
websites, public-health agencies, hosting providers, advertising
networks, analytics services, or third-party resources that may be
linked from this site.
Information We Collect
Hantavirus.com may collect information you voluntarily provide
and limited technical information that is automatically generated
when you access or interact with the website. Voluntary
information may include your name, email address, message content,
submission form fields, attachments, source links, local-area details, organization or
media affiliation, and any other information you choose to provide
when contacting support, inquiries, or source-tip addresses.
Automatically collected information may include IP address,
browser type, device type, operating system, approximate location
derived from server logs, pages requested, referring URL, date and
time of access, response codes, error logs, file requests,
interaction signals, and security or performance data. The site
may also use cookies, local storage, hosting logs, analytics tools,
or similar technologies to remember basic preferences, maintain
site functionality, understand aggregate
usage, and protect the website from misuse. Hantavirus.com does
not request medical
records, private health information, government identification
numbers, payment card details, or emergency medical information
through this website.
Advertising and Google AdSense
Hantavirus.com may display advertising through Google AdSense or
related advertising services on eligible content pages. As a
result of ad serving on this website, third parties, including
Google, may place and read cookies on visitors' browsers or use
web beacons, IP addresses, device identifiers, browser signals,
page context, and similar technologies to deliver ads, limit
repeated ads, measure ad performance, detect invalid traffic, and
support advertising security.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve
ads based on a user's prior visits to Hantavirus.com or other
websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and
its partners to serve ads based on visits to this site and/or
other sites on the internet. Users may review or opt out of
personalized advertising through
Google Ads Settings
or through other industry opt-out tools where available.
Google explains how it uses information from sites and apps that
use its services at
How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps.
Third-party advertising services are governed by their own privacy
policies, cookie practices, and user controls.
Hantavirus.com does not provide medical records, submitted health
details, symptoms, exposure reports, diagnosis or treatment
information, private contact messages, or source-tip content to
Google for ad targeting. Hantavirus.com does not ask advertising
providers to build audiences based on health status, medical
history, possible exposure, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, or
other sensitive information. Hantavirus.com does not knowingly
send names, email addresses, message text, source-tip content,
medical details, or other personally identifiable information to
Google in ad requests. Advertising does not affect the
editorial judgment, source review, medical disclaimers, source
summary methodology, or public-health context published by
Hantavirus.com. Hantavirus.com is owned and operated by
Hantavirus.com Media LLC. Additional information about why the
site runs ads and how ads are separated from editorial decisions
is available in the Advertising Policy.
Regional Consent and Advertising Choices
Where applicable law or Google policy requires consent for cookies,
local storage, personalized advertising, or the collection, sharing,
and use of personal data for ad personalization, Hantavirus.com
expects to use available Google-provided or Google-certified
consent-management controls, or to limit ad personalization until
those requirements are satisfied. Visitors in the European Economic
Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Brazil, or other regions may
see additional privacy notices, consent choices, or
non-personalized advertising behavior depending on the controls
available through Google publisher tools.
If a consent or privacy-choice tool is presented, visitors should
use that tool to accept, reject, or adjust available advertising
and cookie choices. Visitors may also use browser settings,
device settings, Google Ads Settings, or other available opt-out
tools to manage advertising preferences.
How We Use Your Data
Hantavirus.com may use collected information for legitimate site,
editorial, operational, security, compliance, and business
purposes. These purposes may include operating, maintaining, and
improving the website; monitoring technical performance; detecting
and resolving broken pages, server errors, or security issues;
reviewing source tips; responding to messages; routing inquiries;
maintaining editorial review records; preventing spam, abuse,
scraping, malicious traffic, or automated misuse; evaluating which
public-information pages are useful; preserving records needed to
support site integrity; and complying with applicable legal,
regulatory, tax, accounting, or dispute-related obligations.
Information submitted by email may be retained for a reasonable
period for business, editorial, security, compliance, or legal
purposes. Hantavirus.com does not use visitor-submitted
information to provide diagnosis, treatment, emergency medical
advice, official contact tracing, quarantine decisions,
individualized medical recommendations, or public-health
determinations.
Third-Party Links
Hantavirus.com may include links, references, embedded resources,
citations, or buttons that lead to websites and services operated
by third parties, including public-health agencies, government
resources, research databases, official announcements, media
sources, hosting providers, analytics providers, advertising
networks, and other external information resources. These links
are provided for reference and convenience only. Hantavirus.com
does not control, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for
the content, accuracy, availability, security, accessibility,
privacy practices, cookies, tracking technologies, advertising
practices, terms of use, or data-handling rules of any third-party
website or service. If you access a third-party site from
Hantavirus.com, your interaction with that third party is governed
by the third party's own privacy policy, cookie policy, terms, and
legal notices. You should review those policies before providing
information to any external website.
Your Consent
By accessing, browsing, submitting information to, or otherwise
using Hantavirus.com, you acknowledge that you have read and
understand this Privacy Policy and consent to the collection, use,
processing, storage, disclosure, and retention of information as
described in this policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy
Policy, you should not use the website, submit messages, send
source tips, or interact with site features. Hantavirus.com may
update, modify, or replace this Privacy Policy from time to time,
including as the site adds advertising, analytics, contact
workflows, source-review processes, security controls, or
additional public-information tools. The updated policy will be
posted on this page with a revised effective or last-updated date.
Continued use of the website after a policy update constitutes
acceptance of the revised policy to the fullest extent permitted
by applicable law.
Additional Information
Hantavirus.com may take reasonable administrative, technical, and
organizational steps designed to protect information handled by
the website, but no website, email system, server, hosting
provider, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be
completely secure. Visitors should avoid sending sensitive medical,
financial, legal, or identification information through general
email or website contact channels. This policy is intended to
describe Hantavirus.com's general privacy practices and should be
read together with the site's data disclaimer and informational
notices.
Privacy for Persons under the Age of 13
Hantavirus.com is committed to complying fully with the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act. You should be aware that this site
is not intended or designed to attract children under the age of
13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from any
person we actually know is a child under the age of 13. If a
parent or guardian believes that a child under 13 has provided
personal information to Hantavirus.com, the parent or guardian may
contact the site so the information can be reviewed and, where
appropriate, removed.