Last updated: 2026-08-29
Website: https://thehivmap.com
TheHIVMap takes your privacy seriously. We protect personal data carefully and aim to provide services that are safe, transparent, and user-friendly. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information under applicable laws including GDPR and Thailand’s PDPA.
1. Data we collect
We collect only what is needed to improve your experience.
1.1 Collected automatically
- IP address
- Approximate location (if you allow access)
- Browser and operating system type
- Pages visited
- Referring URL
1.2 Provided voluntarily
- Feedback or data-report forms
- Surveys or interactive forms
- Email messages you send to us
2. How we use data
- Operate and improve the website and clinic directory
- Understand aggregated usage trends
- Respond to messages and partnership requests
- Maintain security and prevent abuse
3. Cookies
We use necessary cookies for consent preferences and optional analytics cookies to measure aggregated traffic. You can accept all cookies or continue with necessary cookies only.
4. Sharing
We do not sell personal data. We may share limited technical data with infrastructure providers (hosting, analytics) under contracts that protect confidentiality.
5. Your rights
Depending on your location, you may request access, correction, deletion, or restriction of personal data, and withdraw cookie consent at any time.
6. Contact
Privacy questions: contact@thehivmap.com
This policy may be updated; the latest version will always be published on this page.
5. Legal bases and PDPA / GDPR
The HIV Map (https://thehivmap.com) processes limited personal data as a data controller for operating this website. Necessary cookies run to store your consent choice. Optional analytics run only after you accept all cookies. We do not require an account to read articles.
Under Thailand’s PDPA and, where applicable, GDPR, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or a copy of personal data we hold, and you may withdraw cookie consent. Health information should not be sent to contact@thehivmap.com unless you choose to describe a situation yourself; we do not ask for medical records.
6. What we do not do
We do not sell personal data. We do not use contact forms as a clinic. We do not run advertising auctions on health content. Outbound links to, hospitals, or public-health sites are subject to those organisations’ policies once you leave https://thehivmap.com.
7. Hosting, logs, and security
Hosting, DNS, and media delivery providers may process IP addresses and security logs to keep the site available and to block abuse. Logs are kept only as long as needed for security and debugging. We use HTTPS and restrict access to application source folders.
8. Cookies in detail
The necessary cookie remembers whether you allowed analytics. It is not used to identify you across other sites. If you choose Necessary only, pages still work. You can clear cookies in your browser to reset the banner.
9. Children
Content may be read by anyone, but we do not knowingly collect data from children to profile them. Guardians who want a page removed can email contact@thehivmap.com.
10. Retention and international transfers
Editorial emails are kept long enough to resolve the request, then deleted or archived with limited access. Infrastructure may store data outside Thailand under contracts that require confidentiality. Analytics, when enabled, is aggregated.
11. Your choices
You can refuse optional cookies, use private browsing, and contact us to exercise PDPA rights. For a medical emergency or PEP, call 1663 or go to a hospital — do not rely on email.
12. Updates
We will publish changes on this page. Continued use after an update means the new text applies to later visits. Questions: contact@thehivmap.com.
Cookies used on this site
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thehivmap_cookie_consent
— Strictly necessary:
Stores cookie consent status on this device (1 year)
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_ga, _gid
— Analytics:
Anonymous aggregated traffic measurement to improve traveler guides (2 years / 24 hours)
