Privacy and cookies

This notice explains what happens to your information when you visit the website of The Paediatric Video Journal (PVJ). In short, the site itself collects nothing directly, but the services it relies on to show videos and deliver pages process some data.

Who we are

PVJ is an open-access video journal. You can reach us through the contact page.

What we collect

The site is a static website. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics or advertising trackers, and has no accounts or forms. We do not directly collect personal data from visitors, and we do not know who is browsing the site or which pages they view.

Because the site sets no cookies of its own, there is no cookie banner for it. The only cookies or similar storage that can arise come from YouTube once you choose to play a video, as described below.

YouTube videos and thumbnails

Videos play through YouTube's privacy-enhanced player (youtube-nocookie.com). The player loads only when you press play. Once a video is playing, YouTube (Google) may store data on your device and process personal data under Google's own privacy policy.

Video thumbnail images are loaded from YouTube's image servers. This means Google receives your IP address when a page with thumbnails loads, even if you do not play a video. If you would rather avoid this, you may prefer not to browse pages that show thumbnails, or to use tools of your own that block third-party requests.

Hosting logs

The site is hosted on GitHub Pages. GitHub processes IP addresses in its server logs to deliver and secure the site. We do not control those logs and do not use them ourselves. GitHub's own privacy statement explains how it handles this data.

Contacting us

If you email or message PVJ, we use your details only to reply to you. We do not add them to a mailing list or use them for any other purpose.

Links to other sites

The site links to services such as YouTube and LinkedIn. Those services have their own privacy policies, and we are not responsible for how they handle your data.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you have rights over your personal data, including the right to ask what is held about you, to ask for correction or deletion, and to object to processing. To exercise them, use the contact page. You can also raise a concern with the Information Commissioner's Office.

Changes to this notice

If the way the site works changes, we will update this notice. The date below shows when it was last revised. See also our terms of use.

Last updated: November 2026