Last update: 03/09/2026

At Healthnews, which belongs to healthmedia, UAB, legal entity number - 306390154, registered address at Vokiečių St. 26, LT-01130, Vilnius, Lithuania (hereinafter, “Healthnews”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), our goal is to offer you the latest and crucial information on health-related topics. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, process, and protect personal data.

By visiting and interacting with our website, you acknowledge that you have been informed about the processing of your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy and have familiarized yourself with the information provided herein.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please reach out to us via our Contact form.

Basis for Processing

Depending on the circumstances, we may process your personal data on the following legal grounds:

• Legitimate interest: for example, when we respond to your inquiries, communicate with you, ensure the security and proper functioning of our website and services, or protect our legal rights;
• Contract: including taking steps at your request prior to entering into a contract: for example, when you contact our sales team, request information regarding our services, or otherwise ask us to take steps related to a potential business relationship;
• Legal obligation: where processing is necessary to comply with applicable legal requirements;
• Consent: for example, consent to the use of non-essential cookies, pixels, or where consent is otherwise required by applicable data protection laws.

Please note that you are not legally obliged to provide us with your personal data. However, if you choose not to provide information that is necessary for a particular request or service, we may not be able to respond to your inquiry or fulfill your request/provide service.

Contact form

If you contact us using our contact form, or otherwise communicate with us, we may process the information you provide, including your name, email address, company name, position or role, message content, and any other information you choose to submit.

We process such information to communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, and evaluate submitted requests. The applicable legal basis depends on the nature of the request and is described in the “Basis for Processing” section above.

When contacting us, please avoid including personal data or other sensitive information that is not necessary for the relevant process. If such data is nevertheless provided, it will be processed only to the extent strictly necessary to handle your request.

When you leave a comment on our website we may also process your IP address and certain technical information relating to your device or connection. We do so to prevent spam, abuse, fraudulent activity and security incidents, and to ensure the proper functioning of our website features. The applicable legal basis is described in the “Basis for Processing” section above.

Newsletter option

If you choose to use our newsletter option, we may process your email address so that you can receive our updates twice a week directly to your inbox. We would do that based on the consent you expressed by subscribing to our newsletter. You can withdraw your consent via the unsubscribe button at the bottom of our emails.

From time to time our newsletter may include advertisements from third-party companies or partners.

Cookies and related technologies

Cookies, pixels, and similar technologies are usually small text or image files placed on your device when you visit our website. The use of such technologies is standard on the internet.

When you first visit our website or after your cookies have been deleted (or have expired), you will be presented with a cookie preference tool that allows you to accept, reject, or customize the use of non-essential cookies, pixels, and similar technologies.

We may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies, including those of third parties, that fall into the following categories:

• Necessary: required for operation, security, and proper functioning of our website, including enabling core website features and storing your privacy preferences. The website cannot function properly without these technologies;
• Functional: used to enable additional functionality and improve your experience when using our website, such as remembering certain preferences and supporting optional website features;
• Analytics: used to understand how visitors interact with our website, measure audience engagement, analyse website usage and performance, and improve our content and services;
• Advertising: used to measure the effectiveness of advertising and marketing and affiliate activities, understand the performance of campaigns and partner referrals, attribute purchases or other actions to our website where applicable, and help display advertising that may be relevant and engaging for the individual user.

Strictly necessary cookies are used to ensure the security and proper functioning of the website. All other cookies, pixels, and similar technologies are used only where you have provided consent, unless otherwise permitted under the applicable data protection laws.

We use services provided by Google, including analytics and advertising services (such as Google Analytics and Google Ads). For information on how Google processes personal data, please refer to Google Privacy Policy.

A detailed and up-to-date list of cookies, pixels, and similar technologies, including purposes and retention periods, is available through our Cookie Policy.

Our website may also collect access logs (e.g., IP address, browser used, device information, and other similar technical information). We use this data to prevent cyber attacks, ensure proper functioning of our services, and improve website performance, based on our legitimate interests in information security and service administration. At the moment, our website does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) browser signals because DNT is a voluntary browser setting with no widely adopted or enforceable standard across browsers or websites.

We may process personal data with the intent to improve our content and user experience, including adapting our website to your device, analysing how users interact with our services, and offering more relevant or similar content.

Data retention period

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to comply with legal obligations (for example, record-keeping requirements), resolve disputes, enforce agreements, establish or defend legal claims, and ensure security of our services. Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the processing activity and applicable legal requirements.

Data transfers and safeguards

We use some third-party service providers (such as email, website analytics and other information and communication technology services), which, while providing services to us, may also process your personal data. They can access the data only as much as is needed for the provision of the services.

Where personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure that such transfers are carried out in compliance with applicable data protection laws. This includes relying on an adequacy decision where applicable or, where no adequacy decision applies, implementing appropriate safeguards in accordance with applicable law, etc.

We may disclose your personal data to a law enforcement agency, government authority or other organisation if we are required to do so to meet our legal obligations, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of anyone else.

Our website may contain links to or sharing functionality for social media platforms and online services such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, YouTube and similar providers. Such social media widgets may collect certain information (e.g., your IP address or the type of device you are using) and transmit it to the respective social media organizations. For more information on how these organisations use personal data, please read their privacy policies.

Your data protection and privacy rights

General Data Protection Regulation and other applicable data protection laws provide you with certain privacy-related rights. Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right:

• to request a confirmation that we process your personal data;
• to access your personal data and information about how it is processed;
• to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data;
• to request deletion of your personal data where there are legal grounds for doing so;
• to request restriction of processing in situations provided by applicable law;
• to request to transfer your personal data to another data controller (if technically feasible) or provide a copy of it directly to you in a convenient form (applicable to the personal data that you submitted and that is processed on the basis of consent);
• to object to processing carried out on the basis of a legitimate interest;
• to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time where processing is based on consent.

If you wish to exercise any of your rights, please contact us via our Contact form.

If you believe that the processing of your personal data does not comply with applicable data protection laws, you also have a right to contact a relevant data protection authority, including State Data Protection Inspectorate in Lithuania or other authority in the Member State of your habitual residence or place of an alleged infringement, and seek a judicial remedy. However, we would appreciate it if you contact us first, so that we can try to resolve the issue together.

Keeping your data safe

We take information security seriously and put a great effort to ensure the information we hold on you remains safe. We limit who has access to your information and ensure that those who do are bound by contracts to keep your information availability restricted and safe.

We implement appropriate technical, organisational and physical security measures designed to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access.

However, no method of transmission via the Internet or method of electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. While we strive to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

External links

Our website may contain links to and from other websites. These websites have their own privacy policies and/or Terms of Service. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these other websites. Please make sure to review the documents mentioned above before submitting any personal data to these websites.

Individuals under the age of 13

We do not intentionally, or knowingly, collect or process personal data relating to individuals under the age of 13. If we learn that personal data of a child under this age has been collected, we will delete such information without undue delay.

Other terms

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. This may be in relation to changes in the law, best practice, or changes in our services. Any changes will become effective when the revised Privacy Policy is published on our website; thus, we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we process and protect your personal data.