Privacy

The Aesthetic Journal collects one thing from readers: an email address, and only if you type it into the subscribe form yourself. This page says what happens to it. It is written in plain terms rather than as a legal notice, and it describes what the journal actually does.

What we hold

• The email address you submitted.
• The date you submitted it, and which page the form was on.
• Nothing else. We do not ask for your name, your clinic, your role, which treatments you are considering or anything about your health, and there is no field on the form that would let you give them.

What we use it for

To send you the weekly briefing, and for nothing else: one email a week on what the evidence supports, what clinics are doing and what is being oversold.

The journal is open about how it is funded, and the briefing can carry a sponsored slot, which is labelled as sponsored in the email itself. Advertising never reviews coverage before publication and no editorial link is for sale. The whole funding model is set out in how we make money and the standards it is held to in the editorial policy.

Who it is shared with

Nobody, including a sponsor. Your address is not sold, rented, swapped, published or passed to a clinic, a practitioner, a supplier, a device maker or an advertiser, and a sponsor of the briefing never receives the list or any address on it: they buy a labelled slot in an email we send, nothing more. It is not uploaded to any advertising platform and it is not used to build a lookalike or custom audience. The only parties that ever touch it are the hosting and email providers that store and deliver the list on our behalf, and they may not use it for anything of their own.

How long we keep it

For as long as you are subscribed. When you unsubscribe the record is deleted rather than flagged as unsubscribed, so there is nothing left to reactivate later. If you have never opened an email from us in two years we remove you without being asked.

How to have it removed

Every email we send carries an unsubscribe link, and one click is enough. You can also write to us through the contact page and ask us to remove the address, or to tell you what we hold against it, and we will do it by hand. You do not have to give a reason and we will not ask for one.

Cookies and tracking

We run no programmatic display advertising and we set no advertising or tracking cookies, and there is no advertising pixel on this site. If that changes, this page changes with it before the change goes live.

Children

This journal is written for adults: patients making decisions about their own treatment, and the people who work in the field. The briefing is not intended for anyone under 18 and we do not knowingly keep an address belonging to a child. If you believe we hold one, write through the contact page and we will delete it.

Changes to this page

If what we do with an address changes, this page is updated and the date here changes with it. Material changes are described in the briefing itself rather than only here. This version is dated 3 October 2026.

Who publishes this journal, and how to reach a person, are on the about page and the contact page.