Privacy notice

The controller is NSpine Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 08362634, registered office 14 Park Row, Nottingham NG1 6GR, United Kingdom. Contact: spinalfrontiers@nspine.com.

Our representative in the EU (Article 27 GDPR) is NSpine GmbH, Anzengruberstraße 3, 83059 Kolbermoor, Germany. If you are in the EU, you can contact them about your data at info@nspine.com.

Only your email address is required to subscribe; everything else is optional. We keep feedback, correction and Case of the Month emails for one year and then delete them, unless a published correction or case needs a record for longer. Subscriber details are kept until you unsubscribe. Case submissions must be fully anonymised, and the clinician presenting the case must hold the required and appropriate consent of the patient, or of a parent or guardian, for its publication. If a submission arrives with patient-identifiable details, we delete it and ask for an anonymised version.

We send the weekly alert and the NSpine newsletter through Brevo, an email service based in France, which handles your email address on our behalf. Brevo records whether an email is opened and which links are clicked; we look at these figures only as totals, to see what readers find useful. We do not sell, rent or share your details with sponsors, advertisers or any other third party.

Both the weekly alert and the monthly NSpine newsletter include the latest spine jobs. They may also carry a small number of clearly labelled featured jobs and offers from partners we believe are of professional interest to our readers. We never share your details with partners.

After you fill in the form, we send a confirmation email. You are added only after you click the link in it (double opt-in). Unconfirmed sign-ups are deleted after 30 days.

• Our team. Subscriber data is handled only by the NSpine Limited team members responsible for Spinal Frontiers.
• Our mailing service, Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, Paris, France), sends the emails for us under a data processing agreement.
• Our website host, Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc., USA), stores and delivers the site and keeps short-term server logs, including IP addresses, to run and protect it. Cloudflare serves the site from data centres worldwide and processes this data under its data processing terms.
• Transfer outside the UK and EU. A member of our team works from Egypt and can access subscriber and event data. Egypt has no adequacy decision, so this access is covered by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, with security measures including two-factor login and no locally stored copies. You can ask us for a copy of these safeguards at spinalfrontiers@nspine.com.

The Spine Markets page can show live share-price charts provided by TradingView Inc. These charts load only after you click “Load live prices”; your click is your consent, and it is not remembered, so the charts are off again on your next visit. TradingView Inc. is based in the USA. When they load, TradingView receives your IP address and browser information and may set cookies; see TradingView's privacy policy. If you do not load the charts, no data is sent to TradingView.

The 60 Seconds of Wisdom video on the Guest Editor page is stored on our own website host, together with the rest of the site. It loads only after you press Play. No video platform such as YouTube is involved, and no cookies are set.

Spinal Frontiers links to journals, patent offices, registries, manufacturers and other sites. When you follow a link, that site's own privacy policy applies.

Until you unsubscribe. After that we keep only your email address and the record of your consent and withdrawal for three years, to show we acted lawfully, and then delete them. We keep no server logs ourselves. Our website host, Cloudflare, keeps its server logs for a short time under its own policy, to run and protect the site.

You can unsubscribe at any time with the link in every email; this does not affect processing before you withdrew consent. You can also ask us for access to your data, correction, deletion, restriction, or a copy to take elsewhere, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interest. Write to spinalfrontiers@nspine.com.

You may complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk). If you live in the EU, you may also complain to the data protection authority in your country.

Book likes and recommendations. If you tap “Like” on a book, your own browser remembers it (local storage on your device, not a cookie) so that you do not like the same book twice; you can clear it in your browser settings. When like counts go live, the tap also adds one to an anonymous total on our website, with nothing that identifies you. “Recommend this book” opens an email to us; we use it only to consider publishing your recommendation, with your name only if you agree.

The Spinal Frontiers pages set no cookies. Your browser's local storage is used only if you close the NSpine notice bar or choose “Don't count my visits”. The only cookie exception is the share-price charts on Spine Markets: they load from TradingView only after you click to show them, and TradingView then receives your IP address and may set its own cookies.

To know which pages are read, we use Plausible Analytics (Plausible Insights OÜ, Estonia; data hosted in the EU), a cookie-free visitor counter. It sets no cookies, stores no IP addresses and creates no profile of you. We see totals only: visits per page, how far down a page people scroll, which country and which website or newsletter they came from, how often links to other websites are followed and how often files (such as calendar entries) are downloaded. For a followed link the counter records the address of that link; for the Rare Diseases search this includes the condition name you typed, but never who typed it. We use these totals to improve the site and to show partners how many people read it, never individual behaviour. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in understanding how the site is used (Art. 6(1)(f) UK GDPR / GDPR). You can object at any time with the button below. NSpine's main website, nspine.com, uses the same counter separately.

The month's Spinal Frontiers highlights are sent in the NSpine newsletter, together with news of NSpine courses and conferences. If you opt in to it, your details join one newsletter list shared by NSpine Limited (UK) and NSpine GmbH (Germany), each of which runs its own NSpine events. They are joint controllers of that list and have agreed in writing that NSpine Limited is your contact point for all data questions and requests. You can still contact either company at spinalfrontiers@nspine.com. The NSpine newsletter has its own privacy notice on nspine.com, which says whether it measures opening and clicks. The weekly Spinal Frontiers alert list stays with NSpine Limited alone, and the two lists are never merged.

We use AI tools (Claude, by Anthropic) to help prepare summaries of published papers, trials and news. Reader emails, feedback, sign-up details and case submissions are never entered into AI tools.

If you write for us as a guest editor or volunteer as research guest editor, we publish your name, post, photograph (if you send one) and declared interests with your contribution, with your agreement. We keep your emails with us for as long as your contribution is on the site.

A one-line notice at the top of the pages announces NSpine's next course. If you close it, your browser remembers that (in its local storage) so the notice stays closed until the next course is announced. Nothing is sent to us, and you can clear it in your browser settings.