# Privacy — credential-wa

> What this site collects, what it does not, and how to be removed.

## Privacy

Short version: no accounts, no tracking, and no year of birth.

### What we collect from visitors

Nothing automatic. There are no accounts, no advertising, no analytics
script and no cookie set by this site. Searches run in your browser against
static files — what you type is not sent to us, which is why a record
has no address of its own.

### What we collect when you write to us

The forms on this site send what you type to **Formspree**,
which forwards it to our mailbox. Depending on the form that is: your email
address, an organisation, and the details you give about a credential, a
renewal date, a training need or a list to check.

We use it to answer you, and, where you asked for
continuing-education hours, to look for providers who teach for your
credential and pass on your request. **We take no commission and we
vouch for no provider.** We have no arrangement with any training
provider today — we are gathering these requests in order to go and find
them, and we would rather say that than imply a service that does not yet
exist. If you would rather we did not pass anything on, say so in the message
and we will not.

Ask us and we delete what you sent. There is no account to close.

### The people named in the register

This site republishes a public register that names people in their
professional capacity, published by the Washington State Department of Health in the public domain.

**The year of birth is not republished.** The source file
carries it for 552,133 of these people. We do not download it, store it,
index it, display it or sell it. Full name plus year of birth is an
identification pair used for identity theft, and it does nothing to answer
whether a credential is valid.

**The disciplinary flag is never attached to a name on an indexable
page.** Pages carry counts for a group. The flag appears on a single
record only, drawn in your browser from the part of the URL after the
`#` — which is never sent to a server and cannot be
indexed. [Why](/discipline.md).

**There is no address of any kind**, fine or approximate. The
source carries none, and we did not go and get one from elsewhere.

### Having your entry removed

If you are named on this site and would rather not be, [write to us](/contact.md) and we will remove you. You do not have to explain why, and we
will not ask.

Two things this cannot do, and we say so plainly rather than let you find
out later: it does not change the official register, which is where the record
actually lives; and it does not remove you from anyone else's copy of the same
public data.

### Names, and why they appear here

This site republishes a public register that names people in their
professional capacity. It does not use anyone's name or identity to endorse,
advertise or sell anything, which is what Washington's Personality Rights Act (RCW 63.60) prohibits in Washington.

The distinction is not a technicality and we hold ourselves to it: no name
on this site appears in an advertisement, and no name is used to suggest that
someone recommends, supplies or is associated with anything sold here. If you
think a page crosses that line, tell us and it comes down.

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Página: https://credential-wa.pages.dev/privacy/
Fonte: Health Care Provider Credential Data — Washington State Department of Health
Recolha: 2026-08-20