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.

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 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.