Privacy Policy

Bipolar Lives respects the privacy of its visitors. This page explains what information may be collected when you use the site, why it is collected, and how it is handled.

Bipolar Lives is primarily an informational website. You can browse profiles and other public content without creating an account or providing personal information.

Last updated: September 6, 2026

Information you provide

The main way Bipolar Lives collects personal information is through the contact form.

If you contact Bipolar Lives, you may provide information such as:

• your name;
• your email address;
• the reason for contacting the site;
• the name of a person or profile you are contacting us about;
• links or sources you choose to provide; and
• the contents of your message.

This information is used only as reasonably necessary to review and respond to your message, investigate corrections or sourcing issues, consider profile suggestions, address image or licensing concerns, or handle other inquiries.

Please do not send sensitive information

Bipolar Lives does not need your private medical records, treatment records, identification documents, passwords, or other highly sensitive personal information.

Please do not submit private medical information about yourself or another person through the contact form.

Contact form and email delivery

Contact form submissions are transmitted to Bipolar Lives so that they can be reviewed and responded to.

An external email delivery provider may be used to transmit these messages. As a result, information included in a contact submission may be processed by that provider as necessary to deliver the message.

Bipolar Lives does not sell contact-form information or use it for advertising.

Automatically collected information

Like most websites, the infrastructure used to operate Bipolar Lives may automatically receive limited technical information when you visit the site. This can include:

• IP address;
• browser and device information;
• requested pages and URLs;
• the date and time of requests; and
• technical logs used to detect errors, abuse, or security problems.

This information may be processed by hosting, security, or infrastructure providers as part of operating and protecting the website.

Analytics

Bipolar Lives may use privacy-conscious website analytics to understand general patterns such as which pages are visited and how visitors navigate the site.

Analytics information is used to improve the website rather than to build personal profiles of individual visitors.

Cookies and local storage

Bipolar Lives does not require an account to browse the site.

The site may use cookies or browser storage when technically necessary for site functionality, security, preferences, or analytics.

Bipolar Lives does not use cookies to sell personal information or provide targeted advertising.

Spam and security protection

Bipolar Lives may use automated measures to protect the contact form and website from spam, abuse, and malicious activity.

These measures may involve processing limited technical information such as IP addresses, request patterns, or browser information.

Third-party services

Bipolar Lives relies on third-party services to operate the website. These may include hosting, domain, email delivery, security, and analytics providers.

Those providers may process limited information as necessary to provide their services and are governed by their own privacy policies.

External links

Bipolar Lives profiles contain links to interviews, news organizations, academic institutions, books, videos, archives, and other external websites.

Bipolar Lives is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party websites. When you follow an external link, the privacy policy of that website applies.

Public information in profiles

Bipolar Lives publishes information about people whose experience with bipolar disorder has been publicly disclosed or reliably documented.

Profile information is drawn from public sources and is handled according to the sourcing and editorial standards described on theMethod page.

The fact that information is publicly available does not mean every detail is included. Bipolar Lives aims to include information that is relevant to understanding the person’s public work or publicly discussed experience with bipolar disorder while avoiding unnecessary private detail.

How long information is kept

Contact messages may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the inquiry, maintain records of corrections or sourcing issues, resolve disputes, or protect the integrity and security of the site.

Information that is no longer needed may be deleted.

Sharing of personal information

Bipolar Lives does not sell personal information.

Personal information may be shared with service providers when necessary to operate the website, deliver email, provide hosting or security, or comply with applicable legal requirements.

Security

Reasonable measures are used to protect information submitted through Bipolar Lives. However, no website, email system, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

For that reason, visitors should avoid submitting sensitive personal information that is not necessary for their inquiry.

Children’s privacy

Bipolar Lives is a general informational website and is not designed to collect personal information from children.

If you believe a child has submitted personal information through the site, please contact Bipolar Lives so the matter can be reviewed.

Your privacy requests

If you have submitted personal information through the contact form and would like to ask about that information, request a correction, or request deletion where appropriate, you can contact Bipolar Lives through theContact page.

Enough information may be requested to reasonably verify and locate the relevant communication before acting on a request.

Changes to this policy

This privacy policy may be updated as Bipolar Lives changes, including when new hosting, analytics, communication, or other services are introduced.

The date at the top of this page will be updated when material changes are made.

Contact

Questions or concerns about this privacy policy can be submitted through the Contact page.