Privacy Policy
Effective
1. Who we are
MedMoneyGuide (medmoneyguide.com) is an independent financial education site for physicians, founded and operated by Joshua Dunigan, DO, in Des Moines, Iowa. In this policy, “MedMoneyGuide,” “we,” and “us” mean the operator of this site. This policy covers the website, free accounts, the dashboard, calculators, and our emails.
2. Information we collect
Information you give us
- Account details: your name, email address, and password. If you use Google sign-in, Google shares your name, email address, and profile picture with us
- Onboarding and dashboard information you choose to enter, such as career stage and training year, specialty, state, income, filing status and dependents, account and loan balances, interest rates, PSLF payment count, goals, and alert preferences
- Calculator results you choose to save to your dashboard
- Newsletter sign-ups: your email and career stage, plus the loan balance and rate you enter if you request our refinance playbook
- Anything you send us by email
Information collected automatically
- Device and browser type, IP address, and approximate location
- Pages you visit, how you arrived, and how you use the site, through Google Analytics if you allow analytics cookies
- Standard server logs kept by our hosting provider for security and reliability
Information we don’t collect
We never ask for Social Security numbers, bank or loan servicer logins, credit reports, payment card details, or health records.
3. How we use information
- To create and secure your account and keep you signed in
- To show your dashboard, calculations, and personalized guide and calculator recommendations
- To send emails you ask for or that your account needs: sign-in links, password resets, the newsletter, and alerts you turn on
- To understand which pages and tools are useful and to fix problems
- To respond to your messages and correction reports
- To prevent abuse and meet legal obligations
We don’t use your dashboard numbers for advertising, and we don’t make automated decisions about you that have legal or similarly significant effects.
6. How long we keep information
- Account and dashboard data: while your account is open. Delete your account anytime from Profile & settings, and we remove your profile, dashboard data, saved results, and alert history right away
- Newsletter: until you unsubscribe
- Analytics: kept according to our Google Analytics retention settings, in a form that doesn’t identify you by name
- Emails you send us: as long as needed to respond and keep a record of corrections
7. Security
We use encryption in transit (HTTPS), hashed passwords, and database rules that keep each account’s data private to that account. No system is perfectly secure, so we can’t guarantee absolute security. Details are on our Security page.
8. Your choices and rights
- Update your details and email preferences in Profile & settings
- Unsubscribe from any email using the link at the bottom
- Change analytics cookies in
- Delete your account yourself from Profile & settings (under “Delete account”)
- Ask for a copy of your information or a correction by emailing editorial@medmoneyguide.com
Depending on where you live, including California and several other states, you may have additional rights under state privacy laws, such as the right to know what we collect, to delete or correct it, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information or its use for targeted advertising. We don’t sell or share personal information as those laws define it. To protect your account, we’ll confirm requests from the email address on the account, and we won’t treat you differently for using your rights.
9. Children
MedMoneyGuide is for adults. Accounts are limited to people 18 and older, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we’ll delete it.
10. Where information is processed
MedMoneyGuide is operated from the United States and is intended for U.S. residents. Our service providers store and process information in the United States.
11. Changes to this policy
We’ll update the effective date at the top when this policy changes. For significant changes, we’ll also email account holders before the change takes effect.
12. Contact us
Questions or privacy requests: editorial@medmoneyguide.com. We reply within 1–2 business days.