Effective Date: June 25, 2025
AskYourDoctor is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your health data.
1. Introduction & Data Collection
We collect health information that you explicitly choose to provide or import into the app. This includes:
- Data from Apple Health: Characteristics, vitals, lab results, clinical notes, immunizations, self-reported symptoms, activity, body measurements, conditions, procedures, sleep, respiratory, nutrition, mental well-being.
- User Input: PDF documents, pasted text, and scanned images (via OCR).
**User Consent and Control:** For data accessed from Apple Health, you must explicitly grant permission for each type of health data the app requests to read or write. This granular permission model ensures you have control over your health information. You can revoke these permissions at any time through your device's Health app settings.
2. How We Use Your Data
Your data is used to provide personalized health insights, generate questions for your doctor, and facilitate AI-driven health discussions. All processing of your sensitive health data primarily occurs **on-device** within your iPhone. This means your raw, identifiable health data generally does not leave your device.
We do **not** store your identifiable health data on our servers. Any data temporarily processed in transit (e.g., for AI interactions) is encrypted.
3. Data Sharing & Third Parties
We do not share your identifiable health data with any third parties for marketing or other commercial purposes without your explicit consent.
• AI Integration (OpenAI): When you use the 'Ask Questions' or 'Chat' features, the specific health data you select for that interaction is sent to OpenAI's API. Before sending, this data undergoes a **de-identification process** to remove personal identifiers. OpenAI processes this de-identified data subject to their Enterprise Privacy Policy, which ensures your data is not used to train their models and is handled securely. You have 100% control over what data is sent to the AI via the 'Shared Data' section.
• OpenAI Enterprise Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/enterprise-privacy/.
4. Your Rights
You can view, delete, or export any processed data at any time within the app. Closing the app will remove all in-memory data, effectively deleting it from the app's current session. Data stored in Apple Health remains under your control in the Health app.
5. Children’s Privacy
This app is not intended for users under 18. We do not knowingly collect data from minors.
6. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy within the app. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@simquant.net.