Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for allie

Effective as of 22 August, 2024 

This policy explains how we handle your personal data when you use the beta app for allie. We’ve provided a quick summary first, with key takeaways. It is not a substitute for reading the full policy.

Safeguarding Your Data: allie’s Dedication to Privacy and Security

When you use allie, you are trusting us with your personal data. We are committed to being transparent, protecting your rights, and respecting your data. If at any point you would like to erase or access your data (more options and details on what you would like to do with your data can be found within this document) please contact jo@allieapp.com

The purpose of this beta app

This is the first iteration of the app called ‘allie’ which exists to understand the value and the need for a technology of its kind for women and people on hormonal contraception. We will only use data relating to your health or usage to optimise your experience on the app. We will not sell your data or use it in any way that is not specified in this document without your consent.

Data That Helps to Serve You

When you use Allie, we collect your personal data and use it to improve your experience and service. We can then increase the safety and accuracy of your predictions and give you relevant app content and product offers.

You Can Contribute to the Growth of the Allie Community

If you consent, we may use technical information about your device and other information about you (such as your device’s unique technical identifier, age group, subscription status, emails, and the fact you launch the app) to reach you for promotional purposes.

You’re in Control and Can Reach Out to Us

We believe in transparent and open conversation - you can access, modify, correct, erase, and update your personal data by emailing us at jo@allieapp.com. Where we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you can withdraw your consent. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, let us know.

We Limit Children’s Access to the App

You must be at least 13 years old to use the app (16 years old for European Economic Area, United Kingdom residents, and Canada).

Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how CUEPOD LTD (trading as allie) and its affiliated entities (“Allie” or “we” or “us”) comply with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the UK GDPR, and any other applicable data protection laws and regulations. This Privacy Policy explains how Allie collects, stores, uses, transfers, and shares personal data from our users (“you”) in connection with the Allie mobile application, Allie Period & Ovulation Tracker application (the “App”), and the allieapp.com website, including all subdomains, products, and services related to it (the “Website”) (all collectively, the “Services”).CUEPOD LTD (trading as allie) is a UK registered data controller of the Services. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If the changes are material, we will notify you by email or through the App. If permitted by law, your continued use of the Services after this policy has been updated indicates your acceptance of changes made. In some cases, you will be given a choice to accept changes to this policy. If you do not accept the terms of the updated Privacy Policy, please do not use the Services. The latest updates to this policy are available on our Website and in the App.

Personal Data We Collect From You

We collect personal data about you when you interact with the Services. This can be directly from you or from other sources and third parties.

Personal Data You Provide to Us Directly:

  • General Information: When you sign up to use the Services, we may collect personal data such as your name, email address, year and month of birth, password, place of residence, and location information including time zone and language. We may be able to infer your sex and/or gender by your use of the Services.
  • Well-being: When you use the Services, you can choose to input personal data about yourself, such as your weight; height; body mass index (BMI); body temperature; menstrual cycle dates; pregnancy, abortion; other symptoms and stages that are related to your hormonal contraception use; general well-being and health; symptoms, which may include information relating to your sex life; or other information, like your physical and mental well-being, supplement, nutrition and diet, water intake, and sleep duration.

Third-party Services (Including Wearables): With your consent, you may also allow us to connect to third-party services, such as Apple HealthKit and Google Health Connect. This enables us to import information about your health and activities into the App without the need for you to log it yourself.

Personal Data We Collect Automatically: When you access or use the Services, we may automatically collect the following information:

  • Device Information: Device model; information about the operating system and its version; unique device identifiers; enabled device accessibility features (e.g., display features, hearing features, and physical and motor features); mobile operator and network information; device storage information or version of your device system.
  • Location Information: IP address for an approximate location (not precise location); time zone or information about your mobile service provider.
  • Data About Your Use of the Services: Frequency of use; areas and features of the Services that you access or use; payment transaction information (excluding full payment card details) or engagement with particular features.

To collect this and other information, we may use cookies and other similar technologies. See more in our Cookie Policy.

Data From External Sources: We may receive personal data about you from third parties. For example, we may obtain information from third parties to enhance or supplement your existing information, including to customize your experience and for statistical purposes and analytics.

How We Use Your Personal Data

Depending on which features of the Services you use, we will process your personal data based on one or more of the following legal bases:

  • Your Consent: You can give us permission to process your health data to provide the Services.
  • To Fulfill Our Contractual Obligations to You: We may process your personal data to fulfill our contractual obligation to you for activities such as management of your Allie account and other administrative purposes.
  • Legitimate Interest: We may process your personal data based on our legitimate interests in order to manage our Services better.
  • Legal Obligation: We may be obligated to process some of your personal data to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

Principles of Processing

  • Data Minimization and Purpose Limitation: We will not process personal data in a way that is incompatible with the purposes for which it has been collected or authorized by you or collect any personal data that is not needed for the mentioned purposes.
  • No Sale of Personal Data: We will not sell or rent your personal data for monetary gain.

Your Privacy Rights

It does not matter what country, state, or region you come from; we are committed to providing you with individual privacy rights in accordance with the GDPR in relation to your personal data.

 

What Are These Rights?

 

Only you or a person legally authorized to act on your behalf may make a verifiable request related to your personal data. We reserve the right to perform reasonable checks to confirm a person’s authorization.

How to Exercise Your Privacy Rights

Please email us at jo@allieapp.com to exercise your privacy rights.If you would like to exercise your right to request erasure of your account, you can visit the settings in your App.We will address your request within one month after receipt. It can take us up to 90 days in some cases, for example, for full erasure of your personal data stored in our backup systems. We will let you know if we need more time and explain the reasons for the delay.

Third Parties Processing Your Personal Data

We will not share your personal data with third parties except as specified within this Privacy Policy.

Security of Your Personal Data

We implement technical and organizational measures in an effort to protect personal data from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction, taking into account the nature of the personal data that we process and risks associated with special categories of personal data we collect.

 

For this beta app, we are using no-code platform Adalo, who implement several privacy and data security measures to protect its users and their data:

  1. Data Access and Permissions: Adalo provides a feature called Collection Permissions, which allows users to control data access and ensure that only authorized users can access specific data. This helps in scoping data access to the intended users only.
  2. Data Collection and Use: Adalo collects data primarily to provide app functionality and improve its products. Importantly, this data is not used for tracking or advertising purposes, ensuring user privacy is maintained.
  3. Password Confidentiality: Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their account passwords to protect the information within their accounts.
  4. Data Retention: Adalo retains server logs, including IP addresses, for no longer than 90 days, which helps in minimizing the amount of stored personal data and reducing potential privacy risks.
  5. Best Practices for Security: Adalo emphasizes the importance of mobile app security and provides best practices for securing apps. This includes understanding app security measures and permissions that can help protect user data.

Overall, Adalo focuses on providing robust data security features and maintaining user privacy by limiting data collection to necessary functions and offering tools for managing data access.

Children’s Privacy

General Age Limitation: The Services are not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years old through the Services.

Communication With You

We may contact you from time to time via email or through other means (like pop-ups or push notifications) to communicate with you about Services, offers, promotions, rewards, and events offered by us and provide news and information that we think will be of interest to you.

Opt-out Options: You can always opt out of receiving marketing emails by unsubscribing via the “Unsubscribe” link contained in the email.

Storage and International Personal Data Transfers

Allie is based in the UK. Personal data we collect is transferred to and processed in the US and other countries, where it is governed by the applicable laws of those countries.

 

Transfers of Personal Data Outside of the EEA and the UK

 Personal data in the EEA and the UK is protected by the GDPR and the UK GDPR. 

When transferring personal data outside of these locations, we will always apply appropriate safeguards in accordance with the law to ensure your personal data is protected.For this beta app, it is unlikely we will need to transfer your personal data outside the UK, but in the event we do, we will notify you by email. 

For further information, please email us at jo@allieapp.com.