Privacy policies

📋 General privacy information

GP Accipe Ltd (company number [16653943], registered in England & Wales) is the data controller for both GP Accipe and DermWizard mobile applications. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling personal data transparently in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Data Protection Officer & contact

If you have any questions, wish to exercise your rights, or request a copy of your data, please contact:
📧 support@accipe.co.uk
✉️ GP Accipe Ltd, 8 Richards Avenue, Romford, RM7 9ES, United Kingdom.

Your rights under UK GDPR

You have the right to:

• Access – request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Rectification – ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Erasure – request deletion of your personal data, subject to legal obligations.
• Restrict processing – temporarily block processing while a query is resolved.
• Data portability – obtain and reuse your data for your own purposes.
• Object – object to processing based on legitimate interests or direct marketing.
• Withdraw consent – at any time, where processing is based on consent (e.g. push notifications).

To exercise any right, contact us. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) – ico.org.uk.

Data security & retention

We rely on enterprise-grade infrastructure (Google Cloud / Firebase) to store data securely. Retention periods:

• Account data: kept while your account is active, plus a short period to allow reactivation.
• User-generated content: may be retained anonymously after account deletion for service improvement.
• Advertising IDs: handled as described in the app-specific section.

The sections below provide app‑specific details. For anything not mentioned there, the general policy above applies.

🩺 GP Accipe app GP Toolkit

Last updated: 7 August 2025

1. Information we collect

a) You provide:

• Account: First name, last name, email address, professional role (e.g. GP Partner), NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
• Content contributions: Local referral pathways (surgery name, address, ODS code, official NHS email, service type, privacy status). Referral hints (text & images). Ethical & admin hints (title, content, tags).
• Contact form: name, email, subject, message.

b) Automatic:

• Usage data via Firebase (anonymous interactions).
• Firebase Cloud Messaging token – to send notifications you subscribe to.

2. How we use your information

• Create/manage your account, provide access, display content.
• Personalise experience (role‑based content, favourites, subscriptions).
• Community features: show “Added by [name]” next to your contributions, manage approvals/moderation.
• Send service notifications (e.g. subscription approvals, new hint alerts for managers).
• Improve the app using aggregated usage data.

3. Legal basis (UK GDPR)

• Contract performance: account creation, core services.
• Consent: push notifications, user‑generated content (withdraw by unsubscribing or editing profile).
• Legitimate interests: app improvement, security – balanced with your rights.

4. Data sharing & third parties

• Google Firebase (backend, authentication, Firestore, functions, messaging).
• Mailjet / SendGrid – transactional emails (contact form, surgery verification).
• Ko-fi – donations (their privacy policy applies).

We do not sell your data.

5. Your choices

You can edit your profile, unsubscribe from surgeries, or delete your account via the app. For full data access/erasure, email support@accipe.co.uk. or use the contact form

🔬 DermWizard app GP Dermatology Toolkit

Effective date: 28 February 2026

1. Introduction

DermWizard is a clinical decision support tool for healthcare professionals. It has offline and online modes and does not collect any patient-identifiable information.

2. Information collected automatically (ads & analytics)

• Device identifiers: IP address, Advertising ID (Apple IDFA / Android AAID).
• Usage data: pages viewed, time spent, wizard flow progression (anonymous).
• Device metadata: model, OS version, language.

Clinical data: Any dermatology selections made during a “consultation” remain strictly local on your device – they are not uploaded to any server.

3. Use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) Services

DermWizard utilizes third-party AI services to provide advanced clinical decision support. By using these specific features, you acknowledge that data will be transmitted to the following providers:

• Google Gemini (Google LLC): Used for the "Image Analysis" mode. High-resolution images of skin lesions are transmitted to Google’s servers for visual processing. We utilize the Gemini 2.5 Flash API which, under our developer agreement, ensures that submitted data is not used to train global foundation models.
• DeepSeek (DeepSeek-AI): Used for the "AI Ranking" mode. Clinical signs, symptoms, and morphology descriptions are transmitted to DeepSeek to generate a ranked list of differential diagnoses. DeepSeek’s API policy states that data submitted via the API is not used for model training.

Data Minimization and Anonymization: DermWizard does not collect or transmit Patient Identifiable Information (PII) such as names, dates of birth, or health record numbers. Users are instructed only to upload images of the skin lesion itself. Both Google and DeepSeek provide data protection standards that meet or exceed the requirements for medical decision-support software.

Google Gemini API

• Data Collected:High-resolution images of skin lesions and the associated text prompt.
• Storage:Data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
• Training:Data is NOT used to train Google’s foundation models.
• Retention:Google may retain data for up to 30 days for "Abuse Monitoring" (to ensure nobody is using the API for illegal content), after which it is deleted
• Relevant Policy: Google Gemini API Terms Section 4

Deepseek API

• Data Collected:Descriptive text of clinical signs and symptoms.
• Storage:Data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
• Training:DeepSeek’s API terms confirm that API inputs/outputs are NOT utilized for model training.
• Relevant Policy: Deepseek API Terms

4. How we use information

• Provide clinical results based on your inputs.
• Improve app performance and fix bugs.
• Serve advertisements via Google AdMob (see section 4).

5. Advertising & consent (AdMob)

We use Google AdMob to display ads, which helps keep DermWizard free.

• Personalised ads: With your explicit consent (via the UMP consent form), Google may use your advertising ID to show relevant ads.
• Non-personalised ads: If you decline, ads will be context‑based (e.g. app content) and not use your browsing history.
• Data shared: Device ID and IP address are shared with Google for fraud prevention and ad delivery. Google Privacy Policy.

Managing consent: You can reset your ad preferences at any time via the “Manage Ad Privacy” button inside the DermWizard settings menu.

6. Your rights (UK/EEA users)

• Withdraw consent for personalised ads at any time.
• Reset your Advertising ID in your device settings.
• Since we do not store personal accounts, there is no separate account data to delete. For any queries, contact support@accipe.co.uk.

7. Medical disclaimer

DermWizard is an educational support tool only. It does not provide definitive diagnoses. All clinical content is derived from the Primary Care Dermatology Society (PCDS) and other publicly available dermatology reference websites. Healthcare professionals must exercise their own clinical judgment; patients should always seek professional medical advice.

8. Children’s privacy

DermWizard is intended for use by healthcare professionals. We do not knowingly collect data from individuals under 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions).