Privacy Policy

PathologiQ · Effective date: September 27, 2026 · Last updated: October 21, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how PathologiQ by SAVN ("we", "us") collects, uses, and shares information when you use the PathologiQ app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac (the "app"). PathologiQ is a medical reference and education tool for clinicians and students. It is not a medical record system.

Never enter identifiable patient information (protected health information) anywhere in PathologiQ — including searches, Ask Patho questions, notes, and Leexa posts or messages. The app is not designed to store or protect patient data.

1. Information we collect

Information you give us

Account details — your name, email address, professional role, and specialty. You may also add an institution, a short bio, a username, a profile photo, and links to your TikTok, Instagram, or LinkedIn accounts.
Sign in with Google, Apple or Facebook — if you use these, we receive your name and email as that service shares them. We never receive your password for those services.
Push notifications — if you allow notifications, we store your device's push token with your account and the notification types you switched on (for example Leexa replies, messages and new followers), so Apple can deliver them. Turn them off any time in Settings; the token is deleted when you sign out or delete your account.
Your study activity — bookmarks and folders, recently viewed topics, recent searches, flashcards, and review progress, so they stay in sync across your devices.
Leexa content — posts, comments, images, likes, saves, follows, communities you create or join, direct and group messages, and reports or blocks you make.
Stories — photos and videos (including their sound) you share as stories, text and drawings you add, and topic links. Stories show for 24 hours; we keep them in your private archive so you can add them to highlights, until you delete them. We also record who viewed and liked each story so you can see your story's activity, and whose stories you mute. Replies to a story are sent as direct messages.
Clinician verification (optional) — if you ask for the verified-clinician badge, your profession, licensing country or state, licence or registration number, and institution. Only Leexa moderators see these, solely to check them against the public register; they are never shown on your profile. Your public profile shows only whether you are verified.
Ask Patho questions — the questions you ask, the topic you ask them about, and the answers, saved as conversations in your account.
Flashcards you make — when you make flashcards from a note, a topic or an Ask Patho answer, that text is sent to our AI providers to write the cards, and the cards are saved to your account. Cards you write yourself, and decks you import from Anki (the text of each card — images and audio are not imported), are saved to your account and are never sent to AI providers.
Study habit — how many cards you review each day, your daily goal and your streak, so your calendar follows you across devices. Optional daily reminders are scheduled on your device.
Topic requests and support messages — topics you ask us to add and anything you send us by email.

Information stored only on your device

My notes — notes you write are saved on your device only. We receive a note's text only if you choose to make flashcards from it or share it.
Face ID / Touch ID sign-in — if you use it, the check happens on your device through Apple, and the key that signs you back in is kept in your device's secure Keychain. We never receive your biometric data.
App settings — theme, text size, language, and similar preferences.

Information collected automatically

Crash and error data — crash reports, error logs, app version, device model, and operating-system version, collected through Sentry to keep the app stable. Error reports never include your questions, notes or other content.
Usage analytics — which screens and features you use (for example, that you opened a topic, ran a search or asked Ask Patho), how long answers took, app version and device type, collected through PostHog and linked to a random account ID, never your name or email. Analytics never include what you type, search, ask or post. You can turn them off in Settings → Privacy → Share usage analytics.
AI usage — for each Ask Patho or flashcard request we record which AI model answered, how many tokens it used, how long it took and whether it succeeded, to enforce plan limits and keep costs in check.

We do not use advertising identifiers, and we do not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

Camera and microphone

The app uses your camera only when you take a photo or video for a story or your profile photo, or scan text into a note, and your microphone only while you record a story video or use voice search. Nothing is recorded in the background. Photos and videos you choose to share are uploaded to your account; anything you don't share stays on your device.

Using the app without an account

You can read conditions, drugs, tools and the library as a guest. Without an account we don't collect account or study information; features that save to an account (bookmarks, flashcards, Ask Patho, Leexa) ask you to sign in first.

Embedded videos

Some topics include videos hosted on YouTube. Nothing is loaded from YouTube until you tap play. The video then plays in YouTube's privacy-enhanced player, and YouTube (Google) may collect information under Google's Privacy Policy.

Voice search

If you use voice search, the app uses Apple's speech recognition to turn your speech into text. Depending on your device, Apple may process the audio on its servers under Apple's Privacy Policy. We receive only the resulting text, which is handled like a typed search.

Purchases

Subscriptions (Pro and Max) are sold and processed by Apple through the App Store. We receive confirmation of which plan you have, but never your payment details.

2. How we use information

To create and secure your account and provide the app's features.
To sync your bookmarks, history, and study activity across your devices.
To answer your Ask Patho questions.
To run Leexa, including showing your profile and posts to other members and delivering your messages.
To keep the community safe: reviewing reports, enforcing our Terms, and preventing spam and abuse.
To find and fix crashes and errors.
To respond to support requests and meet legal obligations.

We do not sell or share your personal information for advertising, and we do not use it to build advertising profiles.

3. What other people can see

Leexa is a community. Other signed-in members can see your username, profile photo, role, specialty, institution, bio, any social accounts you add, follower counts, and the posts and comments you publish. You can hide your real name, stop appearing in member search, and limit who can message you in Leexa → menu → Profile privacy. Direct and group messages are visible only to the people in the conversation.

If you add study buddies, they see only the dates you studied (never what you studied) so you can keep a shared streak. If you join the weekly leaderboard (it is off unless you turn it on), members of your school, specialty or buddy list who also joined see your name and weekly points. You can remove buddies or leave the leaderboard at any time.

4. Service providers

We share information only with the companies that run parts of the app for us, and only for that purpose:

Provider	What they do	Information involved
Supabase	Accounts, database, file storage, and server functions	Account, study activity, Leexa content, photos
Google (Gemini API)	Writes and checks Ask Patho answers and flashcards; finds related topics	Your question with the earlier messages of that chat, the related PathologiQ content, and text you make flashcards from
Groq	Runs open AI models (Llama, Kimi, gpt-oss) for Ask Patho and flashcards	Same as above
Microsoft (GitHub Models)	Runs GPT models for Ask Patho and flashcards	Same as above
OpenAI	GPT models for harder Ask Patho questions, if enabled	Same as above
Anthropic	Claude models for Ask Patho, if enabled	Same as above
OpenRouter	Backup access to additional AI models, if enabled	Same as above
Google (YouTube)	Plays embedded topic videos when you tap play	Information YouTube collects while the video plays
Netlify	Hosts this website	Standard web request data (such as IP address) needed to serve the site
Tally	Runs the waitlist sign-up form	Your email address, your role and whether you want to test the beta, if you join the waitlist
Google (Sheets)	Stores the waitlist	The same waitlist details, kept in our private spreadsheet
Sentry	Crash and error reporting	Crash data and device details
PostHog	Usage analytics	Feature and screen usage, app version and device type, linked to a random account ID
Google, Apple, Meta (Facebook)	Optional sign-in	Name and email from that service
Apple (Push Notification service)	Delivers notifications you switched on	Device push token and the notification text
Apple	App distribution, subscriptions, speech recognition	Purchase status; voice audio when you use voice search

Your questions and text are sent to AI providers only to produce your answer or flashcards. Some AI providers, particularly on free plans, may use submitted content to improve their services, so never include patient information. Ask Patho conversations are saved in your account so you can return to them; you can delete them by deleting your account.

We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect the safety of our users or the public, or as part of a merger or sale of the business (in which case this policy continues to apply).

5. This website

Our website works without cookies. If you join the waitlist, the sign-up form (run by Tally) opens only when you click Join the waitlist; your email, role and beta choice are stored by Tally and in our private Google Sheet, and we use them only to send launch news and, if you asked, your beta invite. Ask us any time to remove them. If we turn on visit counting, the site first asks for your permission. It uses GoatCounter, which doesn't use cookies, doesn't track you across sites and doesn't record your IP address; your choice is remembered in your browser's local storage. The site loads its typeface from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address to deliver the font.

6. How long we keep information

We keep your account, content, Ask Patho conversations and AI usage records for as long as your account exists. Crash data is kept only for the limited period set in our Sentry account. Usage analytics are kept only for the limited period set in our PostHog account. Topic requests are kept without your name after you delete your account.

7. Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time in the app: open your Profile and tap Delete account. This permanently removes your profile, study activity, bookmarks, flashcards and review progress, Ask Patho conversations and usage records, Leexa posts, comments, messages, follows, and uploaded photos, and deletes your login. It cannot be undone. Notes stored only on your device are removed when you delete the app.

8. Your privacy rights

You can view and change most of your information directly in the app. Depending on where you live — including California under the CCPA/CPRA — you may have the right to know what personal information we have about you, to get a copy, to correct it, to delete it, and to opt out of its sale or sharing (we do not sell or share it). To use any of these rights, email us at the address below. We will verify your request and respond within the time the law requires, and we will not treat you differently for using your rights.

9. Security

Information is encrypted in transit and at rest, and access is limited by account-level security rules. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable steps to protect your information.

10. Children

PathologiQ is for healthcare professionals and students. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we will delete it.

11. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the date above and, for significant changes, let you know in the app before they take effect.

12. Contact us

PathologiQ by SAVN
Email: [email protected]