Privacy Policy — BC Prehab App
Effective 17 September 2026. This policy replaces the previous one in full.
The short version
The BC Prehab App does not collect your information. There is no account, no sign-in, and no server that holds anything you enter.
Your medications, doses, surgical date, checklist, questionnaire answers, notes, questions for your care team, and any photographs you take stay on your phone. They are not sent to us, and there is no way for us to read them.
The app goes online for one reason of its own: to download updated clinical content from a public repository. That request is anonymous. It sends nothing about you and nothing you have entered.
Who we are
The BC Prehab App is published by the BC Prehab Faculty, in British Columbia, Canada. Questions about this policy: bcprehabfaculty@gmail.com.
What the app stores, and where
All of the following is written to your device's own storage, in the app's private area. None of it is transmitted:
- Medications you select or add, with doses and notes
- Your surgical date and the timeline built from it
- Your preoperative checklist, including items you write
- Lifestyle questionnaire answers and any scores
- Questions you save for your care team
- Favourite medications, hospitals, and resources
- Whether you chose Patient or Provider, and your theme
- That you accepted the disclaimer, and which version
- Downloaded clinical content, and when it was last checked
Deleting the app removes all of it. We keep no copy, because we never had one.
Your camera and your photographs
ScanRx lets you photograph a prescription label or medication list so the app can read the drug names.
The photograph is read on your device, by text-recognition software included in the app (Google's ML Kit) that runs entirely offline. The image is not uploaded, and neither is the text read from it. The app matches that text against drug lists that ship inside the app itself.
Photographs you take for a scan are not added to your medication list or saved into the app's records. Temporary working copies sit in the app's private cache while the scan runs; that cache is the operating system's to clear, and deleting the app removes them at once.
The app asks for camera access the first time you use ScanRx. You can refuse, and everything else in the app continues to work. The app does not request access to your photo library.
Your calendar and reminders
If you turn on reminders, the app asks permission to add events to your calendar, and writes reminder events for your preparation timeline into the calendar you choose. It does not read your existing events.
Reminders you receive are scheduled locally by your phone. The app does not use push notifications, and registers no push token, so nothing about your reminders reaches us or anyone else.
When the app uses the network
One request the app makes on its own. The app periodically downloads updated medication guidance, clinical calculators, and the hospital directory from a public repository, served by jsDelivr, a public CDN. It is an ordinary anonymous download of a public file: no account, no identifier, no usage data, and nothing you have entered. As with loading any web page, the CDN sees the IP address the request came from, in the course of delivering the file; we receive nothing from it and cannot identify who downloaded what. You can set this check to weekly, daily, or manual-only in the About screen.
Links you tap. Tapping a hospital's phone number, website, or information sheet, or a resource link such as mind-space.ca, opens that organisation's own site or your phone's dialler. What happens then is governed by that organisation's privacy policy, not this one.
Things you choose to send. When you export a summary or handout, the file is created on your device and handed to your own email, messaging, or sharing apps. You choose the recipient. The file does not pass through us.
Apart from these, the app works entirely offline.
What the app does not do
- No account, no sign-in, no password.
- No analytics, telemetry, or usage tracking.
- No advertising, and no third-party advertising or tracking components.
- No crash-reporting service.
- No location access.
- No selling, sharing, or disclosure of personal information — we hold none to sell, share, or disclose.
- No profiling, and no automated decision-making about you.
What the app store can see
Independently of this app, the store you installed it from records downloads and gives us aggregate statistics, and your device may send crash reports to us if you have turned on sharing with developers in your own system settings. That data comes from the platform, not from anything the app collects, and it does not include anything you entered into the app. It is governed by that platform's own privacy policy.
Children
The app is intended for adults preparing for surgery and for healthcare professionals. It is rated 16+ on the App Store and is not directed at children. Since the app collects no information, none is collected from anyone of any age.
Your control and your rights
Because your information never leaves your device, you control it directly: edit or clear it in the app, or delete the app to remove all of it at once.
Canadian privacy law — the Personal Information Protection Act (British Columbia) and PIPEDA — gives you rights of access to and correction of personal information an organisation holds about you. We hold none. If you believe otherwise, write to us at the address above and we will respond.
Clinical content and medical advice
The app is a clinical decision-support reference and general information resource. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, and does not replace clinical judgement or the advice of your own care team. Nothing you enter is reviewed by a clinician, because it never reaches one.
Changes to this policy
If the app's handling of information changes, this policy will be updated before the change ships, and the effective date at the top will change with it. Material changes will be noted in the app's release notes.