Privacy Policy
How we collect, use, and protect your personal information
Last Updated: June 30th, 2025
Introduction
CardioGuard ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our heart attack risk prediction website and services (collectively, the "Service").
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using our Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Service.
Important: We Do Not Store Your Health Data
Your health information is only temporarily processed through our prediction model and is not stored on our servers. Once your risk assessment is generated, all health data is immediately discarded and cannot be retrieved.
Information We Collect
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Service, including:
Personal Information
We collect minimal information necessary for account creation:
- Email address (for account access only, not stored permanently)
Health Information (Not Stored)
When you use our risk prediction tool, you provide health information that is temporarily processedthrough our AI model but never stored on our servers. This information includes:
- Age and biological sex
- Chest pain type and symptoms
- Resting blood pressure (systolic)
- Total serum cholesterol levels
- Maximum heart rate achieved during exercise
- Fasting blood sugar levels
- Resting electrocardiogram (ECG) results
- Exercise-induced angina symptoms
- ST depression measurements from exercise tests
- ST segment slope from exercise ECG
- Number of major vessels with significant narrowing (from angiography)
- Thalassemia type from thallium stress test results
Note: All health data is processed in real-time and immediately discarded after generating your risk assessment. We cannot retrieve or access this information once the assessment is complete.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information only to:
- Provide and maintain our Service
- Calculate and display your heart attack risk assessment (without storing health data)
- Generate personalized health recommendations (processed in real-time)
- Ensure Service security and prevent misuse
Research and Analytics
We do not use individual health data for research purposes since we do not store this information. Any analytics we perform are based solely on aggregated, non-identifiable usage patterns and do not include any health information.
Data Retention
We do not store personal information permanently. Health data is never retained - it is processed in real-time and immediately discarded after generating your risk assessment. Email addresses are used only for temporary session management and are not stored permanently.
Children's Privacy
Our Service is not directed to individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
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 on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- By visiting the contact page on our website: Contact Us