Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how PulmTools collects, uses, stores, shares, and deletes information when you use the PulmTools website, iOS app, widgets, accounts, clinical calculators, saved clinical trends, educational tools, and related services.

PulmTools is designed for respiratory care education, clinical reference, and decision support. It is not a substitute for professional medical judgment, institutional protocols, physician oversight, or evaluation of the complete patient context.

The information PulmTools processes depends on the features you choose to use. Calculator values are not uploaded merely because you enter them or run a calculation. Saving or synchronization is a separate, user-initiated action.

• Account and profile information: email address, Supabase user identifier, username, display name, and an optional profile photo.
• Saved clinical trend information: calculator inputs and results, timestamps, de-identified case codes, and optional notes that you explicitly choose to save.
• Learning and personalization information: practice answers, progress, skill performance, streaks, review queues, favorites, ordering preferences, and leaderboard values.
• Support and user content: information you voluntarily include in support messages, forms, profile fields, saved notes, or other account features.
• Technical information: app or browser version, operating system or device type, product interactions, diagnostics, crash information, and performance information when those services are enabled in the production version you use.

PulmTools is not designed to receive patient names, medical-record numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, room or bed locations, or other direct patient identifiers. Do not enter protected health information or information that could reasonably identify a patient.

Saved trend interfaces provide de-identification reminders, and the app screens for several recognizable identifier patterns before saving. Automated screening cannot detect every name, identifier, or identifying combination. You remain responsible for reviewing all case codes and free-text notes before upload and for following applicable law and institutional policy.

PulmTools is not represented as a HIPAA-compliant electronic health record, patient chart, or clinical documentation system. Do not use it as one.

Account features allow PulmTools to synchronize profile information, favorites, learning progress, saved trends, and related preferences across supported devices.

Authentication is provided through Supabase and may use email and password, Sign in with Apple, Google Sign-In, or another provider shown in the app. The authentication provider processes sign-in information under its own privacy policy. PulmTools does not receive or store your Apple Account password, Google password, or email-account password.

PulmTools uses information to authenticate users, operate account features, provide calculators and educational tools, save user-requested clinical trends, synchronize favorites and preferences, track learning progress, display leaderboards, respond to support requests, maintain security, troubleshoot problems, and improve reliability and usability.

PulmTools does not sell personal information, use personal information for third-party advertising, or track users across other companies' apps and websites for advertising. PulmTools does not use saved clinical information to make autonomous patient-care decisions.

Account, profile, learning, preference, and explicitly saved trend information is stored using Supabase authentication, database, and storage services. Saved clinical trend information is associated with the signed-in PulmTools account so it can be retrieved and managed by that user.

The iOS app stores authentication state and limited preferences or recent workspace information locally. Favorites used by the PulmTools widget may be shared locally with the widget through an Apple app group. Recent Anion Gap workspace information is cached under an account-scoped identifier for offline access and is cleared for that account on successful sign-out or account deletion.

PulmTools uses reasonable administrative and technical safeguards, including authenticated access controls and database security policies. No online or local storage system can guarantee absolute security.

If you choose a profile photo, the iOS photo picker allows you to select an image and the selected image is uploaded to the PulmTools Supabase Storage account area. Choosing a profile photo is optional, and the photo is removed when you remove it or permanently delete your account.

The iOS app may request notification permission for study reminders. iOS displays a system prompt before granting a protected permission, and you can change permissions later in Settings.

PulmTools does not currently read from or write to Apple Health or HealthKit and does not request continuous camera, microphone, or precise-location access for its calculator features. This policy will be updated before those practices change.

The website may use cookies or similar storage for essential operation, security, preferences, and analytics. The iOS app may process limited product-interaction, crash, diagnostic, or performance information when corresponding production services are enabled.

This information is used to operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve PulmTools. It is not intended to identify patients or provide patient-specific diagnoses or treatment decisions.

PulmTools uses service providers only as needed to operate its features. These providers process information under their own terms and privacy commitments.

• Supabase: authentication, user profiles, database storage, saved trends, learning data, preferences, and profile-photo storage.
• Apple and Google: authentication when you select the corresponding sign-in option.
• Website hosting, domain, security, email-delivery, analytics, or diagnostic providers: delivery and protection of the website and app services when configured in production.

PulmTools calculators, interpretations, scoring tools, and protocol references are educational and clinical decision-support resources. They are not medical advice, a diagnosis, a treatment order, autonomous monitoring, or a replacement for a qualified clinician.

Users must verify inputs, calculations, methodology, cited sources, guideline versions, medication or ventilator implications, and outputs against current evidence, institutional protocols, supervising clinicians, and the complete clinical picture before acting on them.

You can permanently delete your PulmTools account from Account & Profile in the iOS app. After confirmation, PulmTools deletes the Supabase authentication account and associated account data, including profile records, saved trends, learning history, favorites, and profile photos, subject to data that must be retained by law or limited provider backup and security-log retention.

For accounts using Sign in with Apple, PulmTools attempts to revoke the available Apple authorization token through Apple's server API. If Apple no longer provides a revocable token to the current session, PulmTools still deletes the account and presents instructions for manually selecting Stop Using Apple ID in Apple Account settings.

Account deletion cannot be undone. Deleting the PulmTools account does not automatically cancel an unrelated Apple subscription or delete information independently controlled by Apple, Google, or another provider.

Account information, saved clinical trends, learning data, favorites, and profile information are generally retained while the account is active or until you delete the corresponding content or account. Local account-scoped clinical workspace data is cleared on successful sign-out or account deletion.

Some information may remain for a limited period in provider-managed backups, security logs, fraud-prevention records, or records required by law. PulmTools does not promise a specific backup-erasure interval unless that interval has been verified with the applicable provider. Retained information is not used for routine active-account functionality and is removed according to applicable provider schedules and legal requirements.

You may decline optional profile information, avoid saving calculator trends, remove a profile photo, delete individual saved cases where available, adjust device permissions, sign out, or permanently delete your account in the app.

To request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information that cannot be managed directly in the app, contact support@pulmtools.com. PulmTools may need to verify your identity before completing an account-related request.

PulmTools is intended for clinicians, students, educators, and adult users interested in respiratory care. It is not directed to children under 13, and PulmTools does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

This policy may be updated when PulmTools adds features, changes data practices or service providers, or responds to legal and platform requirements. Material changes will be posted on this page with a revised effective date before or when the change takes effect, as appropriate.

For privacy questions, concerns, or data requests, contact PulmTools at support@pulmtools.com.