Privacy policy

The short version

AcuiQ has no accounts, no login and no user records. Nothing on this site identifies you.

What is recorded

• A symptom tally. Each search adds one row to a count for the symptom it matched, with a timestamp and nothing else. The count ranks the suggestions on the home page. A search that matches no symptom is counted as a miss, with the term you typed, so the index can be extended; the miss carries the day’s visitor code described below and nothing else about you.
• Page views. AcuiQ counts page views itself, in its own database: the page, the site that linked to it, your country, and whether you are on a phone, tablet or computer. A few actions, such as following a link off the site or starting a checkout, are counted the same way. No cookie is set and no IP address is stored. To count a visitor once a day, AcuiQ keeps a code made by hashing your IP address and browser with a random value. The random value is replaced every day and the old one deleted, after which nobody, AcuiQ included, can recompute a code or match it to another day. Rows are deleted after 400 days.
• A product rating. If you rate a product, the rating is stored against a one-way hash of your IP address so one visitor cannot rate the same product twice. The hash cannot be reversed to reach you. Your own rating is also kept in your browser’s local storage so the page can show it back to you.

What is not recorded

No account, no email, no name, no search history tied to a person, no advertising or cross-site tracker, no analytics cookie. There is no cookie banner on this site because there is nothing to consent to. That holds after you buy something, too – see Payments below.

Payments

Stripe runs checkout and takes your card, email and delivery address directly. AcuiQ never sees a card number, and never receives your email address at all. A completed order leaves AcuiQ with the product bought, the amount, the page the purchase started from, and a random token that is your download link.

There is no mailing list and no delivery email, so there is nothing for AcuiQ to store about you – not even a hashed address. Stripe holds the receipt and is the record of who bought what; Stripe’s own privacy notice governs what Stripe holds.

Third-party services

Stripe (payments) is the only third party that receives anything from your visit, and only once you start a checkout. No third party receives analytics data. Result cards link to the papers they cite; those sites have their own policies.

Your rights

Nothing here is linked to you, so there is no record to access, correct or delete. If you believe otherwise, write to info@acuiq.com and it will be checked.

Children

The site collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.

Changes

Changes are posted on this page with a new date. How the index itself is built is described in How AcuiQ is built.