Privacy Policy
era app data
The era app will collect the following data:
- Account data: the information you provide when you sign up for an account, including your age, sex, gender, employment information, and health topic preferences.
- Chat data: the conversations you have with the app, including information on the timing and duration of those conversations, as well as all of the messages exchanged during them
- Health issue data: all of the health issues identified during your interactions with the app, and the associated chat summaries and health impact scores
- Personalised actions data: the personalised actions generated by the app, and information on how you interact with those actions (e.g. viewing an action and clicking on links)
Data storage
All data collected by the era app will be stored on secure servers at the University of Edinburgh. Access to the data will be restricted to University of Edinburgh staff members on the era research team.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The app uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to provide many of its features. We are using an open source LLM, which is running on a secure server within the Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF). No user data is stored on this server, and EIDF bear no responsibility for the outputs of the LLM, which are displayed to the user in the era app.
Information about you: how we use it and with whom we share it
The information you provide will be used by the researchers on the era Project at the University of Edinburgh for the purposes of evaluating and improving the era app. Individual information will NOT be shared with your employer.
We are using information about you because:
- It is necessary to deliver the services provided by the era app
- You have given us your consent for it to be used for the evaluation and development of the era app
Sharing information
Aggregated and anonymised data may be shared with third parties and made publicly available for the purpose of documenting and communicating information relating to the overall usage and impact of the era app. For example, including statistics on the average number of interactions with the era app in research publications. The data we share will NOT contain any personally identifiable information.
Further queries
If you have any questions, please contact SHAW@business-school.ed.ac.uk.