At ALS Assist, patient safety, dignity, and absolute data control are our core values. This Privacy Policy details how our mobile application processes and protects your information. Designed for individuals living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), our application functions with an offline-first paradigm, ensuring your sensitive operational and health parameters never leave your device.
1. Camera & TrueDepth Sensor Processing
ALS Assist utilizes the front-facing camera and Apple's TrueDepth sensor system (where supported) to enable completely hands-free eye-gaze tracking and blink detection.
- Local Real-Time Calculation: Gaze points and facial motion coordinates are calculated in-memory in real-time.
- No Image/Video Storage: The application does not take, record, save, or store any camera feeds, video footage, or photographic profiles.
- No Spatial Face Mapping: The application does not construct, save, or transmit unique biological identification facial records.
2. Eye-Gaze Tracking & Blink Detection
To provide smooth assistive communication, the application tracks eye coordinates to guide the selection cursor.
- Eye-Gaze Coordinates: Used solely to move the high-contrast pointer selection across grid choices.
- Blink Detection: Captures fractional-second double-blinks to register confirmations.
- Immediate Discard: Tracking coordinates and blink event indicators are processed transiently and discarded immediately once selection occurs. No history of gaze movements is recorded.
3. Medical ID & Caregiver Inputs
The Caregiver Portal allows standard touch setup of patient profile details for emergency accessibility.
- Emergency Medical ID: Caregivers can log the patient's name, airway pressures, severe allergy listings, safe eating guidelines, and emergency primary doctor numbers.
- Patient Photos: Photos uploaded to custom memory boards are used only to generate the local in-app slideshow.
- Custom Phrases: Text phrases written by caregivers are stored locally to customize the speech grids.
4. 100% Offline Processing
ALS Assist does not require internet access, server validation, registration accounts, or login keys.
- Text-to-speech models, eye-tracking calibrations, and dictionary keyboard predictive lists run 100% locally on-device.
- There is zero network transmission of health parameters, usage habits, or personal communications.
5. No Selling or Sharing of Personal Data
Because ALS Assist operates entirely offline and does not harvest data, we do not—and can not—sell, trade, distribute, or license your personal information to third-party entities, advertising brokers, or analytics partners.
6. Data Storage & Deletion
All data, custom records, and local configurations are saved in the app's internal sandbox.
- User Controlled: You have complete control over editing or clearing details in the Caregiver Settings panel.
- Uninstall Deletion: Removing the ALS Assist application from your iPad permanently deletes all stored configurations, Medical ID logs, custom phrase files, and slideshow images immediately.
7. Third-Party Links
Our Clinical Resources section contains links to external platforms to help caregivers access support guidelines. We recommend reviewing the policies of these organisations, which operate independently:
- The ALS Association (Support resources and clinical guidelines)
8. Contact & Compliance Details
If you have questions regarding our offline security guidelines, App Store compliance parameters, or local data usage patterns, please reach out to us:
Email Contact: avnishsinghh152005@gmail.com