Introduction
Boston Cognitive ("we," "our," or "us") operates the BoCA® cognitive assessment platform and related services. This Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information when you use our tools to monitor your cognitive health.
Information We Collect
Personal Information You Provide
When you choose to create an account or use our services, you may provide:
- Name and contact information (email address, and phone number if you add one)
- A caregiver's name and contact details (email and phone), if you add them
- Demographic information (age, gender, education level)
- Your assessment responses and results
Automatically Collected Information
To ensure our platform works properly, we automatically collect:
- Device type and operating system
- General location (country/region)
- App performance and error logs
- Feature usage patterns (to improve the app)
How We Support Your Use of BoCA®
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide the assessment platform so you can check your cognitive health
- Save your results securely so you can access them anytime (registered users)
- Enable you to track your own progress over time with trend charts
- Show your results in the app, so you can share them with your healthcare provider if you choose
- Calculate age and gender-normalized scores for accurate results
- Improve our assessment tools using anonymized, aggregated data
- Ensure platform security and prevent unauthorized access
- Send you service updates if you opt in to communications
- Meet our legal obligations
What We Don't Do
- We don't monitor your individual results
- We don't share your data with healthcare providers unless you explicitly choose to
- We don't use your health data for advertising
- We don't make decisions about your health – that's between you and your doctor
Data Protection and Security
We protect your personal information with industry-standard security measures:
- Encryption of data in transit and at rest
- Access controls and authentication measures
- Regular backups to prevent data loss
Your Control Over Your Data
- Access: View your assessment results in the app
- Correct: Update your information in the app, or email us about anything you cannot change there
- Copy or deletion: Email [email protected] to ask for a copy of your information, or to ask us to delete it. Where a law gives you that right, we will do it within the time the law allows, and we will tell you what we have to keep
- Share: Choose if and when to show your results to a healthcare provider
- Opt-out: Unsubscribe from non-essential communications
Data Sharing and Disclosure
We respect your privacy and only share your information when:
- You explicitly ask us to
- Required by law (e.g., valid court order)
- Necessary to protect safety (e.g., preventing harm)
- With service providers who help run our platform (under strict confidentiality agreements)
We Never
- Sell your personal information
- Share your data for marketing purposes
- Allow third parties to access your health data without your permission
Research and Innovation
To improve cognitive health assessment for everyone:
- We may analyze anonymized, aggregated data across all users
- This helps improve assessment accuracy and develop new features
- Individual users cannot be identified from this analysis
- You can opt out of contributing to aggregated research data by emailing [email protected]
Data Retention
We keep your data only as long as needed:
- Active accounts: Your data is retained while you use the service
- Deletion requests: When you ask us to delete your data, we remove it and tell you what we have to keep
- Legal requirements: Some data may be retained longer if required by law
- Anonymized data: May be retained indefinitely for research
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as our services evolve:
- We'll notify you of material changes via email or in-app notification
- Changes take effect 30 days after posting
- Continued use after changes means you accept the updated policy
- Previous versions are available upon request