The legal check
Why the drafts are marked draft
The privacy policy and terms of use both carry a “Draft — not yet in force” banner. That is deliberate: both documents were written by us, checked line-by-line against what the software actually does, and are now with an independent Australian privacy lawyer to be checked. The banners come down when that check says they should, and this page will record the date.
What we have asked to be checked
- That our central claim holds up in law the way it holds up in code: what you type or say into the finder is processed in your browser and never collected by us.
- Which legal entity should be named in both documents, and its obligations now versus at a first practice partnership.
- Whether the consent pop-out and the interest form say enough, at the right moment, about what is collected and why.
- How the rules about information leaving Australia apply to our hosting, to your browser's own speech service, and to the Healthengine handoff.
- Whether the interest list needs a fixed maximum time we keep details, rather than “while the program is being developed”.
- That our commitment about handling a data breach is worded strongly enough.
- Whether anything more is needed for parents using the finder about a child.
- The terms' consumer-law wording, and the clauses about where our responsibility ends and Healthengine's or a practice's begins.
The full briefing pack — including the register that ties each claim in the policy to the code that makes it true — is public in our repository: the counsel briefing pack. It is our working document, not legal advice.
What happens next
The lawyer returns a marked-up version of both documents and answers to those questions. The changes are made, the banners come down on their word — not before — and the date and the changes are recorded on each document. Questions in the meantime go to stefan.thottunkal@gmail.com.