🌐 Privacy Policy for "Chikitsa — Fee Medical Advice"
Last Updated: May 27, 2026
1. Introduction
Welcome to Chikitsa — AI Symptom Checker ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and providing a transparent mobile experience. This Privacy Policy explains how our application processes, collects, and secures user information.
By installing and using Chikitsa, you agree to the practices outlined in this policy. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use the application.
2. App Slogan & Mission Statement
- Slogan: "Preliminary Health Problems Checking & Severity Screening."
- Mission: Chikitsa provides preliminary health symptom screening, severity classifications, peer education, and localized medical awareness to empower health literacy.
3. ⚠️ CRITICAL MEDICAL DISCLAIMER
Chikitsa utilizes automated algorithmic systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to evaluate inputs.
- Not a Medical Service: This application is not a registered medical provider, does not provide legal medical diagnoses, does not issue definitive alternative clinical prescriptions, and does not replace professional physical evaluations by a qualified medical practitioner.
- Emergency Hotline Notice: In the event of a severe, deteriorating, or acute healthcare crisis, users must immediately contact official emergency services (such as 16263 or 999 in Bangladesh) or seek immediate attention at a licensed hospital.
4. Information Collection and Usage
A. Non-Personally Identifiable Information (Non-PII)
To generate the Preliminary Symptom Screening Report, the app processes standard demographic and clinical screening metrics submitted voluntarily by the user:
- Age (in years)
- Biological Sex / Gender
- Voluntarily selected symptoms and self-assessed severity levels (Mild, Moderate, Severe)
- Free-form text summaries or additional clinical notes input during configuration.
B. Local Storage & Zero-Server Retention
- On-Device Logging: All generated screening histories, reports, and live AI assistant chat logs are stored strictly on your local device repository using web standard sandboxed storage mechanisms (such as localStorage or local databases).
- No Server-Side Storing: We do not collect, transmit, upload, or sync your sensitive medical symptom selections or age/gender demographics onto any external cloud servers managed by us. Your personal configurations remain fully inside your app sandbox.
5. Permissions and Third-Party Integrations
To support continuous optimization, free live artificial intelligence features, and localized utilities, Chikitsa integrates securely with third-party networks. These services may log standard tracking tokens:
- Google AdMob / Google Play Services: The app utilizes Google AdMob to serve banner advertisements, native ads, and rewarded video ads (used for features such as earning checker tokens). Google AdMob may process device identifiers, advertising IDs (AAID), approximate location data, and interaction metrics to personalize or limit ad frequencies.
- Device Interoperability: The app uses native system intents to perform external links, such as triggering the system dialer for emergency lines (tel:16263), or passing plain-text strings to external utilities via the system share sheet (e.g., copying a text summary to WhatsApp or clipboard). No communication parameters are intercepted.
6. AdMob and Behavioral Targeting Compliance
We comply fully with Google's Advertising Policies and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) standards:
- Ad Choices & ID Resetting: Users retain absolute authority to clear or reset their personalized Advertising Identifier at any time directly through their Android device Settings profile (Settings > Google > Ads > Reset Advertising ID).
- Data Minimization: No data explicitly inputted within the app's diagnostic symptom screens is passed to or shared with AdMob for ad targeting purposes.
7. Children’s Privacy
Chikitsa does not knowingly collect or request personal information from children under the age of 13. Because the application processes demographic attributes entirely on-device, we do not store child profiles on servers. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has bypassed device protections to transmit data to an external provider, please reach out to us.
8. Data Security and Portability
Because your health screening reports and local AI logs stay locked within your physical system storage:
- Your data security relies on your Android device’s built-in operating system security layers.
- You can completely erase your data history at any time by selecting the "Reset" options inside the panels, using the "Reset Chat" action, or executing a standard Android application data sweep via Settings > Apps > Chikitsa > Clear Data.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the complete right to revise, update, or expand this Privacy Policy to accommodate new technical releases, system optimizations, or changing legal guidelines. We suggest reviewing this page periodically for updates.
10. Contact Us
For any inquiries regarding this privacy statement, technical data concerns, or app support, please contact us at:
- Developer Email: zabirscreation@gmail.com
- Developer Name: Zabir's Creation
