1. Introduction

We at SkinScreen care about your privacy. We are fully committed to protecting and safeguarding the personal data you share with us when you use our service. In this Privacy Policy, we explain what kind of data we use, and how we use it. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us. For further information about our use of cookies, we refer to our. We might amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Visit this page regularly in order to understand what we do. If we make changes which are relevant to your consent and underlying information, we will always notify you before you use our service. If you do not agree with our processing of personal data as described in this Privacy Policy, you cannot continue the use of our Services. If you agree with our Privacy Policy, we welcome you to our service and you’re ready to start making skin analysis assessments. Below you can find summaries of the information in this Privacy Policy, you can click on the “read more” links in order to find the elaborate version. We hope this makes it easier for you to find the information you are looking for.

1.1. The personal data SkinScreen collects

The SkinScreen web application and smart phone application does not send personal data relevant to your image back to our servers. All detection and classification is performed on the user's device. This is to ensure a higher degree of privacy to our users. However, we do collect information about the device you use to access our Website or mobile device application. The type of information we collect can, for example, include the type of your device, the software you use, location, device language and your IP address. Full details about the use of your data are further described below. In order to use our application programming interface (API) it is necessary to provide us images to our servers in order perform detection and classification. However, all processing is done in-memory and no images are written to disk. Also, we ensure all transmission of data is encrypted and secure via transport layer security (TLS).

1.2. Why SkinScreen collects your data

We use your data to assist you in the best possible way. We need certain data in order to provide you with our full service and assist you with your health journey. We may also use your data to improve our service. Furthermore, your information may be used for customer service, marketing, communications, and for legal purposes. Please read on for further details.

1.5. Privacy, data security, and data retention

SkinScreen has implemented various measures and procedures to safeguard your personal data, as stipulated by American protection law. We will retain your data for 12 months after you unsubscribe from our service.

1.6. Personal data of children

Our service can only be used when you have reached the age of eighteen (18) years or when you are older. Read more below.

1.7. Your rights - access to your information

At any time you can make a request to review, correct, delete, obtain your data. You are also entitled to withdraw consent for the processing of the personal data we hold of you. You can do this by mail or email, using the addresses listed below. You also have the right to contact the U.S. Federal Trade Commission when you have concerns about your rights.

1.8. Responsible party for the processing

SkinScreen, LLC., located in Shady Side, MD USA, is the owner and operator of the service and is the controller of personal data processed via the website and the mobile device application. For more details, please see below. Please find the full explanation on how we process your data below.

2. The personal data SkinScreen collects

2.1 Personal data you provide to us

The data you provide to us is collected and used (“processed”) by us to provide you with our best service. Other information we collect is your payment information if you use our API. We collect information when you give us feedback via your App Store or the questionnaire.

2.2 Personal information you provide us regarding the health of others

Our service is exclusively meant for your personal use. If you want to help others, please do so by encouraging them to download their own version of SkinScreen. This will help them with their health journey and ensures that any health-related messages will be delivered to the right person.

2.3 Automatically collected personal data

During your visit to our Website or mobile device application, we automatically collect certain information of you, your visit of the service and the device you are using. This data includes data on the hardware, software, operating system, internet browser, IP address, language and application settings and version. We also collect data about when and how you used the service, including interaction with the elements on it and which pages you visited in the mobile device application or on the Website.

3. Why SkinScreen collects your data

We use your data to assist you in the best possible way, your data may be used for the following reasons:

Management and improvement of our Services: We use your information to manage our Website, mobile device application, and business and to improve our services continuously.

Customer Service: Our customer service is here to help you and we use your data to do so.

Marketing: In order to keep you informed, we may send you communications relating to our business, by email or other contact details you provided to us. If you submit personal information for publication on our Website, we will use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

Legal purposes: In certain cases, we may need to use your information to handle and resolve legal disputes, for regulatory investigations and compliance, or to enforce the terms of use of the service as reasonably expected.

We collect and process your data based on the following legal grounds:

Contractual necessity: In order to fulfill the contract you enter into with us when you use our Services, we have to process some essential information. When you wish to use one of our paid services we may need to process your email address and payment information.

Legitimate interests: We are committed to improving and growing our service. Some of your data can help us to improve and promote our Service and Website, other data we may need for administrative, legal purposes or anti-fraud activities.

Legal obligations: We have to comply with certain laws and (country specific) regulations. In order to comply with these, we need information about your location and date of birth.

Consent: For certain promotional and marketing activities, we may ask additional consent. When you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us via the contact details at the bottom of this Policy.

Explicit consent: In order to lawfully process this data for you, we will ask your explicit consent before we can assist you. When you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us via the contact details at the bottom of this Policy. When you withdraw your consent, we will not be able to provide you with our Services and you should discontinue using our Services.

4. SkinScreen and third parties

For some specific reasons, SkinScreen may share your personal data with carefully-selected third parties. Please find an up-to-date list of the categories of our third parties here.

5. SkinScreen and social media

SkinScreen uses social media for various reasons. On our Website, we integrated social media like and share buttons (Twitter), which allows you to share the content you like directly with your network. The social media plugins may process your personal data when you choose to share or like any content of our Website with your network. SkinScreen does not control and is not responsible for, the processing of personal data by these networks.

6. Data privacy, security, and data retention

6.1 Privacy

All data you provide to us and we collect from you is stored on secure cloud servers (the Servers) in the the United States of America, or stored by trusted third party service providers inside the USA, which are held to similarly high standards. As a result, your personal information may be transferred to and stored at, a destination outside your country. By submitting your personal information, you agree to the transfer of your personal information to the servers. Personal information may also be processed by staff or by other third party service providers operating outside your country who work for us. We take such steps as are necessary for the circumstances to ensure that any third party service providers treat your data securely and in accordance with applicable laws.

6.2 Data security

All data that you provide through the mobile device application and/or the Website is encrypted when it is transferred to or from the servers using industry-standard encryption (TLS). Furthermore, data is stored in encrypted form when at rest on the servers. We store your account information in separate data stores. The cloud server infrastructure is protected using firewalls and monitoring. We work with appropriate procedures to prevent unauthorised access to and/or misuse of your personal data. SkinScreen uses appropriate procedures and business systems to safeguard your personal data. Furthermore, we use security procedures and technical and physical restrictions for accessing and using the personal data on our servers. Only authorized personnel can access your personal data.

6.3 Data retention

SkinScreen will destroy or de-identify your personal information once it is no longer required for the purpose or purposes for which it was collected. If you terminate the Services and delete your account, we will retain your personal information for a period of 12 months, after which we will delete your data. We will retain (electronic) documents containing personal information: to the extent that we are required to do so by law; if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

7. Personal data of children

Our service can only be used when you have reached the age of eighteen (18) years or when you are older. When we identify personal information of children younger than eighteen (18) years old, we shall delete the data based on our legal obligations.

8. Your rights – access to your information

We will, upon your request, provide you with access to your personal information that is held by us. We will provide the data to you in a structured, understandable and machine readable way. We request that you provide us with appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address). We will require you to make your personal identification number and picture invisible to us. In your request for access, we also request that you identify, as clearly as possible, the type(s) of information you wish to have access to. We will comply with your request to provide access to your personal information within 30 days and if you agree we may charge you our reasonable costs incurred in supplying you with access to this information. At any time you can make a request to review, correct, delete, or obtain your data. You can also withdraw consent for the processing of the personal data we hold of you. You can make such request by mail or email, using the addresses listed below. You also have the right to contact the U.S. Federal Trade Commission when you have concerns about your rights, or if you feel that we are unlawfully processing your data. You may oppose against the processing of personal information concerning you, even if they are relevant to the purpose of the collection. You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes and we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

9. Responsible party for the processing of your data

The Website, mobile device application, and API are owned and operated by SkinScreen LLC., our principal place of business is at 1514 Crowner Road, Shady Side MD 20764 USA. You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by using our Website contact form or the feedback form in the mobile device application.