Privacy Policy
Dose-Response ("we", "us") provides a weekly research bulletin and continuing professional development (CPD) tools for clinicians, on the web and in our iOS app. This policy explains what we collect, why, and your choices. Questions: hello@doseresponse.org.
What we collect
- Your email address, to send the bulletin, sign you in (passwordless one-time codes), and identify your membership.
- Discipline & interests, the taxonomy you choose (discipline, body regions, topics), used to tailor your issues.
- Your CPD content, reflections, critiques, patient cases (which you enter anonymised, with no patient-identifying details), logged external CPD, and generated certificates. This is stored so you can build your portfolio.
- Subscription & payment, if you subscribe, your plan and status. Card details are handled entirely by Stripe; we never see or store your card number.
- Usage analytics, privacy-respecting, aggregate analytics (Google Analytics with IP anonymisation) to understand how the product is used.
- Feedback, any feedback you send us, with your email so we can follow up.
How we use it
- To deliver the bulletin and tailor it to your practice.
- To provide the CPD tools and store your portfolio, reflections and cases.
- To manage your membership and process payments.
- To improve the product and respond to your feedback.
We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use your reflections or cases for advertising.
Who processes your data
We use trusted providers to run the service: Supabase (database), Stripe (payments), Resend (email delivery), Cloudflare (hosting), Google Analytics (aggregate usage), and Buffer (our own social posting, no member data). Each processes data only to provide their service to us.
Patient cases
The Cases feature is for anonymised reflective learning. Please do not enter any patient-identifiable information (names, dates of birth, NHS/record numbers, or anything that could identify an individual). You remain responsible for your professional and legal obligations regarding patient confidentiality.
Data retention
We keep your account and CPD data while your account is active so your portfolio persists. You can ask us to delete your data at any time, email hello@doseresponse.org and we will remove it, subject to any legal record-keeping (e.g. payment records).
Your rights
You can access, correct, export or delete your data. To exercise any of these, email hello@doseresponse.org. You can unsubscribe from emails at any time via the link in any issue.
Children
Dose-Response is intended for healthcare professionals and is not directed at children under 16.
Changes
We may update this policy; we'll change the date above and, for material changes, tell you by email.
Editorial appraisals are for professional education, not clinical advice, always read the primary source. doseresponse.org