Privacy
NotoBoards is a study app for medical board examinations, offered by invitation. This page explains what information it keeps about you, why, who helps run it, and what you can ask for. It covers the website at notoboards.com, the NotoBoards iPhone app, NotoAtlas and NotoSim.
What we keep
- Your account. When you sign in with Google or Apple we receive your name, email address and, from Google, your profile picture. Apple may give us a private relay address instead of your own email.
- Your study. The questions you answer and how (your choice, whether it was right, the time taken), your flashcard reviews, notes, flags, saved quizzes, settings and progress, so you can pick up where you left off on any device.
- How the app is used. What you open, answer and review, and for how long, with the date and the kind of device (phone, tablet or computer). This is used to improve the app and the content.
- What you send us. Feedback you write about a question or page, with the passage you selected; and books or documents you add to your own Bookshelf, which only you and the people you choose to share them with can open.
- Requests to join. If you sign in without an invitation, your name and email are kept with your request so the administrator can approve or decline it.
We do not sell your information, show advertising, or use advertising trackers.
Who helps run NotoBoards
- Google (Firebase and Google Cloud) stores accounts and data and runs the servers, in the United States. Google sign-in, and Google reCAPTCHA, which checks that requests come from a real page.
- Apple, for Sign in with Apple and, in the iPhone app, App Attest, which checks that requests come from the genuine app.
- Anthropic and Google provide the AI models that write teaching material. They receive the question or passage being explained, not your account details.
- Resend and Google (Gmail) send the occasional email, such as news of new features. Every such email has a link to stop them.
- The U.S. National Library of Medicine (Open-i) receives the words of an image search when you use it.
How long we keep it
Your information is kept while your account exists. If you ask us to delete your account, we delete it and the information tied to it, except where we must keep something by law.
Your choices
- You can ask for a copy of your information, for a correction, or for your account and data to be deleted. To delete, use Settings → Account → Delete my account in the app, or write to us.
- You can stop feature emails from the link in any of them.
- Signing out on a device ends your session there. The app keeps no copy of the question bank on your device.
Children
NotoBoards is for physicians and medical trainees. It is not meant for anyone under 18.
Changes and contact
If this page changes in a way that matters, we will say so in the app. Questions or requests: updates@notoboards.com.