Privacy Policy
Effective Date: January, 2026
Data we gather
This includes your e-mail address, name, billing address, home address etc – mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the website.
Information you have provided us with
This includes your e-mail address, name, billing address, home address etc – mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the website.
Information automatically collected about you
This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your shopping cart information, your IP address, your shopping history (if there is any) etc. This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.
- Voice and Audio Data: When you use the Oral Board Simulator or other voice-interactive features, we collect your voice recordings to process your responses. We may also generate and store text transcripts of these recordings.
- User-Generated Content & AI Inputs: We collect the text, prompts, and specific medical scenarios you input into the Simulator, as well as the responses generated by the AI in return.
- Performance & Assessment Data: We collect data regarding your performance within the Simulator, including scoring metrics, pass/fail status, time spent on scenarios, and specific feedback generated by the AI.
Information from our partners
We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds.
How we use your Personal Data
- We use your Personal Data to provide our service and/or enhance your user experience. This includes for example registering your account; providing you with other products and services that you have requested; providing you with promotional items at your request and communicating with you in relation to those products and services; communicating and interacting with you; and notifying you of changes to any services. If you do not wish to have your e-mail address used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by clicking the "Unsubscribe" link in the footer of any related e-mail.
- We process your Personal Data in order to fulfil obligations arising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised.
- We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:
- The link between purposes, context and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing;
- The further Processing would not harm your interests and
- There would be appropriate safeguard for Processing.
Who else can access your Personal Data
We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience.
We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure an adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.
How we secure your data
We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymisation and pseudonymisation where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks.
Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.
If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.
To Provide AI Simulation Services: We use your voice inputs and text data to generate immediate educational feedback, grade your performance, and simulate the oral board examination environment.
To Improve AI Accuracy: We may use de-identified or anonymized transcripts of your interactions to refine our scoring algorithms, improve speech-to-text accuracy, and enhance the quality of the educational feedback provided by our AI models.
To Track Educational Progress: We use your simulation scores to build your personal performance dashboard, allowing you to track your readiness over time.
Artificial Intelligence & Third-Party Processing
- AI Service Providers: To provide the Simulator functionality, we utilize third-party artificial intelligence and speech-processing technologies. When you interact with the Simulator, your voice data (converted to text) and input queries are transmitted to these providers for processing. These providers are authorized to use this data solely for the purpose of generating the response and are contractually obligated to protect your data.
- Automated Decision Making: The Simulator uses AI to generate scores and feedback. While we strive for accuracy, these scores are generated by algorithms and should be viewed as educational estimates, not final determinations of professional competency.
Children
We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services.
Disclaimer
Prohibition on Protected Health Information (PHI): The Simulator is for educational simulation only. You agree not to input, speak, or upload any Protected Health Information (PHI) (as defined by HIPAA) or any real patient details into the Simulator. Behind the Knife is not liable for any HIPAA violations resulting from your submission of real patient data into the AI tools.
Cookies and other technologies we use
We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users' movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies don't collect any personal information.
- Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalised features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don't have to re-enter this information next time when commenting.
- Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services
- Advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They are usually placed to the website by advertising networks with the website operator's permission. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation.
You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
We use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you'd like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.
Contact information
For any questions and concerns about our Privacy Policy, reach out to us at hello@behindtheknife.org