Historia Medica Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 22, 2026
Applies to: Historia Medica for macOS (version 0.9 and later), the historiamedica.app website, and license purchases
Publisher and data controller: Dany Innovations LLC, publisher of Historia Medica · 971 US Highway 202N, Suite # 7877, Branchburg, NJ 08876, USA
Summary
The Historia Medica app does not collect, transmit, sell or share any of your data. Your medical records stay on your devices, in a file you control. We — the makers of Historia Medica — never see them.
If you buy a license, we receive only what's needed to send and support it: your name, email address, country and order details. We never sell or share them, and we email you about offers only if you ask us to. Details are in When you buy a license.
What the app stores, and where
Everything you enter in Historia Medica — patients, visits, medications, test results, vitals, notes, photos and attached files — is stored only on your Mac:
- Your records are kept in a single database file in your user Library folder (
~/Library/Application Support/Historia Medica/). Help → Show My Data in Finder shows its location. - Attached files (Media) are copied into a folder next to the database.
- Settings, such as your preferred units, are stored inside the same database.
- Automatic backups made before an import or a database replacement are saved in a
backupsfolder next to the database.
The data is never uploaded to us or to anyone else. There is no account to create and no server that holds your records.
What we collect
The app collects nothing. Historia Medica contains no analytics, crash reporting, advertising, tracking or telemetry of any kind, and makes no network requests to us or to third parties.
The license check is offline too: the app checks your license key's digital signature on your Mac, and counts the free trial from a date stored on your Mac. It never contacts a server to activate or verify a license.
When you buy a license
Purchases are handled by Paddle.com, our online reseller and Merchant of Record. Paddle processes your payment, calculates tax and sends your receipt under its own privacy policy. We never see your card or bank details.
What we receive from Paddle: your name (if you give one), email address, country, the product, price, currency and order number, and whether you agreed to receive news and offers from us.
What we use it for:
- to create your license key and email it to you, and to send it again if you lose it;
- to answer your support questions, process refunds and prevent fraud;
- for our accounting and tax records;
- to email you about Historia Medica updates and offers, only if you opted in. Every such email has an unsubscribe link, and you can opt out at any time by replying or writing to us.
Legal basis (EU/UK): performing our contract with you (license delivery and support), our legal obligations (tax records), our legitimate interest in preventing fraud, and your consent for marketing emails.
Who else handles it: Paddle (payment and tax); our web host Hostinger, which runs the small service that issues license keys; and our email provider Titan, which sends the license emails. They process it only on our behalf. We may also disclose it to professional advisers or when the law requires. We never sell, rent or share your information with anyone for their own marketing.
Where it is kept: our service providers may store and process it outside your country, including in the United States. Where EU or UK law applies, these transfers rely on the providers' standard contractual clauses or equivalent safeguards.
How long: license records (license ID, name, email, country, order details) are kept for as long as your license may be used, so we can resend your key and support you, and for as long as tax law requires. Marketing consent is removed as soon as you opt out.
The website
historiamedica.app uses no cookies and no third-party analytics or trackers. Our web host keeps standard server logs (such as IP address, page requested and browser type) for security and troubleshooting, for a limited period.
- Page visits are counted anonymously by our own server, so we know which pages are read and how people find the site. We keep only daily totals: visits per page, the type of device (such as Mac, iPhone or Windows), and the kind of site you came from (for example "Google", "Facebook" or "direct"), taken from the address of the page that linked to us. To count each visitor once a day, we use the same daily one-way code as the download counter below; it is deleted the next day. Your IP address is not stored, and nothing is stored on your device.
- The buy page (/buy/) loads Paddle's checkout, which may use cookies and similar technology needed for payment and fraud prevention, under Paddle's privacy policy. No other page loads anything from third parties.
- The bug report and feature request forms store what you type, with the app and macOS versions, and email it to support@historiamedica.app. After we have read it, we may publish the title, the text and the versions on the known bugs or feature requests page, together with our answers; we never publish something that contains health or other personal information, and we may shorten or edit it. Your email address is never published. If you give it, we use it only to answer you and to tell you when your report is published, answered or its status changes. Ask us at any time to remove a published report or delete your email address. When you click Me too, we store a one-way code made from your IP address so each visitor is counted once, not the address itself. To prevent abuse, your IP address is kept in a rate-limit list for up to two days.
- The Download button counts downloads anonymously: we keep only daily totals by app version, browser family (such as Safari) and platform (such as Mac). To count each visitor once a day, we use a one-way code made from your IP address and browser with a random value that changes daily; the code and that value are deleted the next day. Your IP address is not stored.
- The lost-key form uses the email address you enter only to send license keys for that address to that address. To prevent abuse, the address and your IP address are kept in a rate-limit list for up to two days.
Your rights
You can ask us for a copy of the personal information we hold about you (your license records), to correct it, to delete it, or to stop using it for marketing. If you live in the EU, the UK or a US state with a privacy law, such as California, you have these rights by law. We will reply within one month. If we delete your license records, we can no longer resend your key.
To exercise your rights, write to privacy@historiamedica.app. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
Permissions the app may ask for
macOS asks for your permission before Historia Medica can use these features. Each one works entirely on your Mac:
| Permission | Used for | What happens to the data |
|---|---|---|
| Microphone and Speech Recognition | Voice dictation into form fields, only when you click the microphone button | Speech is recognized on your Mac by Apple's on-device speech recognition. Historia Medica requires on-device recognition; if your Mac cannot recognize your language on-device, dictation is turned off rather than sent to a server. Audio is not stored. |
| Local Network | The macOS print panel looking for printers when you print | Only printer discovery. Your records are sent only to the printer you choose. |
| Files you select | Importing a MyMedical file, opening or saving a backup, attaching documents | Only the files and folders you choose are read or written. |
You can change these permissions at any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security.
Importing from MyMedical
When you import data from the MyMedical app, Historia Medica reads the file you select on your Mac and copies its contents into your Historia Medica database. The original file is not modified and nothing is transmitted.
Sharing your records
Your records leave your Mac only when you choose to move them — for example by printing a summary, saving a backup to an external drive or cloud folder of your choice, or exporting a patient's records. Where those copies go, and who can read them, is under your control and subject to the policies of whatever storage or service you choose.
Security
Your records are protected by your Mac's own security: your user account password and, if enabled, FileVault disk encryption. We recommend turning on FileVault (System Settings → Privacy & Security → FileVault) and keeping backups in a secure place.
Children
Historia Medica can be used by parents and guardians to keep records for their children. Because the app collects no data at all, no information about children is collected by us. Licenses are sold only to adults.
Health information and HIPAA
Historia Medica is a personal record-keeping tool. We are not a health care provider, health plan or business associate, and we do not receive your health information, so we are not a "covered entity" under HIPAA. Historia Medica does not provide medical advice; always consult your physician.
Future features
Future versions may add features such as syncing between your own devices. If a feature ever involves sending data off your device, it will be optional, clearly explained before you turn it on, and this policy will be updated first.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at https://historiamedica.app/privacy with a new effective date, and summarized in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions about privacy: privacy@historiamedica.app
Dany Innovations LLC, Historia Medica · 971 US Highway 202N, Suite # 7877, Branchburg, NJ 08876, USA