Privacy Policy

Last Updated: November 13, 2026

1. Who the app is for

Academic CV is a CV, CME and document-keeping app for doctors and other healthcare professionals. You decide what you record and remain responsible for it.

2. Information you enter

Your profile (name, degrees, designation, institution, contact details, ORCID, photo); CV entries (education, posts, registrations, memberships, awards, publications, presentations, CME, conferences, teaching, research, theses, examiner and reviewer roles); certificates and documents you scan or import (marksheets, degrees, registrations, identity documents, letters); paper PDFs; conference dates and flyers; and, in the optional interesting-case log, clinical notes and images you choose to add. Do not record patient names or identifying details.

3. Where it is stored

• On your device, protected by iOS data protection. You can add a Face ID / passcode lock.
• Your private iCloud (optional, on by default): profiles, entries and the document vault sync between your devices through Apple's CloudKit private database. Only your Apple Account can read it. The interesting-case log is never synced — it stays on the device.
• iCloud Drive backup (optional): a backup file, and if you choose, each document and paper as its own file, in a folder you pick.
• Department sharing (optional, off by default): if you invite a colleague, only counts (publications, citations, CME hours, talks, teaching, theses, examiner roles, promotion status) are shared with the people you invite, through iCloud. Titles, documents and the case log are never shared. You can stop sharing at any time.

4. Information sent from the app

Only when you ask the app to look up publications does it contact public scholarly databases — Crossref, PubMed / PubMed Central (NCBI), ORCID, OpenAlex and DOAJ — sending the DOI, PubMed ID, ORCID iD or title you entered. Links you open (society websites, DOIs) open in your browser. Nothing else about you is sent.

5. Apple Intelligence

Writing help, case-report drafts, certificate and document reading, document naming and job matching use Apple's on-device model where available. Text is processed on your device and is not sent to the developer.

6. Device permissions

7. Advertising, analytics and tracking

None. The app contains no advertising, analytics or tracking code and no third-party SDKs.

8. Data source credits

The list of medical colleges and universities is from the official public list of recognised medical colleges, November 2026, and may not be current.

9. Your rights, retention and deletion (DPDP Act, 2023)

You can view, correct, export (Backup, Word, PDF) or delete any of your data in the app at any time. Deleting the app removes data on the device; to remove synced data, delete it in the app first or manage the app's iCloud data in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Storage. You can withdraw consent to iCloud sync or department sharing at any time from within the app, as easily as you gave it. As the developer holds no copy of your data, there is nothing for us to delete on our side; contact us below with any request or complaint.

10. Children

The app is meant for healthcare professionals and is not directed at children.

11. Changes to this policy

Changes are posted on this page with a new date. Significant changes are also shown in the app.