Privacy

Last updated 2026-10-10

AVRMD is a professional network for medical virtual, augmented and mixed reality. This page describes what the site actually does with your information. You can read everything on AVRMD without an account; nothing below applies until you sign up, post, or use the assistant.

What we collect

• Your account. Your email address, which is your account identifier, and a password hash (scrypt). We never store the password itself. If you sign in with Google, we receive your Google account id, email and name.
• What you choose to add. Profile details (display name, handle, bio, roles, stages, what you can help with, interests, affiliation), questions, answers, posts, comments, likes, follows, talks you submit, images you upload, and messages you send through forms.
• One cookie to keep you signed in. It is strictly necessary, lasts 30 days or until you sign out, and is not readable by scripts. Signing in with Google sets a second cookie for up to 10 minutes to complete that step.

We do not use advertising trackers or third-party cookies. We count how often each page is viewed per day, using no cookies and nothing that identifies a visitor: no IP address and no device or browser details are stored. We honour Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control, and send no count when either is on. Do not post patient information or personal health information anywhere on AVRMD; the terms prohibit it.

What is public

Your handle, display name, bio and the profile fields you fill in are public, as is anything you post, ask or answer. Your email address is never shown on the site. A new account starts with a neutral handle (for example member-3f9a2c) until you choose one.

Who else processes it

• Email delivery: Purelymail sends confirmation, password-reset and notification emails.
• Ask AVRMD:the text of a question you ask the assistant, with the AVRMD content that matches it, is sent through OpenRouter to the model that writes the answer (currently Anthropic’s Claude), routed only to providers that do not retain or train on requests. We do not store your question; we record which model answered, token counts and timing. Nothing about other members is sent beyond a count of people who offered help.
• Google, only if you choose to sign in with it.

We do not sell or rent personal information, and we do not share it for advertising.

How long we keep it

Until you delete your account. Deletion removes your account and everything listed above at once, including uploaded images. Nightly backups are kept for 14 days and then overwritten, so deleted data leaves the backups within two weeks. Your IP address is used briefly to limit repeated requests and is not stored by the application.

Your choices

• Change or remove profile details in settings.
• Delete your account at the bottom of the same page.
• For a copy of your data, or any question about this page, email denislin@avrmd.com.

Changes

If this page changes in a way that affects what we do with your information, we will say so on the site before it takes effect.