Privacy & Boundaries

Summary

GutFlow is a local-first gut health journal. It is designed to help you organize daily records and observe patterns, not to create a cloud medical record or provide medical diagnosis.

What we store

To make your timeline, insights, and conversations more coherent, GutFlow stores these items on your device:

• Bowel records, such as time, type, urgency, notes, and options you choose.
• Meal records, such as foods, timing, notes, and clues you enter.
• Mood records, such as mood, stress, sleep, and other context you choose to log.
• Generated insights and recent chat history, so the app can maintain context inside the app.

These records are used to show your timeline, generate local insights, and make GutFlow Assistant more relevant to your own records.

Model downloads

When you choose to prepare GutFlow Assistant, the app downloads the required model files to your device. These files power local assistant and insight features.

• Model files are downloaded from GutFlow’s model host, such as models.gutflow.cc.
• Downloading model files does not automatically upload your health records, insights, or chat content.
• The app validates downloaded files with file size and SHA-256 checks.
• If a download is interrupted, the app tries to resume; if verification fails, you may need to prepare the model again.

Sharing and retention

GutFlow’s current product direction is local-first. Your records remain on your device unless a future feature clearly asks you to send or sync data and explains what will happen.

• We do not sell personal health records.
• We do not use model downloads as a reason to upload your journal contents.
• You can remove local records through the app features available on your device.
• If future cloud features are introduced, they should be opt-in and explained before use.

AI boundaries

GutFlow Assistant is useful for organizing clues, reviewing records, and suggesting observation angles. It should not act as a clinician.

• It does not determine whether you have a disease.
• It does not provide diagnosis, treatment plans, medication instructions, or emergency advice.
• It does not replace doctors, dietitians, lab tests, imaging, or in-person medical evaluation.
• It is not appropriate as the main basis for urgent, sudden, or worsening symptoms.

When to seek care directly

If any of the following happen, contact a clinician or local emergency services instead of waiting for app analysis:

• Blood in stool, black stool, or clearly unusual stool color.
• Persistent or severe abdominal pain, fever, or dehydration.
• Symptoms that suddenly worsen, or noticeable weight loss over a short period.
• Anything that makes you feel “this is not normal for me.”

Contact

If you have questions about this privacy notice, data handling, or product boundaries, contact us at support@gutflow.cc.