Privacy policy

Last updated: 12 November 2026 · Applies to: Similia Homeopathy Academy for iPhone, version 1.0

In short

• Similia Homeopathy Academy doesn’t collect personal data. There is no account, no sign-in, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking.
• What you do in the app is kept on your iPhone. It is never sent to us or to anyone else.
• The app never asks about your health, or anyone else’s.

Who we are

Similia Homeopathy Academy is published by SIMILIA LTD, 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom, registered in England and Wales, company no. 16326238, and registered with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ZB903211). We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer. For anything about privacy, write to academy@similia.io.

What the app keeps on your iPhone

So that the course remembers where you are, the app keeps one small file in its own storage on your iPhone. It holds:

• your onboarding answers: which describes you (it sets your learning path), your daily goal, your weekly rhythm, the time of your daily reminder if you chose one, and whether you’d like the test-out offer;
• your age, only if you are 16 or 17: the month you turn 18, because a few parts of the course open at 18. If you are 18 or over, the app keeps nothing about your age. The month and year you enter are not kept;
• your progress: each answer you give (which question, right or wrong, whether you used a hint and how long it took), the lessons you have finished, your XP and streak, and the review schedule that brings each fact back when it is due;
• a session you leave halfway: where you stopped and the answers you gave so far, so that it picks up where you left it. It is cleared when you finish the session.

This file never leaves your iPhone. We can’t see it, and the app has no way of sending it.

What the app never asks for

Your health, symptoms or medicines, or anyone else’s; your name, email address or phone number; your full date of birth; your location; your contacts, photos, camera or microphone. You answer most questions by choosing from the options shown. A few recall questions ask you to type a word or a number: the app checks it on your iPhone, keeps what you typed only until that session ends, and then keeps only whether it was right.

The daily reminder

If you allow it, the app sets one notification a day, at the time you chose, except on a day you have already studied. It shows the name and picture of a remedy from your album and what is ready to study. Your iPhone schedules and shows it itself; no reminder service receives anything. You can change it or turn it off in Profile, or in Settings → Notifications.

Your iPhone’s backups

If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or to a computer, the backup includes the app’s file, so your progress comes back on a new iPhone. Apple or your computer holds that backup under your account; we have no access to it.

Apple

Apple runs the App Store and delivers the app to you. If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers (Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements), Apple may send us crash reports and usage figures that don’t identify you. Apple’s own privacy policy covers what Apple collects: apple.com/legal/privacy.

If you write to us

If you email academy@similia.io, we receive your email address and your message, and use them only to reply to you. Our email provider, Google (Google Workspace), stores messages for us on its servers, which may be outside the UK and the EU, under data processing terms that include the safeguards the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR require for such transfers. We delete your message 90 days after our last reply. Please don’t send details about anyone’s health: we don’t keep them, we delete them when we find them, and we never reply with advice on a case.

Under 16

Similia Homeopathy Academy is for people aged 16 and over. If the month and year you enter show that you are under 16, the app shows a friendly stop and keeps nothing.

Why we may use data (legal bases)

• On your iPhone: the app keeps your answers and progress because that is the course you asked for (contract). Storing them on your device is strictly necessary for that service. The reminder runs only if you allow it.
• Your emails: our legitimate interest in replying to the person who wrote.

Your rights

You may ask to see, correct or delete personal data that we hold about you, and object to its use: the UK GDPR and the EU GDPR give these rights, and we answer every such request, wherever you live. The app sends us nothing, so we hold no data from the app about you: you control it on your iPhone. To erase it, use Profile → Erase my progress, or delete the app. For an email you sent us, write to academy@similia.io and we’ll delete it.

If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, please tell us first. You may also complain to the data protection authority where you live: for example, in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ico.org.uk); in Ireland, the Data Protection Commission (dataprotection.ie); in Italy, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (garanteprivacy.it).

Changes to this policy

If a later version adds anything that sends data off your iPhone, such as an account or usage statistics, we will update this policy and the App Store’s privacy information before that version is released, and ask for your consent where the law requires it. The date at the top shows the latest change.