Privacy policy

This is the distinction that orders everything else, and it is worth understanding before you read on.

One practical consequence follows: if you are a patient and you want to exercise your rights, you have to contact your psychologist or your practice, not us. We explain it in more detail in the patient privacy notice.

We never use your patients’ data for our own purposes: not for product statistics, not for marketing, and not for training artificial intelligence models.

• Controller: Raúl Ríos Beiro (VinculAI)
• Registered address: Avenida Hermanos Machado 135, 46025 Valencia, España
• Contact: privacidad@vinculai.com · +34 680 476 385

No data protection officer has been appointed for the time being. If one is appointed, their contact details will be published here and notified to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) within ten days, as required by article 34.3 of Spanish Organic Act 3/2018 (LOPDGDD).

Everything that follows refers to the data for which we are the Controller (section 1).

Providing the sign-up details is necessary in order for us to provide you with the service: without them we cannot create the account or issue you an invoice. The rest is voluntary, and not providing it has no consequence beyond not receiving that particular communication.

Data concerning health is special category data (article 9.1 GDPR) and its processing is prohibited unless an exception applies. In a psychology practice the usual exception is article 9.2.h —the provision of health care pursuant to a contract with a health professional— together with article 9.3, which requires the processing to be carried out by a professional subject to the obligation of professional secrecy, or by someone under their responsibility.

Establishing and documenting that exception is for the practice or the professional, who is the Controller. We do not need a legal basis of our own for that data: our legitimacy is derived and arises from the data processing agreement (article 28 GDPR).

What we do take on are the measures: clinical notes and messages are encrypted at application level with AES-256-GCM before being stored, session notes are accessible only to the treating professional, each practice is isolated from every other in the database itself, and no health data ever appears in technical logs.

VinculAI uses artificial intelligence models to structure and format notes, for the management and booking assistant, and to read expense invoices. It is worth being precise about what that involves.

• Only what is asked for in each request is sent: the specific text to be formatted or the specific question put to the assistant. Neither the database nor the clinical record is sent across.
• The data is not used to train models. The provider’s commercial terms expressly prohibit it, and we pass that on as a contractual obligation.
• The output of the artificial intelligence is a draft. The professional reviews it, corrects it and signs it: authorship of and responsibility for the clinical record remain theirs.
• We take no automated decisions producing legal effects or significantly affecting anyone, within the meaning of article 22 GDPR. There is no profiling of patients and no scoring that shapes access to the service.
• Voice dictation does not store the audio at any point. That feature is currently switched off.

If we ever introduced something that did fall within article 22 —an automated prediction that shaped a booking, for example—, we would say so here expressly, we would explain the logic applied and its consequences, and we would offer the right to human intervention and to contest it.

We do not sell data and we do not disclose it to third parties. We do rely on providers that process it on our behalf —sub-processors—, with a processing agreement and the same obligations we take on ourselves. This is the complete and current list:

Providers that receive no personal data

• Europe PMC (EMBL-EBI, United Kingdom). Scientific literature search. Only abstract clinical terms are sent, never patient identifiers. The United Kingdom benefits from a European Commission adequacy decision, renewed on 19 December 2025.

One exception, and it is worth understanding it properly: paying for your subscription. When you pay for your own VinculAI subscription, Stripe does not act on our behalf: it processes your payment data as an independent Controller, in order to meet its own legal obligations (payment services and the prevention of money laundering). That is your data as the Client —never your patients’ data— and that part is governed by Stripe’s privacy policy, not by this one. It is a different thing from charging your patients, where Stripe does appear above as a sub-processor.

We also disclose data where the law requires it: to the tax authorities, to judges and courts, to the public prosecutor and to any competent authorities that request it.

Assistants you connect yourself. If you connect an external assistant to your account through our MCP server, that assistant will receive the data you ask it for. That connection is your decision, and whatever processing the assistant carries out is beyond our control; that is why we only accept clients from expressly authorised origins, and you can revoke access at any time.

The database, the servers and the email are in the European Union. Some of the providers in the table above process data outside the European Economic Area (EEA); in those cases the transfer relies on the safeguards in article 46 GDPR:

• Supabase. European Commission standard contractual clauses (Decision 2021/914), modules two and three, under Irish law and jurisdiction. The database is hosted in the European Union; support, monitoring and account communications may involve group providers outside the European Economic Area.
• Anthropic PBC. European Commission standard contractual clauses (Decision 2021/914), modules two and three, incorporated into its data processing agreement.
• Stripe. Article 46 GDPR safeguards provided for in its data processing agreement.
• PayPal. Article 46 GDPR safeguards provided for in its data processing agreement.
• Google. Listed here for transparency, although Google does NOT act on the Processor’s behalf: when signing in it is the user who authenticates with Google, and in the calendar it is the professional’s own Google account —authorised by them, and revocable by them— that receives the data. In both cases the processing is governed by that user’s relationship with Google and by the Google API terms the Processor accepted when registering the application. Calendar synchronisation is OPTIONAL: until the professional switches it on, no data leaves for Google by this route.
• Proveedores de notificaciones push. The content is end-to-end encrypted (VAPID / aes128gcm), so the provider has no access to readable personal data.
• WhatsApp (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited). European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses and Meta’s certification under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Messages are carried by Meta’s infrastructure, which can access their content: that is why only logistical information is sent.

You can request a copy of those safeguards by writing to privacidad@vinculai.com. The United Kingdom, where the scientific literature search engine is hosted, benefits from a European Commission adequacy decision, so no additional safeguards are required.

You can exercise the rights of access, rectification, erasure, objection, restriction of processing and portability, and withdraw at any time any consent you have given, without that affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out beforehand.

Write to privacidad@vinculai.com stating which right you are exercising. We will reply within one month, extendable by a further two months if the request is complex, in which case we will tell you. We may ask you to prove your identity if we have reasonable doubts about who you are.

If you believe we have not dealt with your request properly, you can lodge a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD), without prejudice to going to court.

If you are a patient, contact your psychologist or your practice: they are the Controller of your data. If a request of yours reaches us, we will pass it on to them and tell you so, but we cannot deal with it on our own account. You have the detail in the patient privacy notice.

In the management panel and in the patient portal we use only technical and necessary storage: the user session, protection against attacks and your interface preferences. It is exempt from consent under article 22.2 of Spanish Act 34/2002, because without it the service you have asked for cannot work.

On the public websites each practice publishes with VinculAI, the practice can switch on its own analytics (Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager). When it has them switched on, the visitor sees a notice before anything loads, with two buttons of the same size: accept and reject. If they reject, absolutely nothing is written to their browser and the site works just the same. The decision is stored in the browser itself and can be changed at any time from the ‘Cookies’ link in the footer.

If the practice does not set up analytics, there is no notice, because there is nothing to consent to.

If we change anything material —a new purpose, a new sub-processor— we will tell you in advance by email and in the platform itself, and we will publish the new version here with its date. For the addition of sub-processors, the notice period and your right to object are in the data processing agreement.