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Published by HealthPartnersWe have made it super easy to delete SafeDistance: COVID-19 Map account and/or app.
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Guide to Delete SafeDistance: COVID-19 Map 👇
Things to note before removing SafeDistance:
- The developer of SafeDistance is HealthPartners and all inquiries must go to them.
- Check the Terms of Services and/or Privacy policy of HealthPartners to know if they support self-serve account deletion:
- The GDPR gives EU and UK residents a "right to erasure" meaning that you can request app developers like HealthPartners to delete all your data it holds. HealthPartners must comply within 1 month.
- The CCPA lets American residents request that HealthPartners deletes your data or risk incurring a fine (upto $7,500 dollars).
↪️ Steps to delete SafeDistance account:
1: Visit the SafeDistance website directly Here →
2: Contact SafeDistance Support/ Customer Service:
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- Developer: Maryland Department of Health
- E-Mail: MDH.MDCOVIDAlert@maryland.gov
- Website: Visit SafeDistance Website
3: Check SafeDistance's Terms/Privacy channels below for their data-deletion Email:
Deleting from Smartphone 📱
Delete on iPhone:
- On your homescreen, Tap and hold SafeDistance: COVID-19 Map until it starts shaking.
- Once it starts to shake, you'll see an X Mark at the top of the app icon.
- Click on that X to delete the SafeDistance: COVID-19 Map app.
Delete on Android:
- Open your GooglePlay app and goto the menu.
- Click "My Apps and Games" » then "Installed".
- Choose SafeDistance: COVID-19 Map, » then click "Uninstall".
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🎌 About SafeDistance: COVID-19 Map
1. Your responses help researchers detect, predict, and prevent the spread COVID-19, while maintaining your privacy.
2. SafeDistance users help themselves, and help the experts detect, predict, and prevent the spread of COVID19, while assuring your privacy.
3. Your data provides health professionals, researchers, politicians and public health officials with crucial information to contain outbreaks and target scarce medical resources.
4. SafeDistance is a free, nonprofit project sponsored by Health Partners, Modern Logic, and researchers at the University of Minnesota.
5. Please help us crowdsource location and symptom data so that together we can fight COVID-19.
6. Neighborhood Map & Symptom Checker: You can help fight COVID19 and receive expert, personalized recommendations.
7. SafeDistance is a nonprofit project for the common good and we will never sell your data.
8. We are a team of health care providers, scientists, and technologists volunteering their time to launch this project.
9. Our approach is entirely opt-in: users do not need to create an account and are never asked for personal, identifying information.
10. You can help fight the spread of COVID-19.
11. Answer a series of quick, simple questions about your symptoms or the symptoms of a loved one - all while maintaining your privacy.
12. We are funded by donations and grants and will not sell your data to a third party.
13. You can remain completely anonymous: no account required, and we won’t ask you for any identifying information.
14. Even your location is kept anonymous and aggregated to the neighborhood level.
