A clear choice about what you share.
FlareScan is a research prototype. No account is needed. AI analysis is required to generate a result; the photo is optional.
What stays in your browser
Your current answers and optional photo stay in page memory unless you explicitly choose “Save answers on this browser” after a result. That action stores up to three check-ins in local browser storage, without photos or AI outputs. This is not encrypted account storage; anyone using this browser profile may be able to read it. No account or app database is used for this history. “Delete saved check-ins” removes the stored copies; starting a fresh snapshot does not delete saved history. Copies you print or save elsewhere remain wherever you saved them.
Starting a quick check-in reuses your prior answers only after you confirm them. Submitting sends up to three included previous check-ins along with current answers to Anthropic. Earlier photos are never reused. Saved entries are not automatically used for model training.
When you request your result
When you choose “Create AI snapshot”, your answers travel through the FlareScan server to Anthropic for a specialized skin-and-lifestyle review. The AI assigns a lifestyle-pattern score and explains each factor. Editing and resubmitting sends the updated assessment again. If you add a photo, you must permit its analysis or remove it before submitting. The resized image is independently reviewed for clarity and coarse visible features, then those observations are considered with your answers. A photo cannot establish lifestyle causation or measure inflammation.
FlareScan does not intentionally log assessment bodies. Hosting infrastructure and the AI provider may process or retain information under their own policies; clearing this page does not delete provider or infrastructure records. Avoid names, contact details, identifying photos, or information you do not want to send. Anthropic’s published API policy generally deletes inputs and outputs within 30 days, with exceptions for policy enforcement, legal obligations, or different agreements. This deployment has not established a zero-retention agreement.
Read Anthropic’s API retention policy
Your control
Nothing is sent to AI before you request a review. You can omit the photo, edit your answers, or start a fresh snapshot. “None” and “not sure” are accepted answers. Cancelling a review does not undo data already transmitted. No assessment is automatically sent to a clinician. This flow does not use advertising tracking.
Visitor analytics
FlareScan uses Vercel Web Analytics to count visits and page views and understand referral sources, approximate visitor countries, and browser and device types. It does not use analytics cookies. Analytics is limited to the home, about, and privacy pages; page URL query strings and fragments are removed before sending. We do not send your survey answers, photos, scores, saved check-ins, or generated analysis to analytics, and we do not record individual survey actions.
Read about Vercel Web Analytics privacy
What the result means
The AI-assigned 0–100 score describes reported lifestyle patterns worth investigating using an experimental app-defined rubric. It is not a validated clinical scale, an inflammation measurement or a percentage caused by lifestyle. The AI uses specialized instructions and selected reference material; no custom model weights have been trained. It cannot establish a diagnosis or proven trigger. Continue care agreed with your clinician.
Support & privacy questions
Contact yashdnair@gmail.com for app issues or privacy questions. Do not email skin photos, medical records, or other sensitive health details. This inbox is not a medical service or an emergency contact.
Technical failure logs contain the response status and request duration, not your answers, photos, or generated analysis.
LAST UPDATED NOVEMBER 7, 2026