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204 lines
14 KiB
JSON
{
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"operator": "RanaZe",
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"contactEmail": "[email protected]",
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"terms": {
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"title": "Terms of Service",
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"version": "2026-07-20",
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"effectiveDate": "July 20, 2026",
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"summary": "These terms govern your use of RanaZe: Step 3 Trainer.",
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"sections": [
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{
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"heading": "1. Agreement to these Terms",
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"paragraphs": [
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"By creating an account, accepting these Terms, or using RanaZe: Step 3 Trainer, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not create an account or use the service.",
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"RanaZe may provide the service through a web application, a standalone application, Steam, or other supported platforms. These Terms apply to each version."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "2. Educational use only",
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"paragraphs": [
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"RanaZe is an educational study tool. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, clinical supervision, professional certification, or a guarantee of examination performance.",
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"Do not use RanaZe to make decisions about an actual patient or medical emergency. Always use qualified clinical judgment, current authoritative sources, and applicable institutional policies.",
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"RanaZe is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the USMLE, NBME, FSMB, or any medical licensing authority."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "3. Accounts and security",
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"paragraphs": [
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"You must provide accurate account information and keep your credentials secure. You are responsible for activity performed through your account until you notify RanaZe of unauthorized access.",
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"Steam authentication may link a verified Steam identifier to your RanaZe account. Your use of Steam remains subject to Valve's terms and privacy practices.",
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"The service is not directed to children under 13."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "4. Acceptable use",
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"paragraphs": [
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"You may use RanaZe for personal educational purposes. You may not disrupt the service, bypass access controls, probe for vulnerabilities without written authorization, automate abusive requests, impersonate another person, or use the service unlawfully.",
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"Do not submit real patient names, medical record numbers, contact information, or other identifiable patient information in notes, reports, or feedback."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "5. Content and intellectual property",
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"paragraphs": [
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"RanaZe and its licensors retain ownership of the application, question bank, CCS cases, explanations, branding, software, and other service content. These Terms grant you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable right to use the service for personal study.",
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"You may not reproduce, scrape, sell, publish, redistribute, or create a competing question bank from RanaZe content except as permitted by law or written permission."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "6. Your notes and feedback",
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"paragraphs": [
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"You retain ownership of text you enter as private notes. You grant RanaZe permission to store and process that text solely to provide and maintain the service.",
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"If you submit feedback, bug reports, or content reports, you permit RanaZe to use them without restriction or compensation to review content and improve the service."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "7. Third-party services",
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"paragraphs": [
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"RanaZe may rely on third parties such as Steam, Stripe, Cloudflare, and infrastructure providers. Their services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. RanaZe is not responsible for third-party services outside its control."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "8. Voluntary contributions",
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"paragraphs": [
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"Contributions are voluntary, one-time payments that support development. They do not purchase medical services, examination results, ownership rights, or guaranteed service availability, and they are not represented as tax-deductible charitable donations.",
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"Payments are processed by Stripe. Contributions are generally final and nonrefundable except where required by law or when RanaZe approves correction of a duplicate or erroneous charge. Contact [email protected] for payment issues."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "9. Availability, changes, and termination",
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"paragraphs": [
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"The service is currently pre-alpha and may contain errors, incomplete content, interruptions, or material changes. RanaZe may modify, suspend, or discontinue features at any time.",
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"RanaZe may restrict or terminate access for violations of these Terms, security risks, abuse, or legal requirements. You may stop using the service and may request account deletion through the application."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "10. Disclaimers",
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"paragraphs": [
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"To the maximum extent permitted by law, the service is provided as is and as available without warranties of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, noninfringement, availability, or examination success.",
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"Medical knowledge and testing standards change. Explanations and references may become outdated, and you are responsible for verifying information against current authoritative sources."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "11. Limitation of liability",
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"paragraphs": [
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"To the maximum extent permitted by law, RanaZe will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, loss of data, lost opportunities, examination outcomes, or clinical decisions arising from use of the service.",
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"Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "12. Disputes and applicable law",
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"paragraphs": [
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"Before filing a claim, contact [email protected] and allow a reasonable opportunity to resolve the issue informally. Any unresolved dispute may be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction. These Terms do not require arbitration or waive participation in a class action.",
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"Applicable law will be determined under ordinary conflict-of-law rules; these Terms do not designate a particular state or country as the exclusive venue."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "13. Changes and contact",
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"paragraphs": [
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"RanaZe may update these Terms. When a material update requires renewed agreement, the application will show the new version before continued use.",
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"Questions about these Terms may be sent to [email protected]."
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]
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}
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]
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},
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"privacy": {
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"title": "Privacy Policy",
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"version": "2026-07-20",
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"effectiveDate": "July 20, 2026",
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"summary": "This policy explains how RanaZe collects, uses, shares, retains, and deletes information.",
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"sections": [
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{
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"heading": "1. Scope",
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"paragraphs": [
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"This Privacy Policy applies to RanaZe: Step 3 Trainer on the web, in standalone applications, through Steam, and through related RanaZe APIs and support channels.",
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"RanaZe is an educational service and is not a health care provider or health plan. Information entered for studying is not intended to create a patient-provider relationship or a HIPAA-regulated medical record."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "2. Information you provide",
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"paragraphs": [
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"Account information may include username, email address, display name, a securely hashed password, and a linked Steam identifier.",
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"Study information may include question and CCS responses, timing, scores, ratings, simulations, bookmarks, private notes, study goals, target exam date, preparation preferences, and optional official Step 3 score and exam date submitted for calibration.",
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"Communications may include question reports, CCS reports, feedback, bug reports, and support messages. Do not include identifiable patient information.",
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"Contribution records may include amount, currency, status, timestamps, and Stripe transaction identifiers. Payment card details and billing information are entered directly with Stripe and are not stored by RanaZe."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "3. Information collected automatically",
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"paragraphs": [
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"RanaZe services receive ordinary network and operational information such as IP address, request time, requested endpoint, error and security events, and basic browser or device information available in server logs.",
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"The application stores functional session tokens and preferences, such as theme and temporary redirect state, on your device. RanaZe does not currently use advertising cookies or third-party analytics SDKs."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "4. How information is used",
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"paragraphs": [
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"RanaZe uses information to authenticate accounts; provide questions, cases, simulations, notes, review queues, progress statistics, and score estimates; process contributions; respond to reports; secure and troubleshoot the service; and improve educational content.",
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"Optional official examination outcomes are used only when you separately consent to de-identified score-prediction calibration. You may edit or remove that outcome through your profile."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "5. How information is shared",
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"paragraphs": [
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"Information may be processed by service providers that support hosting, networking, security, authentication, payment processing, and application delivery. These currently include Cloudflare, Stripe, Valve/Steam, and infrastructure providers used to operate RanaZe.",
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"RanaZe may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect users or the service, investigate abuse or fraud, or complete a business transfer. RanaZe does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "6. Stripe and Steam",
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"paragraphs": [
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"Stripe independently collects and processes payment and billing information under its privacy policy. RanaZe receives payment status and transaction identifiers needed for reconciliation, support, fraud prevention, and accounting.",
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"When you use Steam sign-in, Valve verifies your identity and returns a Steam identifier that RanaZe links to your account. RanaZe does not receive your Steam password."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "7. Storage, cookies, and tracking choices",
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"paragraphs": [
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"RanaZe uses local device storage for authentication, interface preferences, and short-lived redirect coordination. These mechanisms are necessary to provide requested features.",
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"Because RanaZe does not currently perform cross-site behavioral tracking, browser Do Not Track signals do not change service behavior. If analytics or advertising practices change, this policy and any required consent controls will be updated first."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "8. Retention and deletion",
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"paragraphs": [
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"Account and study information is generally retained while your account is active or as needed to provide the service. You may export study data and request account deletion from your profile.",
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"Account deletion removes the authentication account, legal-acceptance history, and user-linked study records. RanaZe may retain limited contribution records, security logs, and deletion-integrity records when reasonably necessary for accounting, fraud prevention, legal obligations, dispute resolution, or preventing deleted credentials from remaining active.",
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"Aggregated or de-identified statistics that no longer identify you may remain after account deletion. Backups and operational logs may expire on their normal rotation rather than being removed immediately."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "9. Your choices and rights",
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"paragraphs": [
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"You can review or update profile information, export user-linked study data, delete optional examination outcomes, and request permanent account deletion through the application.",
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"You may contact [email protected] to ask about access, correction, deletion, or other privacy rights. RanaZe may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Rights vary by location."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "10. Security",
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"paragraphs": [
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"RanaZe uses measures intended to protect information, including encrypted network transport, password hashing, access controls, short-lived access tokens, and restricted service credentials. No storage or transmission system can be guaranteed completely secure."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "11. Children",
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"paragraphs": [
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"RanaZe is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child under 13 submitted information, contact [email protected] so RanaZe can investigate and remove it as appropriate."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "12. International access",
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"paragraphs": [
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"If you access RanaZe from outside the location where its systems are operated, information may be transferred to and processed in another country whose data-protection laws differ from yours."
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]
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},
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{
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"heading": "13. Policy changes and contact",
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"paragraphs": [
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"RanaZe may update this policy as the service changes. The application will present material version changes for acknowledgment before continued use when appropriate.",
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"Privacy questions and requests may be sent to [email protected]."
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]
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}
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]
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}
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}
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