Expect

Privacy Policy

Effective 17 August 2026 · Last updated 17 August 2026
Contents
  1. Who we are
  2. Scope, and how this relates to health-privacy law
  3. Information we collect
  4. How we use information
  5. Automated processing and AI
  6. How we share information
  7. What we do not do
  8. How long we keep information
  9. How we protect information
  10. Your choices and rights
  11. Children
  12. Telehealth
  13. Security incidents
  14. Changes
  15. Contact

1. Who we are

Expect Fitness, Inc. ("Expect," "we," "us") operates an AI-augmented pelvic floor physical therapy platform for adults located in Utah. This Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and protect information when you use our websites, the platform, and related services (the "Services").

Expect operates under a Regulatory Mitigation Agreement with the Utah Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy ("OAIP") — a state regulatory pilot. The current authorized pilot population is women aged 18 or older located in Utah.

This is a temporary offering. The agreement runs twelve months and either party may end it. The existence of the agreement does not constitute endorsement or approval of Expect by the OAIP or the State of Utah.

2. Scope, and how this relates to health-privacy law

The Services handle sensitive health information. Depending on the context in which information is created, received or maintained, federal or state health-privacy laws may apply, and where a more specific legally required privacy notice governs particular information, that notice supplements this Policy. We will provide any additional notice required by law.

This Policy does not use "protected health information" as a blanket description of everything we hold, because that term has a specific legal meaning that depends on facts we describe honestly here rather than assume.

Regardless of which statute applies, the commitments in section 7 govern our handling of your information for this pilot.

3. Information we collect

Information you provide

What we deliberately do not collect

We do not collect race or ethnicity, precise geolocation, biometric identifiers, or payment-card information. The application disables the browser geolocation feature entirely. There is no payment processing in the platform.

Cookies and technical information

We set one cookie — expect_session — which keeps you signed in. It is httpOnly, secure, and expires after twelve hours. We also keep an in-progress intake draft in your browser, with your name, contact details, date of birth and insurance ID removed before it is stored.

We use no advertising cookies, no analytics platform, and no tracking pixels.

We record IP address transiently for rate limiting and security, and if the application crashes we record the error, the page address and your browser type. We filter email addresses and long numbers out of those reports, but they are generated automatically and may incidentally contain information you entered.

Infrastructure providers that serve parts of our site may receive ordinary connection information such as IP address and browser type when their resources are requested.

Information from other sources

4. How we use information

We do not use your information for advertising.

5. Automated processing and AI

How your care plan is produced

Your care plan and its clinical codes are produced by a deterministic, rules-based system. Your questionnaire scores are compared against predetermined thresholds, and the resulting plan follows from those rules. The same inputs always produce the same outputs.

No patient information is sent to a large language model or any external generative-AI service for clinical decision-making.

If we activate a feature that uses generative AI, we will update this Policy and the applicable consent materials, and obtain any regulatory approval required, before making that feature available to you.

Human review, and the pilot phases

The pilot may operate in more than one phase. We are telling you about both now so that this disclosure remains accurate if the phase changes.

In every phase, a physical therapist reviews every patient at Week 8, and a therapist may modify, reject or add to any output at any time.

Automated screening of what you write

We automatically scan the free-text answers you write for language suggesting self-harm. If the system detects a match, it records a flag on your record and shows you crisis resources.

This scan does not alert a clinician in real time. Your Expect care team are physical therapists and are not an emergency mental-health service. If you are in crisis, call or text 988, or call 911.

6. How we share information

With your care team

Your information is available to the physical therapist responsible for your care. A treating therapist sees only patients assigned to them; supervisory and administrative access exists to operate and audit the Services.

With a clinician you identify

We use clinical fax to communicate with a physician or specialist you name. Depending on the purpose, this may include your encounter information, clinical codes, questionnaire scores, medications, care-plan and progress information, and a positive PHQ-2 depression screening result together with a recommendation for follow-up.

If clearance is required before a plan can be released, the request may include your name, date of birth and the specific clinical reason clearance is being requested.

With the Utah Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy

Participation in the pilot requires reporting to the OAIP. You should understand the scope of this:

With researchers

We may provide de-identified datasets to IRB-approved researchers under a data use agreement that prohibits re-identification and prohibits resale.

Service providers

ProviderFunction
ConvexPrimary database and record storage
VercelApplication hosting
SinchClinical fax
Amazon Web Services (SES)Email delivery
Amazon Web Services (SNS)SMS delivery
Google WorkspaceEmail received at our contact addresses
Google, Apple, MozillaBrowser push delivery (encrypted; they see delivery metadata only)
CMS NPI RegistryPublic provider-directory lookup (no health information sent)
CloudflareDelivery of application resources

Service providers may process information only for the functions for which we use them, subject to contractual, privacy and security requirements.

Other disclosures

We may disclose information where required by law or legal process, or where necessary and legally permitted to protect safety, rights or security. In a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, information may transfer subject to confidentiality and applicable law. We may also share information with your consent or at your direction.

7. What we do not do

8. How long we keep information

Where more than one requirement applies, we retain the record for the longer period. These are minimum retention periods, not a promise that every record is deleted the moment a period expires.

9. How we protect information

Expect is a signatory to the CISA Secure by Design pledge and aligns its security program to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. No method of electronic storage or transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. Your choices and rights

Access and a portable copy

You can view your care plan and records in your patient portal, and you can download a complete copy of your record in a portable format at any time.

Correction

You may ask us to correct information you believe is inaccurate, subject to clinical-record and legal requirements.

Withdrawal

You may withdraw from the pilot at any time, without penalty. No new data is collected after you withdraw. Information already collected may remain subject to clinical, safety and regulatory retention requirements.

Opting out of AI-assisted care

You may decline AI-assisted care at any time. If you do, we will stop the automated pathway and refer you to an in-person pelvic floor physical therapist in our Utah partner network. Expect does not offer a human-delivered version of this platform — the alternative is a referral to care elsewhere.

Communications

You may turn off SMS reminders in the app or reply STOP to any text message, and you may disable browser notifications at any time.

About deletion

Some clinical and regulatory records must be retained and therefore cannot be deleted during the required retention period — the same rule that applies at any clinic. Where a law applicable to you gives you a right to request deletion, we will honor it to the extent that right is not limited by record-retention, safety, regulatory or other legal obligations. You can always obtain a copy of your record, and you can always ask us to correct it.

Other rights

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under state privacy law. To make any privacy request, contact us at privacy@expect.care.

11. Children

The Services are for adults aged 18 and older. We verify date of birth at intake and block enrollment for anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect information from children.

12. Telehealth

The Services are delivered by telehealth to patients located in Utah, and you must confirm you are in Utah to use them — which is why we collect location information. Details of the treatment relationship, provider identity and licensure, and the limitations of telehealth are addressed in your informed consent materials rather than in this Policy.

13. Security incidents

If we discover a security incident involving information covered by a breach-notification law, we will provide the notices that law requires. Depending on the circumstances this may include federal health-privacy or health-breach rules, state breach-notification law, and obligations under the Regulatory Mitigation Agreement.

The Agreement separately requires us to report suspected data leaks, unauthorized access, and re-identification of data treated as de-identified to the OAIP within the time it specifies.

14. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy as the Services, the law, or our regulatory obligations change. We will post the updated version with a new date and, where required, provide additional notice or obtain renewed consent.

We will not activate Phase 2 or a generative-AI patient feature without completing the regulatory, legal and disclosure steps required for that change.

15. Contact

Expect Fitness, Inc.
Privacy Officer: Joseph Pacheco
privacy@expect.care

You may raise concerns about this pilot directly with the Utah Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy, without going through us:
ai@utah.gov

You do not need our permission or involvement to contact the Office, and we do not receive a copy of what you send.