Effective: October 14, 2026
RxWatch is built so that what you look up and what medicines you keep an eye on stay on your phone.
What we collect: nothing. RxWatch has no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics and no advertising, and it does not track you. We do not receive your searches, your medicines, your lot numbers, your notes or your photos.
What stays on your phone: the medicines you add, their lot numbers and notes, and the alerts that match them. Photos you take or choose are read on your phone to find the text on a label and are not saved or sent anywhere.
Backups: RxWatch does not back up your list anywhere and does not use an iCloud container. Like the data of any app on your iPhone, it is included in a backup of your whole phone if you make one with iCloud Backup or your computer. That backup belongs to you and your Apple account, and we cannot see it. Deleting RxWatch deletes your list from the phone.
What the app downloads: public information about medicines and the plants that make them, from files we publish on Microsoft Azure. The files are the same for everyone. Requesting a file necessarily shows your device's IP address to the server, as with any website; we have turned server logging off and do not link requests to you or keep them.
Notifications: if you allow them, RxWatch tells you on your phone when a public FDA change concerns a medicine on your list. The matching is done on your phone.
If we add iCloud sync: your list would sync through your own iCloud account, which we cannot read. We will update this policy before that happens.
Not medical advice: RxWatch reports what public records say. It does not say whether a medicine is right for you. Talk to your prescriber or pharmacist.
Sources: FDA, the National Library of Medicine (DailyMed), openFDA, and ProPublica's Rx Inspector data (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). RxWatch is not endorsed by any of them.
Contact: InterGuide Communications, Inc., info@interguide.com