UK GDPR compliance for a health app
UK General Data Protection Regulation. This page applies it to one kind of product (health app), so you get the obligations that are actually yours instead of a summary of the whole statute.
Does it apply to you?
Organisations processing personal data of people in the UK.
What a health app typically processes
- health and wellbeing data, which is sensitive in most jurisdictions
- explicit consent as the usual lawful basis
- data shared with practitioners or providers
Each of these is processing you have to disclose. Adding an SDK later adds to this list — which is why a policy written once goes stale.
Documents you need
The intersection of what UK GDPR requires and what a health app actually does:
- Privacy policy
- Data processing agreement (DPA)
Rights you must honour
UK GDPR gives people in the United Kingdom the right to:
- Access a copy of their data
- Correct inaccurate data
- Have their data deleted
- Receive their data in a portable format
- Object to certain processing
- Restrict processing
- Withdraw consent at any time
- Ask for human review of an automated decision
Cookies and trackers
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Primary sources
- UK GDPR — UK General Data Protection Regulation · official text · Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
- Art. 13 — Information to provide when collecting data
- Art. 15–22 — Data subject rights
- Art. 28 — Processor contracts (DPA)
UK GDPR for other kinds of product
Other frameworks for a health app
This page is an engineering summary of publicly available regulatory requirements, generated from LexVibe's framework registry — not legal advice. Every framework links to its official text so you can check it yourself. For decisions about your own compliance posture, consult the primary sources and a lawyer qualified in the relevant jurisdiction.