SoCo Covid-10 Check App FAQ

The app was spearheaded by the Department of Health Services Executive Team (see biographies listed below) and developed in partnership with IBM.

All data will be stored on a Sonoma County tenant in IBM’s secure public cloud for businesses. The information will be deleted every 45 days and will only be accessible to the Department’s epidemiology and research staff in the Sonoma County Department of Health Services. None of the information will be shared for commercial purposes. Our only goal is to keep Sonoma County as safe as possible.

No. All information is anonymous, and no personally identifiable questions are asked on the survey.

No. SoCo COVID-19 check does not have access to any phone’s location services. Therefore, it cannot track any users.

Currently that feature is not available on this app. However, the symptom list available is based on the most current information from guidance from the United States Centers for Disease Control and the California Department of Public Health.

Any employees without a smart phone may have SoCo COVID-19 self-assessment completed by their employer on the employer version of the App which contains the employee self-check questions.