To optimize your onboarding experience, schedule time to complete the app download, photo scan, and health questionnaire in your Shae app all at the same time.

There’s nothing more you need to do! If you have the app, and you see the locked screen, you are set. The Locked screen is where you should be until Day 1 of your Challenge begins!

Download your App. Create your Personalized Profile. And put your profile into practice with friendly tips from Shae for 90 days! You are gaining access to personalized health insights unlike anything you have seen before. Make a full-on commitment to your own health for 30 Days by following the insights on your profile and Shae app; track results as your go; and hop on the calls for clarity, inspiration, and connection.

And watch your stress, confusion, and overwhelm melt away as you learn what is best for your unique body, and begin to FEEL the results – sometimes almost immediately!

The photo scan is used to create your unique avatar. ShaeWellness technology uses how you look on the outside to understand your health on the inside, and then guides and supports your daily lifestyle and health needs. Challengers can set up their profiles at home or in a private space as preferred. ShaeWellness then crunches over 10,000 data points from your unique avatar to personalize suggestions for sleep, stress, mood, food, activity and overall health. ShaeWellness recommends updating your photo at the start, middle and end of the experience for the most current advice and to track your progress. If preferred, participants can have the option to use a tape measure instead of taking their photo to create their avatar.

Everything you can see, measure (except DNA) and test on your body is categorized as part of your phenotype. The photo is used to create your profile. It allows the ShaeWellness Ai technology to measure the body. While this may seem too simple to gain so much insight, there are more than 500 ratios and over 10,000 data points that create a single profile. This includes the calculation of specific genes from the phenotype data. For example, height is related to over 1500 genes, and you can predict height to within 2.5cm based on genes alone. Therefore, the measure of height can translate to the activation of certain genes.

This Shae™ app onboarding question is referencing your genetic sex chromosomes of XX for female; and XY for male at birth. This genetic chromosome sequence determines different organ formations and hormonal functions and flows in the human body from a medical and scientific standpoint. This question is not referring to gender identity, which is outside of this scope. Because Shae focuses on the unique genetic and epigenetic makeup of a person, Shae needs to know each user’s biology at birth to provide the most relevant advice to an individual.

ShaeWellness tracks data over time and makes recommendations to help improve an individual’s mental health including their risks of stress, anxiety or depression. Should a participant sense they require further or specialized mental health support, they should seek support from their EAP or personal health professionals. It is important that you access support through any available avenues, to ensure that your health and wellbeing is supported as best as possible.

ShaeWellness is the only Mental Wellbeing & Physical Health epigenetic corporate solution delivering 360 degrees of lifestyle support at work and at home. Informed by over 15 medical and health sciences, the platform delivers an integrated and user-centric physical, mental, emotional, social, and environmental health profile, delivered via a mobile-friendly app. The medically-endorsed, scientifically-validated, evidenced-based ShaeWellness technology and accompanying educational modules use advanced epigenetic analysis and AI technology to assess and deliver unique user insights and relays customized behaviour change support to each individual user. ShaeWellness technology is currently being used in over 120 countries by medical experts, corporate clients, and corporate wellness practitioners alike.

Your DNA is your virtually unchanging blueprint. It holds the information on how to create every reaction and response within your body. Genes are small segments of the DNA that code for the specific production of molecules, that when produced, create a change in the body, which is called a change in phenotype. The science of epigenetics is the study of the activity ‘on’ or ‘outside of’ genes. Epigenetics explains the external modifications that lead to an activation or deactivation of a gene. Your phenotype is the end result of all the different gene activations that have occurred during your life. Genes activate based on the environment around the body. The body responds to the environment, i.e. any given change in the environment will create a gene or genes to activate in order to help the body adjust and survive based on the new information it has received about the environment. In short, your behaviours and environment – such as diet, exercise, sleep, where you spend your time, social activity – can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.

You will need a smartphone to access the ShaeWellness app, Shae, an internet browser to view the video calls, and video call capacity for your session with a Health Professional (audio calls also available).

The more time you put in, the more benefits you see! The program is designed to be tailor-made for every individual, so the ‘time commitment’ is really about incorporating new or adjusted habits and activities into your daily routine, as suggested by your profile.

Sessions will be recorded and links made available to catch up on if it’s not possible to attend at a pre-scheduled time.

Personal privacy, data security,  and confidentiality is a top priority at ShaeWellness. ShaeWellness will be asking for certain information in order to create your profile and unique avatar. You will be asked to take two full-length photos of yourself, one front on and one side profile. You will also complete a questionnaire about your family history, health, your lifestyle and environment. This is information provided to ShaeWellness and no one else has access to this data. In order to be able to participate in the program you will be required to accept the ShaeWellness privacy policy. For more information on how ShaeWellness handles your personal information, you may wish to read its Privacy Policy, available here.

All photos that are taken on your device and stored locally get deleted when you remove the app from your phone.

ShaeWellness operate a highly secure system and are approved by some of the most secure financial and tech companies in the world. Secure storage and data handling processes are applied to all data. All data is stored within secure AWS Cloud Services. As part of Shae’s Information Classification Standard, controls are defined and identity access management procedures are in place to prevent unauthorized access to data as per the International Organization for Standardization (ISO27001) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). ShaeWellness authorized staff are the only authorized persons who will have access to any personal data.

All data gathered by ShaeWellness is used for analyses within Shae’s ecosystem for the purpose of calculating and providing user recommendations and improving the user’s experience. There are no external providers that will have access to any personally identifiable data, external to Shae’s system. Non-personally identifiable information (i.e. data that cannot be traced back to an individual by an external provider) is exchanged with third parties for tracking app usage and activities such as crashes, bugs or click rates however no user data besides a non-identifiable ID is used in communication with third party analytics providers. If a participant chooses to connect their Apple Health or Google Fit app to activate the ‘Wearables’ feature inside the Shae app, then the participant is choosing to share additional information into Shae (this is a one-way authorization, and Shae does not share any data with Apple or Google Fit). In order to be able to participate in the Immersion, you will be required to accept the ShaeWellness privacy policy. For more information on how ShaeWellness handles your personal information, you may wish to read its Privacy Policy, available here.

You will have access to your own personal profile created inside the app via photo scans, surveys or wearables, as well as insights generated by ShaeWellness. This will be accessible inside each person’s mobile application.

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