Aurora additional terms
you accept when you create your account and which apply to everything you do on the platform. They apply when you use Aurora. The Terms of Use continue to apply in full, including the sections on your account, acceptable use, patient and clinical information, our liability and the law that applies. Where these terms say something more specific about Aurora, they add to the Terms of Use; they do not replace them, and where the two conflict the Terms of Use take precedence.
You will be asked to accept these terms, and to read the Aurora privacy information, before you first use Aurora. If you do not agree, please do not use Aurora.
1. What Aurora is, and who can use it
Aurora is a free self-help tool that helps you complete:
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the NHS England Digital Technology Assessment Criteria (DTAC) form, version 2.0 (February 2026); and
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the NHS England template data protection impact assessment (DPIA) for health and care (March 2026 update).
Aurora provides question-by-question guidance, fictional example answers, and a Word document you can download.
Aurora is available to platform members we give access to. We may invite you to use it by email; if you do not yet have an account, you create one when you accept the invitation. We may change who can use Aurora at any time.
Aurora does not:
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assess, score, certify, approve or sign off your DTAC, your DPIA or your product;
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give legal, clinical safety, data protection, cyber security or other professional advice (see section 17 of the Terms of Use);
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guarantee that any organisation will accept your submission.
The organisation you submit to decides whether your submission meets its requirements. The controller of any processing described in a DPIA remains responsible for that DPIA. Where a question needs specialist input (for example clinical safety or penetration testing), you should obtain it.
Aurora is not endorsed by, affiliated with or approved by NHS England.
2. Official NHS content
Aurora reproduces question wording, answer options, supporting information, scoring criteria and guidance notes from the NHS England DTAC form and template DPIA. Contains information from NHS England, licensed under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
NHS England may update these forms. We aim to keep Aurora up to date, but you should check the current version on the NHS England website before you submit. Aurora's own plain-English guidance and example answers are written by us to help you. They are not official NHS England content. The example answers describe fictional organisations and products.
3. Your answers stay on your device
Aurora is designed so that we never receive the content of your forms. Your answers are stored only in your web browser and in any project file or document you download. This means:
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Keep your own copies. Use "Save project file" regularly. Clearing your browser data, using a private window, or changing device or browser can remove your answers from that browser. We cannot recover them.
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Take care on shared computers. Anyone using the same browser profile and platform account may be able to see your saved answers. Remove them from that browser when you have finished.
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You are responsible for what you enter, including its accuracy and completeness, and for having the right to include any information about other people (for example contacts or officers named in a form).
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Do not enter patient-identifiable information or clinical records in your forms. The DTAC and DPIA describe your product and your processing; they do not need information about individual patients. This is in line with section 8 of the Terms of Use.
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You choose, label and send any evidence documents to the organisation you are submitting to. Aurora never uploads or stores them.
4. Aurora's content
Aurora's software, design, and our own guidance and example text belong to us or our licensors. You may use them to complete your own organisation's forms. You must not copy, resell or redistribute them, except as the law allows or with our written permission. NHS England content is used under the Open Government Licence as described in section 2.
Your answers and the documents you create belong to you or your organisation. We claim no rights in them, and the licence in section 9 of the Terms of Use (content you post) does not apply to them, because you never post them to us.
5. Beta, availability and changes
Aurora is at an early (beta) stage and may change. We may update, suspend or withdraw Aurora or any part of it, as section 2 of the Terms of Use allows, and section 13 (availability) applies to Aurora. Because your answers stay on your device and in your project files, they are not affected if Aurora changes or closes.
6. Our responsibility for documents you produce
Section 15 of the Terms of Use (our liability) applies to Aurora. In addition, because Aurora is a free self-help tool:
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we are not responsible for decisions made by you or by any other organisation based on documents produced with Aurora, including the outcome of any assessment, procurement or approval;
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we are not responsible for loss of answers stored in your browser or project files, or for the contents of forms you complete.
Nothing in these terms limits our liability where the law does not allow it to be limited. If you use Aurora as a consumer, your statutory rights are not affected.
7. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms, for example to reflect changes to Aurora or the law. If a change is significant, we will ask you to accept the new version before you next use Aurora.
8. Contact
Questions about these terms: community.management@outtherehealthtech.com. Support is for technical problems with the