<div class="tab-content-content">The GuideSafe™ Exposure Notification app is a tool that allows users to anonymously share a positive COVID-19 test result and be notified of their own possible exposure to someone who later reports a positive COVID-19 test result. The app is designed to protect users' privacy while giving them the power to protect their health, their family's, and their community's. To use the app, users need to download it and enable Bluetooth. If they test positive for COVID-19, they can choose to report it, and those who may have been in close contact with them in the last 14 days will be notified they were near someone with a positive test, but they won't know who or where.</div><div class="tab-content-content"></div><div class="tab-content-content">Stopping the spread of COVID-19 is essential to helping communities, schools, and businesses reopen and stay open. The more people who use the GuideSafe™ Exposure Notification app, the better the ability to notify those who have been exposed. When someone tests positive for COVID-19, contact tracers with the Alabama Department of Public Health will help notify those the person has been near, but they won't know every person's close contacts. The app allows for a more comprehensive notification system that can help stop the spread of the virus.</div><div class="tab-content-content"></div><div class="tab-content-content">The GuideSafe™ Exposure Notification app works by exchanging encrypted, anonymous codes via low-energy Bluetooth when users are within about six feet of others. If someone tests positive for COVID-19, those with whom they came in close contact will get an anonymous notification that they were exposed. The notification they get is completely anonymous, and they will not know who tested positive, the time, or the location, only the date of the possible exposure. The app was developed by the Alabama Department of Public Health in cooperation with the University of Alabama at Birmingham and MotionMobs, using technology from a collaboration between Apple and Google. Users of the app exchange anonymous codes among their phones using Bluetooth, and no location data is ever stored or exchanged, and personal information is never shared. </div>