What We Collect
When you use Calorie Counter, we collect:
- Account information: Email address and name from your Google or Apple sign-in.
- Food photos: Images you take for calorie analysis. Stored temporarily (7 days) then automatically deleted.
- Meal data: Food names, calorie counts, macros, portion sizes, and meal times you log.
- Profile data: Daily calorie goal, weight log entries, macro targets, streak information, and an optional dietary preference (e.g. vegetarian/vegan) if you choose to set one.
- Device & region information: Device language preference and your app-store country/region, used to improve food recognition (e.g. local dish names). This is derived from your device/store settings — we do not collect GPS location.
- Advertising identifier: For free users, an advertising ID is used by Google AdMob to show rewarded ads. Premium (ad-free) users are not shown ads.
- Diagnostic data: Crash reports and error logs (via Sentry) to help us fix bugs.
How We Use Your Data
- To analyse food photos and estimate calories using AI. Photos are processed by Google Gemini and/or Amazon Bedrock (Anthropic Claude); AWS Rekognition is used as a fallback.
- To display your meal history, progress charts, and daily summaries.
- To send you optional meal reminders and daily summary notifications (only if you enable them).
- To maintain your streak and achievement progress.
- To show rewarded ads to free users (via Google AdMob) and to detect crashes/errors (via Sentry).
Where Your Data is Stored
Your account and meal data is stored securely on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the US East (Virginia) region. Food photos are stored in AWS S3 and automatically deleted after 7 days; account and meal data is stored in AWS DynamoDB. When a photo is analysed, it is transmitted to our AI providers (Google Gemini and/or Amazon Bedrock) for processing; Google may process data on its own global infrastructure. We do not retain your photo at those providers beyond what is needed to return the analysis.
Third-Party Services
When you take a food photo, the image is sent to one of the AI providers below for analysis. We send the image and, to improve accuracy, your region and any dietary preference — we do not send your name or email with the image.
- AWS Cognito: Authentication (Google/Apple sign-in).
- Google Gemini (Google AI): AI food photo analysis (primary for free users).
- Amazon Bedrock (Anthropic Claude): AI food photo analysis (primary for premium users; also a fallback for free).
- AWS Rekognition: Food image detection (fallback only, if AI analysis is unavailable).
- Google AdMob: Serves rewarded ads to free users; uses an advertising identifier. Not used for premium (ad-free) users.
- Sentry: Crash and error reporting to help us fix bugs.
- USDA FoodData Central: Nutritional database lookups.
- Open Food Facts: Barcode product lookups.
Data Sharing
We do not sell or trade your personal data. Your data is only shared with the service providers listed above to make the app work (for example, sending your food photo to an AI provider for analysis, or an advertising identifier to AdMob to show ads to free users). Each provider processes data under its own privacy policy.
Data Retention
- Food photos: Automatically deleted after 7 days.
- Meal history and profile: Retained as long as your account exists.
- Account deletion: You can permanently delete your account and all associated data at any time from within the app (Profile → Delete Account), or by contacting us. Deletion removes your profile, meals, and photos, and cannot be undone.
Your Rights
You can:
- Delete your entire account and all associated data at any time from within the app (Profile → Delete Account).
- Delete individual meals from your history at any time.
- Sign out to remove cached data from your device.
- Request full account and data deletion by contacting us.
Children's Privacy
Calorie Counter is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated date.
Contact
For questions about this privacy policy or to request data deletion, contact us at: chemaha@gmail.com