Summary
- We collect what the app needs to track your food, activity and progress, and we use it only to run the app for you.
- We do not sell your data, show ads, or use your health data for marketing.
- Meal photos, label photos and meal descriptions are sent to OpenAI to estimate nutrition. Barcode numbers are looked up in Open Food Facts.
- Groups only see what you choose to share. Progress photos are never shared.
- You can delete your account and all of its data in the app at any time: Me → Delete account.
Who we are
Calories Tracker AI (shown on your phone as “Calorie AI”) is provided by Bravarb Technology LLC (“we”, “us”). This policy covers the iOS and Android apps, our servers, and the calorie-app.com website.
Information we collect
Your account
Your email address, and your name if you sign in with Google or Apple. Sign-in is handled by Google Firebase Authentication; we never see your Google or Apple password.
Your profile and goals
Sex, birth year, height, weight, goal, pace or target date, activity level, units, and your optional plans (fasting, water, macro and meal split). These are used to work out your daily calorie budget.
What you log
Foods and meals, water, exercise, fasts, weight, body measurements such as waist and body fat, and badges and streaks. This is stored in your account so it syncs between your devices.
Photos
- Meal photos are sent to our AI provider to identify the food, and are kept with the dish in your account so you can see them later.
- Nutrition label photos are sent to our AI provider to read the label. We do not keep them.
- Progress photos are stored privately in your account and are only visible to you.
- Photos in group posts are visible to the members of that group.
“Say what you ate”
When you speak, your phone's speech recognition (provided by Apple or Google, under their privacy policies) turns your words into text. We receive only that text, never the audio, and send it to our AI provider to estimate the meal.
Apple Health and Health Connect
Only if you turn on Settings → Apple Health (iPhone) or Settings → Health Connect (Android) and grant access, the app uses these health data types:
- Exercise sessions / workouts (read): the activity type, start and end time, to add your workouts to your exercise log and their calories to that day's calorie budget.
- Total calories burned / active energy (read): the calories of each imported workout.
- Steps (read): your daily step count, to credit calories from steps beyond your usual activity level.
- Weight (read and write): weigh-ins from other apps and scales keep your weight progress and calorie target current, and weights you enter in Calorie AI are saved back so your other apps see them.
The app reads at most the last 30 days, when you open it or tap Import now. Imported workouts, step totals and weights are stored in your Calorie AI account like the entries you log yourself, so they appear on your other devices. They are used only to provide these features to you. Health data is never used for advertising or marketing, never sold, never sent to our AI provider or used to train AI models, and never shared with third parties except as needed to store it for you (our cloud host, see Service providers) or as required by law. Our use of data received from Health Connect follows the Health Connect Permissions policy, including its Limited Use requirements.
You can disconnect at any time in the app's settings, in Apple Health or Health Connect, or in your phone's settings. To delete the health data already imported, delete those entries in the app, or use calorie-app.com/delete-account.html to delete your exercise or body data, or your whole account.
Groups
If you use groups: the name you show in groups, the groups you join, your posts, photos, comments and likes, and any reports or blocks you make. In public groups other members see your streak, badges and posts. In a private group you choose what to share, such as weight, calories, your plan or your dishes. Posts and comments are checked automatically for harmful content, and reported content is reviewed by us.
Purchases and invites
If you subscribe, we receive your subscription status and transaction identifiers from the App Store or Google Play to confirm it. We never receive your card or payment details. If you invite friends or use an invite code, we keep the code and who used it so both of you get your free AI scans. On Android, the Google Play install referrer is used to apply an invite code automatically.
Feedback and technical data
Feedback you send from the app is kept for up to one year. Our servers keep short-lived logs (such as the time of a request and any error) to keep the service secure and working. The app contains no advertising or third-party analytics SDKs and does not track you across other apps or websites.
How we use your information
- To provide the app: calculate your budget, store and sync your log, and show your progress.
- To estimate nutrition from your photos and descriptions.
- To run groups, including moderating posts and handling reports.
- To manage subscriptions, free scan allowances and invites.
- To send the reminders you turn on (these are scheduled on your phone).
- To keep the service secure, fix problems, and answer your requests.
Service providers
We share data only with the providers that run parts of the service for us:
- Amazon Web Services (United States): our servers, database and photo storage.
- Google Firebase: sign-in.
- OpenAI: meal photos, label photos and meal descriptions, to estimate nutrition; and group posts and comments, to check for harmful content. Under OpenAI's API terms this data is not used to train their models.
- Open Food Facts: the barcode number you scan, to look up the product. No personal information is sent.
- Apple and Google: sign-in, payments, speech recognition and Health, under their own privacy policies.
We do not sell or rent your personal information. We may disclose information if required by law, to protect the safety of our users or the public, or as part of a merger or acquisition, in which case this policy will continue to apply.
Keeping and deleting your data
We keep your data while your account exists. You can delete your account in the app under Me → Delete account. This removes your profile, log, photos, group memberships, posts and invite records from our servers, and deletes your sign-in. Without the app, use calorie-app.com/delete-account.html to delete your account, or only some of your data (your food log, exercise, body data and photos, fasts or group posts) while keeping the account. Copies in routine backups are overwritten over time. You can also email us to access, correct, export or delete your data.
Security
Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and access to it is restricted. Photos are stored privately and shown through short-lived links. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but we work to protect your information.
Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in Europe or the CCPA in California), you may have the right to access, correct, delete or receive a copy of your personal information, and to object to or restrict how it is used. Email us to exercise these rights; we will not treat you differently for doing so.
Children
The app is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we will delete it.
This website
calorie-app.com does not use cookies or analytics. It remembers your dark or light theme choice in your own browser only. Like any website, our hosting provider may log basic request information such as IP address.
Health information
Calorie estimates, budgets and suggestions in the app are for general information and are not medical advice. Talk to a doctor before making major changes to your diet or exercise.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. We will change the date at the top and, for significant changes, tell you in the app.
Contact us
Bravarb Technology LLC — admin@bravarb.com