VibeEating ("we", "our", or "the App") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile application.
Summary: We collect only what's needed to analyze food ingredients for you. We don't sell your data. You can delete your data at any time.
1. Information We Collect
Information you provide:
Food label photos — Images of ingredient lists and nutrition facts that you scan. These are processed for text extraction and then stored on our servers.
Health profile — Allergies, dietary preferences, health conditions, and dietary goals you optionally provide to personalize your analysis.
Account information — If you sign in, your user ID and display name from your authentication provider.
Information collected automatically:
Device identifier — A unique device ID used to associate your scans and free-tier quota with your device.
Usage data — Scan history, timestamps, and basic app usage analytics.
2. How We Use Your Information
Ingredient analysis — We send your food label photos to Google Cloud Vision API for text extraction (OCR), then to AI models for health analysis.
Personalized insights — Your health profile is used to provide tailored allergen warnings, health risk assessments, and dietary recommendations.
Service improvement — Aggregated, anonymized usage data helps us improve the accuracy and quality of our analysis.
Subscription management — To manage your subscription status and scan quotas.
3. Third-Party Services
We use the following third-party services to provide our functionality:
Google Cloud Vision API — For optical character recognition (OCR) of food label images. Google's privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy
Google Gemini AI — For ingredient analysis (free tier).
Google Play Billing — For processing subscription payments. We do not store your payment information.
Firebase — For authentication and analytics.
4. Data Storage and Security
Your data is stored on secure servers with encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS).
Food label images are stored on our servers to enable scan history review.
We retain your data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide our services.
We implement industry-standard security measures to protect against unauthorized access.
5. Data Sharing
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties.
We only share data with the third-party service providers listed above, solely for the purpose of providing our services. We may disclose information if required by law.
6. Your Rights
You have the right to:
Access your data — View your scan history and health profile within the app.
Export your data — Request a copy of your data through the app.
Delete your data — Clear your scan history or request complete account deletion by contacting us.
Modify your profile — Update or remove your health profile information at any time.
7. Children's Privacy
VibeEating is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have collected such information, please contact us.
8. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.
9. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact us at: