Calorika privacy policy

Last updated: 29 October 2026

This page describes what data the Calorika app receives, why it is needed, and how you can control it. The app is made by the Calorika team, called "we" below. The rules for using the app are set out in the terms of use.

We do not sell your data, do not share it for advertising, and do not track you in other apps or on websites. We use food photos for recognition and keep them on our servers for 30 days so that they open on your other device. Diary entries are kept for as long as the account exists. You can delete your account and data in the app profile.

1. What data we receive

You provide

At sign-in: the identifier of your Apple or Google account and its email address. We do not store the address itself. We store its fingerprint, from which the address cannot be read: with it, signing in with Apple and signing in with Google under the same email open one account.
In the profile: name, username, photo.
In the questionnaire: sex, date of birth, height, weight, goal, pace and activity level.
In the diary: dishes and products with photos, portions, calories and nutrients, water, weight, streak.
For recognition: photos of food and labels, text descriptions of dishes, barcodes.
In messages to support: what you write to us and the photos you attach.
In “Suggest an idea”: the text of the idea, the “Suggest anonymously” mark, your likes and your reports on other people’s ideas.

From Apple Health, if you allow access

You grant access in the Apple Health system sheet and choose the categories there yourself. The app reads your sex, date of birth, height, weight and active energy: they are needed to fill in the questionnaire and to add the calories you burn to your daily target. If you allowed writing, the app saves the calories and nutrients of the meals in your diary and the water you drink to Apple Health. When you delete an entry from the diary, the app deletes it from Apple Health too. You can revoke access in iPhone settings: Health, Data Access & Devices.

We do not use Apple Health data for advertising, do not sell it, do not share it with third parties, and do not send it to artificial intelligence models.

Automatically

About the device: model, iOS and app versions, phone language and app language, appearance, the country of your App Store.
About usage: when you opened the app and how long you spent in it, which screens you opened and which actions you took, errors and crashes.
About recognition: request type, result, and your corrections.

Our server sees the app version and the phone language in every request the app makes. The app sends the model, iOS version, app language, appearance, App Store country, time in the app, the screens you opened and the actions you took as separate reports. The report about screens and actions holds only their names from the app's own list: what you ate, how much you weigh and what you typed never get into it. We take the country from the App Store and do not work it out from the network address.

We do not collect the advertising identifier, precise location, contacts, or photos from your library that you did not choose yourself.

About purchases

Apple tells us whether your subscription is active. We do not receive your card details.

2. Food recognition with artificial intelligence

When you take a photo of a dish or a label, or describe food in text, the photo or the text goes to our server. There it is processed with artificial intelligence technologies, including with the help of our service providers. In return the app receives an estimate of composition and calories.

Your name, questionnaire data and Apple Health data are not sent with the photo.
The photo is stored on our servers for 30 days from the day of the entry so that it opens on your other device. Then we delete it, and the diary entry stays (section 6).
Service providers process photos only on our instructions. They may not use them for their own purposes.
Our team can view your photos and diary entries when it answers your request or checks how well recognition works.

A product barcode is sent to product reference databases to find the name and composition. A barcode holds no information about you.

3. Why we need data

Purpose	Data	Legal basis
Sign-in and account	Sign-in and profile data	Performance of a contract
Targets, diary, statistics	Questionnaire, diary, Apple Health	Performance of a contract; your consent for health data
Food recognition	Photos, descriptions, barcodes	Performance of a contract
Subscription	Purchase status	Performance of a contract
Fixing errors and improving the app	Device, usage, recognition	Legitimate interest
Audience statistics: people's sex, age and goals, how many dishes and how much water they log	Questionnaire, diary	Legitimate interest; your consent for health data
Abuse prevention, limits	Sign-in data, usage	Legitimate interest
Support replies	Messages, sign-in data	Performance of a contract
The shared list of ideas, likes, review of ideas and reports	Ideas, likes, reports, username, profile photo	Performance of a contract
Legal requirements	What is requested	Legal obligation

We do not make decisions that have legal effects for you by fully automated means.

Data goes only to those listed below, and only to the extent needed:

our server and cloud storage provider;
providers of artificial intelligence technologies (section 2);
Apple and Google, for sign-in with their accounts, and Apple also for purchases;
other users of the app: once our team has reviewed an idea, everyone sees it in “All ideas”, next to your username or, if you have none, a short account number such as “User 42e7c225”, your profile photo and the number of likes. If you chose “Suggest anonymously”, others see “Anonymous” without a photo, and only our team knows the real author;
Telegram: our team learns about a new support request or a new idea in a closed Telegram group. The notice holds your name and username, the first 300 characters of the message or the whole text of the idea. Photos are not sent there;
Sentry: if the app crashes or freezes, a report goes to the Sentry service. It holds the phone model, the iOS and app versions, the place in the code where the failure happened, the screens opened before it and a random installation number that is not linked to your account. It holds no name, email, screenshots or diary entries, and Sentry does not keep the network address;
public authorities, where the law requires it;
a successor in a sale or reorganisation of the business, who stays bound by this policy.

We do not sell personal data and do not share it with advertising networks or data brokers.

5. Where data is stored

Data is stored on the servers of our providers. The servers may be in a country other than the one you live in. In that case we apply the safeguards the law requires, including standard contractual clauses.

Some data is stored only on your device and is removed together with the app.

6. How long we keep data

The account, questionnaire and diary are kept for as long as the account exists. After you delete the account we erase them within 30 days, and from backups within 90 days.
We keep a food photo on our servers for 30 days from the day of the entry, then delete it. The diary entry stays: the name of the dish, the portion, calories and nutrients. If you delete the entry or the account earlier, the photo is deleted with it. On your device the photo stays until you delete the entry or the app.
Usage and error logs are kept for up to 12 months, then deleted or anonymised. The report about screens and actions is kept for 90 days, after that only daily totals without people remain.
Messages to support are kept for up to 3 years.
If our team blocked an account for breaking the rules, after the account is deleted we keep the Apple or Google account identifier and the email fingerprint so that it cannot sign in again. Nothing else about you remains.
An idea is kept for as long as the account exists. An idea our team has hidden is deleted 7 days after it was hidden, together with its likes and reports. When you delete the account, your ideas, likes and reports are deleted too.
Records the law requires us to keep longer, such as payment records, are kept for the period set by law.

Anonymised aggregate statistics that cannot identify you may be kept longer.

7. Your rights

You can:

get a copy of your data;
correct inaccurate data, most fields can be changed right in the profile;
delete your account and data: Profile, Delete account;
revoke access to Apple Health;
restrict processing or object to it;
move your data to another service;
complain to the data protection authority of your country.

Email us at majitov567@gmail.com or write in the app: profile, “Support”. We will reply within 30 days. So that your data does not reach a stranger, we may ask you to confirm that the account is yours.

Residents of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, California and other regions with their own data laws have all the rights those laws give them. We do not sell data or share it for behavioural advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of.

8. Security

Data is transmitted over an encrypted connection and encrypted at rest. Staff get access only to what they need for their work. If a breach affects your data, we will notify you and the competent authorities within the time limits set by law.

9. Children

The app is not intended for children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has given us data, write to us and we will delete it.

10. Changes to this policy

We can update this policy. The version published on this page applies, and its date is at the top.

11. Contact

Calorika team, email majitov567@gmail.com, in the app: profile, “Support”.