CalPodPrivacy Policy
CalPod is a food-logging app. Our privacy stance in one line: everything you log is private by default, sharing is always an explicit act you take, and we never sell your data.
What we collect
| Data | Examples | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Food & health data | Meals you log, macros, weight entries, goals, streaks | The product itself — your diary, rings and plan |
| Meal photos & text | Photos you snap, meal descriptions you type or dictate | To identify foods and estimate portions |
| Profile | Age, sex, height, weight, goal; optional display name and handle | To compute your plan; name/handle only if you use social features |
| Account | Anonymous ID; email only if you Sign in with Apple | You can use CalPod without creating an account |
| Purchases | Subscription status (via RevenueCat) | To unlock CalPod Pro; Apple processes payment |
| Usage analytics | Feature usage events, device model, app version (via PostHog) | To improve the product; keyed to your pseudonymous ID |
We do not collect your location, contacts, browsing history, or advertising identifiers, and we do not track you across other companies' apps or websites.
How AI recognition works
When you snap a meal, the photo (or your text description) is sent to our servers and processed by an AI vision model operated by our providers (Google, Anthropic) to identify foods and estimate portions, then checked against public nutrition databases (USDA FoodData Central, Open Food Facts). Per our agreements with these providers, your photos and descriptions are not used to train their models. Barcode scans skip AI entirely.
Apple Health
If you enable Health sync, CalPod reads and writes nutrition and weight data with your permission. HealthKit data is never used for advertising or marketing, never shared with third parties, and never used for any purpose other than the sync you asked for. You can revoke access anytime in the Health app.
What your pod can see
CalPod is built around pods — two to eight friends who track together. Pods are transparent on purpose: honest numbers are what make accountability work. That transparency is opt-in and always under your control.
- Nothing, by default. Your logs, calories, macros and weight are yours alone until you choose to share.
- Only if you turn on number-sharing. When you do, your pod sees that you logged, your streak, and your real calories and macros against your own goals, plus today's meals — a shared training log, for eating. You can switch it off at any time, per pod.
- Never your weight. Your weight and body measurements stay on your device and are never shared with a pod. Minors are excluded from number-sharing automatically.
- Nothing you share ever leaves your pod, and no one is ranked — there are no leaderboards or scores anywhere in CalPod.
- If you explicitly share or publish a single meal, its foods, photo and macros become visible per the visibility you chose. Your full daily intake is never published.
- Anonymous benchmarks are computed only over groups of 50+ people and can never be traced back to you.
Who processes data for us
Google (Firebase: authentication, database, storage, cloud functions; Gemini: AI food recognition), Anthropic (AI food recognition), RevenueCat (subscriptions), PostHog (product analytics), Apple (payments, push notifications). Each processes data only on our instructions. We never sell personal data and there are no ad networks in the app.
Your controls
- Export: Profile → Your data → Export my data gives you everything in a portable file.
- Delete: Profile → Your data → Delete all my data wipes your diary, plan and history from your device and erases what's stored server-side (your handle, shared meals, pod membership). Server-side deletion completes within 30 days.
- EU/UK (GDPR) and California (CCPA) rights: access, rectification, erasure, portability, objection — exercise any of these in-app or by emailing us.
Retention & security
Data is kept while your account is active and deleted on request. Everything is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest on our providers' infrastructure. Public share pages contain only the pre-rendered content you chose to share and can expire.
Age
CalPod is for people 13 and older (16+ where local law requires a higher age for data consent). We don't knowingly collect data from children below that age; if you believe we have, contact us and we'll delete it.
Changes & contact
We'll notify you in-app of material changes. Questions or requests: support@stolenorbit.com.