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Privacy Policy of Weight Loss Tracking Buddy

Last updated: 19 October 2026

1. Introduction

Welcome to "Weight Loss Tracking Buddy" ("the App"), developed by Law Industries Ltd, a company based in the United Kingdom ("we", "us" or "our"). This Privacy Policy explains what information the App handles, where it goes and the choices you have. It covers the App on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, its widgets and its Siri and Shortcuts actions.

For questions about this policy, please contact us at dannylawapps@gmail.com.

2. What You Enter in the App

Your goal, weigh-ins, height, sex, year of birth, activity level, food logs, saved foods and meals, body measurements, fasts, progress photos, notes and settings are stored on your devices and in your private iCloud account, so they sync between your Apple devices. They are kept in Apple's iCloud (CloudKit) private database, which we cannot access. Our analytics and crash reports never include them.

  • Progress photos are saved without their location and other details from the camera, after the App has read the date each was taken.
  • Apple Watch keeps its own copy of your entries, synced through the same iCloud account. Your iPhone tells your watch whether you have Pro, and nothing else.
  • Widgets, Live Activities, Siri and Shortcuts read and write the same entries on your device.
  • Your reasons and hurdles, if you choose any during setup, are used only to tailor the next few screens. They are never saved or sent anywhere.
  • Exports and backups you make in Settings > Data go only where you send them. We never receive them.

3. Apple Health

With Pro, you can choose to connect the App to Apple Health on each of your devices. Nothing is shared with Apple Health until you turn it on and give permission.

  • What the App saves to Health: your weigh-ins, and the calories and nutrients of the food you log.
  • What the App reads from Health: the active energy you burn each day, to add to your calorie budget, and weigh-ins from other apps and scales, to show with yours.

What the App reads from Health stays on that device. It is never saved to iCloud, never sent to us or to any other company, and never used for advertising or marketing. We never sell or share Health information. You can turn each part off in the App's Settings > Apple Health, or in the Health app.

4. Meal and Nutrition Label Scanning

Scanning is a Pro feature, and it only runs when you take or choose a photo to scan. The App makes the photo smaller and removes its location and other details from the camera. It then sends the photo to our server (Google Cloud Functions, in Belgium), which passes it to OpenAI to estimate the food's calories and nutrients.

  • We do not keep the photo or the estimate. Our server logs record only that a scan ran, whether it found food and how long it took.
  • OpenAI processes the photo under its API terms: it does not use it to train its models, and may keep it for up to 30 days to check for misuse.
  • Each scan carries this installation's random Firebase identifier, so our server can enforce the daily limit on scans. How many scans you've used today is kept in your iCloud account, so the limit follows you between devices.
  • Versions of the App before 4.0 also recorded the estimate in our server logs, which are kept for up to 30 days.

5. Information We Receive

The App uses a small number of services to work, to fix problems and to improve it:

  • Usage analytics (Google Firebase Analytics): which screens are opened and what is chosen on them (such as your units, or that a weigh-in was logged, never the weight), whether you have Pro, errors that occur, the App version, device model, iOS version and approximate country, linked to a random identifier for this installation. We use the version of Firebase Analytics that does not access Apple's advertising identifier. You can turn this off with Settings > Privacy > Share usage data.
  • Performance (Firebase Performance Monitoring): timings such as how long the App takes to start and how long network requests take. The Share usage data switch turns this off too.
  • Crash reports (Firebase Crashlytics): details of a crash, such as where in the App it happened, the device model, iOS version and App version. These are always sent, as they hold nothing you've entered and are how we fix crashes.
  • Settings and notifications (Firebase Remote Config and Firebase Cloud Messaging): an installation identifier, so we can adjust the App's settings remotely, and a notification token, so we can send push notifications if you allow them. The token is grouped by whether you have Pro, so a message can go to free users or to Pro users. Reminders you set in the App are scheduled on your device.
  • Purchases (RevenueCat): a random user identifier and your subscription, tip and purchase history from the App Store, so Pro unlocks on your devices. Payments are handled by Apple; we never see your payment details.
  • Support: if you email us or send feedback from the App, we receive your email address and whatever you write.

6. How We Use Information

We use this information to run the App, unlock your purchases, estimate nutrition from your scans, fix crashes and bugs, and understand which features to improve. We do not sell your information, we do not show ads, and we do not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

Under UK data protection law, we rely on providing the App you asked for to unlock purchases and run scans; on our legitimate interest in keeping the App working and improving it for analytics, performance and crash reports, which you can object to with the Share usage data switch; and on your permission for notifications and Apple Health, which you can withdraw at any time.

7. Who Processes Information for Us

8. International Data Transfers

These providers may process information outside the United Kingdom, including in the United States. When they do, it is protected by the safeguards set out in their terms.

9. How Long We Keep Information

What you enter in the App stays on your devices and in your iCloud account until you delete it. What the App reads from Apple Health stays on the device that read it. Analytics, crash reports and purchase records are kept for as long as each provider's retention settings allow, and no longer than we need them. Our server logs are kept for up to 30 days.

10. Your Rights and Choices

Under UK data protection law you can ask to access, correct or delete information we hold about you, and object to how we use it. In the App, Settings > Data > Delete All Data deletes everything you've entered from all your devices and iCloud, and Settings > Privacy > Share usage data turns analytics off. You can also manage notifications, Apple Health and iCloud in your device's Settings. For anything else, email us at dannylawapps@gmail.com. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).

11. Data Protection Measures

Your entries are protected by Apple's iCloud security, and everything the App sends to our providers travels over encrypted connections. No method of electronic storage or transmission is 100% secure, but we work to protect your information.

12. Children's Privacy

The App is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from children under this age.

13. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We will update this page when the App's handling of information changes, and tell you in the App about any significant changes.