Privacy Policy

Mindful Food Journal is a food journal and wellness app for logging meals, reviewing nutrition estimates, tracking personal goals, and reflecting on your eating patterns. This Privacy Policy explains how Mindful collects, uses, stores, and shares information when you use the Mindful Food Journal iOS app, our related services, and this website.

Mindful is not a medical device or medical service. Nutrition estimates, insights, and other wellness information are provided for general informational purposes and should not be treated as medical, nutritional, or professional advice.

We collect information you provide directly, information created when you use the app, and limited technical information needed to operate, secure, and improve Mindful.

• Account and login information, such as your account identifier, email address, name, and sign-in method when you use Apple, Google, or another supported login option.
• Profile and onboarding information, such as gender, birthday, height, weight, goal weight, activity level, measurement preferences, referral source, calorie tracking experience, and nutrition or hydration goals.
• Food journal information, such as food entries, saved meals, meal collections, entry dates and times, nutrition estimates, food descriptions, correction requests, notes, and whether an entry came from text, photo, scan, autocomplete, or a saved meal.
• Photos and image-related information, such as food photos, saved meal photos, nutrition label photos, image descriptions, and private image storage paths or signed links used to display those images in the app.
• Wellness logs, such as weight logs, water logs, dates, times, amounts, and optional notes.
• Support and feedback information, such as messages, ratings, comments, screenshots, or other details you choose to send through support or feedback tools.
• Technical and usage information, such as device and app version details, app lifecycle events, feature usage, subscription events, diagnostics, approximate event timing, and security logs.

If you choose to connect Apple Health, Mindful may request permission to read activity and body-related data such as active energy, basal energy, step count, walking or running distance, exercise time, body mass, and resting heart rate. Mindful may request permission to write body mass to Apple Health.

Apple Health permissions are optional and controlled by you. You can change or revoke Mindful's Apple Health access at any time in the Apple Health app or iOS Settings. We do not use Apple Health data for advertising.

Mindful uses AI-assisted and search-assisted features to help estimate food descriptions, nutrition labels, and nutrition details. When you use these features, food photos, nutrition label photos, text descriptions, correction requests, visual assumptions, methodology notes, and existing nutrition data may be processed through Mindful's backend services and third-party AI or search providers to return an estimate.

Mindful does not use your food logs, photos, Apple Health data, or journal entries to train AI models. Third-party providers process submitted information so we can provide the feature you requested.

AI and nutrition estimates can be incomplete, approximate, or inaccurate. You should review important entries and make your own judgment before relying on them.

We use information to provide, maintain, personalize, protect, and improve Mindful.

• Create and manage your account, authentication, sync, and app sessions.
• Save and display food journal entries, nutrition estimates, photos, saved meals, weight logs, water logs, goals, and preferences.
• Generate AI-assisted food, label, and nutrition estimates when you request those features.
• Provide subscriptions, entitlement checks, trial reminders, purchase restoration, and subscription support.
• Send local reminders, support app widgets, and keep app data consistent across local and cloud storage.
• Analyze app performance, feature usage, onboarding flow, subscription conversion, and reliability.
• Respond to support requests, investigate issues, prevent abuse, secure the service, comply with legal obligations, and enforce our terms.

We do not sell your personal information. We share information with service providers only as needed to operate Mindful, provide requested features, process purchases, analyze reliability and usage, respond to feedback, or comply with law.

Service providers may include Supabase for authentication, database, backend functions, and private file storage; RevenueCat and Apple for subscriptions and purchase management; PostHog for analytics and product diagnostics; UserJot for feedback; Google and Apple for sign-in; and AI or search providers used to generate food, label, and nutrition estimates.

We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect rights and safety, to prevent fraud or abuse, or as part of a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets.

Mindful stores some information locally on your device and some information in cloud services so the app can sync, restore, and provide backend features. Food and saved meal photos are stored in private cloud storage scoped to your account. The app may use signed links with limited lifetimes to display private images.

Mindful may also store limited data in local widget storage, local app databases, caches, or pending upload storage on your device, including daily nutrition snapshots, reminder settings, and photos waiting to upload.

We use technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect information, but no method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure.

You can control many types of information directly in the app or through iOS settings.

• Update profile, goal, measurement, notification, water tracking, and Apple Health settings in the app or iOS settings where available.
• Disconnect or change Apple Health permissions at any time in Apple Health or iOS Settings.
• Manage local notification permissions in iOS Settings.
• Manage subscriptions, renewals, cancellations, and refunds through your Apple account and App Store subscription settings.
• Contact support to request help with account access, analytics or support questions, or deletion of your account and associated app data.

We retain information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide Mindful, maintain security, resolve disputes, comply with legal obligations, support subscriptions, and operate the service.

If you request deletion, we will delete or de-identify personal information associated with your account unless we need to keep limited information for legitimate business, security, legal, backup, fraud prevention, or subscription record reasons.

Some information you choose to provide to Mindful, including food logs, nutrition data, weight logs, water logs, goals, body measurements, and Apple Health information, may be considered consumer health data under certain laws.

Mindful uses this information to provide app features, sync data, generate requested estimates, support subscriptions, maintain security, respond to support requests, and operate the service. We do not sell consumer health data or use it for targeted advertising.

Mindful is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.

Mindful and its service providers may process and store information in the United States and other locations where we or our providers operate. Those locations may have privacy laws that differ from the laws where you live.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will post the updated policy at this page and update the Last updated date above.