Privacy Policy

Tallow is a food-scanning app that helps you see what is inside the products you buy. We built it with the assumption that your scan history is your business. This page explains what we collect, why, and how to delete it.

What we collect

• Your email address, used only to sign you in. If you sign in with Apple, we store the private relay email Apple gives us — we never receive your real address.
• The barcodes you scan and the products you save, so we can show your history across devices and rebuild a product page instantly the next time you scan it.
• Diagnostic crash and error reports, when you opt in. We never link them to you.

What we do NOT do

• No advertising. No third-party trackers. No data sold or shared.
• No location tracking. We do not request your location.
• No camera images leave your device. Barcodes are decoded on-device; only the resulting digits are sent to our server.

Where data lives

Your account and scan history are stored on Supabase infrastructure (Postgres, hosted in the United States). Product data we look up on Open Food Facts is publicly licensed and re-published under their ODbL terms. Tier-2 product enrichment may call OpenAI; the only thing we send OpenAI is the barcode and product name — never your identity.

Deleting your account

In the mobile app, go to Settings → Delete account. Your account, scan history, and saved products are permanently removed immediately. There is no soft-delete and no recovery period; the row is gone before the next request lands. If you have trouble, email support@tallow.app and we will purge your data within 7 days.

Children

Tallow is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from minors. If you believe a child has signed up, email us and we will delete their data.

Changes

If we materially change this policy, we will surface the new policy in-app the next time you open Tallow and ask you to acknowledge it.

Contact

Questions, requests, or data deletion concerns: support@tallow.app.