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Privacy Policy

Effective [[OWNER: date]] · Version 1

In short (the same words as in the app): Your account identifier and the extracted label text of your scans are kept on this phone, under your consents; Food Marshal has no server that receives them. Photos are processed and immediately discarded, never stored. Reading the label uses Google’s ML Kit on this phone: it does not send your photo or its text to Google, but it does send Google metrics about how that feature performs, including device details and an identifier for this installation of the app. Either consent can be withdrawn in Settings, one tap each.

1. Who we are

Food Marshal is operated by [[OWNER: full legal name of the person or company that operates Food Marshal]], [[OWNER: postal address]] (“Food Marshal”, “we”). This policy covers the Food Marshal Android app (com.foodmarshal.app) and this website.

2. What the app keeps, and where

The app keeps these on your phone, and only there:

  • your account identifier, under the consent you give for sign-in;
  • the extracted label text of your scans and your History of verdicts, under the consent you give for label text and inspection history;
  • your consent choices and your language setting.

Your date of birth is checked once, when you create an account, to confirm you are 18 or over. It is not stored.

Food Marshal has no server that receives this information, so we do not hold a copy of it.

3. Photos

To read a label, the app uses your phone’s camera. Each photo is processed on your phone and immediately discarded. It is never stored, and never sent to us or to anyone else. Location details that a phone can attach to a photo are removed before the photo is read.

4. What leaves your phone: Google ML Kit

The app reads label text with Google ML Kit, which runs on your phone. Google states that ML Kit does not send your photos, or the text read from them, to Google.

ML Kit does send Google metrics about how it performs in the app. Google lists them as:

  • device information (such as manufacturer, model, operating-system version and build) and the machine-learning hardware available;
  • the app’s package name and version;
  • device or other identifiers, including an identifier for this installation;
  • performance metrics (such as how long a read takes);
  • the settings used (such as image format and resolution), input and output sizes, the feature’s version, event types and error codes.

Google states that it uses this data to measure performance, debug, maintain and improve ML Kit, and detect misuse or abuse; that it encrypts the data in transit; and that it does not pass it to third parties. Google handles this data under the Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. ML Kit may also contact Google’s servers from time to time to receive updates for the feature.

The text is read by a machine-learning model. The score is not: it is set by fixed, published rules.

Nothing else leaves your phone. The app has no advertising and no analytics or tracking tools, and it does not use your location or your contacts.

5. When you share a card

A share card goes only where you send it, through your phone’s share option. The app you choose handles it under its own terms. A card shows the product as read, its score and the notice. It does not show your name or your account identifier.

6. Your choices

  • Withdraw either consent in Settings, one tap each.
  • Clear your whole History with “Clear all”.
  • Delete your account in Settings. Delete means delete: immediate, permanent, no retention window, no exit survey.
  • Uninstalling the app removes its data from your phone.

7. How long information is kept

On your phone, until you withdraw a consent, clear your History, delete your account or uninstall the app. Food Marshal keeps no copy. Google keeps the data it receives from ML Kit under its own policies.

8. Age

Food Marshal is for adults (18+). The app asks for your date of birth once, and does not let anyone under 18 create an account.

9. Security

What the app keeps is held in the app’s private storage on your phone, which Android keeps apart from other apps. [[HQ: anything further the app does, e.g. encryption of the History store]]

10. This website

This website sets no cookies, uses no analytics and loads nothing from other websites. It is served by a hosting provider, [[HQ: hosting provider]], whose servers may record basic request data, such as IP address, browser type and the page requested, to deliver and protect the site. [[HQ: the host’s log retention period]]

11. Questions, requests and grievances

Write to [[OWNER: name of the contact person / grievance officer]], [[OWNER: email]], [[OWNER: postal address]]. We will reply within [[COUNSEL: period]].

Because the app keeps your information on your phone, the controls in Settings let you see and delete it yourself. [[COUNSEL: rights and complaint routes under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and its Rules (G.S.R. 846(E)), whose notice and rights rules come into force on 13 May 2027; and the IT Act, 2000 / SPDI Rules, 2011]]

12. Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and its effective date. [[COUNSEL: how material changes are notified in the app]]

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