1. Introduction & Core Privacy Principles
At Calivio (operated and developed by Mehraab Singh, "we", "us", or "our"), your privacy is our foundational priority. This Privacy Policy governs your use of the Calivio mobile application for iOS and describes our policies on the collection, storage, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use the app.
Our fundamental philosophy is straightforward: health tracking should be empowering, private, and secure. We design our architecture to process information locally on your device whenever possible, minimizing cloud footprint and ensuring you retain absolute ownership over your health journey.
2. Apple HealthKit Data Usage & Safeguards
Calivio integrates with Apple's HealthKit framework (via iOS Health app) to provide comprehensive, real-time health and nutritional tracking. In strict accordance with the Apple App Store Review Guidelines and HealthKit Developer Terms:
- Read & Write Permissions: With your explicit authorization, Calivio may read and write specific HealthKit data types, including Dietary Energy (calories), Active Energy Burned, Dietary Macronutrients (Protein, Carbohydrates, Total Fat), Dietary Water, and Weight.
- No Advertising or Marketing: HealthKit data is never used or disclosed to third parties for marketing, advertising, profiling, or other use-based data mining purposes.
- No Sale to Data Brokers: We strictly prohibit selling, leasing, or trading any HealthKit data to third-party data brokers, insurers, or advertising platforms.
- On-Device Priority: Your HealthKit data is read dynamically on your device to calculate your remaining caloric budget and macronutrient balance. It is not transmitted to external cloud servers unless you have enabled optional encrypted multi-device backup.
- User Control: You can grant, modify, or revoke Calivio's access to Apple Health at any time by navigating to your iPhone's Settings > Health > Data Access & Devices > Calivio.
3. Camera & Vision AI Processing
Calivio requests permission to access your device's camera to provide computer vision-based food logging and barcode scanning.
- Food Scanning: When you point your camera at a meal or food item, the visual input is used exclusively to recognize food items, estimate portion sizes, and calculate caloric and macronutrient values.
- Barcode Scanning: When scanning food packaging, the camera identifies barcode symbologies (e.g., UPC, EAN) to query our nutritional database.
- No Facial or Biometric Recognition: We do not capture, record, analyze, or process facial geometry, biometric signatures, or background human identities in your photos.
- Transient Processing: Photos captured for food analysis are processed transiently and are not archived on public servers or shared with unauthorized third parties.
4. Photo Library Access Disclosure
If you choose to log a meal using an existing image from your iPhone's camera roll, Calivio requests access to your Photo Library using Apple's limited photo picker. We only access and inspect the specific photo(s) you actively select. Calivio never scans, indexes, or browses your wider photo library.
5. Data Collection Practices & Cloud Sync
We practice strict data minimization. Depending on how you interact with Calivio:
- Anonymous Guest Mode: You can use Calivio without creating an account. In this mode, all logs, nutritional calculations, custom foods, and settings reside solely on your device.
- Optional Calivio Account: If you choose to enable cloud backup across devices, we collect your email address and an encrypted replica of your meal logs and preference settings. All synced data in transit and at rest is protected with industry-standard encryption protocols (TLS 1.3 / AES-256).
6. Data Retention & Account Deletion Rights
In full compliance with Apple App Store Guideline 5.1.1(v), Calivio gives users complete, autonomous control to delete their account and personal data directly from within the iOS application:
- In-App Deletion: Open Calivio > Navigate to Settings > Account > Tap "Delete Account". Confirming this action immediately and irreversibly deletes your account record, email, and synced meal logs from our cloud infrastructure.
- Local Data: To remove local on-device database caches, simply uninstall the Calivio application from your iOS home screen.
- Direct Request: You may also submit a deletion request by emailing mrb@mehraab.ninja with your registered email, and our team will process the purge within 48 hours.
7. Analytics & Third-Party Service Providers
We do not integrate third-party advertising SDKs or tracking pixels. We may collect anonymous, aggregated crash diagnostic reports (such as via Apple's native App Store Diagnostics) to diagnose unexpected crashes and improve memory management, provided you have opted in to share diagnostics with developers in your iOS system settings.
8. Children's Online Privacy (COPPA Compliance)
Calivio is not directed to children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in the European Union). We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from children. If we discover that personal information from a child has been collected, we will take immediate steps to delete that data from our servers.
9. Your Global Privacy Rights (GDPR & CCPA / CPRA)
Regardless of your geographic location, we respect your statutory privacy rights, including:
- The right to know what personal data is collected and processed.
- The right to request a copy or export of your personal data.
- The right to rectify inaccurate information.
- The right to request immediate deletion ("Right to be Forgotten").
- The right to non-discrimination for exercising your privacy privileges.
10. Contact Information
If you have any questions, inquiries, or feedback regarding this Privacy Policy or our security practices, please contact our privacy compliance team directly:
Provider / Developer: Mehraab Singh
Direct Privacy Email: mrb@mehraab.ninja
Official Website: https://calivio.mehraab.ninja/
App Store Identifier: Calivio (ID: 6775261027)