Coupleats Privacy Policy

Overview

Coupleats is a calorie, macro, hydration, weight, activity, partner accountability, meal planning, recipe, community, and AI-assisted wellness app. You can use Coupleats on your own (solo mode) or connect with a partner, friend, or workout buddy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, what may be shared with your linked partner or service providers, and the choices available in the app.

1. Information We Collect

Account information: name, email address, sign-in method (such as email, Google, or Apple), user ID, profile settings, onboarding status, language and timezone preferences, notification preferences, privacy preferences, support requests, and account status.
Profile and wellness information: age or birth year, gender, height, current weight, target weight, body measurements, activity level, goal type, calorie goals, water goals, dietary preferences, allergies or foods to avoid, cooking preferences, workout preferences, habits, and related onboarding answers.
Meal and nutrition information: meal names, meal type, calories, macros, portion information, logged time, food search queries and barcode results, recent meals, meal reactions, shared meals, recipe details, meal plans, shopping list items, and meal history.
Photos, voice, barcode, and camera inputs: meal photos you choose from your camera or photo library, voice recordings you submit for meal logging, fridge photos for AI suggestions, and barcode or nutrition-label scan data. These are used only when you choose to use those features.
Partner and couple features: partner connection, invite codes, couple ID, shared streaks, Couple XP, leaderboards, check-ins, nudges, free meal pass requests, challenges, commitments, mood check-ins, partner activity, shared plans, shared shopping lists, and visibility settings.
Community and Discover information: posts you create, images you add to posts, recipe or tip content, tags, likes, and related community feed activity.
Usage and analytics data: product analytics events (such as session activity, onboarding steps, and feature usage), an anonymous install identifier before sign-in, and platform information. You can disable analytics uploads in Privacy settings.
AI coach memory: summarized preferences and context stored on your profile to personalize AI Coach when you use that feature.
Home screen widget data: if you add a Coupleats widget, a snapshot of your daily progress (such as calories, water, streak, and paired partner summaries) is stored locally on your device to display the widget.
Activity and device data: steps, active calories, HealthKit or Health Connect data you authorize, push tokens, device platform, app version, crash logs, error logs, diagnostics, and performance information.
Purchase and subscription information: product identifiers, entitlement status, renewal or expiration metadata, store, transaction state, and subscription status received from Apple App Store, Google Play, RevenueCat, or similar purchase providers.

2. How We Use Information

To create and secure your account, authenticate you, sync your profile, and operate the app.
To calculate calorie progress, macro totals, hydration progress, activity summaries, streaks, challenges, reports, trends, and partner comparisons.
To enable partner features such as shared dashboards, reactions, nudges, free meal pass requests, check-ins, meal sharing, meal planning, shopping lists, and couple reports.
To provide food search, barcode lookup, meal photo recognition, voice meal logging, AI Coach insights, dinner suggestions, and AI-assisted recipe analysis when you use those features.
To manage free and premium feature access, subscriptions, restore purchases, and couple-level premium access.
To send reminders, partner alerts, push notifications, support responses, and service messages you request or enable.
To maintain security, prevent misuse, debug problems, improve reliability, and respond to data export or deletion requests.

3. AI Processing

When you use AI features, relevant inputs may be sent to AI service providers (such as Google Gemini through our secure servers). This may include meal photos, voice recordings, fridge photos, food logs, calories, macros, goals, partner rhythm, dietary preferences, allergies or foods to avoid, health context you entered, coach memory, and the question or prompt you submit.

You can disable AI data sharing in the app's Privacy settings. If AI sharing is disabled, AI Coach, AI food recognition, AI voice logging, fridge scan suggestions, AI recipe analysis, and similar AI features may be unavailable or limited.

AI features are for general wellness and convenience only. They are not medical, dietitian, diagnosis, treatment, or emergency advice.

4. Partner Visibility and Sharing

Coupleats can be used solo or with a linked partner, friend, or workout buddy. Partner features are optional. Depending on your settings and the feature you use, your linked partner may see meal logs, daily progress, remaining calories, water progress, weight visibility if enabled, steps or activity summaries, reactions, nudges, check-ins, shared meal plans, shopping lists, challenges, commitments, free meal pass requests, and couple reports.

You can manage partner visibility, private mode, AI sharing, and weight sharing from the app's privacy controls where available. Some shared couple features require limited shared information to work.

5. Health Data

If you grant permission, Coupleats may read steps and active calories from Apple HealthKit or Android Health Connect to show daily movement alongside meal and calorie progress. Coupleats does not sell HealthKit or Health Connect data and does not use that data for advertising.

6. Service Providers

We do not sell your personal information. We may process information with service providers that help operate Coupleats, including Supabase for authentication, database, storage, and server functions; Expo for notifications and app services; RevenueCat, Apple App Store, and Google Play for purchases and subscription status; Google (Gemini) and similar AI providers for AI features you use; Open Food Facts and the USDA FoodData Central API for food search and barcode lookup; PostHog or our own database for product analytics when enabled; Google and Apple for sign-in; Sentry or similar tools for crash diagnostics; and email or support tools for user requests.

7. Data Retention

We keep information for as long as needed to provide the app, maintain security, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce terms, provide support, and process export or deletion requests. Some technical logs and transaction records may be retained where required for security, accounting, legal, or app store compliance.

8. Your Controls and Rights

Update your profile, goals, privacy settings, notification settings, and partner visibility settings in the app.
Disable AI data sharing and product analytics uploads from Privacy settings.
Choose whether to grant camera, microphone, photo library, notification, HealthKit, or Health Connect permissions through your device settings.
Request a data export from the Privacy screen.
Request account and data deletion from the Privacy screen, Settings screen, or by contacting support.
Manage or cancel subscriptions through your App Store or Google Play account settings.

9. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information, including managed authentication, access controls, database policies, secure server-side keys, and restricted service access. No system is perfectly secure, and you are responsible for protecting your account credentials and device access.

10. Children

Coupleats is not intended for children and should not be used to make diet, weight, medical, or nutrition decisions for children.

11. International Processing

Your information may be processed in countries where we or our service providers operate. Data protection rules may differ from those in your location.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted with a new "Last updated" date.