Privacy Policy

# Privacy Policy

**Effective Date:** December 14, 2025

**1. Introduction**
Welcome to Meal Coach ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protecting your data when you use our mobile application ("App") and services.

**2. Information We Collect**
To provide our AI-powered meal coaching and tracking services, we may collect the following types of information:

* **Personal Information:** Name, email address, password (encrypted), and profile picture (if provided via social login).
* **Health & Fitness Data:** Age, gender, height, weight, dietary preferences, allergies, fitness goals, and activity levels.
* **User Content:** Food logs, photos of meals you upload for analysis, recipes you create or save, and chat history with our AI coach.
* **Device Information:** Device model, operating system version, and unique device identifiers (for functionality and security).
* **Usage Data:** Logs of how you interact with the App, features used, and time spent.

**3. How We Use Your Information**
We use your information for the following purposes:
* **Service Provision:** To calculate nutritional needs, analyze meal photos, generate personalized meal plans, and track your progress.
* **AI Functionality:** To power our AI features (e.g., recognizing food from photos, generating recipes). Note that anonymized data may be processed by third-party AI providers.
* **Improvement:** To analyze usage trends and improve the App's functionality and user experience.
* **Communication:** To send you important updates, account notifications, or support responses.

**4. Third-Party Services**
We may share data with trusted third-party service providers to help us operate our App:
* **Authentication:** Google Sign-In and Sign in with Apple for secure login.
* **Cloud Storage & Hosting:** To store user data securely.
* **AI Providers:** To process text and images for coaching and analysis.
* **Analytics:** To understand app usage (e.g., Firebase, Google Analytics).

**5. Data Security**
We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your data. Your data is stored on secure servers, and sensitive information is transmitted via encrypted connections (HTTPS). However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.

**6. User Rights**
You have the right to:
* Access the personal data we hold about you.
* Request correction of inaccurate data.
* Request deletion of your account and associated data. You can delete your account directly within the App settings.

**7. Children's Privacy**
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13.

**8. Changes to This Policy**
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

**9. Contact Us**
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
**Email:** support@mealcoach.pmzpw.com