Privacy Policy

BiteScan · Last updated: 15 September 2026

In short: BiteScan collects no personal data. No account, no ads, no analytics. Camera frames are processed on your device only, are never saved and are never sent anywhere.

1. Overview

BiteScan is an app that reads and explains the ingredients list on food labels. There is no account, no sign up, no advertising and no analytics or behavioural tracking. The ingredient database is embedded in the app, so scanning works fully offline.

2. Camera and photos

The camera is active only while you are on the scanning screen and only with your permission. Frames are processed in your device’s memory by a text recognition engine that runs on the device, and are discarded immediately. No photo is taken, nothing is written to your gallery and no frame is sent to a server.

The photo taken for a scan is stored with that scan inside the app, so you can look back at it later. These photos are not saved to your gallery, are never sent anywhere, are deleted with their scan, and all of them go when you delete the app. Only the most recent scans keep a photo.

You can also pick a photo from your gallery and scan that instead. The app then reads only the single photo you chose: it does not browse your photo library, does not copy the file and does not send it anywhere. The recognised text stays in the history on your device if you keep the scan.

3. Data that stays on your device

All of the following is stored only on your own device, in the app’s own storage. It is not uploaded to us or to third parties, and we cannot see it:

  • Your scan history: the ingredients text that was read, the matched entries and the calculated score
  • Your health profile: the allergens and diet rules you avoid
  • Your app settings: language, theme, haptics preference and the daily scan counter

Deleting the app from your device deletes all of it. You can also clear the history from inside the app.

4. Health related choices

The allergens and diet rules you select in your profile may count as health related information. These choices never leave your device: they are not sent to us, not stored in a cloud and not shared with the stores or with RevenueCat. There is no connection to Apple Health or Google Fit.

5. Requests that leave your device

Only the following use an internet connection. Everything else is offline:

  • Purchase verification: when you buy Premium or restore your purchases, the store receipt and a randomly generated app specific identifier are sent to RevenueCat. Your name, your email, your scans and your health profile are not sent.
  • Legal page links: when you tap the privacy, terms or support links in Settings, this page opens in your browser. That request is started by you, not by the app.

The standard access logs of those servers (such as IP addresses) are subject to their own privacy policies.

6. Purchases

The optional Premium purchase is processed by the Apple App Store or Google Play. RevenueCat is used to verify purchase status. We never have access to your payment card details. See the RevenueCat, Apple and Google privacy policies.

7. No notifications, no location

The app sends no notifications and does not access your location, contacts or microphone. It touches your photos only when you pick one yourself, and only that one photo.

8. Children

The app is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from children.

9. Your rights (GDPR and Turkish KVKK)

Because your personal data never reaches us, we hold no record to erase or correct. You can still write to us with any question about your rights under the GDPR or Turkish law no. 6698, and we will explain what is held where. To delete all data on your device, simply delete the app.

10. Changes

If this policy changes, the date above is updated. Any change affecting how data is processed will be announced inside the app.

11. Contact

This app is published by:

Safiye Meram
Esenler/Istanbul, Türkiye
Email: gelistirbizi@gmail.com