Snaplate — Privacy Notice

Last updated: 2026-07-13

Snaplate helps you understand the nutrition of your meals from a photo. This notice explains what data is processed and how. Snaplate works without an account: there is no name, email, or sign-in.

The short version

• To recognise a meal, your photo is sent to our server for analysis and then discarded. It is not stored and is never used to train any AI model. This applies to every scan, free or paid.
• Your scan history is stored on your device, not on our servers.
• We do not collect your name, email, or any account identifier, and we do not track you across apps or the web.
• We collect anonymous usage & performance analytics (which features are used, app speed, and crashes), tied only to a random device identifier — never to your identity, and never for advertising or cross-app tracking.

What we process

Image analysis (every scan)

When you scan a meal, the app sends the photo and a short analysis prompt to our backend on Amazon Web Services (AWS), which forwards it to Amazon Bedrock to run the AI model that identifies the food and estimates its nutrition. Processing happens in the United States.

• The image is held only in memory for the duration of the analysis and is not written to durable storage.
• The image and prompt are not used to train models. (Amazon Bedrock does not use your inputs or outputs to train its models, and we do not retain them.)
• To prevent abuse, each request is verified with Apple's App Attest. This confirms the request comes from a genuine copy of the app; it does not identify you.

On your device

Your scans, food items, and nutrition history are stored locally on your device. They are not uploaded to us. If you enable Apple Health, the meals you log are written to Apple Health on your device under your control; we never receive your Health data.

Subscription management

To provide the optional Snaplate Pro subscription (and credit top-ups) without an account, we store the minimum necessary:

Data	Why	Notes
Apple originalTransactionId	Identify your active subscription	Provided by Apple; not personal contact info
A random app-generated UUID (appAccountToken)	Link your device to its subscription	Created on your device; contains no personal data
Usage counters (credits used, period start)	Enforce the free-scan and monthly credit allowances	Aggregate counts only

We do not receive your Apple ID, name, email, or payment details — Apple handles billing.

Diagnostics & feedback (optional)

If you submit feedback (e.g. thumbs up/down on a result), we send a small, anonymous event (rating, app version, device model, an item label) over an attested, signed channel. No photos are included.

Product analytics (usage & performance)

To understand how Snaplate is used and to keep it fast and reliable, the app sends anonymous analytics events — for example which features you use, which screens you view, app launch and response times, and non-fatal errors or crash diagnostics. These events are tied only to a random, app-generated device identifier (not your name, email, or Apple ID) and are sent over an attested, signed channel to our backend on AWS (United States), where they are aggregated for our own product analytics. They include no photos and no personal information, and are never used for advertising or to track you across other apps or websites.

Your choices

• You control when a photo is sent — analysis happens only when you scan a meal.
• Manage or cancel your subscription anytime in the App Store.
• Turn Apple Health write-back on or off anytime in Settings.
• Deleting the app removes locally stored scans from your device.

Data retention

• Meal images & prompts: not retained (processed in memory, then discarded).
• Local scans: until you delete them or the app.
• Anonymous analytics events: retained in aggregate to monitor and improve the app.
• Subscription records: retained while the subscription is active and for the period required to handle renewals, refunds, and accounting.

Contact

Questions about this notice: email romain.vivier@gmail.com.