SnapLarderSummary
SnapLarder keeps your food data on your phone. There is no account, and the developer never receives your items, photos, settings or how you use the app.
What the developer receives
Only two things, and only in these situations:
- If you email support: your email address and whatever you write. Used only to reply and fix the problem.
- If you buy the unlock: a purchase record held by RevenueCat, the service that checks your purchase (see Purchases). It shows an anonymous code and what was bought and when. It does not include your name, email address, Apple ID or payment details, and the developer cannot tell who you are from it.
Nothing else reaches the developer. Payments and refunds are handled by Apple, not by the developer.
What the app stores on your phone
- The food items you add, with their dates, locations, quantities and whether you have used them.
- A photo for each item, if you scanned or photographed it.
- Your settings, such as reminder timing and date format.
- Whether you have bought the unlock, and when your free trial started.
- Whether you have seen the guide, and a count of items added and used, which the app uses to decide when to ask for a rating.
All of this stays on your device. The developer cannot see it and has no access to it. It is included in your iPhone's own backups if you use them; those backups are handled by Apple.
Camera and photos
SnapLarder uses your camera only while you are adding food: to read barcodes, and to take a photo when you press the button.
Reading text and recognising food in a photo happen entirely on your device. Photos are never uploaded or shared with the developer or anyone else.
A cropped copy of each photo is saved on your phone with the item, so you can recognise it in your list. It is deleted when you delete the item or the app.
The app does not access your photo library.
Barcode lookup
When you scan a barcode, SnapLarder sends the barcode number to Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), a free, open database of food products, to look up the product's name, details and photo.
Only the barcode number is sent. No account, device identifier, location or photo is included. Like any website, Open Food Facts receives your device's IP address with the request; its own privacy policy covers how it handles that.
Results are remembered while the app is open, so scanning the same product twice in one go does not look it up twice.
If a product isn't found and you type its name in, SnapLarder remembers that name against the barcode on your phone, so the product is recognised next time without looking it up. This stays on your device and is never sent anywhere.
If the product has a photo in the database, it is downloaded and stored on your phone with the item. If the photo couldn't be downloaded at the time, for example because you had no signal, SnapLarder tries again later, which sends that barcode number again. If you never scan a barcode, nothing is sent.
Reminders
Expiry reminders are scheduled on your device. No reminder data leaves your phone. You can turn reminders off in SnapLarder's Settings, or in your iPhone's Settings.
Purchases
The free trial, the free version and the one-time unlock are managed through Apple. The developer never sees your payment details or your Apple ID.
SnapLarder uses RevenueCat (revenuecat.com) to check whether you have bought the unlock and to restore it if you reinstall or change phone. RevenueCat receives an anonymous identifier created for your installation, your IP address, device model, iOS version and your purchase history for SnapLarder.
That identifier is not your name, email or Apple ID, and is not linked to your food items, photos or anything else in the app. RevenueCat is based in the United States, so this data may be processed there, under the safeguards described in RevenueCat's privacy policy (revenuecat.com/privacy). Apple's handling of your purchase is covered by Apple's privacy policy.
Ratings
After the app has been in use for a few days, SnapLarder may ask Apple to show its standard rating request. Apple decides whether it appears. Any rating or review you give goes to Apple, not to the developer, and is covered by Apple's privacy policy.
Analytics and advertising
SnapLarder has no advertising, no analytics, and no tracking across other apps or websites. Nothing you do in the app is used to build a profile of you, and no personal information is ever sold or shared for advertising.
If you email support
If you email support@snaplarder.com, the developer receives your email address and whatever you choose to send, through the developer's email provider. It is used only to reply to you and to fix the problem you report, and is kept only as long as needed for that.
The website
snaplarder.com uses no cookies, no analytics and no advertising. Two companies receive your IP address when you visit, as part of delivering the pages: GitHub, which hosts the site and records visitors' IP addresses for security, and Google, which supplies the typeface through Google Fonts. Each handles it under its own privacy policy.
Your rights
Your items, photos, dates and settings never leave your phone, so there is nothing for the developer to hand over, correct or delete. Deleting the app deletes them.
For your support emails and your purchase record, you can ask for a copy, a correction or deletion by emailing support@snaplarder.com. The developer, Derek Edmondston in the United Kingdom, is responsible for this data under UK data protection law, and uses it only to provide the unlock you bought and to answer you. These rights apply wherever you live.
If you are unhappy with how your data is handled, you can complain to the data protection regulator where you live: in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk); in Ireland, the Data Protection Commission (dataprotection.ie); in Australia, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au); in New Zealand, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (privacy.org.nz); in South Africa, the Information Regulator (inforegulator.org.za).
Children
SnapLarder is suitable for all ages but is designed for adults who look after a household's food. It does not knowingly collect personal data from children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be published at https://snaplarder.com/privacy.html and in the app, with a new date at the top.