🔒 Privacy Policy

🛡️ Introduction

Welcome to DietAIcian. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal and health data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, process, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile and web applications.

📊 Data We Collect

We collect information that is strictly necessary for generating personalized diet plans and tracking nutritional progress:

• Demographics: Age, gender, height, current weight, and target weight.
• Lifestyle & Logistics: Activity level, weekly grocery budget, cooking skill level, and daily meal/snack times.
• Clinical Information: Food allergies, food intolerances, and medical/health conditions (such as Diabetes, Hypertension, PCOS, and Thyroid disorders) to ensure plan safety.
• Logs & Media: Daily food descriptions, completed meals, skipped meals, and optional meal photos/barcode scans uploaded for calorie tracking.

⚙️ How We Use Your Data

We process your data to provide hyper-personalized clinical nutrition assistance:

• Plan Generation: Your profile details, demographics, and clinical constraints are transmitted to our secure backend hosted on Vercel and processed via OpenAI's secure GPT models to generate the 7-day plan.
• Meal Swaps: Ingredients you dislike or swap are processed to find equivalent calorie-matched alternatives.
• Barcode & Image Lookup: Photos or barcodes you scan are analyzed using computer vision (via OpenAI) or the public Open Food Facts database to estimate calorie and macro values.
• Micro-reminders & Alarms: Configured times are stored locally to trigger native push notifications. We do not track location in the background.

🔒 Data Security & Retention

• HTTPS Encryption: All data is securely transmitted in transit using standard TLS/HTTPS.
• Database Protection: Records are saved in Firestore under secure private authentication checks.
• No Selling/Advertising: We do not share, sell, distribute, or rent your health or personal data to marketing trackers or advertising networks.

🗑️ Your Rights & Account Deletion

You have complete control over your health profile:

• In-App Deletion: You can wipe your entire profile instantly inside Settings by clicking "Delete Account". This permanently deletes your Firestore document, your cache, and your authentication credentials.
• Web Deletion: If you no longer have access to the app, you can request manual data deletion online at our Account Deletion Page.

⚠️ Medical Disclaimer

DietAIcian's AI-generated meal recommendations are for educational and self-management purposes only. They are NOT a substitute for professional medical care, diagnosis, or clinical nutrition therapy. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional or Registered Dietitian before beginning any new diet or if you have specific clinical health conditions.