Privacy policy

Last updated November 3, 2026

Where your data lives

Everything you enter in Your Everyday Bowl, including foods, log entries, personal metrics, notes, and settings, is stored in a database on your own device.

If you turn on iCloud sync, that database is also kept in the private part of your personal iCloud account so your other devices can stay up to date. This private database is readable only by your devices, under your Apple Account. The developer cannot read it, and Apple protects it under the Apple privacy policy. Sync is optional, and the app works fully offline and signed out of iCloud.

The profile you fill in during setup (age, height, and similar details used for suggestions) is kept on each device only. It never syncs and never leaves the device.

What is never collected

• No account or sign-in exists, so no email address, name, or password is ever requested by the app.
• No analytics or usage data is gathered. The developer does not know how often the app is opened or which features are used.
• No advertising and no third-party advertising or tracking code.
• No selling or sharing of data, because there is no data to sell or share.

Apple Health

Your Everyday Bowl can read personal metrics such as weight, steps, and sleep from Apple Health, and can write your nutrition totals back to it. Both directions are optional and happen only after you grant permission in the standard Health access screen. Health data is handled on your device through Apple's Health framework and is never sent anywhere by the app.

Food database lookups

When you search for packaged or restaurant food, the app can query two public databases: USDA FoodData Central, run by the United States Department of Agriculture, and Open Food Facts, a non-profit open database. These requests contain only the search text or the scanned barcode, never your name, your log, or anything else about you. The requests are subject to those services' own policies. You can add your own free USDA key in Settings, in which case your key is used for USDA requests instead of the app's shared one.

The app also ships with a built-in collection of restaurant menu items. Searching that collection happens entirely on your device.

Optional AI features

Some features can use AI: reading a photographed nutrition label, estimating the nutrition of a described or photographed meal, and similar helpers. These features are off until you set them up, and you choose how they run:

• Apple's models. Requests are handled on your device or in Apple's Private Cloud Compute, under Apple's privacy protections. Apple states that this data is not stored and is not used to train models.
• Your own key. You can instead connect a key you create yourself with an AI company (such as Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google). When you use an AI feature, the photo or description you provide is sent directly from your device to that company under your own key and their terms. Keys are stored in your personal iCloud Keychain, which the developer cannot read.

Either way, AI requests happen only at the moment you use an AI feature, carry only what that request needs, and never pass through any server run by the developer.

Backups and exports

You can export a complete backup of your data at any time. Export files are created on your device and go only where you choose to put them. What you do with an exported file, and who can read it there, is in your hands.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date at the top. The commitment behind it, an app that collects nothing, is the product itself and is not going to change.

Contact

Questions about privacy are welcome at support@everydaybowlworks.com.