Privacy Policy for Jalories.com
Last Updated: 2025 Nov 18
1. Introduction
Welcome to Jalories.com ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you understand how your information is handled. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and use our calorie tracking application (the "Service").
By accessing or using Jalories.com, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
2. Information We Collect
We collect information that identifies you personally ("Personal Information") and information that does not ("Non-Personal Information").
A. Personal Information
When you register for Jalories.com, we collect the following personal identifiers:
- Email Address: Collected directly when you sign up via email or automatically when you choose to sign in using Google OAuth.
- Authentication Data: If you use Google OAuth, we receive an authentication token to verify your identity. We do not store your Google password.
B. Health and Usage Data
To provide our tracking features, we collect data you voluntarily enter:
- Meal Entries: The names of food items, dates, quantities, and times of consumption.
- Macro Goals: Your specific nutritional targets (Calories, Carbohydrates, Proteins, Fats).
C. Automatically Collected Information
Like most websites, we may automatically collect certain information when you visit our site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, and referring URLs. This helps us improve the stability and performance of our app.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide the Service: Create and manage your account, log your meals, and calculate progress against your macro goals.
- Generate Reports: Analyze your input data to provide daily or weekly nutrition summaries.
- Communication: Send you administrative emails, such as password resets or updates regarding the Service.
- Improvement: Understand how users interact with our app to improve functionality.
4. Artificial Intelligence and Nutrition Inference
A core feature of Jalories.com is the ability to infer nutritional information from food names. To provide this service, we utilize third-party Artificial Intelligence (AI) processing.
How this works:
- When you create a new food item and click on "Infer nutrition info", we send only the name of the food item and a unique, anonymous per-user token to our AI service provider, Nuabase.
- Nuabase processes this request using Large Language Models (LLMs) provided by third parties, which may include Groq, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Cerebras, or OpenRouter (which routes to other providers).
- The AI returns the estimated nutritional data (calories, macros) to us, which we then display to you.
Privacy Measures regarding AI:
- Anonymization: We strictly separate your Personal Information (Email) from the AI requests. We do not share your email address, IP address, or any user-identifying information downstream LLM providers.
- Nuabase is our trusted LLM runtime platform (run by the Jalories.com team), and receives a unique token per-user to do budgeting, quotas, rate-limiting and anti-abuse measures.
- Data Isolation: The AI platform providers like OpenAI receive only the text string of the food item. They cannot link a specific food query back to your specific user account.
5. Sharing of Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or rent your Personal Information to third parties for marketing purposes. We may share information only in the following situations:
- Service Providers: We may share data with trusted third-party companies that perform services on our behalf (such as hosting providers, database management, and the AI providers listed in Section 4). These third parties are bound by confidentiality agreements and are restricted from using your data for any purpose other than providing services to us.
- Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
- Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
6. Data Security
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your Personal Information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
7. Third-Party Login (Google OAuth)
Our Service allows you to register and log in using your Google account. If you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information from Google, as permitted by your Google settings. We use this information strictly for authentication and account creation purposes.
8. Children's Privacy
Jalories.com is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
9. Your Data Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the right to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate data.
- Request deletion of your account and associated data.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at the email address provided below.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.