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Privacy Policy
Bhojan is a calorie and nutrition tracker. This policy explains what we collect, why we collect it, who we share it with, and how you can see, export, or delete it.
Last updated: 31 August 2026 · Effective: 31 August 2026
Who we are
Bhojan ("Bhojan", "we", "us") operates the Bhojan Calorie Tracker web and Android app at calculatedbhojan.com. We are the data controller for the personal data described below.
For any privacy question, request, or complaint, write to privacy@calculatedbhojan.com. We aim to answer within 30 days.
What we collect
We only collect what the app needs to calculate your targets and show your history. We do not buy data about you from anyone else.
| Category | What it includes | Why we need it |
|---|---|---|
| Account | Your name, email address, and password. | To create your account, sign you in, and recover access if you forget your password. |
| Health profile | Date of birth, height, weight, and activity level. | To calculate your daily calorie and macronutrient targets. These are the inputs to the standard TDEE formula the app uses. |
| Food logs | Meals you log, their items and portions, the calculated calories and macros, and the date and meal type. | To show your daily journal, dashboard totals, and trends over time. |
| Recipes | Recipes you save or import, including any recipe web address you paste in. | To store your recipes and their per-serving nutrition. |
| Progress tracking | Weight entries, daily water intake, and daily habit check-ins. | To draw your progress charts, streaks, and hydration totals. |
| Corrections | Edits you make to an estimated food entry, and the reason you give. | To apply your correction and improve the accuracy of our nutrition estimates. |
| Meal photos | A photo you choose to submit for food recognition. | To identify the food and estimate its nutrition. See AI-powered features — we do not keep the photo. |
| Voice logging | The text of a meal description you speak into Voice Logging. Your microphone is used only while you are on that screen and only after you tap the microphone button. | To turn what you said into a meal entry you can review. See Voice logging — we keep no audio recording and no copy of the transcript. |
What we do not collect. Bhojan has no advertising, no analytics or tracking pixels, and no third-party marketing cookies. We do not collect your contacts, location, call logs, or device identifiers for advertising, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.
How we use your data
- To provide the app: your journal, dashboard, recipes, charts, and calculated targets.
- To create and secure your account, and to let you reset your password.
- To estimate the nutrition of foods, photos, and recipes you submit.
- To improve the accuracy of our nutrition data, using the corrections you submit.
- To keep the service working, diagnose errors, and prevent abuse.
- To answer you when you contact us for support or about a privacy request.
We do not sell or rent your personal data, and we do not share it with advertisers or data brokers. We do not use your data to make automated decisions with legal consequences for you.
Legal bases (UK/EU users)
Where the GDPR applies, we rely on: contract, to give you the app you signed up for; consent, for the health data in your profile and logs and for any meal photo you submit — you may withdraw it at any time by deleting the data or your account; legitimate interests, to keep the service secure and working; and legal obligation, where the law requires us to keep or produce records.
AI-powered features
Photo recognition and recipe parsing send your input to Google's Gemini API so it can be analysed. Specifically:
- Photo recognition. When you submit a meal photo, the image is sent to the Gemini API, which returns the foods it recognises. We store the resulting food entry in your log. We do not store the photo itself on our servers.
- Recipe parsing. When you paste recipe text or a recipe web address, that text is sent to the Gemini API to extract the ingredients and nutrition.
- Voice logging. When you finish speaking, only the final text of what you said is sent to the Gemini API, to work out which foods and portions you named. Calories and nutrition are then calculated by Bhojan from its own food database, not by the AI. No audio is ever sent.
We do not send your name, email address, or health profile to the Gemini API. This processing is governed by Google's terms for its API, and Bhojan's use of it does not train Google's models on your content. If you would rather not use these features, simply log your meals manually instead — the rest of the app works without them.
Voice logging
Voice Logging lets you say what you ate instead of typing it. It is entirely optional, and every meal it suggests must be reviewed and confirmed by you before it is added to your diary.
- When the microphone is used. Only while you are on the Voice Logging screen and only after you tap the microphone button. It is never opened when the app starts, and never in the background. The first time you use the feature we explain this before asking for permission.
- Who transcribes your speech. Your speech is converted to text by the speech recognition built into your browser or device. On Google Chrome and on Android this is provided by Google as part of the browser or operating system and is governed by Google's own privacy policy. Bhojan does not choose or add a separate speech-to-text provider.
- Audio. Bhojan does not record, receive, or store any audio. No voice recording ever reaches our servers.
- The transcript. The final text is sent to our meal parser and to the Gemini API to identify the foods you named. It is used to build the suggestion on screen and is then discarded. We do not save it to our database or write it to our application logs. A draft of what you said is held in your own browser's local storage so you do not lose it if the app reloads, and it is cleared as soon as you add or cancel the meal.
- What we do measure. We count anonymous events such as "a voice session was started" or "a meal was confirmed", together with the language setting, so we can see where the feature is not working well. These counts contain no meal text.
Voice logging produces estimates to help you track what you eat. It does not provide medical advice, does not diagnose any condition, and does not guarantee the accuracy of any nutrition figure. Bhojan never tries to infer allergies, medical conditions, or a diagnosis from what you say.
Who we share data with
We share data only with the service providers we need to run the app:
| Provider | Role | Data involved |
|---|---|---|
| Netlify | Hosting, application servers, and the managed database that stores your account. | All data described above. |
| Google (Gemini API) | Food recognition, recipe parsing, and identifying foods in a voice transcript. | Meal photos, recipe text, and food descriptions you submit or speak. No audio is ever sent. |
| Your browser or device (speech recognition) | Converting your speech to text for Voice Logging — on Chrome and Android this is a Google service built into the browser or operating system. | The audio captured while you are speaking. Bhojan never receives it. |
We may also disclose data if we are legally required to, or to protect the rights and safety of our users. If Bhojan is ever transferred to another owner, we will tell you before your data moves and you will keep the rights described here.
International transfers
Our providers may process data on servers outside your country, including in the United States. Where data leaves the UK or EEA, transfers rely on the safeguards our providers offer, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
How long we keep it
We keep your account and its data for as long as your account exists, because the app's whole purpose is to show you your own history. When you delete your data or your account, we remove it from our live database immediately; residual copies in encrypted backups are overwritten within 30 days. Meal photos are not retained once they have been analysed. Voice logging retains nothing: no audio is recorded at all, and the transcript is discarded as soon as your meal suggestion has been built.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you have the right to access your data, correct it, delete it, export a portable copy, restrict or object to how we use it, withdraw consent, and complain to a data protection regulator. We will never charge you or degrade your service for exercising these rights.
You can act on most of these yourself, without contacting us:
- Access and export. Open Goals → GDPR Data Control in the app and choose Export My Profile Data to download everything we hold about you as a JSON file.
- Correct. Edit your name, email, and health profile at any time on the same screen.
- Delete. See how to delete your account or how to request deletion of your data.
To exercise any right by email, write to privacy@calculatedbhojan.com from the address on your account. If you are in the UK or EEA and are unhappy with our response, you may complain to your national data protection authority.
Security
Traffic between the app and our servers is encrypted with HTTPS, and your data is held in a managed database that is encrypted at rest and reachable only by the app's own server-side code. Your password is stored only as a salted scrypt hash, never in a readable form, so nobody — including us — can read it back; that is also why we can only ever reset a password, never tell you your existing one. No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security; please use a strong, unique password for your account, and tell us at privacy@calculatedbhojan.com if you believe your account has been compromised.
Children
Bhojan is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact privacy@calculatedbhojan.com and we will delete it.
Not medical advice
Bhojan's calorie estimates, macro targets, and suggestions are informational and support general tracking. They are not medical or clinical advice. Please consult a qualified dietitian or doctor before starting a dietary regimen.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of this page, and for significant changes we will notify you in the app or by email before they take effect.
Contact us
Privacy questions, data requests, and complaints: privacy@calculatedbhojan.com
App: Bhojan Calorie Tracker · calculatedbhojan.com