Privacy Policy

400 Calorie Meals · October 24, 2026

This app

400 Calorie Meals helps you build a plate near 300, 400, or 500 calories. There is no account. The app does not show ads, and it does not track you across other companies’ apps or websites.

Location

The app asks for your location while you are using it. It asks for an approximate location, about a kilometer across, not a street address and not a precise GPS point.

The location is used for one purpose: to learn which city you are in, so the app can show restaurants in that city. The coordinate is turned into a city and state on your phone, using Apple’s map service. Apple receives the coordinate to make that lookup.

The app then saves the city and state on your phone, such as “Minneapolis, MN”. The coordinate itself is not saved in the app, and it is not sent to our server.

You can say no. You can pick a city yourself. You can turn location off later in the iOS Settings for 400 Calorie Meals.

Photos

A photo is used only when you take one or choose one, of a plate or of foods. The camera opens only for that picture. From the photo library, the app receives only the picture you select, not the rest of your library.

If you have unlocked photo readings, that picture is sent to our server so the foods in it can be named. Our server runs on Cloudflare. It forwards the picture to Alibaba Cloud’s DashScope service in the United States, which reads the picture and returns the food names. We do not keep the picture. We do keep a count of how many readings that purchase has used this month, tied to the Apple transaction, not to your name.

The purchase proof sent with the picture is a signed receipt from Apple. It is checked to confirm the unlock. It is not your card number, and it is not your Apple ID email.

Purchases

Apple handles the payment for the one-time unlock. We do not receive your payment card or billing address.

What stays on your phone

These stay in the app’s local storage on your device:

• the plate you are building, and meals you have tracked
• the city you are using
• which restaurants you have opened
• how many photo readings you have used this month

Deleting the app deletes this information from the phone.

What we don’t do

We do not sell your information. We do not use it for advertising. We do not ask you to create an account.

Children

400 Calorie Meals is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.

Contact

Email 50894409@qq.com.