1. Introduction
Welcome to Grocery Chooser ("Grocery Chooser," "we," "us," or "our"). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our Grocery Chooser mobile application (the "Service").
Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access or use the Service.
Our core principle is to respect your privacy. We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways when you use our Service:
a. Information Collected Automatically for Core Functionality
- Shopping Lists and Meal Plans: Our application stores your shopping lists, meal plans, recipes, and grocery preferences locally on your device to provide core functionality.
- Usage Data: We may collect information about how you use the app, such as features accessed and time spent, to improve our services. This data is aggregated and anonymized.
- Device Information: We may collect information about your mobile device, including the type of device, operating system version, and a unique device identifier. This information is used to ensure compatibility and to provide technical support.
b. Information You Provide to Us
- Account Information: If you choose to create an account, we may collect your name, email address, and password to sync your data across devices.
- Shopping Preferences: Information about your dietary preferences, favorite stores, and shopping habits that you voluntarily provide to personalize your experience.
- Contact Information: If you contact us for support or other inquiries, we may collect your name, email address, and the content of your message to respond to you.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for purposes including:
- Providing and Maintaining Our Service: To operate and maintain the Grocery Chooser application, including managing your simple shopping lists and providing AI-powered grocery recommendations.
- Personalization: To provide personalized AI recommendations based on your preferences and shopping patterns.
- Improving Our Service: To understand how users interact with our Service, to enhance usability, develop new features, and to identify and fix bugs or performance issues.
- Communication: To respond to your inquiries, provide customer support, and send you important updates about the service.
4. Sharing and Disclosure of Your Information
We are committed to your privacy and limit sharing of your information:
- With Your Consent: We may share your information with your consent or at your direction.
- Service Providers: We may share information with third-party vendors and service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as cloud hosting for data backup (if you opt-in) and analytics services. These providers are authorized to use your information only as necessary to provide services to us and are contractually obligated to protect your information.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required by law, subpoena, or other legal process, or if we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.
- Business Transfers: If DetoxEar is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information.
Again, we do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for their marketing or promotional purposes.
5. Data Security
We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction. Shopping lists and meal plans are stored locally on your device by default. If you choose to sync your data across devices, we use encryption to protect your data in transit and at rest. However, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against interception or other misuse.
6. Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as you use the Service. Data is stored locally on your device and can be deleted by you at any time through the app settings or by uninstalling the application. If you use our cloud sync feature, your data will be retained until you delete your account or request data deletion.
7. Your Choices and Rights
You have certain choices and rights regarding your information:
- Access and Update: You can access and update your information through the app's settings.
- Data Export: You can export your shopping lists and meal plans at any time.
- Data Deletion: You can delete your data by clearing it in app settings or uninstalling the application.
- Account Deletion: If you have a sync account, you can delete it and all associated data by contacting us.
- Opt-Out of Communications: If you receive non-essential communications from us, you can opt-out by following the unsubscribe instructions in those communications.
8. Children's Privacy
Our Service is not intended for individuals under the age of 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in the relevant jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under this age. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
9. Third-Party Services
Our Service may integrate with third-party services (e.g., recipe databases, store locators, cloud sync services). This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party services you access or use.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by updating the "Effective Date" at the top of this Privacy Policy and, in some cases, we may provide more prominent notice (such as by adding a statement to our website or sending a notification within the app). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.