Privacy policy

Modibite is an app for logging food and following your energy balance. This page explains what data we process, why, and what rights you have. Last updated 2026-10-07.

Controller

Christopher af Bjur, an individual based in Sweden, is the controller for the processing described here. Contact: support@modibite.com.

Data we process

Account. Your email address (or the relay address Apple provides if you chose “Hide My Email”), your password in a protected form that cannot be read back, the link to your Apple ID if you sign in with Apple, whether your email address has been verified, and your language and unit preferences.
Profile. Age, weight, height, sex, activity level, weight goal and an optional calorie goal of your own. These are used to estimate your energy needs.
Data from Apple Health. Only if you grant access: steps, active energy, resting energy and weight. We only read this data; we never write anything to Apple Health. What we keep are daily totals (calories, steps and how many minutes an Apple Watch was worn) and weight entries, as the basis for your daily energy balance.
Content you create. Meal logs, recipes, saved meals, shopping lists, weight entries, corrections to food data, reports of inappropriate content and recipe photos you upload.
Technical data. When the app or a web page contacts our servers, we record your IP address, the browser or app version used, the time and what was requested. We use this to run the service, to troubleshoot and to protect against abuse.
Crash and error reports. When the app or our servers run into an error, a report is sent to our error-reporting provider. It contains what went wrong and where in the app it happened, the screen or function involved, your device model, iOS version, app version and your account identifier. Reports never contain your email address, IP address, password, the content you send or what you search for. We use no analytics or tracking tools.

Apple Health

Data from Apple Health (HealthKit) is used solely to calculate and show your own energy balance in Modibite. It is never used for marketing or advertising, never sold and never disclosed to third parties for such purposes. It is not shared with anyone beyond the providers that store it on our behalf (see below). You can turn off access at any time in the Health app under Sharing → Apps and Services.

Why we process the data

To provide the service (our contract with you): account, profile, your content and the calculations built on them.
With your consent: data from Apple Health and photos you upload. You can withdraw consent at any time.
Legitimate interest: security, logs, abuse protection, crash and error reports to find and fix bugs, and improving food data through corrections.
Legal obligation: where the law requires it.

Public recipes. A recipe you make public is shown to other users and on a share page on the web. Search engines may index public recipes (name, description, ingredients, steps and photo). Private recipes are never visible to others.
Shopping lists. Shared only through a link you create yourself. Anyone with the link can see the list and tick items off.
Corrections to food data. Your corrections are visible to you. Once enough users independently make the same correction, the value becomes shared for everyone, with no link to you.
AI assistants. Only if you connect Claude or ChatGPT yourself by signing in with a code we email you. The assistant can then search the food database, view and add to your meal logs, and view your goals and energy balance. It does not see your password and cannot change or delete the account. Disconnect under Settings → Security → Connected AI assistants, or in the assistant’s own settings; access ends immediately. What the assistant does with the data is governed by its own privacy policy.
We never sell personal data.

Providers and storage

Your data, the photos you upload and the emails we send are handled by Amazon Web Services and stored in its data centres in Stockholm, Sweden. None of it leaves the EU/EEA. Crash and error reports are processed by Sentry (Functional Software, Inc.) and stored within the EU, in Frankfurt, Germany. If you sign in with Apple, Apple handles the sign-in under its own terms. We only email you to verify your address, to reset your password and to send sign-in codes for the AI assistant connection.

Food data

Nutrition figures come from Open Food Facts (Open Database License and CC BY-SA) and Livsmedelsverket, the Swedish Food Agency (CC BY 4.0), complemented by user corrections. This is not personal data, but we want to be clear about where the numbers come from.

How long we keep the data

For as long as your account exists. You delete the account yourself in the app under Settings. That removes the account, profile, meal logs, health data, weight entries, shopping lists, private recipes and uploaded photos. Public recipes are anonymised – the link to you and the photo are removed – because other users may have logged them. If you signed in with Apple, the sign-in is revoked with Apple. Backups are deleted within 14 days. Technical data is kept for a short time for operations and security. Crash and error reports are deleted after 30 days.

Your rights

You have the right to access your data, have it corrected, have it erased, receive it in a machine-readable format, restrict or object to processing, and withdraw consent. You correct your profile and content in the app, and you delete in the app. For anything else, email support@modibite.com. You can also complain to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (imy.se). We make no automated decisions with legal effect; the calorie calculations are guidance, not decisions.

Children

Modibite is not intended for children. You must be at least 16 to create an account. The app asks for your age when the account is created and does not let anyone younger sign up.

Security

All communication between the app and our servers is encrypted. Passwords are never stored in readable form, and access to our systems is limited to what is needed to run the service.

Changes

We update this page when the processing changes and state the date at the top. For major changes we let you know in the app.