Privacy policy

The short version: your kitchen data stays on your phone, unless you turn on smart scan. Nudgey has no account system and no sync. Your inventory, shopping lists and settings are stored in a database on your device and are not transmitted to us or to anyone else. The one exception is optional: if you turn on smart scan, a photo of a receipt is sent to be read and is not kept. It is described below.

Who we are

Nudgey is made by Modality BV, a company registered in Belgium (company number BE 0783.271.733), Martelarenplein 20E, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Modality BV is the controller of the personal data described in this policy. “We” and “us” in this policy mean Modality BV.

What Nudgey stores on your device

Everything you put into the app: items and their quantities, locations and expiry dates, shopping lists and staples, and your notification and unit preferences. This is held in a local database on the device. We cannot read it, we have no copy of it, and there is no account to attach it to.

If you back your phone up through iCloud or Android backup, that backup may include Nudgey’s data, in the same way it includes other apps’. That backup is between you and Apple or Google.

Receipt and barcode scanning

By default, when you photograph a receipt, the text is read on the device using the operating system’s own text recognition (Apple Vision on iOS, ML Kit on Android). The photo is not uploaded, and this works with no network connection at all.

On iPhone you can choose smart scan instead, which reads receipts more accurately. Nudgey asks before your first scan, and you can turn it on or off at any time in Profile. It is off unless you choose it. With smart scan on:

• The receipt photo, reduced in size, is sent to Nudgey’s reading service. The service runs on Cloudflare, and the photo is read by an AI model hosted by Cloudflare (Workers AI). The list of items is sent back to your phone, where you check it before anything is added.
• The photo and the item list are not stored by Nudgey’s service, and request logging is switched off. Nothing else from the app is sent: not your inventory, not your shopping lists.
• To stop the service being misused, each request is signed by Apple’s App Attest, which proves it came from a genuine copy of Nudgey. The service keeps the public key for your installation, a daily count of scans, and a record of each request’s ID and status for 24 hours. None of these contain your name, your email or anything from the receipt.
• Cloudflare may process the photo outside your country while it is being read. If smart scan is unavailable, busy or offline, Nudgey reads the receipt on your phone instead.

Scanning a barcode looks the product up in Open Food Facts, an open database. That request contains the barcode number and happens only when you explicitly tap to search. Nothing about your inventory is sent with it.

What does leave the app

Analytics

Nudgey uses PostHog to understand which parts of the app get used, hosted on PostHog’s EU infrastructure. It records anonymous product events — that a screen was opened or a feature was used — tied to a random identifier, not to you. It does not capture the contents of your inventory, screen recordings, your name, your email or your location, it does not use advertising identifiers, and it does not track you across other apps or websites.

Subscriptions

If you subscribe to Nudgey, the purchase is made through Apple’s or Google’s payment system and the subscription status is managed by RevenueCat. We never see or store your card details — the stores handle payment entirely. Nudgey only ever asks whether an active subscription exists.

Recipes

Recipe content comes from TheMealDB. Most of it is bundled inside the app; requests for additional recipes contain no information about you or your kitchen.

What Nudgey never does

• No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
• No selling of personal data, and no sharing beyond the services named on this page.
• No tracking across other apps or websites.
• No account, so no email list, no password and nothing to be breached.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access, correct, export or erase personal data held about you. In Nudgey’s case there is almost nothing to exercise those rights against: your food data is on your device, and deleting the app removes it. Smart scan photos are not kept, so there is nothing to retrieve or delete afterwards. For the anonymous analytics events, you can ask us to delete the data associated with your installation by writing to support@heynudgey.com, and we will.

Nudgey is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from them.

This website

With your permission, this website uses Google Analytics to understand visits, referral sources, and download-link clicks. Google’s analytics script loads only after you accept analytics. If you reject, we do not send analytics data to Google. Fonts and website assets are served from this domain.

Analytics uses first-party cookies (including _ga and cookies beginning with _ga_) to distinguish browsers and visits. Reports include pages viewed, campaign labels, browser and device information, approximate location, and download-link interactions. We do not send app inventory, names, or email addresses. Advertising consent remains off, and we disable Google signals and advertising personalization. Google processes analytics data under its privacy policy, which describes its processing and international data transfers.

Your consent is the basis for this optional analytics. We remember your choice in this browser for up to six months using local storage. Analytics cookies are set with a six-month lifetime, renewed during use. You can withdraw consent through Cookie settings in the footer or below. Withdrawal stops future collection, clears this site’s Google Analytics cookies, and reloads the page; it does not erase data already collected. Clearing browser storage also resets your choice.

Contact

Questions about this policy or about your data: support@heynudgey.com. By post: Modality BV, Martelarenplein 20E, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the date at the top of this page changes with it, and the change will be noted in the app’s release notes.