Privacy Policy

Effective date: 26 July 2026

Iron Fork (the app) is developed by Mohamed Nassar, an individual developer based in Germany.

The short version

• Your data lives on your device. There are no accounts and no cloud database.
• Meal photos and descriptions leave your device only when you ask for AI analysis, and only to produce your result.
• We do not sell data, show ads, or track you across apps. The app collects anonymous, content-free usage statistics, which you can switch off in Settings.
• Delete the app and your data is gone, except backups you exported yourself.

What the app stores on your device

• Meals you log: names, nutrition values, ingredient breakdowns, portion notes, text descriptions, and any photos you attach.
• Weight entries and your goal weight.
• Settings: daily calorie and macro targets, unit and theme preferences, and the optional profile used for target recommendations, including age, gender, and activity level.

All of this is stored locally on your device. Backups are JSON files you create and control yourself; they include your meals, weights, and settings, but not photos.

What leaves your device, and when

Nothing is sent anywhere automatically. When you actively request an AI feature, the app sends the minimum needed for that request to our server, which forwards it to OpenAI and returns the result:

• Meal analysis: your meal photo(s) and/or description.
• Optimize: the analyzed meal being optimized.
• Target recommendations: the profile you entered.
• Coach suggestions: today's intake and targets, recent meals, and your weight and goal context. The server also infers your country, at country level only, from your network connection to suggest locally available, in-season foods. No location permission is used, nothing more precise than country is derived, and it is read per request and never stored.

Requests are not tied to an account or identity because the app has no user accounts.

Anonymous usage analytics

The app sends anonymous usage events to PostHog, hosted in the EU, unless you turn this off in Settings → “Share anonymous usage statistics”. These events describe which features are used so we can see what works and what to improve.

• They never contain meal names, descriptions, photos, ingredients, nutrition values, body weight, or anything you type.
• There are no accounts: events carry a random anonymous identifier that is not linked to your identity, and analytics is never used for advertising or cross-app tracking.
• Turning the toggle off stops all analytics immediately.

Third parties we rely on

• OpenAI processes AI requests. API inputs and outputs are not used to train OpenAI models by default; its abuse-monitoring logs may retain content briefly. See OpenAI’s API data controls.
• Cloudflare runs the server that relays AI requests. The server processes requests in memory and does not store your meal content. Cloudflare’s network provides the country-level signal used for Coach suggestions; our server reads it per request and does not store it. Cloudflare may process limited request metadata for routing, security, and rate limiting under its Privacy Policy.
• PostHog receives the anonymous, content-free usage events described above, unless you have turned analytics off.

What we do not do

• No accounts, advertising, analytics that identify you, or sale of personal data.
• No location permission, contacts access, or cross-app tracking.

Retention and deletion

• On-device data stays until you delete individual entries, clear data, or uninstall the app.
• Our server keeps none of your meal content after a request completes.
• Anonymous usage events, if enabled, are held by PostHog in the EU; they contain no meal or body content and cannot be linked back to you.
• Backup files you exported are under your control; delete them like any file.

Your rights under the GDPR

Because your data is stored on your device, you exercise most rights—access, correction, deletion, and portability—directly in the app. For anything else, contact mohamedanassar@gmail.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data-protection supervisory authority.

Health disclaimer

Nutrition values and recommendations are AI-generated estimates for general guidance. They are not medical, dietary, or training advice. Do not rely on them for medical decisions, and consult a professional for conditions such as pregnancy, eating-disorder history, or medically supervised diets.

Changes

We will update this policy when the app’s data practices change and revise the effective date above. Material changes will be noted in the app’s release notes.

This policy applies to the Iron Fork mobile app. Need help? Visit Support.