Map My Food

🍽️ Overview

Map My Food is a food journal app that helps you log meals, capture photos, and pin your favorite dining spots on a map. We built this app with one guiding principle: your food memories stay with you.

This Privacy Policy explains how Map My Food handles information when you use the app. The short version: we don't collect, store, or share your personal data. Everything lives on your device and, optionally, in your private iCloud account.

📋 Data We Collect

Map My Food is designed to operate without collecting any personal information. Here's a complete breakdown of every data type the app handles:

We do not use analytics SDKs, advertising networks, or any third-party services that might collect data about your usage or dining habits within the app.

👶 Children's Privacy

Map My Food is designed for users of all ages. We take children's privacy with the utmost seriousness, and our approach is simple: we don't collect any information about anyone at all.

All food entries, photos, notes, and location data are stored entirely on your device (and optionally in your private iCloud account). This data never touches our servers because we have no servers to receive it.

☁️ iCloud Sync

Map My Food is built offline-first. The app works completely without an internet connection. However, we offer optional iCloud sync so you can access your food journal across multiple Apple devices — for example, your iPhone and iPad.

• iCloud sync is optional and controlled entirely by your Apple ID settings.
• When enabled, data is synced through Apple's CloudKit infrastructure, encrypted in transit and at rest.
• Your synced data is stored in your private iCloud account. ARRcade Apps cannot access it.
• You can disable iCloud sync at any time in Settings → [Your Name] → iCloud → Map My Food.
• Disabling sync does not delete your local data — it simply stops future syncing.

⌚ Apple Watch

Map My Food includes an Apple Watch companion app for quick food logging on the go. The Watch app follows the same privacy principles as the iPhone app:

• All data entered on Apple Watch is stored locally on your paired devices.
• Data syncs between your iPhone and Apple Watch using Apple's Watch Connectivity framework — a direct, private connection.
• No Watch data is sent to ARRcade servers or any third party.
• The Watch app does not independently collect analytics or tracking data.

🔒 Data Sharing

We do not share any data with third parties. There are no exceptions to this. Specifically:

• We do not sell personal information — because we don't have any to sell.
• We do not share data with advertisers or marketing platforms.
• We do not use analytics services (no Firebase, no Mixpanel, no Amplitude).
• We do not integrate social media SDKs.
• We do not have a backend server that receives app usage data.

If you contact us by email for support, we will use your email address only to respond to your inquiry. We will not add you to mailing lists or share your email with anyone.

⚖️ Your Rights

Because Map My Food stores all data locally on your device and in your personal iCloud account, you have complete, direct control over your information at all times.

• Access: Open the app to view all your food entries and data. No request needed.
• Correction: Edit any food entry, note, rating, or location directly in the app.
• Deletion: Delete individual entries, or delete the app entirely to remove all local data.
• iCloud data: Disable and delete iCloud data via your Apple device settings.
• Export: Your data exists in human-readable form within the app interface.

For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), this design means your GDPR rights of access, rectification, erasure, and portability are exercised directly through your device — no formal request to us is required.

For California residents: Map My Food does not sell personal information, so CCPA opt-out rights do not apply. You retain full control as described above.

🛡️ Security

The most secure data is data that isn't collected. Our privacy-first architecture means your information is protected by the same security built into your Apple devices.

• Local data is protected by iOS data protection and device encryption.
• Face ID / Touch ID or your device passcode controls access.
• iCloud sync, when enabled, uses end-to-end encryption provided by Apple.
• No passwords, accounts, or credentials are required to use Map My Food.
• No data traverses ARRcade servers, eliminating server-side breach risk entirely.

📣 Policy Changes

If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will update the "Effective Date" at the top of this page and notify users through an app update notice in the App Store.

Given our architecture — no data collection, no servers, no accounts — there is very little about this policy that could meaningfully change. Any change that introduced data collection would require explicit opt-in from users.

We encourage you to review this policy periodically. The current version is always available at this URL and within the app under Settings → Privacy Policy.

✉️ Contact Us

Have questions about this Privacy Policy or how Map My Food handles data? We're happy to help.