Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Nutri-Tsek.

Nutri-Tsek is a barcode-based grocery nutrition and product evaluation application designed to help users better understand nutritional information, food processing levels, ingredient information, dietary preferences, and food consumption patterns.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal information when you use Nutri-Tsek.

2. Academic Research and Educational Project Notice

Nutri-Tsek is developed as part of a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science academic thesis, software engineering project, and research initiative.

Nutri-Tsek is currently provided as a non-commercial educational and research project.

If Nutri-Tsek becomes a commercial service in the future, users will be notified and this Privacy Policy will be updated accordingly.

3. Information We Collect

Account Information

• Email address
• Encrypted password credentials
• Full name, if provided

Profile Information

• Age group
• Gender
• Dietary preferences
• Allergy preferences

Food and Nutrition Information

• Scanned products
• Product barcodes
• Consumption records
• Purchase history
• Calorie tracking records
• Weekly nutrition summaries
• Product evaluations
• Personalized recommendations

Technical Information

• Device type
• Browser information
• Application version
• Date and time of access
• IP address when necessary for security and system operation

4. User-Provided Information

Certain information entered by users, including allergy preferences, dietary preferences, food consumption records, and nutrition tracking information, may be stored to provide personalized application features.

5. Purpose of Processing

• Create and manage user accounts
• Provide barcode scanning functionality
• Display product and nutrition information
• Generate Nutri-Score assessments
• Generate NOVA Group classifications
• Display Nøglehullet assessments
• Generate allergy alerts based on user preferences
• Generate nutrition summary reports
• Generate personalized recommendations
• Provide calorie tracking features
• Improve application performance and security
• Support academic evaluation and research activities

6. Legal Basis for Processing

Personal information is processed based on user consent and the functionality necessary to provide the features requested by users.

By creating an account and using Nutri-Tsek, users consent to the processing of personal information necessary to provide the application's features.

7. Automated Information and Evaluations

Nutri-Tsek provides automated food and nutrition evaluations, including Nutri-Score assessments, NOVA classifications, nutritional alerts, product comparisons, alternative product suggestions, calorie tracking calculations, weekly nutrition summaries, and product evaluation scores.

These evaluations are generated using predefined algorithms and available product information. The results are intended for informational, educational, and research purposes only.

8. Important Notice

Nutri-Tsek is an educational and research application that provides food and nutrition-related information.

Nutri-Tsek is not intended to replace professional advice from qualified healthcare professionals, dietitians, nutritionists, or other relevant specialists.

9. Third-Party Services

• Supabase database hosting
• Microsoft Azure backend hosting
• Vercel frontend hosting
• Open Food Facts food product information
• Frida, the Danish Food Composition Database from DTU Food Institute, for reference nutrition data used in calorie tracking

10. Data Security

• HTTPS encryption
• Authentication controls
• Password hashing
• Database access controls
• Row Level Security where applicable
• Principle of least privilege access

11. Data Retention

Personal information is retained only for as long as necessary to provide the service or until the user requests account deletion.

12. Your Rights Under GDPR

• Right of access
• Right to rectification
• Right to erasure
• Right to restrict processing
• Right to data portability
• Right to object
• Right to withdraw consent

13. Account Deletion

Users may request deletion of their account and associated personal information. Upon deletion, user profile information, allergy preferences, purchase history, consumption records, nutrition summaries, and related data may be removed from Nutri-Tsek systems, subject to applicable legal obligations.

14. Children's Privacy

Nutri-Tsek is not available to children under the age of 13. Children under 13 years old are not permitted to create an account or use the application.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If we become aware that an account belongs to a child under 13, the account and related personal information may be removed.

15. Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically. The latest version will always be available on this page.