Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Zuli collects, uses, processes, shares, and protects Your information when You use the Zuli mobile application, website, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation

Capitalized terms have the meanings assigned to them in this Policy.

Definitions

We collect the categories of data described below. Certain categories may qualify as health information, sensitive personal information, or biometric-adjacent data under various privacy laws.

2.1 Personal Data You Provide

We may collect the following Personal Data when You create an Account or use the Service:

2.2 Health & Nutrition Data

To provide calorie estimation and nutrition tracking features, We collect:

2.3 User Content (Including Photos)

User Content includes:

• Photos of food uploaded for calorie analysis
• Progress photos
• Text entries and logs

2.4 Activity Data from Health Connect or Apple Health

If — and only if — You explicitly grant permission, We read the following Activity Data from a Connected Health Platform:

This is an optional feature. If You never grant permission, no Activity Data is ever collected, and the rest of the Application works normally. Section 3 explains exactly how this data is handled.

Zuli includes an optional Steps feature. To power it, the Application can read activity information from Android Health Connect or Apple Health (HealthKit). This section describes that handling specifically.

3.1 What We Read, and Why

• Step count — to show Your daily, weekly, and monthly step totals and Your progress toward Your step goal.
• Active energy burned — to show calories burned as an activity statistic.
• Walking & running distance — to show the distance You covered.
• Activity history — to display past days so trend charts and monthly summaries are meaningful.

Each permission We request maps directly to information shown to You on the Steps screen. We do not request health permissions that are not used by a visible feature.

3.2 Read-Only Access

Zuli's access is read-only. We never write, modify, or delete any data in Health Connect or Apple Health.

3.3 Display Only — Activity Data Does Not Change Your Targets

Activity Data is shown to You as information only. It does not adjust Your calorie budget, macro targets, or any nutrition recommendation. Calories burned are displayed as their own statistic and are never added back to Your daily calorie allowance.

3.4 Where This Data Is Stored

Activity Data is stored locally on Your Device and is also synced to Your Zuli account on Our servers, so that Your step history survives reinstalling the Application or moving to a new device. It is stored as daily totals associated with Your account.

3.5 Advertising and Sale — Explicitly Prohibited

3.6 Turning It Off and Revoking Access

You are in control of this permission at all times:

• Hide the feature — the Steps tab can be switched off entirely in the Application's Settings.
• Android — revoke access in the Health Connect app, under App permissions.
• iOS — revoke access in Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Zuli.

Revoking access immediately stops Zuli from reading any further Activity Data. Activity Data already synced to Your account is deleted when You delete Your account, as described in Section 6, or on request at any time.

3.7 Google Play Health Connect Terms

Our use of information received from Health Connect adheres to the Google Play Health Apps policy, including its limited-use requirements. Our use of information received from Apple Health adheres to Apple's HealthKit requirements, including the prohibition on using health data for advertising or sharing it with data brokers.

• Service Provision — Food identification, calorie estimation, and nutrition tracking.
• Activity Display — Showing Your step count, distance, active energy, and goal progress on the Steps screen (see Section 3).
• AI Improvement — Training and improving computer vision models (anonymized data only). Activity Data is never used for this purpose.
• Communication — Sending updates, announcing new features, and responding to customer support requests.
• Legal Compliance — To detect fraud or comply with law enforcement obligations.

• Service Providers — Cloud hosting and analytics vendors who assist in operating the Service.
• Advertising — The free version of the Application shows ads served by Google AdMob, which receives device and ad identifiers. No Health Data of any kind is shared with AdMob or any other advertising provider, and ads are never targeted using Your food logs, weight, or Activity Data.
• Legal Compliance — When legally required by law enforcement or government authorities.
• Aggregated Data — Non-identifiable, aggregated data may be used for research or business purposes. Activity Data read from a Connected Health Platform is excluded from this use.

We retain Your data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, or as required by law. The retention periods below apply to each category of data We collect:

Account & Profile Data

Your account information (name, email address, and profile details) is retained for the lifetime of Your account. If You delete Your account, this data is permanently deleted from Our systems within 30 days of the deletion request, except where retention is required for legal or compliance purposes.

Health & Nutrition Data

Food logs, calorie records, nutrition goals, weight, height, and other health attributes are retained for the duration of Your account and deleted within 30 days of account deletion.

Activity Data (Health Connect / Apple Health)

Daily step, distance, and active-energy totals read from a Connected Health Platform are retained for the duration of Your account and deleted within 30 days of account deletion. Revoking the health permission stops further collection; to have Activity Data already stored on Our servers deleted without deleting Your whole account, email support@zuliai.app.

Progress Photos & User Content

Photos and other User Content You upload are retained until You delete them within the app or until Your account is deleted. Deletion from Our servers is completed within 30 days of Your request.

Usage & Analytics Data

Automatically collected usage data (device information, activity logs, crash reports) is retained for a maximum of 12 months, after which it is deleted or anonymised.

Anonymised & Aggregated Data

Data that has been fully anonymised so that it can no longer be linked to any individual may be retained indefinitely for product improvement and research purposes.

Depending on Your jurisdiction, You may have the right to:

You may exercise these rights through in-app settings or by contacting us at support@zuliai.app.

The Service is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If You believe a child has provided Us with personal data, please contact us immediately so We can remove it.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Updates become effective when posted. We may notify You of material changes through the Application or via email.

We encourage You to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

If You have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please reach out: