Biteary
Biteary is a private-first food diary for iPhone, operated by Biteary in British Columbia, Canada. This policy explains what the app collects, why, where it goes, and what you can do about it.
If you have a question about anything here, email [email protected].
Only what the app needs to work. There is no hidden collection and no analytics.
| What | Why we need it |
|---|---|
| Your account identifiers | Signing in with Apple gives us an identifier unique to you and this app, which is how you sign in. Your diary and posts are tied to your iCloud account, which is how they stay yours across devices and after reinstalling — and why changing your username never affects your posts. |
| Your name | Prefilled from Sign in with Apple and editable at any time. Shown on your profile. |
| Username, avatar, bio and title | Your public identity in the app, so friends can find and recognise you. |
| Photos you add | The memories themselves. Photos on private memories stay in your own iCloud; photos on shared memories are uploaded so others can see them. |
| Captions, reactions and restaurant details | The content of each memory, including the restaurant's name and its coordinates so it can appear on your map. |
| Likes, follows, tags and blocks | To run the social features — showing who liked a memory, whose posts appear in your feed, and who you have chosen not to see. |
| Levels, XP, streaks and titles | To run the progress features. This records how you use the app, so we list it plainly rather than hiding it under "app functionality". |
| Reports you submit | If you report a post or person, we keep the report so it can be reviewed and acted on. |
Everything lives in Apple's iCloud. We do not run servers of our own, and your data is never sent to any other company. Apple's handling of that infrastructure is covered by Apple's own privacy policy.
There are two separate places, and the difference matters:
If you set your account to private, Biteary requires your approval before someone can follow you, and the app does not show your memories to anyone you have not approved.
We want to be exact about what that does and does not mean. Posts you share are stored in the shared database described above, and the approval rule is applied by the app. It is a meaningful control over who sees your memories in Biteary. It is not encryption, and we do not claim your shared posts are technically unreachable by a determined person with the right tools. If a memory must never be seen by anyone else, keep it private rather than sharing it.
| You choose | Who can see it |
|---|---|
| Private | Only you. It never leaves your own iCloud account and is never published. |
| Friends | People who follow you — and if your account is private, only followers you have approved. |
| Public | Anyone using Biteary. Public memories appear in the shared feed that every user can browse, not only your followers. |
How the difference is enforced. Memories you share are uploaded to Biteary's shared iCloud database, whether you choose Friends or Public. The distinction between the two is applied by the app: a memory marked Friends is shown only to people who follow you. It is not separately encrypted or stored apart from public memories, so please treat "Friends" as "people I am happy to have seen this" rather than as a private vault. Memories you keep Private are different in kind — they are never uploaded there at all, and stay in your own iCloud account where we cannot read them.
Your profile — name, username, avatar, bio and title — is visible to other people using the app so they can find you. If you are tagged in someone else's memory, it does not appear anywhere until you accept the tag.
Choosing "Home" as a location records that a memory was cooked at home. It does not store your address or any coordinates, and home memories never appear on the map.
Under Canadian privacy law you may also ask what personal information we hold about you and request corrections. Email [email protected] and we will respond within 30 days.
Your information is kept until you delete it. Deleting a memory removes it and its photos; deleting your account removes everything listed in section 6.
Two things persist by design, and we would rather say so than have you discover it. Moderation reports are kept after the reporter deletes their account, so that abuse cannot be erased by deleting the reporting account. And if someone else has already saved or screenshotted a public memory, deleting it here cannot reach their copy.
You can report any memory or person from the app, and block anyone. Reports are reviewed and acted on — including removing content and removing accounts — and we aim to respond within 24 hours.
To report something urgently, email [email protected].
Biteary is intended for people aged 16 and over. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, email [email protected] and we will delete it.
If you are under 18, please think carefully before sharing a memory publicly. Photos and restaurant locations you post publicly can be seen by anyone using the app.
Your data is protected by Apple's iCloud security and by your device passcode. Private memories are stored in your personal iCloud account, encrypted in transit and at rest by Apple. Files saved on your device use iOS file protection, which keeps them unreadable while the device is locked.
No system is perfect, and we will not claim otherwise. What we can promise is that we do not add risk of our own: there are no third-party servers, no advertising code, and no analytics tools with access to any of it.
If we change what the app collects, we will update this policy and change the date at the top. Where a change materially affects how your information is handled, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.
Questions, requests, or complaints about privacy: [email protected].
If you are in Canada and are not satisfied with our response, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, or the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia.