ZeroType Receipts Privacy Policy

1. The short version

• Your receipts and expense data live only on your device. We don’t have a server that stores them.
• When you take a photo, the image is briefly sent to our processing service so AI can read it. We don’t keep it after the response comes back.
• We don’t have user accounts, don’t track you across apps, and don’t show ads.
• We don’t sell your data. Ever.
• The only thing Apple sees is your purchase — handled by Apple, not us.

ZeroType Receipts (“the App”, “we”, “us”) is a receipt-tracking app that uses AI to extract structured data from photos of receipts. We’ve designed it to keep your data on your device. This policy explains exactly what we collect, what leaves your phone, and why.

If you have questions, contact us at contact@adeeby.com.

2. What stays on your device

The following is stored locally on your iPhone and never leaves it:

• Receipt photos you capture or import
• Extracted receipt data (merchant, date, total, tax, category, type)
• Your monthly scan count and AI insights cache
• App settings and preferences
• Whether you’ve unlocked ZeroType Pro

If you delete the App, this data is deleted with it. iCloud backup of the App’s data follows your device’s iCloud settings.

3. What is sent off your device — and to whom

3.1 Receipt images, for AI processing

When you scan a receipt, the image is sent over HTTPS to our processing service hosted on Google Cloud (Firebase Functions, US region). That service forwards the image to AI/ML API (aimlapi.com), which routes it to Google Gemini for vision parsing. The parsed result (date, merchant, total, tax, category) is returned to your phone.

• The image is processed in transit and is not persisted by our service after the response returns.
• AI/ML API and Google Gemini may temporarily process and log the request per their own policies. See:
  • AI/ML API Privacy Policy
  • Google Cloud Privacy Notice

3.2 A random device identifier

The first time the App launches, it generates a random UUID stored on your device. We send it as a header (X-Device-Id) on requests to our processing service. We use it only to:

• Enforce per-device rate limits
• Prevent abuse of our AI quota

It is not tied to your name, email, Apple ID, advertising ID, or any other identity. Removing the App deletes it.

3.3 AI Insights generation

If you tap “Get AI Insights” on the Stats tab, a JSON summary of your recent expenses (category totals, merchants, amounts) is sent to the same processing service. Receipt photos are not included in this request — only the structured data already on your device. The result (a short list of plain-text observations) is returned and cached locally for the calendar month.

3.4 In-app purchases

If you buy ZeroType Pro, the transaction is handled entirely by Apple’s StoreKit. We receive a confirmation that the purchase succeeded — we do not receive your name, email, billing address, or payment details. Apple’s privacy policy applies.

4. What we do not collect

To be explicit, the App does not:

• Require an account or email address
• Use analytics SDKs (no Firebase Analytics, no Mixpanel, no Amplitude, etc.)
• Use crash reporting SDKs that ship personal data
• Use advertising or tracking SDKs
• Access your contacts, location, calendar, or microphone
• Read other apps’ data
• Share or sell any data to third parties for marketing

5. Permissions we request

You can revoke either permission at any time in iOS Settings. The App falls back to manual entry if both are denied.

6. Data retention

• On your device: until you delete the receipt, clear all data via Settings, or uninstall the App.
• In transit through our service: the duration of the HTTPS request, typically a few seconds. We do not write images to durable storage.
• AI/ML API & Google: governed by their own retention policies (linked above).

7. Your rights

Because we don’t store your data on our servers, most data-rights requests (access, deletion, portability) are satisfied by you using the App:

• Export your data: Settings → Data → Export all receipts (CSV or PDF)
• Delete one receipt: swipe left on it
• Delete everything: Settings → Data → Clear all data, or uninstall the App

If you’re in a jurisdiction that grants additional rights (GDPR, CCPA, UK GDPR, etc.) and you believe we hold data about you on a server, write to contact@adeeby.com and we’ll respond within 30 days. In practice, our server side of things is stateless beyond rate-limit counters keyed to the random device ID described above.

8. Children

ZeroType Receipts is not directed at children under 13 (or 16 in the EU). We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has used the App and you’d like their device’s data removed, uninstall the App — that removes all of it.

9. Security

• All network traffic uses HTTPS (TLS).
• Our processing service is protected by a shared application token and rate limits.
• Receipts on your device are protected by iOS file-system encryption when your device passcode is set.

No system is perfectly secure. If you discover a security issue, please email contact@adeeby.com before disclosing it publicly.

10. Changes to this policy

If we change how the App handles data, we’ll update this page and bump the effective date at the top. Material changes will be announced in the App’s release notes.

11. Contact

Privacy contact: contact@adeeby.com

Publisher:

We will respond to privacy-related requests within 30 days, in accordance with applicable law.

12. App Store privacy nutrition label

For Apple’s privacy questionnaire, our answers are: