Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 23, 2026

Vegan Radar (“Vegan Radar,” “we,” “us”) is operated by Happii Apps LLC. This policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have. It covers both the website at veganradar.app and the Vegan Radar mobile app.

Vegan Radar is built to need as little of your information as possible. The short version:

• • No account, no login. We never ask for your name, email, or phone number.
• • Photos you take to scan a label are read on your device. The picture never leaves your phone.
• • We don’t show ads, we don’t track you across apps or sites, and we don’t sell your data.
• • We don’t currently use any analytics or crash-reporting that collects your data.

Who we are

Vegan Radar is built and operated by Happii Apps LLC, based in the United States. For any privacy question or request, email daniel@happiiapps.com.

Information we collect

We do not require an account and never ask for your name, email address, or phone number. What we handle depends on whether you use the app or the website.

In the mobile app

• Anonymous identifier. On first launch the app creates an anonymous account (a random ID) through our backend provider, Supabase. It isn’t linked to your real-world identity and you never sign in.
• Your scans. When you scan a barcode or a label, we save the result to your scan history: the barcode, the vegan verdict and confidence, the product and brand name, the ingredients that affected the verdict, the data source, and a product image URL (from a public food database or the brand — never your own photo). Your history is tied to your anonymous ID, and only you can read it.
• Searches. The product or brand text you type is used to look up results (see “How a verdict is checked” below).
• Dietary preferences. Your diet profile (for example, how you want honey or refined sugar treated) is stored only on your device and is never uploaded.

Camera and photos

Barcode scanning and reading text from a label both happen entirely on your device. Photos you capture to read a label are processed on-device using Google’s ML Kit and are not uploaded to us or anyone else — we never store your photos. For a label scan, the only thing that may be sent onward is the brand and product name our app reads from the text, and only when it’s confident it recognized the brand, so we can look up the vegan status. The camera is the only device permission the app requests; we don’t access your location, contacts, microphone, or health data.

On the website

• No accounts, no cookies. The website has no sign-in and sets no first-party cookies of its own. We don’t use browser storage to identify you.
• Searches. When you search, your query is sent to our backend and to public food databases to return results. We don’t store your searches.

Information collected automatically

Like any website or app, our hosting and backend providers process basic technical data needed to deliver the service — such as your IP address, device or browser type, and the requests you make. We use this transiently to operate the service, prevent abuse (rate-limiting), and keep it secure; we don’t use it to build a profile of you. The mobile app also checks for over-the-air updates, which involves standard technical request data.

What we don’t collect

• • No name, email, password, or phone number.
• • No precise location, contacts, microphone/audio, or health data.
• • No advertising identifiers. We don’t use Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework and don’t track you across other apps or websites.
• • We don’t sell or rent your information, and we don’t use it for advertising.

How we use information

• • Provide the core service: look up products, compute and show vegan verdicts, and keep your scan history.
• • Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the service, and prevent abuse.
• • Respond to you and fix problems (for example, if you report a wrong verdict).

We do not use your information for advertising, and we do not sell it.

How a verdict is checked (third parties)

To turn a product or brand into a sourced vegan verdict, we share limited, non-identifying data with service providers and public databases. None of them receive your name, email, photos, or anything intended to identify you personally.

• Supabase — our backend: anonymous authentication, database, serverless functions, and image storage. Holds the shared product/brand verdict cache and your scan history.
• Open Food Facts — a public food database. Receives barcodes and search terms to return product data. Product images may load directly from Open Food Facts, which means your device or browser connects to them to display the image.
• USDA FoodData Central — a U.S. government food database. Receives barcodes or search terms.
• Anthropic (Claude) — an AI service used to research and cite a product’s or brand’s vegan status with a sourced web check. It receives the brand and product name (not barcodes, and nothing that identifies you).
• Brand and retailer websites — our servers fetch publicly available pages to gather sources and product images. No information about you is sent.
• Vercel — website hosting. Processes standard request data (IP, browser, request URL) to serve and protect the site.
• Expo (EAS) — delivers app updates.

Each provider processes data under its own privacy and security terms.

Data retention

• • Your scan history is kept until you delete it, or until you ask us to remove your data.
• • The shared product/brand cache (which isn’t personal to you) is kept to speed up everyone’s lookups and is refreshed periodically.
• • Technical logs held by our hosting and backend providers are retained for a limited time under their standard policies.

Your choices and rights

• Delete your data. In the app you can delete individual scans or clear your entire scan history at any time. Because there’s no login, uninstalling the app and clearing history removes your access to that data. To request deletion of any remaining data tied to your anonymous ID, email daniel@happiiapps.com and we’ll take care of it.
• Diet profile. It lives only on your device — change it in the app or remove it by uninstalling.
• Regional rights. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete personal data or object to certain processing. Since we hold almost no personal data and have no contact details for you, email us and we’ll help however we can.

Children’s privacy

Vegan Radar is a general-audience tool and isn’t directed to children under 13 (or the equivalent age in your country). We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact us and we’ll delete it.

Security

We use reputable providers and standard safeguards, including encryption in transit and access controls, and we keep the personal data we hold to a minimum by design. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, but minimizing what we collect is our best protection.

International users

We’re based in the United States, and our providers process data in the U.S. and other countries. By using Vegan Radar, you understand your information may be processed in the United States.

The app and Apple’s standard EULA

Your use of the iOS app is also governed by Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement (EULA), available here. This Privacy Policy governs how we handle your information.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the product evolves. We’ll change the “Last updated” date above and, for material changes, give a more prominent notice. Continuing to use Vegan Radar after an update means you accept the revised policy.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or data requests? Email daniel@happiiapps.com. You can also read more about Vegan Radar or how we verify our verdicts.

Happii Apps LLC