1. What we collect
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Username & password (hashed, never stored in plain text) | Account login |
| Email address (optional) | Password reset, account notices |
| Profile info you enter (age, weight, goals, dietary preferences) | Generating your meal plans and macro targets |
| Meals, plans, and foods you save | Letting you come back to your own plans |
| Payment & billing status | Managing your subscription — actual card details are handled entirely by Stripe, we never see or store them |
| Photos you optionally attach (a nutrition-label/barcode scan, or a photo for the AI food estimate) | Reading the label or barcode, or improving an AI estimate — only ever sent when you choose to attach one |
| Links, captions or screenshots you share to 📲 Recipe from a post | Working out that recipe. We keep its name, nutrition, ingredients, a short method in our own words, the creator's name and the link — not the caption or screenshot. The recipe (never who added it) is shared with all members in 📲 Social recipes |
2. How it's used
Your data is used to run the app for you: calculating targets, generating and saving plans, and managing your subscription. We don't sell your personal data.
3. Foods you add may be shared
If you manually add a food or scan a barcode, it may be cross-referenced against a public nutrition database (Open Food Facts) to confirm accuracy. If confirmed, that specific food item (name, brand, and nutrition values only — not linked to your account in the shared copy beyond an internal "added by" record visible to site admins) may be added to the shared food database used by all accounts. Your personal meal plans and saved data are never shared with other accounts.
4. Cookies & sessions
We use a session cookie to keep you logged in. It's required for the app to function and isn't used for advertising or cross-site tracking.
5. Third parties
- Stripe — processes payments and stores your payment method securely; see Stripe's own privacy policy.
- Open Food Facts — a public database we query to verify foods you add (see above); we don't send it any personal information about you.
- Anthropic (Claude AI) — if you use the optional 🤖 Ask AI helper in Track Today, the food description you type — and, only if you choose to attach one, a photo of the food — is sent to Anthropic's API to generate a nutrition estimate. This only happens when you tap that feature yourself. If you scan a nutrition label and our own reader can't read the photo, that photo is sent to Anthropic's API to read the label's numbers. If you use 📲 Recipe from a post, the link, caption or screenshot you give is sent to Anthropic's API to work out the recipe's nutrition, and our server opens that link to read the post's public text. We keep the recipe's name, nutrition per serve, ingredients, a short method written in our own words, the creator's name and the post's link — never the caption or screenshot. That recipe is shared with all members in 📲 Social recipes, without your name, and stays there if you delete your account. If you add a cookbook in 📖 My Cookbooks, its pages are sent to Anthropic's API to list the recipes and their nutrition. The file itself is deleted from our server once it's read; only a list of the recipes (each one's name, page number and nutrition per serve — never the recipe itself: no ingredients, methods or photos) and the book's title, author and website are kept. To find where the book is sold, its title and author (nothing about you) are looked up in Google Books and Open Library. If you leave 🌐 Share to the library ticked, that list is shared with other members in the cookbook library (with any fixes you make to it, but never your name or what you log); it stays there if you delete your copy or your account — untick sharing first to remove it.
- Email delivery (if configured by the site operator) — used only to send password-reset and account-verification emails to the address you provide.
6. Data retention & account deletion
The Macro Meal keeps your account data for as long as your account exists.
To delete your account: log in, open Account & privacy (Plan Ahead's sidebar, Track Today's ⚙️ Settings, or the membership page), and use Delete account there. You'll be asked to re-enter your password to confirm — no need to contact anyone, and it takes effect immediately.
What's deleted: your login, profile, saved meal plans and weekly plans, custom foods, food log and daily check-in history, fasting history, carb-cycling settings, streak and Macro Coin history, favourites, saved bundles, and push-notification subscription are all permanently removed at once. Any active subscription is cancelled as part of the same action.
What's kept, and why: if you've contributed a food or meal to the shared community database (see "Foods you add may be shared" above), that entry stays available for other members to keep using, but is no longer linked to your account or name. Stripe, our payment processor, separately retains your payment and transaction history under its own policy — generally required for tax, accounting, and fraud-prevention purposes — independently of, and beyond, your account's deletion here; see Stripe's own privacy policy for its retention period.
You can also export a copy of your data (plans, food log, check-ins and more) at any time before deleting, from the same screen.
7. Security
Passwords are hashed (never stored in plain text), password-reset links are single-use and expire quickly, and only a cryptographic hash of any reset token is ever stored — not the token itself.
8. Changes
We may update this policy from time to time; the "last updated" date at the top will reflect the most recent change.
9. Contact
Questions about this policy or your data? Email admin@themacromeal.com, or use the "Contact Admin" link in your account sidebar once logged in.