Privacy Policy

Welcome to DailyCalorie ("we," "our," or "us"). DailyCalorie is a free online TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) Calculator and Macro Dashboard available at https://dailycalorie-app.vercel.app. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring transparency about how your information is handled when you use our website and services. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding that data. By accessing or using DailyCalorie, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the practices described herein, please discontinue use of the website immediately.

1. Information We Collect

DailyCalorie is designed to function as a client-side web application. This means that the core calculations for your Total Daily Energy Expenditure, Basal Metabolic Rate, and macronutrient breakdowns are performed entirely within your web browser. We do not require you to create an account, provide your name, email address, phone number, or any other personally identifiable information (PII) in order to use our calculator.

However, we may collect certain non-personally-identifiable information to improve the functionality and performance of our service. This includes:

• Calculator Inputs (Aggregated): We may collect anonymized and aggregated data regarding calculator inputs such as age ranges, gender distribution, activity level selections, and unit preferences (metric vs. imperial). This data is collected solely for analytical purposes to understand usage patterns and improve the user experience. Individual calculator inputs are not linked to any identifying information.
• Usage Data: We automatically collect certain technical information when you visit our website, including your browser type, operating system, referring URL, pages visited, time spent on pages, and the date and time of your visit. This information is collected through cookies and similar tracking technologies as described in Section 3 below.
• Device Information: We may collect information about the device you use to access our website, including the device type, screen resolution, and language preference. This helps us optimize the display and performance of our application across different devices.

2. How We Use Your Information

The non-personally-identifiable information we collect is used for the following purposes:

• Service Improvement: To analyze how visitors interact with our calculator and dashboard features, enabling us to enhance the user interface, add new features, and fix bugs or usability issues.
• Analytics and Performance Monitoring: To monitor website traffic, measure the effectiveness of our content, and understand aggregate demographic trends among our user base.
• Advertising: To serve relevant advertisements through our third-party advertising partners, including Google AdSense and Adsterra. Advertising revenue enables us to keep DailyCalorie completely free for all users.
• Technical Maintenance: To diagnose technical problems, prevent abuse, and ensure the security and stability of our website infrastructure.
• Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests.

We do not sell, rent, lease, or otherwise disclose your personal information to third parties for their independent marketing purposes. We do not use your calculator inputs to build personal health profiles or share individual-level data with any external party.

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

DailyCalorie uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience and to collect analytical data. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your device when you visit a website. The types of cookies we use include:

• Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the basic functionality of the website, such as remembering your unit preferences (metric or imperial) and theme settings. Without these cookies, certain features of the site may not function properly.
• Analytics Cookies (Google Analytics): We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, to track and report website traffic. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about your use of our website, including your IP address (which is anonymized before storage). This information is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may use this data to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. For more information, please visit Google's Privacy Policy. You may opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
• Advertising Cookies (Google AdSense): We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. Google AdSense may use cookies and web beacons to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites on the internet. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your browsing history. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
• Advertising Cookies (Adsterra): We also partner with the Adsterra ad network to serve advertisements. Adsterra may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your browsing behavior for the purpose of displaying targeted advertisements. For more information about Adsterra's data practices, please refer to Adsterra's Privacy Policy.

You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies, delete existing cookies, or alert you when a cookie is being set. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of certain features on our website.

4. Third-Party Services

DailyCalorie integrates with several third-party services to provide analytics and advertising functionality. These third-party providers have their own privacy policies governing how they handle data collected through their services:

• Google Analytics: Provides website traffic analysis and reporting. Data is processed by Google LLC under its own privacy policy.
• Google AdSense: Serves display advertisements on our website. Managed by Google LLC and subject to Google's advertising and privacy policies.
• Adsterra: An advertising network that serves banner and native advertisements. Subject to Adsterra's own privacy and data handling policies.
• Vercel: Our website is hosted on Vercel's platform. Vercel may collect server logs containing IP addresses and request metadata as part of standard web hosting operations.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party services to understand how they collect, use, and share your information. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party websites and services.

5. Data Storage

DailyCalorie primarily operates as a client-side application. Your calculator inputs, meal logs, saved preferences, and any other user-generated data are stored locally on your device using your browser's localStorage and sessionStorage mechanisms. This data never leaves your device unless explicitly transmitted through one of the analytics or tracking mechanisms described in this policy.

We do not maintain server-side databases containing personal user data. There are no user accounts, no login credentials, and no personal health records stored on our servers. The localStorage data on your device persists until you manually clear your browser data or use the application's built-in reset functionality.

Please be aware that clearing your browser's cache, cookies, or site data will remove all locally stored preferences and meal log history. We cannot recover this data once it has been deleted from your device.

6. Children's Privacy

DailyCalorie is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe that your child under the age of 13 has provided personal information through our website, please contact us immediately using the contact information provided below. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take immediate steps to delete such information from our records.

Users between the ages of 13 and 18 should review this Privacy Policy with a parent or guardian to ensure they understand its terms and conditions before using our website.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data, including but not limited to:

• Right of Access: You have the right to request information about what data, if any, we hold about you. Since DailyCalorie does not collect personally identifiable information, the data we hold is limited to anonymized analytics and aggregated usage statistics.
• Right to Deletion: You may request the deletion of any data associated with your use of our service. You can delete all locally stored data by clearing your browser's site data for DailyCalorie. For any analytics data that may be associated with your device, you may contact us and we will make reasonable efforts to honor your request.
• Right to Opt Out: You have the right to opt out of non-essential cookies and tracking. You can do so by adjusting your browser settings, using the Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on, or visiting the advertising opt-out pages linked in Section 3 of this policy.
• Right to Portability: Since your data is stored locally in your browser, you can export your meal log and calculator data through the CSV export feature built into the application.

To exercise any of these rights, or if you have questions about your data, please contact us using the information provided in Section 9 below. We will respond to your request within 30 days of receipt.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time, with or without prior notice. Any changes to this policy will be posted on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date at the top of the document. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.

Your continued use of DailyCalorie after any changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy. If we make material changes that significantly affect how we handle your data, we will make reasonable efforts to notify users by posting a prominent notice on our website.

9. Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data handling practices, please contact us at: