Privacy Policy
For Sandwich Court. Last updated: on release.
This policy explains what Sandwich Court does with your information. It is written to be read, not to be survived. If anything here is unclear, ask us at harfredlabs@gmail.com.
The short version
Sandwich Court is designed to keep your data on your own device wherever that is possible. We do not sell your personal information, we do not share it with advertisers, and we do not build advertising profiles about you.
What stays on your device
The content you create in Sandwich Court — your entries, settings and preferences — is stored locally on your device by default. When you delete the app, local data goes with it. We cannot read data that never leaves your device, and we cannot recover it for you if you lose the device.
Your food photos
By default, photos are read by an AI model that runs on your own device and are never uploaded. The first time you judge a food, your device downloads the model's files from Hugging Face (huggingface.co); that download carries no photo.
If Claude judging is on (turned on in Settings with the court's PIN, or opened to every visitor by the app's owner), your photo (shrunk, with location data removed) is instead sent once to Anthropic, whose Claude AI model describes the food's structure. We do not store or log the photo, and Anthropic does not use API inputs to train its models.
A small thumbnail is saved with each verdict, on your device only, and is deleted when you delete the verdict or clear your verdicts.
What we collect
We collect the minimum needed to run the app and keep it working:
- Technical information sent by your device when the app contacts our servers — IP address, device and operating-system type, and the time of the request. Web servers record these automatically. We use them to serve the app, to diagnose faults and to prevent abuse, and we do not use them to identify you personally.
- App version information, so the app can check whether an update is available.
- Anything you send us directly, such as the contents of a support email. We keep it for as long as it takes to help you, and no longer.
Features that send data off your device
Some features only work by sending data to a server. Each applies only if that feature is present in this app and you use it:
- Accounts and sign-in. If you create an account, we store the identifier you sign in with (such as an email address) so we can recognise you on your next visit and on other devices.
- Cloud sync and backup. If you turn on sync, the content you choose to sync is stored on our servers so it can be restored to your other devices. It is transmitted over an encrypted connection and stored encrypted at rest.
- Sharing and collaboration. If you share something, the content you share is stored so the person you share it with can open it. Anyone holding the link can open it, so treat a share link as public.
- Purchases. Payments are handled entirely by Apple or Google. We receive confirmation that a purchase happened; we never receive or store your card details.
Service providers
We use a small number of providers to run Sandwich Court, and they process data only on our instructions:
- Google Cloud — hosting, storage and content delivery.
- Apple and Google — app distribution, and payment processing where the app offers purchases.
These providers operate internationally, so your information may be processed in a country other than your own. We rely on the safeguards those providers offer for transfers of that kind.
Children
Sandwich Court is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has given us personal information, write to harfredlabs@gmail.com and we will delete it.
How long we keep things
Data you store locally lasts until you delete it or remove the app. Data held on our servers for a feature you enabled is kept while your account is active, and removed within 30 days of your asking us to delete it. Server logs are kept for a short period for security and diagnostics, then discarded.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to see the personal information we hold about you, to correct it, to have it deleted, to object to how we use it, or to receive a copy in a portable form. Ask us at harfredlabs@gmail.com and we will respond within the time your local law requires — and in any case within 30 days.
Much of this you can do yourself: deleting the app removes local data, and where the app offers an account you can delete it from within the app.
Security
Data sent between the app and our servers travels over an encrypted connection (HTTPS), and data we store on your behalf is encrypted at rest. No system is perfectly secure, so we do not claim otherwise — but we keep the amount of information we hold small, which is the most effective protection available.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy we will update this page and the date at the top. If a change materially affects how we use your information, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.
Contact
Sandwich Court is published by Harfred Labs. For any privacy question, or to exercise any right above, write to harfredlabs@gmail.com.