Privacy Policy for Capture

Effective Date: June 9, 2026

Capture ("the App") is a lightweight food-photo capture utility built by BurnRate ("we", "us", or "our") to help you privately track eating habits. This Privacy Policy describes how the App handles your personal data and how this website handles waitlist email signups.

1. Our Privacy Posture: Local-First

Capture is designed as a local-first application. Your food moments, photo captures, voice notes, and related context are stored privately on your device. We do not operate developer servers, and we never transmit your food logs, photos, or notes to ourselves or to any third party. Certain optional features rely on Apple's own system frameworks, which are described in Section 3.

2. Information We Process On-Device

• Food Photos — photos you capture using the App's camera interface or import from your Camera Roll.
• Voice Notes — audio recordings you make using your device's microphone.
• Transcripts — text transcriptions generated from your voice notes.
• Location & Place Labels — place names attached to a capture when you grant location permission.
• Manual Notes — any text notes you write to describe your food moments.

3. Apple System Framework Processing

When you choose to transcribe a voice note, Apple's Speech Recognition framework may process audio on your device or on Apple's servers depending on device, language, and network conditions. When you attach a place to a capture, Apple's Core Location and CLGeocoder APIs may perform a lookup through Apple's services. In both cases, BurnRate does not receive your audio, transcript, coordinates, or place history.

4. Third-Party Analytics and Advertising

The App does not include third-party analytics SDKs, crash reporting SDKs, tracking, advertising, or IDFA access.

5. Standard Diagnostics

If you opt in to share crash logs and usage statistics with developers through Apple's standard TestFlight or App Store diagnostics settings, Apple may share anonymous technical reports with us. These logs contain no personal food photos, audio notes, transcripts, or location coordinates.

6. Website Waitlist

If you join the Capture waitlist on this website, we collect the email address you enter so we can send Capture launch updates. Waitlist email signup is separate from the App. The App does not require an account or email address, and your food captures are not connected to your waitlist email.

7. Data Control and Deletion

You have complete control over your local data. Deleting a capture entry from your in-app timeline immediately and permanently deletes the associated metadata, photo, audio recording, and transcript files from the App's local storage directory. Uninstalling the App removes all local data permanently.

8. Future Changes and Sync

If we introduce cloud backup, synchronization, or account integration in a future update, such features will be strictly opt-in. We will update this Privacy Policy prior to launching any feature that transmits data off your device.

9. Contact Us

Anat Gotfried
Email: anat@burnrate.fit