Privacy Policy

What we collect in the app

• Your first name and email, if you give them during setup or later in You, under Your details. Both are optional.
• A random ID that the app makes for your phone the first time you open it.
• Every search: the words you type, the brand or product a photo was read as, the companies and brands you open, and when. Each search also notes how it started (a photo, typing, or opening something from a list) and the kind of product.
• About your app: its version, whether you have Pro, and when you last opened it.
• Your push notification token, if you turn on notifications. See Notifications below.

Why we collect it

• To run the app: counting your searches, preventing abuse and helping you when you contact support.
• To learn what people look up, so we can improve Skinventry.
• To email you about Skinventry, if you gave us your email.

We never sell it. There are no ads in Skinventry, and we do not track you across other companies’ apps or websites.

It is linked to you

Your searches are saved with your phone’s random ID, and with your first name and email when you have given them. That means we can see what each person has searched.

Your choices, and deleting your data

The Share my searches switch in You controls this. Turn it off and Skinventry stops saving your searches and deletes your name, email and past searches from its servers. Everything on your phone stays on your phone.

You can also email support@skinventry.com to have your details and searches deleted, or to stop our emails.

How long we keep it

For as long as Share my searches is on. We delete your name, email and searches when you turn it off or ask us to.

Your photos

Your photos stay on your phone. To identify a product, the app makes a smaller copy of the photo and sends it through Skinventry’s server to Anthropic, our AI provider, once. Skinventry keeps no copy, and we do not use your photos or searches to train AI models.

What stays on your phone

Your preferences stay on your phone: what you want shown first, the allergens and ingredients you want flagged, and the certifications you look for. Flags are checked on your phone. If you describe something to flag in your own words, that text is sent through Skinventry’s server to Anthropic to turn it into flags, and Skinventry does not store it.

Your lookup history is kept on your phone as well. While Share my searches is on, your searches are also saved on our servers, as described above.

Notifications

If you turn on notifications, the app sends Skinventry your phone’s push notification token, with your app version. We use it to tell you when a lookup you asked about is ready, and to send occasional news about Skinventry, such as a new version. When you ask to be notified about a lookup, we note which lookup you are waiting for. You can turn notifications off at any time in your iPhone’s Settings.

Research about companies

Skinventry researches the product and the company behind it: ownership, manufacturing, certifications, recalls, regulatory history and similar public information. Those results are about companies, not about you, and we cache them on our servers so the next person who looks up the same product gets the answer faster.

To prevent abuse, we count requests each day by your phone’s random ID and by a hashed version of your network address.

Who helps us run Skinventry

• Supabase hosts our servers and database.
• Anthropic reads photos to identify products, researches products and companies, and reads the optional text you write in your own words. Skinventry does not store the photos or that text.
• Serper runs the web searches behind that research. It receives product and brand names only.
• Apple and RevenueCat handle subscriptions. Pro is sold and billed by Apple, and we use RevenueCat to confirm whether a subscription is active. They process that purchase information under their own privacy policies, and we never see your payment details.
• Vercel hosts this website.

What we never do

• We do not show advertising in the app, and no company pays to be listed, ranked or left out.
• We do not sell, rent or trade your data.
• We do not track you across other companies’ apps or websites.

This website

skinventry.com uses Vercel Web Analytics to count page views in aggregate. It does not use cookies for this.

When you arrive on the site from an AI assistant or answer engine, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity or Claude, a small first party beacon sends a request to /api/ref that records only the name of that engine and the path of the page you landed on. It records nothing about you.

When we may share information

Beyond the service providers named above, we share information only when the law requires it, for example in response to a court order, or as part of a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, in which case this policy continues to apply to the information transferred.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the information that reaches our servers. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Age

Skinventry is intended for adults 21 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will post the new version here and update the effective date above.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@skinventry.com.