Privacy Policy for Vionut

Effective Date: June 1, 2026

Last Updated: June 1, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Vionut collects, uses, stores, shares, protects, and deletes information when you use the Vionut mobile application, website, services, features, artificial intelligence tools, subscriptions, and related products or services collectively referred to as “Vionut”, the “App”, or the “Service”.

Vionut is operated by Maksim Geine, an individual developer and operator of Vionut, resident of Kazakhstan (“Developer”, “Vionut”, “we”, “us”, or “our”).

By using Vionut, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you must not use Vionut.

1. Important Notice About Health and Nutrition Data

Vionut is a nutrition and wellness application. It may process information related to your food intake, nutrition goals, body metrics, dietary preferences, allergies, activity data, progress, and other wellness-related information.

Some of this information may be considered sensitive personal data, health-related data, or special category data under applicable laws, depending on your jurisdiction.

Vionut is not a medical device, healthcare provider, dietitian, nutritionist, or medical service. Vionut does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or professional healthcare services.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of information depending on how you use Vionut.

2.1 Account Information

When you create or use an account, we may collect:

2.2 Information You Provide Directly

You may provide information directly when you use the App, enter food data, upload images, set goals, create meal records, or contact us. This may include:

2.3 Health, Nutrition, and Wellness-Related Data

To provide nutrition-related features, Vionut may process data such as:

Where required by applicable law, we will request your consent before processing sensitive, health-related, or special category data.

2.4 Food Photos and Uploaded Images

If you upload food photos or meal images, Vionut may upload and process those images on servers or through third-party service providers to estimate food items, ingredients, portion sizes, calories, and nutritional values.

Uploaded food images may be temporarily or permanently stored depending on the feature used, your account settings, technical requirements, backup settings, and our retention practices described in this Privacy Policy.

You should not upload images that contain people, faces, personal documents, addresses, payment cards, medical records, private messages, or other sensitive information unrelated to food analysis.

2.5 Apple Health and Google Health Connect Data

If you choose to connect Vionut with Apple Health, Google Health Connect, or similar health and fitness platforms, Vionut may request access to selected health, activity, nutrition, or fitness data only with your permission.

Depending on the permissions you grant, this may include:

Vionut uses Apple Health and Google Health Connect data only to provide nutrition, wellness, progress tracking, and related app features.

Vionut does not use Apple Health or Google Health Connect data for advertising or selling personal data.

You can control or revoke Vionut’s access to Apple Health or Google Health Connect data through your device settings or the applicable health platform settings.

2.6 Device and Technical Information

We may automatically collect certain technical information about your device and use of the App, including:

2.7 Usage and Analytics Information

We may collect information about how you interact with Vionut, including:

2.8 Payment and Subscription Information

If you purchase a subscription or paid feature through the Apple App Store, Google Play, or another platform, payment processing is handled by the applicable platform or payment provider.

We generally do not receive or store your full payment card details. We may receive limited subscription-related information, such as:

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your information for the following purposes:

4. Artificial Intelligence Processing

Vionut may use artificial intelligence technologies, including third-party AI model providers such as OpenAI, to generate nutrition-related insights, recipes, explanations, food analysis, and other AI-generated content.

Vionut is designed to send only anonymized, de-identified, or minimized data to AI service providers where reasonably possible. We do not intentionally send directly identifying information, such as your name, email address, home address, payment details, or account credentials, to OpenAI for AI-generated nutrition responses.

When you use AI-powered features, relevant anonymized or minimized input data may be sent to AI service providers for processing. This may include:

You should not enter personal identifiers, medical records, private addresses, payment information, or other unnecessary sensitive information into prompts, meal descriptions, support messages, or uploaded images.

AI-generated content may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuitable for your individual circumstances. Please review our Terms of Use for important disclaimers about AI-generated content and medical advice.

5. Firebase and Google Services

Vionut uses Firebase and related Google services for app functionality, account features, analytics, diagnostics, crash reporting, performance monitoring, cloud storage, database services, authentication, push notifications, or other technical infrastructure.

Firebase and Google services may process technical, usage, device, diagnostic, account, and app interaction data according to their own privacy and security practices.

Firebase may be used for:

Where required, we will configure Firebase and Google services in accordance with applicable privacy, platform, and data protection requirements.

6. Local Storage on Your Device

Some Vionut data may be stored locally on your device. This may include food logs, nutrition history, settings, preferences, progress data, or cached app data.

Locally stored data may remain on your device until you delete it, clear app data, log out, or uninstall the App.

If your device is backed up to a third-party cloud service, such as Apple iCloud or Google services, locally stored data may also be included in your device backup depending on your device settings. Such backups are controlled by the applicable third-party provider.

7. Cloud Storage and Server Processing

Because Vionut supports accounts, subscriptions, food image analysis, AI-powered features, and server-based functionality, some information may be stored or processed on cloud servers or by third-party infrastructure providers.

Cloud storage and server processing may be used to:

If a feature stores data only locally and not in the cloud, deleting the App or clearing local app data may delete that information from your device.

8. Legal Bases for Processing for Users in the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Similar Jurisdictions

If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction requiring a legal basis for processing personal data, we process your personal data based on one or more of the following legal bases:

Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect processing that occurred before the withdrawal.

9. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal data.

We may share information with the following categories of third parties:

We require service providers to process information only for the purposes for which it was shared, subject to applicable legal and contractual obligations.

10. Third-Party Services Used by Vionut

Vionut may use the following third-party services or categories of services:

These third-party services may process data according to their own terms and privacy policies.

11. Apple Health and Google Health Connect Specific Terms

Vionut accesses Apple Health, Google Health Connect, or similar health platform data only with your explicit permission.

Vionut will request only the health, fitness, nutrition, or activity permissions reasonably necessary to provide the features you choose to use.

Vionut does not sell Apple Health or Google Health Connect data.

Vionut does not use Apple Health or Google Health Connect data for advertising, cross-context behavioral advertising, or data broker purposes.

Vionut does not share Apple Health or Google Health Connect data with third parties except where necessary to provide the features you request, comply with law, protect security, or as otherwise permitted by applicable platform rules and your permissions.

You may revoke Vionut’s access to Apple Health or Google Health Connect data at any time through your device settings or the applicable health platform settings.

12. International Data Transfers

Vionut is intended for users worldwide. Your information may be processed in Kazakhstan, the United States, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and other countries where we or our service providers operate.

Data protection laws in these countries may differ from the laws in your country.

Where required by applicable law, we will use appropriate safeguards for international data transfers, such as contractual safeguards, standard contractual clauses, adequacy mechanisms, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.

13. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Retention periods may depend on:

Locally stored data remains on your device until you delete it, clear app data, or uninstall the App.

Account-related data may be retained while your account is active and for a reasonable period after deletion where necessary for legal, security, backup, fraud-prevention, or dispute-resolution purposes.

Uploaded food photos and related analysis data may be retained for as long as necessary to provide the relevant feature, maintain your account history, improve app reliability, comply with legal obligations, or until you delete the data or request deletion, subject to lawful retention exceptions.

Apple Health and Google Health Connect data is retained only as necessary to provide the features you authorize, unless you delete it, revoke permissions, or request deletion, subject to lawful retention exceptions.

Analytics, crash, and diagnostic data may be retained according to the settings and retention policies of the applicable service providers.

14. How You Can Delete Your Data

Depending on how you use Vionut, you may delete data in the following ways:

Deleting the App from your device may not automatically delete all cloud-based account data. If you have created an account, you may need to request account deletion or use an in-app account deletion feature, if available.

Deleting the App from your device may not automatically cancel your subscription. Subscriptions must be cancelled through the Apple App Store, Google Play, or the platform where the purchase was made.

15. Account Deletion

If you have created a Vionut account, you may request deletion of your account and associated personal data by contacting us at marka@vionut.com or by using an in-app account deletion feature if available.

After receiving a valid deletion request, we will delete or anonymize your personal data unless retention is required or permitted by law, including for security, fraud prevention, tax, accounting, dispute resolution, legal compliance, or platform compliance purposes.

Some residual copies may remain in backups for a limited period before being overwritten or deleted according to our backup retention practices.

16. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to:

To exercise your rights, contact us at marka@vionut.com.

We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request.

17. Additional Rights for Users in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland

If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may have rights under applicable data protection laws, including the right to:

If we process health-related or sensitive data based on consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time. Some features may stop working if you withdraw consent needed to provide those features.

18. Additional Rights for California Residents

If you are a California resident, you may have rights under California privacy laws, including the right to:

We do not sell personal information in the traditional sense of exchanging it for money.

If our future use of advertising identifiers, personalized advertising, cross-context behavioral advertising, or similar technologies is considered “sharing” or “sale” under California law, we will provide applicable notices and opt-out mechanisms where required.

To exercise California privacy rights, contact us at marka@vionut.com.

19. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information for money.

Vionut does not currently use advertising or cross-context behavioral advertising.

If Vionut uses advertising, personalized advertising, cross-context behavioral advertising, tracking technologies, or analytics tools that qualify as “sale” or “sharing” under applicable privacy laws in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide a method to opt out where required.

20. Children’s Privacy

Vionut is not intended for children under 13 years of age.

If you are located in a jurisdiction where a higher age applies for consent to data processing or use of digital services, that higher age applies.

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children without appropriate parental or guardian consent.

If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child in violation of applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to delete such information.

Parents or guardians who believe that a child has provided personal data to Vionut may contact us at marka@vionut.com.

21. Security

We use reasonable technical, organizational, and administrative measures designed to protect personal data from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

These measures may include encryption in transit, access controls, secure infrastructure, monitoring, authentication controls, database security rules, permission controls, and service provider safeguards where appropriate.

However, no method of transmission over the Internet, mobile network, or electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your information.

You are responsible for keeping your device, operating system, app version, and login credentials secure.

22. Push Notifications and Communications

If Vionut offers notifications, we may send you app-related notifications, reminders, nutrition prompts, progress updates, subscription notices, or service messages.

You can control push notifications through your device settings or in-app settings where available.

We may send essential service-related communications where necessary, such as security notices, account notices, legal updates, or payment-related messages.

23. Cookies and Similar Technologies

If Vionut offers a website or web-based features, we may use cookies, local storage, software development kits, pixels, or similar technologies to operate the Service, remember preferences, improve performance, analyze usage, and support security.

Where required by law, we will request consent for non-essential cookies or similar technologies.

24. Advertising and Tracking

Vionut does not currently use advertising or personalized advertising.

Vionut may use analytics tools to understand app performance and user behavior.

If Vionut uses advertising technologies, personalized advertising, cross-app tracking, advertising identifiers, or advertising networks in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide any required notices, permissions, and opt-out mechanisms.

Where required by platform rules or applicable law, tracking will be subject to user permission.

25. App Store and Google Play Privacy Disclosures

If you download Vionut through the Apple App Store or Google Play, additional privacy disclosures may be provided through the applicable platform.

These platform disclosures may summarize the types of data collected, the purposes of collection, whether data is linked to you, and whether data is used for tracking.

Platform disclosures are intended to supplement this Privacy Policy. If there is a conflict, this Privacy Policy governs our privacy practices, except where platform rules or applicable law require otherwise.

26. Health App Platform Requirements

Because Vionut includes nutrition, wellness, diet, body metrics, progress tracking, Apple Health, Google Health Connect, and other health-related features, it may be subject to additional app platform requirements, including health app declarations, data safety disclosures, permission justifications, and privacy policy requirements.

We aim to provide accurate and transparent disclosures regarding the data Vionut collects, processes, shares, and retains.

27. Automated Decision-Making

Vionut may use automated processing and AI-generated analysis to provide nutrition-related insights, food estimates, activity-based insights, and recommendations.

Vionut does not use automated processing to make legal, employment, credit, insurance, medical, or similarly significant decisions about you.

AI-generated content is informational only and should not be relied upon as professional medical, nutritional, or healthcare advice.

28. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

If we make material changes, we may notify you through the App, by email, through app store notices, or by other reasonable means.

The updated Privacy Policy will be effective as of the date stated at the top of the updated version.

Your continued use of Vionut after the updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means that you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.

29. Contact Us

If you have any questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact us:

App: Vionut
Developer: Maksim Geine
Residency: Kazakhstan
Address: Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan. Full contact address is available upon legally valid request.
Email: marka@vionut.com