Privacy Policy

1. The short version

CheatCode has no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. Everything you enter stays on your phone. North Cove Wellness LLC does not collect it, see it, sell it or share it. The only personal information we ever get is what you choose to send us by email.

This policy explains in detail what the app does with information, what other companies such as Apple handle, and your choices and rights. It covers the CheatCode app and our website.

2. Who we are

CheatCode is made by North Cove Wellness LLC ("we" or "us"). Where we do handle personal information, which is mainly emails you send us, North Cove Wellness LLC is responsible for it (the "controller" under laws such as the GDPR). You can reach us at pocketera@gmail.com.

3. What we collect

Through the app, nothing. The app does not send your information to any server of ours. We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, location, health data, body measurements, food choices, contacts, photos, device identifiers, advertising identifier or usage data. That is why the App Store privacy label for CheatCode says "Data Not Collected".

We only get personal information when you contact us yourself (see Emailing us). Apple may also give us limited reports that do not identify you (see Information from Apple).

4. What stays on your phone

To work, the app saves these things in its own storage on your iPhone:

• Your setup answers: your goal, how often you eat out, what you find hardest, how you like to pick food, where you heard about CheatCode and any referral code you typed in.
• Your body details: sex, age, height, weight, goal weight, how fast you want to reach it and how active you are.
• Your food settings: diet type, foods you like and dislike, meals per day, and your calorie, protein, carb and fat numbers.
• Your restaurants and saves: the restaurants you picked, your favorites and the recipes you import.
• Nearby restaurants: the restaurant locations found last time (names, map positions, distance and drive time), so the list opens fast. Your own location is not saved.
• App settings: things like appearance, sort order, which tips you have seen, whether Apple Health is turned on and when you last checked your weight.
• A prepared copy of the menu data, so the app opens fast.

This information is used only on your phone, to make the app work for you: to work out your suggested meal size, to rank orders by how well they fit, and to remember your choices. It is not sent to North Cove Wellness LLC or anyone else. We cannot see it, change it or recover it for you.

If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or a computer, the backup may include this app data. Apple or your computer handles that backup, under Apple's terms, and we cannot see it.

5. Location

Location is optional. If you allow it, and only while you are using the app, the app uses your phone's location to find the restaurants closest to you and show how far they are. It asks for a location accurate to about 100 meters, which is enough for that. If you say no, the app still works without distances.

Your iPhone works out your location. To find restaurants, the app asks Apple Maps, through Apple's built-in tools, for each restaurant's locations in the area around you, and for drive times to the closest few. Those requests include the area around you and go to Apple, not to us. Apple handles them under its own privacy policy. The map on the Home screen and the place cards (hours, phone number and directions) also come from Apple Maps.

Distances are worked out on your phone. The app saves the restaurants it found, not where you were. North Cove Wellness LLC never receives, stores or shares your location. You can turn location off at any time in your iPhone's Settings for CheatCode.

6. Apple Health

Apple Health is optional and read-only. Only if you tap "Use my weight from Apple Health" in setup and allow it on Apple's permission screen, the app reads your most recent body weight and the date it was logged. It reads it during setup and when the app checks your weight every two weeks, to keep your suggested calories and protein up to date.

The app reads nothing else from Health and never writes anything to Health. The weight it reads is saved only in the app's storage on your phone, like a weight you type in yourself. The app never sends Health data anywhere, including to North Cove Wellness LLC or to iCloud. Health data is never used for advertising, marketing or data mining, and never sold, rented or shared with anyone.

You can turn this off at any time in the Health app's privacy settings for apps. The app does not have its own Health switch.

7. Importing recipes from links

If you import a recipe from a link, your phone connects directly to that site (for example TikTok, Instagram or YouTube), and for TikTok and YouTube to their public link preview services, to read the post's public caption, author name and cover image. Any text printed on the cover image is read on your phone. The site sees the request much as it would if you opened the link in a browser, including your internet (IP) address, and handles it under its own privacy policy. Nothing about it comes to us.

The app can tell when you have copied a link, without reading it, so it can offer "Import the link you copied". It reads what you copied only when you tap that button or Paste, and iOS may ask you first.

Imported recipes, including the link, caption and cover image address, are saved only on your phone. When you open an imported recipe, its cover image loads from the site it came from.

8. Menu and nutrition updates

The app comes with its menu data built in. From time to time it may download newer menu and nutrition data from a file host. That request carries nothing about you. Like any internet request, it shows the host your IP address and basic technical details, which the host may keep in its usual server logs. We do not use these to identify anyone.

9. Purchases

Subscriptions are sold and billed by Apple. We never see your name, Apple Account email, card or payment details, or billing address. On your phone, the app asks Apple whether your Apple Account has an active plan or free trial, and checks Apple's signed purchase records on your phone. Apple handles your purchase under its own privacy policy and the App Store terms.

Apple gives us sales and subscription reports, such as how many people subscribed or renewed in each country. These reports do not tell us who you are.

10. Information from Apple

If you have turned on Share With App Developers in your iPhone's analytics settings, Apple may share crash reports and app usage statistics with us in a form that does not identify you. We use them only to fix problems and improve the app. You can turn this off in iPhone Settings, Privacy & Security, Analytics & Improvements. Apple also shows us App Store figures, such as how many people viewed or downloaded the app, that do not identify anyone.

11. Emailing us

If you email us, for example with Contact us in Settings or to ask for a restaurant, we receive your email address, your name if your email shows it, what you write and anything you attach. We use it only to read and answer your message, fix problems you report and keep a record of our support. We do not add you to a mailing list or use your email for advertising.

Our email provider stores messages for us on its servers. We keep support emails only as long as we need them to help you and for our records, and we delete them sooner if you ask, unless the law requires us to keep them.

12. Sharing and links

If you use the Share button, the app makes a picture of an order on your phone and hands it to the iPhone share sheet. Where it goes is your choice, and whoever receives it handles it under their own terms. Links in the app, such as a restaurant's nutrition source, open that site, which has its own privacy policy.

13. No ads, no tracking, no selling

• No ads and no advertising tools in the app.
• No third-party analytics, tracking or crash reporting tools in the app.
• No tracking across other companies' apps and websites, which is why the app never asks for permission to track you.
• We do not sell, rent, trade or share personal information, including for targeted advertising, and we have not done so.
• We do not make automated decisions about you that have legal or similarly significant effects. Your suggested numbers are worked out on your phone, and you can change them.

Because we do not track you or sell or share your information, Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals have nothing more to turn off.

14. Children

CheatCode is not made for or directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, or under 16 where the law sets a higher age, and the app itself collects nothing from anyone. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, contact us and we will delete it.

Teenagers should use the app only with a parent's permission and should talk to a doctor before changing how they eat.

15. Keeping and deleting your data

On your phone, your information stays until you delete it. You can change your answers in Settings at any time, and Replay onboarding in Settings clears your setup answers and starts setup again. Deleting the app deletes everything it saved on your phone. Copies in your iPhone backups go away as those backups are replaced, under Apple's rules.

With us, we only hold emails you send us. Ask us to delete them at pocketera@gmail.com.

Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. To cancel, open Settings, Apple Account, Subscriptions.

16. Security

What the app saves is kept in its own private area of your iPhone, which iOS protects with encryption when your iPhone has a passcode. The app's internet requests use secure, encrypted connections. Keep your iPhone protected with a passcode. No phone, network or service is perfectly secure, and to the fullest extent the law allows, we are not responsible for anyone else getting into your phone or your data.

17. Your privacy rights

Because the app collects nothing, we hold no app data about you. You already control all of it on your phone: you can see and change it in the app, and delete it by deleting the app.

For emails you send us, and depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in the EU, the UK GDPR, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA and other US state privacy laws, Canada's PIPEDA, Brazil's LGPD or Australia's Privacy Act), you may have the right to:

• know what personal information we have about you and get a copy;
• correct it;
• delete it;
• limit or object to how we use it;
• get it in a portable format;
• withdraw any consent you gave;
• opt out of sale, sharing, targeted advertising or profiling (we do none of these);
• not be treated differently for using these rights.

To use any of these rights, email pocketera@gmail.com. We may need to confirm the request is yours, for example by replying to the same email address. Where the law allows, someone you authorize may ask for you. We answer within the time the law sets, such as one month under the GDPR or 45 days under California law. If we turn down your request, you can appeal by replying to our answer. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

18. EU and UK legal bases

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, we handle emails you send us because we need to in order to answer you and take the steps you ask for, and for our legitimate interest in giving support and keeping records. Data the app keeps only on your phone stays under your control, and we do not receive it. The app reads your weight from Apple Health only with your permission, which you can take back at any time.

19. California and other US states

In the past 12 months, the only personal information we have collected is what people chose to send us by email: identifiers such as an email address, and the contents of their messages. We got it from them directly and used it only to answer them and give support. We have not sold or shared personal information, used it for targeted advertising, or used sensitive personal information for any purpose that the law lets you limit. We do not knowingly sell or share the information of anyone under 16. We do not share personal information with others for their direct marketing.

20. Users outside the United States

We are based in the United States. The app keeps your data on your phone wherever you are. If you email us from outside the US, your message is handled in the US and wherever our email provider works, where privacy laws may differ from those where you live. This transfer is needed to answer you.

21. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. The new version will appear in the app and on our website with a new effective date. If we ever change the app to collect personal information, we will update this policy and the App Store privacy details first, tell you in the app, and ask for your permission where the law requires it.

22. Contact

Questions or requests about privacy: email pocketera@gmail.com.
North Cove Wellness LLC