Privacy Policy
Last Update Date: June, 2026
Welcome to TadaPal!
As you begin your journey with TadaPal, you'll gain valuable insights into how your food choices affect your health—and learn to build habits that align with your personal goals. This is a deeply personal experience, and to support you in the best possible way, we will collect some personal information along the way, including data concerning your health.
This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes how TadaPal ("TadaPal," "we," "our," or "us") collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes your personal information when you use our Services (use of our Site, Mobile App, and other interactions you may have with us). This includes your choices and rights regarding your personal information. This Policy forms a part of our Terms of Service.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom (UK), additional provisions apply to you, as detailed in this Policy.
By accessing or using our Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Policy. Where required by applicable data protection laws, we will obtain your consent for specific processing activities, including the processing of special category data such as information about your health.
1. Personal Information We Collect
We may collect personal information directly from you, automatically through your use of the Services, and from third parties. Some of the information we collect may be considered special category data under applicable laws (e.g., data concerning health).
1.1 Personal Information We Collect Directly from You
a. Profile Information. You can fill out your profile, which includes your current weight, height, date of birth, gender, and activity level. This information relates to your health and constitutes special category data.
b. Food and Activity Diary Data. Certain features of our Services allow you to voluntarily share information about your dietary habits and activities. This includes your dietary habits, calorie count, exercise diary, body measurements (e.g., height, weight, BMI), and other notes (e.g., observations about your progress and mindset). This information relates to your health and constitutes special category data.
c. Partner Feature Data. When you use our partner feature, we collect the content you choose to share with your partner, which may include your daily weight changes, dietary and activity diary entries, text, images, and other content you post or share, comments and messages, and your interaction history. Some of this content may contain special category data.
d. Communications with TadaPal. This includes your email address, name, and any other content provided when you communicate with us, including exchanges with our personnel, Support Center chatbot, or the AI chat assistant.
e. AI Chat and Image Submission Data. When using our AI chat feature, you may submit messages, questions, or uploaded images of your meals to receive nutrition feedback. We collect the text of your messages, images you upload, and AI-generated responses. Such data may contain special category data.
f. Research and Survey Information. This may include contact information, feedback, and other information you provide when participating in research and surveys.
g. Events and Registration Details. Information related to your participation in our events, such as registration details.
h. Preferences and Other Requests. Your preferences, including communication preferences and other requests you provide.
1.2 Personal Information We Collect Automatically
We may collect Usage and Device Data, including browser/device details, IP address, mobile advertising identifier, general location (inferred from IP), and information about your interactions with the Services. We and our third-party partners may use cookies and similar tracking technologies. Where required by law, we will obtain your consent before deploying non-essential tracking technologies.
1.3 Personal Information We Receive From Third Parties
We may receive information from connected health devices, service providers, research partners, marketing and advertising partners, social media platforms, business partners, and other TadaPal users.
1.4 Aggregated, Deidentified, or Anonymized Information
We may aggregate, de-identify, or anonymize information so that it will no longer be considered personal information under applicable law. We will maintain and use such data in de-identified form and will not attempt to re-identify it except as permitted by law.
2. How We Use Personal Information
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
a. Provide our Services – managing your account, troubleshooting, and day-to-day operations.
b. Communicate with You – responding to inquiries, sending administrative information.
c. Respond to Rights Requests – handling your requests to exercise your privacy rights.
d. Send Promotional and Marketing Materials – newsletters, offers, and information about new features.
e. Analyze Usage, Ad Performance, and Research – analyzing traffic, ad performance, and conducting surveys.
f. Enhance and Personalize our Services – using technologies like AI to personalize content, recommendations, and meal plans.
g. Plan and Manage Events – event registration and related activities.
h. Maintain Security and Protect Rights – fraud prevention, unauthorized access detection.
i. Satisfy Legal Obligations – compliance with legal/regulatory requirements.
j. Manage Legal Matters – pre-litigation or litigation defense.
k. Carry Out Internal Operations – audits, financial, tax, and compliance purposes.
l. Carry Out Sales and Business Transactions – in connection with mergers, acquisitions, or asset transfers.
3. Legal Basis for Processing (EEA and UK Users)
If you are in the EEA or the UK, we rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:
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Processing Purpose |
Legal Basis |
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Providing the Services, managing your account, and carrying out business transactions |
Contractual necessity (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) |
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Processing special category data (health data) for personalized insights, food/activity tracking, AI feedback, and partner features |
Your explicit consent (Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR) |
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Communicating with you (non-marketing), improving security, internal operations, legal matters, and other legitimate business purposes |
Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) |
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Analyzing usage, ad performance, research, and enhancing/personalizing Services (to the extent not based on consent) |
Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) |
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Compliance with legal obligations |
Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR) |
You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object to such processing as described in Section 8.
4. How We Disclose Personal Information
We disclose personal information to the categories of recipients described below:
a. Business Partners
b. Service Providers (IT hosting, payment processing, customer support, AI tools, data analytics, etc.)
c. Marketing and Advertising Partners
d. Analytics Providers
e. Research Partners
f. Relevant Third Parties in Business Transactions (e.g., merger, acquisition)
g. Law Enforcement and Regulatory Authorities
h. Other Parties at your direction, with your consent, or as required by law
i. Other Users (via the partner feature, as you choose)
5. International Data Transfers
Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the one in which you reside, including the United States and other jurisdictions where we or our service providers operate. These countries may have data protection laws that differ from those in your home country.
For users in the EEA and the UK, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place when transferring your personal data internationally. Specifically, we rely on standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and the UK equivalent, or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms. You may request a copy of the relevant safeguard documentation by contacting us.
6. How We Protect Your Information
We maintain reasonable technical, organizational, and administrative safeguards designed to protect personal information. However, no security measures can guarantee absolute security.
7. How We Retain Your Information
We retain personal information as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Policy, including to satisfy legal or reporting requirements. When determining retention periods, we consider the nature and sensitivity of the data, the risks of harm, the purposes of processing, and legal obligations. If you delete content or end a partner relationship, it will be removed from active view, though partners may have already retained copies, and we may retain necessary copies for compliance.
8. Your Rights and Choices
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the following rights. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.
All Users typically have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information, and to delete your account by contacting us at support@calohow.com.
If you are in the EEA or the UK, you have the right to:
Access & Data Portability: Confirm whether we process your data, access a copy, and receive it in a portable format.
Rectification: Correct inaccurate personal data.
Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): Request deletion of your data under certain conditions.
Restriction of Processing: Request limited processing in specific circumstances.
Objection to Processing: Object to processing based on legitimate interests, including objection to direct marketing at any time.
Withdraw Consent: Where processing is based on consent, withdraw it at any time.
Lodge a Complaint: File a complaint with a supervisory authority in the EEA or the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
9. Automated Decision-Making and Profiling
We use automated technologies, including artificial intelligence, to analyze your health and dietary data and to provide personalized insights, meal suggestions, and other features. These processes do not produce legal effects or similarly significant effects on you. If we ever intend to make solely automated decisions with such effects, we will notify you in advance and obtain your explicit consent where required. You may always request human intervention or express your point of view regarding these outputs by contacting us.
10. Third-Party SDKs
We use third-party software development kits (SDKs) to enhance functionality and improve the user experience. Here is a list of our principal third-party SDK providers:
Usage: log in
Privacy Policy Link: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Firebase
Usage: for data statistics
Privacy Policy Link: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy
Usage: for marketing and advertising
Privacy Policy Link: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy
Please review these documents to understand how your data is collected, used, and protected by the third parties when you use this service.
11. Children
We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from persons under 18 years of age. If we become aware that personal information of persons under 18 has been collected, we will take appropriate steps to delete it. If you believe we have done so, please contact us at support@calohow.com.
12. Changes and Updates to This Privacy Policy
We may modify this Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by email and/or through a prominent notice within the Services prior to the change becoming effective. If the changes require your consent under applicable law, we will ask for your consent before applying the changes. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically for the latest information.
13. Contact Us
TadaPal is the data controller responsible for your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact us at:
Email: support@calohow.com