How Tally handles your data

Effective [DATE] · Applies to the Tally app for iPhone

The short version

We collect your email address, the first three characters of your postal code, and the receipts you choose to scan or enter.
We use it to show your spending and to compare prices across stores. That's it.
We never sell your personal information or your receipts, we show no ads, and we don't track you across other apps.
Other people never see your email address or your receipts. The one exception is a household you choose to join: its members see every receipt any of you adds, and the display name of who added it. Prices from receipts are combined with everyone else's into typical prices for your province.
Anonymous statistics are optional. If we ever offer them, you'll be asked separately, and they stay off unless you turn them on.
You can delete everything from Settings at any time.

1. What we collect

Information	Where it comes from	Why
Email address	You, when you sign in with an email code, or Apple, when you use Sign in with Apple (you can choose Apple's "Hide My Email" address)	To create your account and send sign-in codes
Display name	Tally starts it as the part of your email address before the @; you can change it in Settings → Household. Tally does not ask Apple for your name.	Shown to the members of your household next to the receipts you add
First three characters of your postal code (for example, M5V)	You, at sign-up	To work out your province and show prices from stores near you. We never ask for your full address.
Receipt photos	You, when you scan a receipt or pick one from your photo library	To read the receipt, and kept in your account so a receipt can be re-read or checked if something went wrong
Receipt contents: store, store address as printed, date, items, prices, discounts, taxes, totals, and the text read from the photo (the reader's output is also kept for up to 90 days so a failed scan can be retried without reading the photo again)	Read from your receipt photo, or typed in by you when you log a purchase without a receipt	To show your spending, match items to products, and compare prices
Household membership: who is in your household, and who added each receipt	You, when you invite someone or join with a code	To share receipts with the people in your household
Your approximate location, rounded to about 1 km before it leaves your phone	Your iPhone, only while you use Nearby stores on a product page, and only if you allow it	To find the nearest stores for that one lookup. It is not kept.
Your corrections and matches (for example, "this line is 2% milk, 4 L")	You	To match your receipts correctly next time
Favourites and recent searches	You	To show them to you again
Products you add (name, brand, size, barcode)	You, when a scanned barcode isn't in our catalogue	To add the product to the shared catalogue
Count and time of your receipt scans	The app, when you scan	To apply the daily and monthly scan limits
How the app performs for you: whether a barcode scan found its product, how long a search took and how many results it returned (not what you searched), and what went wrong when a receipt scan failed (the error, not the receipt)	The app, as you use it	To find and fix problems in the catalogue, the search and the scanner
Crash and freeze reports: where in the app it stopped, your iPhone model, iOS version and the app's version	Your iPhone, through Apple's built-in reporting, the next time you open Tally after a crash or freeze	To find and fix the problem. Deleted after 180 days

The camera and your photo library are used only when you choose to scan a receipt or a barcode, or pick a photo. Your location is used only when you open Nearby stores and allow it; it is rounded to about 1 km before it leaves your phone and is not kept. We do not collect your precise location, your contacts, your advertising identifier, or information about other apps on your phone. Tally contains no advertising, analytics or crash-reporting software from other companies.

2. How we use it

To run the app: your purchases, spending by store and category, and price comparisons.
To share receipts with the people in your household, if you join one.
To match receipt lines to products, including learning from the matches you confirm.
To keep the service working and secure: sign-in, scan limits, fixing errors, and answering your questions when you contact us.

We use your information only for these purposes. If we ever want to use it for something new, we will ask you first.

3. What other people see

Other Tally users never see your email address, your receipts or your photos, with one exception you choose:

Your household. If you invite people or join with a code, everyone in the household (up to 6 people) sees every receipt any member adds, including the photo, the store, the date, the items and prices, and the display name of who added it, and can edit or delete any of those receipts. Leaving the household, or being removed by its owner, takes the receipts you added with you and ends your access to the others'. Matches you confirm also help match the same receipt wording for the rest of your household.

Two things you do can help all other users, without anything that identifies you:

Prices. Prices from receipts, yours included, are combined with other users' prices into typical prices by store and province, which appear on product pages. They are never shown with your name or as your individual receipt.
Products and matches. Products you add can join the shared catalogue once another source confirms them, and the matches you confirm can help match the same receipt wording for others. Neither is shown with your name.

4. Companies that help us run Tally

These companies process information only to provide their service to us, under agreements that require them to protect it at least as well as this policy does.

Company	What it does	Where
Supabase	Hosts our database, your account and sign-in, and stores your receipt photos in private storage	Canada (Montréal)
Microsoft Azure (Document Intelligence)	Reads the text on your receipt photo. Microsoft deletes the photo and the result 24 hours after reading it.	United States (East US)
Apple	Sign in with Apple, if you choose it, and the App Store	Apple's own privacy policy applies
Open Food Facts	When a barcode you scan isn't in our catalogue, the app looks up that barcode number (nothing else) in this free public product database	France (non-profit)
[Email provider]	Sends your sign-in codes	[Where]

5. Anonymous price statistics (optional, not yet offered)

We may one day offer to combine prices from receipts into anonymous totals, such as the average price of a litre of milk in Ontario last month, and to share or sell those totals to researchers, journalists and government agencies to help people understand what groceries cost in Canada.

It will be your choice. We'll ask you separately in the app, it will be off unless you turn it on, and you can turn it off at any time in Settings.
Totals only. We will never share or sell your receipts, your individual purchases, or anything that could identify you. Totals are built from many people's prices, following the anonymization rules of Canadian and Quebec privacy law.
No brands. We will not sell to brands or retailers.
No surprises. Only prices from people who have turned it on are included. If the question also covers receipts you saved before, it will say so.

6. What we never do

We never sell your personal information or your receipts.
We never show ads, and never share your information with advertisers or data brokers.
We never track you across other companies' apps or websites.
We never try to identify people from anonymous totals, and anyone we share totals with must agree not to try either.

7. How long we keep it, and deleting it

We keep your information while your account is open. You can delete your account at any time in Settings → Delete account. That permanently removes your receipts and receipt photos, favourites, recent searches, the matches and corrections you made, and your sign-in account. If you are in a household, it also removes you from it and deletes the receipts you added; receipts added by other members stay with them.

Products you added to the shared catalogue stay in it, but are no longer linked to you.
Crash and freeze reports are deleted after 180 days. Deleting your account unlinks them from you sooner.
Microsoft deletes receipt photos it reads 24 hours after reading them. The copy of the reader's output we keep for retries is deleted with your account, and otherwise after about 90 days.
Deleted information can remain in encrypted backups for a short time until those backups are replaced.

8. Your rights

You can ask us to show you the personal information we hold about you, correct it, or delete it, and you can withdraw your consent to any optional use at any time. Contact us using the details in section 12 and we'll respond within 30 days. If you're not satisfied with our answer, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, or, in Quebec, to the Commission d'accès à l'information.

9. Security

Information travels between the app and our servers encrypted (HTTPS). Each account can reach only its own receipts and photos, or those of the household it has joined, and receipt photos are kept in private storage, never on a public link. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects your information and creates a real risk of harm, we'll tell you and the Privacy Commissioner, as the law requires.

10. Children

Tally is meant for adults and is not directed at children. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we'll delete it.

11. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use your information, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect and, where the law requires, ask for your consent.

12. Contact us

[Company legal name], [mailing address]. Person responsible for the protection of personal information: [Name, title], [privacy email address].

13. Open-source software

Tally is built with the open-source software below. Each one's own licence applies to it, and the notices those licences ask for are reproduced here.

libjpeg-turbo

Tally uses libjpeg-turbo to store receipt photos more compactly. This software is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

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MIT License

These parts of Tally are used under the MIT License, whose text follows the list.

RevenueCat (purchases-ios), for subscriptions. Copyright (c) 2024 RevenueCat, Inc.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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These parts of Tally are used under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Their notices and the licence text follow the list.

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