Privacy

Shoku is an independent nutrition-tracking project. This page explains, in plain words, what we keep and why. We don’t sell your data and we don’t show ads.

What we store

• Your Google account basics. When you sign in with Google, Google shares your name, email address and profile photo with us. We use them to create your account and show who is signed in.
• Your profile. The goal, body details, activity level, diet and food restrictions you enter, and the targets Shoku works out from them.
• Your diary. Meals and foods you log, water, days you mark done, custom foods you create, and badges you earn.
• Meal photos. If you snap a plate, the photo is stored in a private storage area that only your account can read.
• Meal feedback and preferences. Ratings you give meals or Ask Shoku ideas (like, okay or not for me, quick tags and an optional note), the cuisines you lean toward, and whether Ask Shoku may use your workouts.
• AI Assist usage. A count of AI requests per day, so fair-use limits work.

Where it lives

Your data is stored with Supabase (database, sign-in and file storage). Access rules in the database make sure each account can only read its own diary and photos.

AI Assist

When you use AI Assist, the photo or text you submit is sent to Google Gemini to suggest foods and portions, a plan, or a coach line. Only what that request needs is sent: for Ask Shoku, that is your question, today’s meals and targets, your diet and the foods you skip, your cuisine preferences, your workouts unless you turn that off, and the names of foods you liked or rated “not for me” unless you turn off Remember meal feedback. Your notes on meals are never sent. For Plan my week, the request also includes which weekdays you usually train (worked out from your workouts), never the workouts themselves. Results are suggestions: nothing is saved to your diary until you confirm it.

When Gemini is overloaded, the same text request (never a photo) may go to Groq instead, which runs an open model to answer it. It receives exactly what Gemini would have, and nothing more.

Workouts and Strava

Workouts you log, their estimated calories and, if you give one, when you started, are stored with your diary. If you connectStrava, Shoku reads your activities (name, type, start time, duration and calories) to count calories burned, and stores the access Strava grants so it can import new ones. Shoku never posts to Strava. Disconnect any time from your profile: that revokes Shoku’s access and deletes the imported workouts.

Your control

• Export your data at any time from your Profile in the app.
• Delete diary entries and meal ratings whenever you like.
• Choose in your profile whether Ask Shoku uses your workouts, or asks you first each time.
• To close your account and remove your data, email support@shoku.app.

Cookies

We use only the cookies needed to keep you signed in. No tracking or advertising cookies.

Health information

Nutrition values are estimates. Shoku does not give medical advice. See the Terms.

Contact

Questions about your data: support@shoku.app.