Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Makawa Teknoloji Limited Şirketi ("Makawa", "We", "Us", or "Our") protects your privacy when you use Makawa (the "Makawa Service") which includes the Web site located at makawatechnology.com (the "Site") and all Makawa Technology mobile phone applications (each, the "App").

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE Makawa SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN AND ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE. THIS PRIVACY POLICY IS PART OF AND INCORPORATED INTO Makawa's TERMS OF USE ("Terms of Use"). IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW, YOU MAY NOT USE THE Makawa SERVICE.

This Privacy Policy applies to information (including personal information) collected through the Makawa Service.

If you decide not to read this entire Privacy Policy, we want you to walk away with a few key points about our privacy practices:

  • Our app is an AI-powered calorie tracking application designed to help you eat healthily.
  • Our app uses artificial intelligence technologies (Gemini and OpenAI) to automatically calculate the calorie and macronutrient values of your meals using photos of your food.
  • The food photos you upload are never stored anywhere.
  • Your food photos are used solely for the purpose of calculating calorie and macronutrient values and are not used for any other purpose.
  • We collect personal information such as height, weight, age, and gender.
  • This personal information is used only to calculate your required calorie intake and is not used anywhere else.
  • Your personal information is not shared with any third-party applications or services.
  • Our app utilizes artificial intelligence technologies from Gemini and OpenAI to analyze nutritional values.

Personal Information We Collect

When you use the App, we may collect information about you, including:

  • Food Photos You Provide: Photographs you provide to the App via your camera or camera roll (if you have granted us permission to access your camera or camera roll), or through the in-App internet search functionality. We only obtain the specific food images you choose to use for calorie and nutrient analysis. We do not collect your entire photo albums, even if you grant us access to them. We encrypt each photograph you upload using the App. The encryption key is stored locally on your device. This means that the only device that can view the photo is the device from which the photograph was uploaded using the App – the user's device. Please note that while metadata (such as geotags) may be associated with your photographs by default, we take steps to delete any metadata that may be associated with a photograph you provide when you use the App.
  • App Usage Information: Information about how you use the App and interact with us, including your preferred language, the date and time when you first installed the App, and the date and time you last used the App.
  • Purchase History: If you choose to purchase an App subscription, such as confirmation that you are a paid subscriber to the App.
  • Personal Health Information: Your age, height, weight, and gender. This information is necessary to calculate your required daily calorie intake.
  • Device Data: Information such as your computer and mobile device operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model, device ID, push tokens, Google Advertising ID, Apple ID for Advertising, browser type, screen resolution, IP address (and the associated country in which you are located), and the website you visited before visiting our App.
  • Online Activity Data: Information about your use of and actions within the App, including pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and length of access. Our service providers may also collect this type of information. However, as we do not display advertisements in our app, we do not collect online activity data for advertising purposes.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We do not use the food photos, your age, your height, your weight, or your gender that you provide when you use the App for any reason other than to provide you with the calorie and nutrient calculation functionality of the App and to calculate your required daily calorie intake. We may use other information (such as app usage information, device data) for the following purposes:

  • To Provide and Improve the App: To ensure the App functions stably and effectively, to troubleshoot bugs, and to enhance the user experience. For example, to understand how the App performs on different devices or to analyze which features users interact with the most.
  • Support and Communication: To provide technical support, answer your questions, and communicate with you about the App.
  • Manage Purchase Transactions: If you purchase a subscription, to manage this transaction and verify your subscription status.
  • Comply with Legal Obligations: To comply with legal regulations, respond to court orders, or fulfill legal requests.
  • Analysis and Research: To analyze anonymous and aggregated data to understand general usage trends of the App and gather information for future improvements. Personally identifiable information is not used in these analyses.

Your food photos and personal health information (age, height, weight, gender) are absolutely not used for any other purpose. This information is not shared with third parties.

How We Share Your Personal Information

We absolutely do not share users' food photos, age, height, weight, or gender with third parties.

We may share your other personal information (excluding food photos and your personal health information) in the following limited circumstances:

  • Affiliates: We may share App usage information with our subsidiaries and affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
  • Service Providers: We may share your personal information with service providers that perform services on our behalf or help us operate the App (such as customer support, hosting, analytics, email delivery, and database management services). These third parties may use your personal information only as directed or authorized by us and in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy, and are prohibited from using or disclosing your information for any other purpose.
  • Professional Advisors: We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
  • For Compliance, Fraud Prevention, and Safety: We may share your personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention, and safety purposes described above.
  • Business Transfers: We may sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, including your personal information, in connection with a business transaction (or potential business transaction) such as a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy or dissolution.

Your food photos, age, height, weight, and gender are never shared with any third parties. As we do not have advertising partners, no data is shared in that context. As we do not offer connection features with third-party platforms or social media networks, no data is shared in that context.

Compliance with Law

We may be required to use and share your personal information to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.

Your Choices

In this section, we describe the rights and choices available to all users.

  • Manage Notifications: You may opt out of marketing-related communications and other notifications we may send you via push notification by changing the settings on your mobile device.
  • Device Permissions: You may revoke any permissions you previously granted to us, such as permission to access your camera or photo library, through the settings on your mobile device.
  • Cookies & Browser Web Storage: Although our App itself does not use cookies, if you visit our website, most browsers allow you to remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, our website may not work properly. Similarly, your browser settings may allow you to clear your browser web storage. Please note that this information primarily applies to our website, if applicable, as our App does not directly use cookies.

Targeted Online Advertising

Our App does not directly display any targeted online advertising. However, our business partners, such as Google and Facebook, may use certain anonymous and aggregated information collected through your App usage (in a way that does not directly identify you) for their own advertising targeting purposes on their respective platforms. The data usage practices of these partners are governed by their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review. Our App does not share your directly personally identifiable information with these partners for advertising purposes.

Your Choice Not to Share Personal Information

Where we are legally required to collect your personal information, or where we need your personal information in order to provide the App to you, if you do not provide this information when requested (or if you later ask to delete it), we may not be able to provide you with our services. We will inform you what information you must provide to use the App by designating it as required at the time of collection or through other appropriate means. This particularly applies to information such as your age, height, weight, and gender, which is necessary for us to provide you with accurate calorie calculations. If you do not provide this information, you may not be able to utilize the core functionalities of the App.

Third-Party Platforms or Social Media Networks

Our App does not currently offer direct connection features through Facebook login or other third-party platforms or social media networks. Therefore, you do not have the option to limit the information we might obtain from these platforms or directly control your settings through our App in this regard. However, you can manage your data sharing with these platforms by reviewing their own privacy settings and policies.

Other Sites, Mobile Applications and Services

The App may contain links to other websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. These links are not an endorsement of, or a representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. In addition, our content may be included on web pages or in mobile applications or online services that are not associated with us. We do not control third-party websites, mobile applications, or online services, and we are not responsible for their actions. Other websites, mobile applications, and online services follow different rules regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your personal information. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites, mobile applications, and online services you use.

Security Practices

We use commercially reasonable security practices to help keep the information collected through the App secure and take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your account (if you have an account with us). However, FoodFlex cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to FoodFlex Service or guarantee that information on the App may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.

Please do your part to help us. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login information and device identifiers, and for controlling access to communications between you and FoodFlex Service, at all times. Your privacy settings may also be affected by changes the social media services you connect to FoodFlex Service make to their services. We are not responsible for the functionality, privacy, or security measures of any other organization. However, as our App does not directly connect to social media services, this point is less applicable to our App.

Retention

We do not store your food photos.

With respect to non-photograph information that we may collect, we will retain such information in a personally identifiable format only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we have set out in this Privacy Policy. You may also ask that we delete your information by contacting us.

Cross-Border Data Transfers

We store the information we collect in connection with the App on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. For Amazon Web Services, we specify the US as the data storage location; for Google Cloud Platform, we specify data storage at an available location closest to you when you use the App. Your personal information may be accessed by our service providers in other locations outside of your state, province, or country. Your device ID (and general App usage information) may also be accessed by the Company’s technical support team in other locations outside of your state, province, or country.

Children

The App is not directed at children under the age of 13, and our Terms of Use do not allow children under 13 years of age to use the App. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete it. We encourage parents with concerns to contact us.

California Residents

This section contains disclosures required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and applies only to “personal information” that is subject to the CCPA.

California Children Under 16 and Advertising

THE FOODFLEX SERVICES ARE NOT MEANT FOR CALIFORNIA-LOCATED PEOPLE UNDER 16. We do not knowingly collect information for use in connection with advertising from California children under the age of 16. If we receive a verifiable notice through info@makawatechnology.com that a California minor under the age of 16 has signed up for a FoodFlex Services account and provided us with personal information, we will take measures to delete it as soon as possible. Additional details regarding California consumer rights follow below.

Personal Information We Collect and Disclose for Business Purposes

We collect the following categories of personal information about California consumers from social networks, service providers, and directly from California consumers and have disclosed this information in the past 12 months to third parties for business purposes: personal and online identifiers (i.e., username, email address, IP address, or unique online identifiers), internet or other electronic network activity information (i.e., app interaction), and approximate geolocation information, as well as other information about California consumers that is linked to these categories of personal information. We also draw inferences from this information about your predicted characteristics and preferences.

Business Purposes: Our business purposes for the use of California consumer personal information include the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including, without limitation, marketing (if your in-app communications fall under this); auditing related to our interactions with you; legal compliance; detecting and protecting against security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity; debugging; performing services (by us or our service providers), such as account servicing and analytics; research for technological improvement; internal operations; activities to maintain and improve our services; and other one-time uses. Our business partners (such as Google and Facebook) may use the anonymous and aggregated information we collect for their own advertising targeting purposes on their platforms.

We disclose the categories of personal information designated above to the following categories of third parties for business purposes: service providers; government entities. Our business partners (such as Google and Facebook) may also use anonymous and aggregated information for their own advertising purposes. While our App does not directly share personally identifiable data with social networks, there might be indirect usage through our partners.

Personal Information We Collect and Disclose for Advertising Purposes

Our App does not directly display advertisements. However, our business partners (such as Google and Facebook) may use certain anonymous and aggregated information collected through your App usage for their own advertising targeting purposes on their platforms. We do not share your directly personally identifiable information with these partners for this purpose.

Your Rights Regarding Personal Information

California residents have certain rights with respect to the personal information collected by businesses. If you are a California resident, you may exercise the following rights regarding your personal information, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:

  • The right to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you, the categories of sources from which we collected your personal information, our purposes for collecting or selling your personal information, the categories of your personal information that we have either sold or disclosed for a business purpose, and the categories of third parties with which we have shared personal information;
  • The right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you or maintain about you.
  • The right to opt out of our sale(s) of your personal information. Please note that our App does not sell your personal information.
  • The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.

To exercise any of the above rights, please contact us using the following information and submit the required verifying information, as further described below: please email info@makawatechnology.com or contact us using this address:

MAKAWA TECHNOLOGY PRIVACY DEPARTMENT
Topçu mah. 1508. sokak 7/4 Etimesgut Ankara

Verification Process and Required Information

Note that we may need to request additional information from you to verify your identity or understand the scope of your request, although you will not be required to create an account with us to submit a request or have it fulfilled. In the event you designate an authorized agent to make a CCPA request on your behalf, we will require verification of identity and authorization.

How to Contact Us

Please direct any questions or comments about this Policy or our privacy practices to info@makawatechnology.com. You may also write to us via postal mail at:

MAKAWA TECHNOLOGY
Topçu mah. 1508. sokak 7/4 Etimesgut Ankara

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it within the App. We may also, and if required by law, will, provide notification of changes in another way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you, such as through a notification within the App.

Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the new terms and/or upon implementation of the new changes within the App (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your continued use of the App after the posting of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.