Mochi Mart

Privacy Policy

Mochi Mart is a personal grocery list app. We've designed it to keep your data as quiet as possible — no accounts, no ads, no tracking. This page explains exactly what happens to your data so there are no surprises.

What stays on your device

Almost everything. The following is stored locally on your iPhone using standard iOS storage (AsyncStorage) and never leaves your device unless you use one of the AI features described below:

• Your grocery lists, list names, items, quantities, and check-off state
• Your pantry history (which items you buy and when you check them off)
• App preferences and small bookkeeping (last-suggestion timestamps, category cache)
• Photos taken with the in-app label scanner are held in memory only — they are not saved to your photo library, and are discarded as soon as the report is generated or the scanner is closed

Uninstalling the app removes all of this from your device.

One small exception: Mochi Mart stores a small amount of anonymous data (a random ID and basic list metadata, no personal info) in a private iCloud namespace, used to keep your experience consistent across reinstalls. When you delete the app, iOS will display a system warning that "data stored in iCloud will not be deleted" — that warning refers to this data. We don't require you to sign in or create an account to use the app.

What we send out

Some features use a third-party AI model to help with categorization, recipes, label analysis, and conversational suggestions. When you use these features, a small payload is sent to our forwarding server, which forwards it to a third-party AI provider and returns the result. The data sent depends on which feature is active:

• Chatting with Mochi: your typed message, your recent chat history with Mochi, and a snapshot of the active grocery list and pantry items
• Scanning a product label: the photo you captured. Photos leave your device only when you explicitly tap "analyze" after reviewing them on the in-app review screen.
• Categorizing unknown items: just the item name (e.g., "oj")
• Greetings & pantry suggestions: a short summary of your list state and any items that are about due

We do not send your name, email, phone number, location, contacts, photos from your photo library, or any device or advertising identifier — Mochi Mart never asks for any of these.

Permissions Mochi Mart asks for

• Camera — only when you open the label scanner. The camera is active only while the scanner is on screen, never in the background. Photos are not saved to your photo library.

iOS will prompt you the first time the scanner runs. You can revoke camera access at any time in Settings → Mochi.

Third parties

• A third-party AI provider processes the AI requests above, including any photos you submit for label analysis. Its own privacy terms apply to the data we send it. That data is retained only briefly for trust-and-safety review (by default, up to 30 days) and is not used to train its models.
• A third-party cloud hosting provider runs our small forwarding server, and its infrastructure may log standard request metadata (such as IP address and timestamp).

We do not use third-party analytics, crash reporters, or advertising SDKs.

What we don't do

• No accounts, sign-in, or passwords
• No advertising or marketing
• No tracking across other apps or websites
• No selling, sharing, or trading your data
• No microphone, location, contacts, photo library, or advertising-identifier access
• No background camera activity — the camera is active only while the label scanner is open and visible on screen

Children

Mochi Mart isn't directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has used the app and you'd like the local data removed, just delete the app from their device.

Your choices

Because nothing is tied to an account, you control everything from the device:

• Clear individual lists or items from inside the app
• Uninstall the app to remove all local data
• Email us if you want to know more about the data flow or have a request

Changes to this policy

If we update how data is handled, we'll update this page and bump the effective date above. Material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions or concerns? Email support.mochi@gmail.com and we'll get back to you within a few days.