Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Absorbed, Inc. ("Absorbed," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and protects information when you use our website (absorbed.app), our mobile application Absorbed, and Absorbed in ChatGPT. The Absorbed iPhone app is currently listed on the App Store under Maika Movement Inc while that listing transfers to Absorbed, Inc.

Our approach to privacy is simple. We collect as little as possible, we keep what we collect on your device whenever we can, and we never sell your data.

1. Information we collect

Through the website: If you join our newsletter, we collect your email address. That is the only information we ask for on this site.

Through the Absorbed app: The app does not require an account. It does not collect personal identifiers. Your scan history, saved products, and onboarding answers are stored locally on your device, not on our servers.

Camera and photos: When you scan a product, the app sends the photo through our server to our AI provider, Anthropic, which reads the label and ingredients. We do not store your photos. We keep the resulting product analysis (the product's name, brand, ingredients and score, never your photo or anything about you) in a shared product database so the next person who scans the same product gets a faster answer.

2. Third-party services

To analyze products, the app sends scan photos to Anthropic, our AI provider, through our server, as described above. To identify products and ingredients, the app may also send a barcode or product reference, not personal data, to the following services:

Open Food Facts, an open community database of food and cosmetic products.

SerpAPI, used as a fallback for retrieving product images.

When subscription features launch, payment processing will be handled by RevenueCat and Stripe. We will not have access to your full payment card details.

3. Absorbed in ChatGPT

If you use Absorbed inside ChatGPT, ChatGPT sends us only what is needed to score a product: the product's name and brand, its ingredient list when you share it, and a photo of the product or its label when you share one.

What we collect: the product details above, and an anonymous ID that ChatGPT generates for us (it is not your name, email or account). We do not receive your name, email, account details or your chat. ChatGPT may also pass a coarse location (city level) and your language setting, which we do not use or store. We do not ask for health information.

Why: to score the product and suggest cleaner alternatives.

Who processes it: Anthropic (AI analysis), Vercel (hosting) and Supabase (our product database). OpenAI operates ChatGPT and handles your chat under its own privacy policy.

How long we keep it: we do not store your photos or ingredient lists. They are processed to answer you and then discarded. We keep the resulting product score (the product's name, its ingredients and score, never your photo or anything about you) for up to 30 days, so the same product scores the same way next time. To keep the service available to everyone, we count how many new products each person scores per day. For this we keep a one-way scrambled version of the anonymous ID ChatGPT shares with us (or of your network address, for requests from outside ChatGPT) and a daily count. These counts are deleted after 2 days and cannot be used to identify you. Our hosting and AI providers may keep short-term technical logs under their own terms.

Your controls: you can disconnect Absorbed from ChatGPT at any time in ChatGPT's settings. For questions or requests, email withlove@absorbed.app.

4. How we use information

We use information to provide and improve the Absorbed app, to send occasional product updates if you have subscribed to our newsletter, and to respond when you contact us.

We do not run third-party advertising trackers. We do not sell or rent your information. We do not share your information with anyone except as required by law.

5. How we protect information

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the limited information we hold. The most effective protection, however, is structural. Most of your data never leaves your device.

6. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete personal information we hold about you, and to opt out of marketing communications. To exercise any of these rights, email withlove@absorbed.app.

You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time using the link at the bottom of every email.

7. Children's privacy

Absorbed is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe we have collected information from a child, please contact us and we will delete it.

8. International users

Absorbed, Inc. operates from the United States. If you are accessing the site or app from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

10. Contact

For privacy-related questions or anything else, email withlove@absorbed.app.

Absorbed, Inc.