Fojo is a food journal. The whole point is that it's yours — so we keep only what the journal needs to work, never sell it, and let you take it with you or erase it whenever you like.
What we keep
We store the things you put into your journal and the account that holds them:
- Your journal.The food and drink you log, your own words for it, the estimated nutrition, day titles, and the conversation on each day's page.
- Your profile.Anything you choose to add — name, age, biological sex, height, weight, soft nutrition goals, and the free-text notes you write about your preferences. All of it is optional, and it exists only to ground Fojo's answers when you ask.
- Your account. If you create one, the email address and/or the Apple or Google sign-in you use. Passwords are stored only as a salted bcrypt hash — we never see the original.
You can start using Fojo as a guest, with no account at all. A guest journal lives on an anonymous id until you choose to attach an email or social login to it.
Voice, photos, and the AI
When you hold to speak, the audio is sent to our speech-to-text provider (OpenAI) to turn it into text, then discarded — we don't keep the recording. The text of what you said, and your profile context, are sent to OpenAI's API so the assistant can read it back as a journal and estimate nutrition.
OpenAI processes this data on our behalf to return a response and, under their API terms, does not use it to train their models. When you photograph a plate, the image is sent to OpenAI the same way so it can recognize the food, and kept in our cloud storage behind a long, unguessable link so it can appear on that day's page. Deleting the entry or your account removes it.
What we never do
- We don't sell your data, ever.
- We don't run advertising, and we don't share your journal with advertisers or data brokers.
- We don't use your food log to profile, judge, or nudge you — Fojo has no streaks, targets, or behavioral hooks by design.
Who can see it
Your journal is private to your account. We access it only when we have to — to operate the service, fix a problem you report, or meet a legal obligation. We use a small set of infrastructure providers to run Fojo: a cloud host and database (Vercel and a managed Postgres provider) and the AI provider named above. They process data only to provide their service to us.
Taking it with you, or deleting it
The journal is meant to be an asset you own, not a hostage. You can delete your account from inside the app at any time; doing so removes your profile, days, entries, and conversation from our database. If you no longer have the app, you can request deletion here. And if you'd like a copy of your data or have any request about it, email us and we'll help.
Children
Fojo isn't directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we'll remove it.
Changes & contact
If this policy changes in a meaningful way, we'll update the date above and, where appropriate, let you know in the app. Questions about your privacy? Write to fojo.support@gmail.com.