Privacy Policy
ExpiryMate: Food Tracker
Developer display name: SensorLinQ Apps
Effective date: 8 June 2026
Last updated: 16 June 2026
Contact: sensorlinqapps@gmail.com
This Privacy Policy applies to the Android application ExpiryMate: Food Tracker, published under the developer display name SensorLinQ Apps.
SensorLinQ Apps is the public developer display name used for our mobile applications. It is not a separate registered company name. References to “SensorLinQ Apps”, “we”, “our”, or “us” in this Privacy Policy refer to the developer/publisher of ExpiryMate: Food Tracker.
This Privacy Policy explains how ExpiryMate: Food Tracker handles food item information, expiry dates, barcode scanning, household sync, item photos, advertising, consent choices, subscriptions, paid features, third-party services, future planning features, and user data.
App purpose
ExpiryMate: Food Tracker is designed to help users track food items, expiry dates, storage locations, household food usage, reminders, and related household food information.
The app can help users:
• Add food items manually
• Scan product barcodes
• Track expiry dates
• Receive expiry reminders
• View items that are active, consumed, expired, or discarded
• Organise items by storage location, such as fridge, freezer, pantry, cupboard, or other user-selected locations
• Share food item information with members of the same household, where household sync is enabled
• View meal idea suggestions based on items expiring soon
• View statistics and household food usage insights
• Access paid features, subscriptions, Pro features, or ad-removal options where available
ExpiryMate is intended as a household organisation tool. It does not provide medical, nutritional, dietary, food safety, financial, environmental, or professional advice.
Offline-first design
ExpiryMate is designed as an offline-first app.
Core food tracking functionality is stored locally on the user’s device. This may include food item names, categories, expiry dates, quantities, storage locations, item status, notes, barcode information, product information, locally stored item photos, reminder settings, statistics, and app preferences.
Some features require internet access, including:
• Barcode lookup using third-party product databases
• Downloading product names, brands, product database links, and product image links
• Household sync between devices
• Advertising
• Consent management
• Google Play purchases and subscription verification
• Entitlement verification for paid features
• Future app update or service features
If household sync is not enabled, food item information is primarily stored on the user’s device except where required for third-party services such as advertising, consent management, barcode lookup, Google Play purchases, or entitlement verification.
Food item data
ExpiryMate may store food item data entered by the user or generated through app use, including:
• Food item name
• Food category
• Quantity
• Expiry date
• Storage location
• Item status, such as active, consumed, expired, or discarded
• Barcode number, if scanned
• Brand name, if available
• Product database link, if available
• Product image link, if available
• User notes, if notes functionality is available
• Reminder settings
• Item creation, update, and sync timestamps
• Household and device sync identifiers where household sync is enabled
• Statistics and usage information generated from food item activity
This information is used to provide food tracking, reminders, household sharing, household sync, statistics, meal idea suggestions, future planning suggestions, and related app functionality.
Barcode scanning
ExpiryMate may allow users to scan product barcodes using the device camera.
Camera access is used only when the user chooses to scan a barcode or take an item photo inside the app.
When a barcode is scanned, the app may use the barcode number to search for product information from third-party product databases, such as Open Food Facts or similar services. This may allow the app to retrieve product details such as product name, brand, category, product database link, and product image link.
Barcode lookup may require sending the barcode number or product lookup request over the internet to the relevant third-party service.
ExpiryMate does not use the camera to track the user’s location or record video for unrelated purposes.
Product information and Open Food Facts
ExpiryMate may use Open Food Facts or similar product data sources to retrieve publicly available product information.
This information may include:
• Product name
• Brand
• Barcode
• Product category
• Product database link
• Product image link
Product images and product data provided by third-party product databases are not owned by SensorLinQ Apps.
Where ExpiryMate stores a product image reference, it stores the product image link or product database link where possible. This allows another device in the same household to retrieve the product image from the third-party source instead of SensorLinQ Apps storing the image itself.
SensorLinQ Apps does not control the accuracy, completeness, availability, licensing, or continued availability of third-party product data. Product information may be incomplete, incorrect, outdated, or unavailable.
Item photos
ExpiryMate may allow users to add item photos.
Item photos taken by the user are stored locally on the user’s device.
SensorLinQ Apps does not upload, store, or process user-taken item photos on its own servers.
If an item image comes from a third-party product database, such as Open Food Facts, ExpiryMate may store a link to that image so that other household members can retrieve the same image on their own device.
Household sync does not upload user-taken item photos to SensorLinQ Apps servers.
Household sync
ExpiryMate may include optional household sync functionality.
If the user creates or joins a household, selected food item data may be sent to SensorLinQ Apps servers so that members of the same household can view and update shared household food information.
Synced household data may include:
• Household identifier
• Household name
• Invite code or invite-related identifier
• Member display name
• Item creator name or identifier
• Food item names
• Categories
• Quantities
• Expiry dates
• Storage locations
• Item status
• Barcode numbers
• Brand names
• Product database links
• Product image links
• Reminder-related information where required for sync
• Statistics-related information where required for shared household features
• Sync timestamps
• Technical identifiers needed to provide the sync service
Household members who join the same household may be able to see shared household item information.
Users should only share household invite codes with people they trust.
SensorLinQ Apps does not use household sync to store user-taken item photos on its own servers.
Future household planning features
ExpiryMate may add future household planning features that use food item and expiry information to suggest useful household actions.
For example, the app may suggest that a household may need to replace or buy an item based on items that are expiring soon, frequently consumed, discarded, expired, or no longer available in the household item history.
These future suggestions may be generated from:
• Food item names
• Expiry dates
• Item categories
• Item status
• Household usage patterns
• Storage locations
• Quantity information
• Historical item outcomes, such as consumed, discarded, or expired
• Other app data needed to generate relevant household suggestions
These suggestions are intended only as convenience features. They are not medical, dietary, nutritional, financial, environmental, or food safety advice.
If these features are enabled for a shared household, relevant suggestion data may be visible to household members.
Meal idea suggestions
ExpiryMate may provide meal idea suggestions based on food items expiring soon.
Meal suggestions are intended to provide general meal ideas only. They are not full recipes and are not cooking instructions.
Meal suggestion data may include meal names, ingredient relationships, cuisine tags, diet or lifestyle tags, and general food categories.
Diet or lifestyle tags are used only to help users filter ideas. They do not make medical claims and should not be treated as health advice.
Users are responsible for checking ingredients, allergens, suitability, expiry dates, storage conditions, preparation methods, and safe food handling before preparing or consuming food.
Expiry reminders and notifications
ExpiryMate may provide expiry reminders, alerts, or other app notifications.
Notification access is used only to show reminders or app notifications requested by the user or required for app functionality.
Users can manage notification permissions through Android device settings.
Expiry reminders are based on user-entered, scanned, imported, or synced item information. ExpiryMate cannot guarantee that an item is safe to consume. Users should always check product labels, expiry dates, best-before dates, storage conditions, smell, appearance, allergen information, packaging, and applicable food safety guidance.
Statistics and household insights
ExpiryMate may provide statistics and insights about food usage.
This may include:
• Number of consumed items
• Number of expired items
• Number of discarded items
• Food waste rate
• Most wasted categories
• Most wasted individual items
• Storage-location statistics
• Warning effectiveness
• Monthly or yearly trends
• Future estimates of money saved or wasted, if added
These statistics are generated from food item data stored locally or synced within a household.
Statistics are intended for personal household awareness only and should not be treated as financial, environmental, dietary, nutritional, or professional advice.
Data we collect or process directly
ExpiryMate does not require users to create a personal account with an email address.
SensorLinQ Apps does not directly collect payment card details through ExpiryMate.
Depending on the features used, SensorLinQ Apps may collect or process:
• Household sync data
• Household identifiers
• Invite-related identifiers
• Member display names
• Food item data
• Barcode data
• Brand information
• Product database links
• Product image links
• Technical sync identifiers
• Reminder-related information
• Statistics-related information
• Purchase and entitlement verification information
• Server logs needed for security, diagnostics, abuse prevention, reliability, and service operation
If the user does not use household sync, food item data is primarily stored locally on the user’s device.
Data we do not collect directly
ExpiryMate does not directly collect:
• Real-time GPS location
• Contacts
• Microphone recordings
• User-taken item photos on SensorLinQ Apps servers
• Full payment card details
• Personal health records
• Biometric data
The app does not use barcode scanning or item tracking to track the user’s physical location.
Advertising
ExpiryMate displays ads using Google AdMob or other clearly identified third-party advertising services for users on the free plan or other ad-supported versions of the app.
Google AdMob and related advertising services may collect and process certain information for advertising, measurement, fraud prevention, diagnostics, analytics, and related purposes. This may include information such as:
• IP address, which may be used to estimate general location
• Device identifiers
• Advertising identifiers
• App interactions
• Ad interactions
• User product interactions
• Diagnostic information
• App performance information
• Other information required to provide, secure, measure, and improve ads
Where required, ExpiryMate may use Google’s User Messaging Platform to request consent for personalised ads and related data processing.
Ads may be personalised or non-personalised depending on user choices, location, applicable law, consent settings, and third-party advertising settings.
Users may be able to remove ads by purchasing an eligible paid feature, subscription, or ad-removal option where available.
European privacy and consent choices
For users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, ExpiryMate may use Google’s User Messaging Platform to request consent for personalised advertising and related data processing.
Users in these regions may be shown a consent message that allows them to:
• Consent to advertising-related data processing
• Manage consent options
• Decline consent where available
• Change or withdraw consent choices where required
The availability and wording of these choices may depend on Google AdMob, Google User Messaging Platform, Google Play services, and applicable privacy requirements.
US state privacy choices
For users in certain US states, ExpiryMate may provide privacy choices required by applicable state privacy laws.
Where required, users may be able to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information as those terms are defined by applicable laws.
ExpiryMate may use Google AdMob and Google User Messaging Platform to display privacy choices and communicate those choices to Google for advertising-related processing.
Users can also manage app permissions through Android device settings.
Purchases, subscriptions, and paid features
ExpiryMate offers or may offer paid features, subscriptions, Pro features, or ad-removal options.
Paid features may include, for example, access to Pro features, removal of ads, higher item limits, household-related features, barcode-related features, additional storage locations, advanced reminders, statistics, or other premium functionality shown in the app before purchase.
Purchases and subscriptions made through the Android app are processed by Google Play. SensorLinQ Apps does not receive or store users’ full payment card details.
Google Play may process information needed to complete, verify, renew, cancel, refund, or manage purchases and subscriptions.
ExpiryMate may store or process purchase and entitlement information needed to verify whether the user has access to paid features. This may include:
• Purchase status
• Subscription status
• Product or plan identifier
• Entitlement status
• Purchase token or verification identifier
• Renewal, cancellation, grace-period, account-hold, expiry, or refund status where provided by Google Play
• Technical information needed to validate access to paid features
This information is used only to provide, verify, restore, manage, support, secure, and prevent misuse of paid features, subscriptions, and ad-removal entitlements.
Subscription cancellation, renewal, payment, and refund handling are managed through Google Play and the user’s Google Play account settings, subject to Google Play’s applicable terms and policies.
Third-party services
ExpiryMate may use third-party services, including:
• Google AdMob
• Google User Messaging Platform
• Google Play services
• Google Play Billing
• Open Food Facts or similar product database services
• SensorLinQ Apps servers for optional household sync
These services may collect and process data according to their own privacy policies and terms.
These services are used for purposes such as:
• Advertising
• Consent management
• Purchase processing
• Subscription management
• Entitlement verification
• Barcode lookup
• Product information lookup
• Product image retrieval
• Household sync
• Diagnostics
• Fraud prevention
• Security
• App functionality
Data sharing
SensorLinQ Apps does not sell personal information directly.
Information may be processed by third-party services used by ExpiryMate, including Google AdMob, Google User Messaging Platform, Google Play services, Google Play Billing, Open Food Facts, SensorLinQ Apps servers, and other services needed for app functionality.
If household sync is enabled, shared household item data may be visible to members of the same household.
SensorLinQ Apps may disclose information if required to comply with applicable law, enforce app terms, prevent abuse, protect the security of the service, investigate technical or security issues, or respond to valid legal requests.
Data retention
Local app data remains on the user’s device until the user deletes items, clears app data, or uninstalls the app.
Synced household data may remain on SensorLinQ Apps servers while household sync is active or while required to provide the sync service.
Server backups may retain deleted or changed synced data for a limited period for operational reliability, security, and disaster recovery.
Purchase and entitlement verification information may be retained while required to provide paid features, restore purchases, prevent misuse, resolve support issues, comply with platform requirements, or maintain business records.
Third-party services used by the app, such as Google AdMob, Google User Messaging Platform, Google Play services, Google Play Billing, and Open Food Facts, may retain data according to their own policies.
Users can delete app data or uninstall the app through Android device settings.
For privacy-related deletion or access requests relating to synced household data, users can contact SensorLinQ Apps at sensorlinqapps@gmail.com. Because ExpiryMate may not require account registration, we may need reasonable information such as household name, household identifier, invite code information, or other details to locate the relevant synced data.
Data security
We use reasonable technical measures to protect the app and its functionality.
Where household sync is used, network communication should use secure transmission methods such as HTTPS/TLS where supported.
However, no method of electronic storage or transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Users should protect their device, avoid sharing household invite codes publicly, and only join households with people they trust.
User choices and controls
Users can:
• Use the app locally without household sync, where supported
• Choose whether to create or join a household
• Choose whether to scan a barcode
• Choose whether to take an item photo
• Choose whether to allow notifications
• Manage advertising consent choices where available
• Manage purchases and subscriptions through Google Play
• Manage app permissions through Android device settings
• Delete items in the app
• Clear app data or uninstall the app through Android device settings
Some features may not work without the required permissions, internet access, Google Play services, household sync, or subscription verification.
Children
ExpiryMate is not specifically directed at children.
The app is intended for general household food organisation.
If a child uses the app as part of a household, a parent or guardian should supervise that use.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information through the app, please contact us so that we can review and address the issue.
Food safety notice
ExpiryMate is a tracking and reminder tool only.
The app cannot determine whether food is safe to eat.
Users are responsible for checking expiry dates, best-before dates, storage conditions, packaging, smell, appearance, allergen information, and any applicable safety guidance before consuming food.
Do not rely only on ExpiryMate to decide whether food is safe.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.
Users are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
Contact
For privacy-related questions, contact:
sensorlinqapps@gmail.com