Apex Macro

What stays on your phone

Your food diary, your weigh-ins, your body details (age, height, weight, body fat, goal) and the activity Apex Macro reads from Health Connect are stored only on your phone. Uninstalling the app deletes them. Android's cloud backup is turned off for Apex Macro.

Health Connect

With your permission, Apex Macro reads these from Health Connect (Android 14 and newer), and nothing else:

• Steps, active calories and total calories burned - to work out the calories you really burn each day.
• Workouts (exercise sessions) and their GPS routes - to count the calories from your workouts and show your workouts and routes.
• Distance, floors climbed, heart rate, resting heart rate and sleep - shown on the Activity page, the way your watch's own app shows them.
• Weight and body fat - for your weight trend and lean mass, which set your calorie and protein targets.
• Nutrition - so food you logged in another app, such as MyFitnessPal, still counts toward your burn estimate.

If you allow it, Apex Macro also writes nutrition to Health Connect: the meals you log in Apex Macro (name, meal, calories and nutrients), so Samsung Health and your other apps can see them. You can turn this off in Apex Macro under Progress. Apex Macro only changes or deletes the meals it added itself; it never changes or deletes data from other apps. It also writes the workouts you record in Apex Macro (the session, its GPS route, active calories, distance and heart rate).

Bluetooth heart rate. If you connect a heart rate strap or a watch that broadcasts its heart rate, Apex Macro reads only the heart rate, only while you choose to connect it, and keeps it with your workout. Bluetooth is never used to find where you are.

Maps. A workout's route map is a Mapbox map picture: the phone sends Mapbox the route's outline to draw it, and keeps the picture on the phone for up to 30 days. See Mapbox's privacy policy.

Location. The phone's GPS is used only while you record a GPS workout - a notification shows while it runs - to map the route and measure distance and pace. The route stays on your phone and, if you allow it, in Health Connect. Apex Macro never tracks your location otherwise.

The coach. Questions you ask the coach (Cibus) are sent to Apex Macro's server to be answered. When "Share my day" is on (you can turn it off on the Coach page), today's numbers from your diary go with them: calories and macros eaten and targeted, your estimated burn, your goal, sex, age, weight, and the names of the foods you logged. They are used only to answer that question and are not kept; the chat itself is stored on your phone. The coach gives general information, not medical advice.

Apart from the coach, the data Apex Macro reads never leaves your phone. You can remove Apex Macro's access at any time in Settings > Health Connect. Apex Macro's use of this data follows the Health Connect Permissions policy, including its Limited Use requirements: it is used only to provide Apex Macro's features to you, never for advertising, never sold, and never transferred to anyone else.

What is sent to Apex Macro's server

• Photos you choose to scan (a meal, a nutrition label or an ingredient list) are sent over an encrypted connection to Apex Macro's server and its AI to be read, then deleted. The photo is not kept.
• Food searches and barcodes you look up. Barcode lookups use Open Food Facts; their product data is kept in a cache on our server, not tied to you.
• A random ID made by the app (not your name or phone number), to count the free AI scans each day. If you sign in with an Apex Macro account, your account is used instead, and its email and password are handled as described in the SharpShooter Gold privacy policy.
• Send to PriceVouch. If you tap Send to PriceVouch, the food names and amounts on your grocery list are kept with your account so PriceVouch can show them when you sign in with the same email. They are deleted when PriceVouch opens the list, or after 30 days. No prices, photos or health data go with them.
• PriceVouch prices and stores. To find flyer prices and this week's flyers, PriceVouch sends the food name and your postal code (or its first 3 characters) to a flyer service. To find prices for items not on a flyer, it sends your town's centre point (not your exact spot) and a date to Open Prices (prices.openfoodfacts.org) to read prices other shoppers shared. To list grocery stores near your town, it sends your town's centre point and your “Stores within” distance to a public OpenStreetMap Overpass server: overpass-api.de, or when it is busy overpass.private.coffee, overpass.kumi.systems or maps.mail.ru. A small list of big-box store locations (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) is built into the app, so nothing is sent for it. To match a town to a postal code, it uses your phone's built-in address look-up (usually run by Google). These services see your phone's internet address, like any website. Nothing about you, your list or your account is uploaded.
• Check on store website. This opens the store's own website in your phone's browser. PriceVouch sends that website nothing and reads nothing from it; what the website collects is covered by that store's own privacy policy.
• Sharing to PriceVouch. What you share to PriceVouch from another app stays on your phone. A shared link isn't opened, and a shared screenshot is read on your phone; the picture isn't sent anywhere.
• Sharing prices with Open Prices (off unless you turn it on). If you turn on sharing and sign in with your own Open Food Facts account, each price you choose to share (the food's barcode or fruit/vegetable type, the price, the date, the store's map location and your shelf-tag or receipt photo) is sent to Open Prices (prices.openfoodfacts.org, run by Open Food Facts). Shared prices and photos are public, under the ODbL licence, with your Open Food Facts username. Your password goes only to Open Food Facts when you sign in and is not stored; PriceVouch keeps an encrypted sign-in token on your phone until you sign out. Nothing is shared without your tap.

Not medical advice

Apex Macro gives general nutrition information. Ingredient flags explain what regulators, health researchers and some natural-health practitioners say about an ingredient; flags marked as a whole-food or natural-health view are a view, not settled science. Talk to your doctor about your own health.

Children

Apex Macro and PriceVouch are meant for adults. You must be 16 or older to use them, with a parent's or guardian's agreement if you are under the age of majority where you live (see the terms of use). They are not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you think a child has given us information, write to us and we will delete it.

Terms of use

Using Apex Macro or PriceVouch means agreeing to our terms of use (the same text is at /pricevouch-terms). When you agree in the app, your account keeps only which version you agreed to, the date and time, and which app you used. It is deleted with your account.

Data sources

Food data: USDA FoodData Central (public domain); UK Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset 2021 (Open Government Licence v3.0); ANSES-CIQUAL 2020 (Licence Ouverte); products by barcode from Open Food Facts (Open Database License).

Deleting your account and data

You can delete your account in the app at any time, without emailing us:

• Apex Macro on Android: Settings → Account → Delete my account.
• Apex Macro on iPhone: Today → Your Apex Macro account → Account settings → Delete my account.
• PriceVouch (Android and iPhone): open Sign in with Apex Macro → Delete my Apex Macro account.

Type your password to confirm (and your authenticator code if you use two-step sign-in). Apex Macro and PriceVouch share one account, so deleting it in either app deletes it for both.

Deleting removes, straight away: your account (name, email and password), your sign-in on every phone, the settings saved with your account, your grocery lists sent to PriceVouch, your daily free-use counts, the record of which terms of use you agreed to and our sign-up record for the account. You get a short email to say it was done. The deletion itself is logged without your email.

If you pay for Apex Macro Pro, deleting the account does not cancel the subscription: payments go through Stripe, so write to us at the contact address above and we will cancel it. The app tells you this when you delete.

Your diary stays on your phone until you uninstall Apex Macro or clear its storage (on Android you can also tick “Also erase this phone’s diary” when you delete). If you can’t open the app, email us from the account’s address and we will delete the account for you.