The Gaffer

Privacy

Short version: your data is yours, it stays in your account, and one tap deletes all of it.

What the app stores

Where it lives

In a database and a storage bucket that belong to your account, hosted by Supabase. Photos are private: they sit under a folder only your account can read, and the app fetches them through links that expire within the hour. Nobody else, including us, browses them.

Meal photos and AI

When you photograph a plate, that one photo and your usual meal templates are sent to Anthropic's Claude to estimate the food. Anthropic processes the request and returns the estimate. Your photos are never used to train any model and are not shared with anyone else. The estimate is a suggestion; what you confirm is what the app stores.

What we do not do

Notifications

Reminders are scheduled on your phone. They never leave the device.

Export and deletion

Plan → Account in the app exports everything as JSON. The same screen has Delete account: type DELETE and every photo and every row is removed from our systems immediately. There is no grace period and no copy kept.

Contact

hello@thegaffer.ae

Last updated 6 September 2026.