Privacy Policy

Freezer Fox — published by Fezanur Başkesen, an individual developer based in Türkiye trading as Tofe Software · Last updated 18 August 2026

Freezer Fox helps you keep track of what is in your freezer and reminds you before food loses its best quality. This policy explains what the app collects, how it is used, and what your choices are. By using the app you agree to this policy.

1. Information we collect

The app is designed to work without your name, email or any account. Specifically:

• Your freezer contents. Food names, categories, amounts, freezing and best-quality dates, an optional shelf number, optional photos, and the record of what you ate or threw away. Stored on your device and in Google Firebase.
• Anonymous identifier. On first launch we create an anonymous ID (Firebase Anonymous Authentication) plus a random identifier of our own, so your device can be connected to your freezer without identifying you. It is not linked to your Apple ID, name or email.
• Your nickname, if you set one, so other members of a shared freezer can tell who is who.
• Usage analytics. Google Analytics for Firebase records which screens you open, which actions you take and the category of an item you add (for example “vegetable”). It never carries text you wrote.
• Photos. A photo you attach is compressed and saved on your device. It is uploaded to Google Cloud Storage only while the freezer has an active subscription, so other members can see it. Deleting the item deletes the photo.
• Speech. When you use the microphone, recognition is performed by Apple, preferring on-device recognition where your device supports it. We keep only the resulting text, in the name field, where you can edit or delete it.
• Purchases. Subscriptions are handled entirely by Apple, and we never see your payment details. The app records whether a subscription is currently active, and reports the subscription event itself — which plan, when it started, whether it was a free trial, whether it renewed or was cancelled — to RevenueCat, so we can measure how many people subscribe and how many cancel. Switching Settings → Usage analytics off stops this reporting too.

We do not collect your location, contacts, calendar, health data or photo library. The camera and photo picker open only when you ask, and the app receives only the single picture you choose. There is no advertising in the app.

2. How we use it, and why we are allowed to

We use this data to run the app: to show your inventory, schedule your reminders, calculate your waste rate, and keep shared freezers in sync. Because we are based in Türkiye and serve users in Europe, two laws apply — Türkiye’s KVKK (Law No. 6698) and, for users in the EEA and the UK, the GDPR. Our legal grounds are performance of a contract for your freezer and everything in it (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b); KVKK Art. 5(2)(c)) and legitimate interests for usage analytics, subscription reporting and for the abuse checks that keep the service available (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f); KVKK Art. 5(2)(f)). You can switch analytics off at any time in Settings → Usage analytics; that switch covers both usage analytics and subscription reporting, and while it is off no data reaches either service.

We do not profile you and make no automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects. The best-quality date is a simple lookup from published food storage guidance — it says nothing about you.

3. Third-party services

• Google Firebase — database, file storage, anonymous authentication, analytics and abuse prevention (App Check), acting as our processor.
• Apple — the App Store handles all purchases; App Attest confirms that requests come from a genuine copy of the app; speech recognition may use Apple’s servers when your device cannot recognise your language offline.
• RevenueCat (RevenueCat, Inc., United States) — subscription reporting, acting as our processor. It receives the subscription events described above, tied to a random identifier it generates; it never receives your name, email, Apple ID or payment details, and it is not used for advertising or cross-app tracking.

We do not sell your data and do not share it with data brokers or advertisers.

4. Sharing a freezer

A freezer can be shared with up to four people. Anyone who has the invite code can join, and every member can see and change everything in that freezer, including photos and the history of what was eaten or thrown away. Share the code only with people you trust — removing someone from the member list ends their access immediately.

5. Storage, transfers and retention

Local data lives on your device and is removed when you delete the app. Cloud data is stored on Google’s infrastructure and may be processed on servers outside Türkiye, the EEA and the UK; for those transfers Google’s terms incorporate the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK Addendum, and transfers under KVKK are made on the grounds permitted by Article 9 of that law. Subscription events are processed by RevenueCat in the United States on the same basis: its data processing addendum incorporates the Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK Addendum.

Your freezer and everything in it stay until they are deleted. In the app, open Settings → Delete my freezer: if other people are still members you simply leave and their data stays; if you are the last member, the freezer, its items, its history and its photos are deleted. Deleting the app removes only the copy on your device, not the copy on the server. Analytics events expire automatically after the retention window set in our Firebase project.

6. Your choices and rights

You can ask whether we process your data and request a copy; have inaccurate data corrected or your data erased; restrict processing or receive your data in a portable form; and object to processing based on our legitimate interests — for analytics you can do that yourself, immediately, with the switch in Settings. These are the rights in Article 11 of the KVKK and Articles 15–22 of the GDPR. Write to us and we will answer within 30 days, usually sooner.

One honest limitation. The app has no accounts, so an email address does not tell us which freezer is yours, and we will not hand over or delete someone’s data on an unverified claim. If you can open the app, in-app deletion is the fastest and most certain route. If you cannot, write to us with your invite code.

Complaints. Please tell us first. You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority: in Türkiye the Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK); in the EEA the authority of the country where you live or work; in the UK the Information Commissioner’s Office.

7. Children

Freezer Fox is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect data from children under 13, or the minimum age required in your country.

8. Changes

We may update this policy. Material changes will be reflected by the “Last updated” date above and, where the change is significant, mentioned in the app.

9. Contact

Questions or requests: fzbsksn@icloud.com (Fezanur Başkesen, trading as Tofe Software, data controller).