Meni Privacy Policy

Meni is an AI restaurant menu scanner that helps users turn restaurant menus into personalized dish recommendations. This Privacy Policy explains how Meni collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects information when you use our app, website, and related services.

Meni is built and maintained by Usama Kashif. If you have questions about this policy or your data, contact hello@usamakashif.me.

Information We Collect

Depending on the features you use, Meni may collect:

• Menu photos and uploads captured when scanning restaurant menus or choosing images from your device.
• Food preferences and restrictions such as dietary preferences (halal, vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free), allergens or foods to avoid, foods you like or dislike, meal priorities, current meal intent, and other custom food preferences.
• Scan and recommendation data including extracted menu text, dish names and descriptions, likely ingredients, personalized rankings, recommendation reasons, dietary or allergen concerns, suggested modifications, estimated calories or macronutrients, and scan history.
• Account or app identifiers such as email address, login provider, user ID, or anonymous app-specific identifiers.
• Purchase and subscription information including product purchased, entitlement status, transaction identifiers, renewal status, and subscription state. Meni does not receive your full payment card number from app stores.
• Technical and usage information such as device and operating-system information, app version, request or error information, performance data, and feature usage.
• Support communications you send to us.

Dietary restrictions, allergies, religious food preferences, and menu photos can reveal sensitive personal information. Meni uses this information only to provide and improve the product experience and related safety or reliability features.

How We Use Information

We use information to read and structure restaurant menus, generate personalized dish recommendations, apply your saved dietary preferences and foods to avoid, rerank recommendations for different meal intents, explain why a dish may or may not fit your preferences, provide estimated nutrition context when available, save and display recent scans or preferences where those features are enabled, manage paid features and purchase entitlements, operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve Meni, respond to support requests, prevent misuse and protect the reliability of the service, and comply with legal obligations.

We do not sell your personal information.

AI Processing

Meni uses artificial-intelligence systems to read menu images, extract dish information, and generate personalized recommendations. Menu images, extracted menu text, relevant user preferences, and related context may be sent to AI model providers, model-routing services, cloud infrastructure, or other processors acting on Meni’s behalf. Only the information reasonably needed for the requested feature should be sent for AI processing.

AI-generated results can be incorrect or incomplete. Meni cannot guarantee the exact ingredients, preparation method, allergen status, calories, macros, portion size, or dietary suitability of a restaurant dish.

Allergy, Dietary, and Nutrition Information

Meni is a decision-support tool, not a medical service, registered dietitian, allergy-certification system, or restaurant safety guarantee. Restaurant recipes and preparation methods can change. A menu may omit ingredients, sauces, oils, garnishes, substitutions, or cross-contact risks. If an allergy or dietary restriction is important to your safety, always verify the relevant information directly with restaurant staff before ordering or eating.

Any calorie or macronutrient information shown by Meni is an estimate unless explicitly identified as information supplied by an authoritative source. Do not treat estimated nutrition as a precise measurement or medical advice.

Permissions

Meni may request camera access to photograph restaurant menus and photo library access to choose existing menu images or screenshots. You can manage these permissions through your device settings. Meni should request only the permissions needed for the features you choose to use.

How We Share Information

We may share information with service providers that help operate Meni, including cloud hosting, databases, file storage, AI models and AI-routing infrastructure, authentication (if account sign-in is offered), subscription and purchase management, analytics, diagnostics, or crash reporting (if enabled), email or customer support, and security, fraud prevention, or infrastructure monitoring.

These providers may process information only as needed to provide their services to Meni, subject to their own contractual and privacy obligations. We may also disclose information if required by law, necessary to protect users or the service, or as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, or similar business transaction.

Meni will not use menu photos or personal food-profile information in public marketing without permission.

Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy. Saved preferences may be retained until you change or delete them. Scans and generated recommendations may be retained while needed to provide scan history or until you delete them, where deletion controls are available. Uploaded menu images may be retained for processing, scan history, troubleshooting, safety, or other operational needs, but should not be kept longer than necessary for those purposes. Purchase and entitlement records may be retained as needed to provide paid access and meet accounting, fraud-prevention, or legal requirements. Support communications may be retained as needed to resolve the request and maintain a support record. Security, diagnostic, and operational logs may be retained for a limited period appropriate to their purpose.

If you request deletion, some information may remain in backups, security logs, transaction records, or other records that must be retained for legal, fraud-prevention, or technical reasons.

Your Choices

Depending on the version of Meni and the features available to you, you may be able to update your dietary preferences and foods to avoid, remove or change custom preferences, delete saved scans or recommendations, manage camera and photo permissions in your device settings, restore or manage purchases through the applicable app store, request access to or deletion of personal information associated with you, and request deletion of your account (if accounts are offered).

For privacy or deletion requests, email hello@usamakashif.me. If your request concerns an account, contact us from the email address connected to that account where possible so we can verify the request.

Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. No internet service, database, storage system, or AI provider can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should avoid uploading information that is unrelated to the menu or that you do not want processed as part of the service.

International Users

Meni and its service providers may process information in countries other than the country where you live. Those countries may have different data-protection laws. Where required, we will use appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information.

Children

Meni is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to Meni without appropriate permission, contact hello@usamakashif.me so the issue can be reviewed.

Third-Party Services

Meni may rely on third-party platforms to provide parts of the service, such as app stores, cloud infrastructure, AI providers, authentication services, and subscription-management services. Your use of those third-party services may also be subject to their own privacy policies and terms. Meni is not responsible for the independent privacy practices of third parties acting outside Meni’s instructions.

Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy as Meni changes or as legal and operational requirements evolve. If we make material changes, we will update the effective date above and provide additional notice where required.

Contact

For questions, privacy requests, or data-deletion requests, contact:

Usama Kashif
Email: hello@usamakashif.me
Website: https://www.usamakashif.me/

Meni is designed to help you make a faster, more personalized restaurant decision. It should never replace direct confirmation from restaurant staff when an allergy, medical condition, or strict dietary requirement is involved.