Effective October 2026
The short version: Shelfinch collects nothing about you. No accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no third-party SDKs, and no servers of ours for your data to reach.
Everything you put into Shelfinch — items, quantities, prices, dates — is stored on your device. If you enable iCloud sync, Apple's private CloudKit moves that data between your own devices under your Apple account; we cannot read it and have no access to it.
When you scan a barcode, Shelfinch sends only the barcode number to the public, non-profit Open Food Facts database to suggest a product name. Nothing about you, your device, or your list is included, and nothing is stored there by us.
Restock reminders are local notifications, generated and scheduled on your device. They involve no network activity.
The one-time unlock is processed entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see your payment details.
"Buy on Amazon" buttons open Amazon in your browser or Amazon app. These links may include an affiliate tag, which tells Amazon the visit came from Shelfinch and may earn us a small commission at no cost to you. What happens on Amazon is governed by Amazon's own privacy policy.
If a future feature ever needs to handle any personal data, this policy will say so plainly before that feature ships, and the app will ask first.
Questions about privacy: support@shelfinch.com