Bueno
Privacy
Last updated 18 September 2026
Bueno tells you which company owns a brand. Doing that does not require knowing who you are, so it mostly doesn’t. This page says exactly what is collected, what is kept on your own device, and who else ever sees anything.
You do not need an account. Scanning, search and every ownership record work without one. There is no advertising, no third-party analytics, and nothing is sold or shared for marketing. Your scan history stays on your phone whether you sign in or not.
The website
If you give us your email
The only thing this site asks for is an email address, and only if you type one into the form. It is stored in our database and used for one thing: telling you when the app is available. You can ask us to delete it at any time and we will.
What happens whether or not you do
- Our host keeps ordinary server logs, including IP addresses, for security and to keep the site running.
- The page loads its typeface from Google Fonts, which means Google’s servers receive your IP address and browser details when the page loads. We do not send them anything else.
The app
What stays on your phone
- Your scan history. Recent scans are written to the app’s own storage on your device and are never uploaded. Clearing them in the app, or deleting the app, removes them.
- Camera frames. The camera reads barcodes on the device itself. No photo or video is stored or sent anywhere.
What the app sends us
- The barcode you scanned or typed, so we can look up who owns the brand. There is no account attached to it.
- Barcodes we do not have. When a lookup finds nothing, the code is logged so the product can be added, along with the app version and whether it was scanned or typed.
- Scan diagnostics. For each scan: how the code was matched, how long reading and looking it up took, how many frames the camera needed, your device model and iOS version, and the time. This is how we find out that scanning is slow on a particular phone or a particular kind of label. It carries no account, no advertising identifier, no location and no contacts.
If you make an account
An account is optional. It exists so that a Bueno Premium subscription follows you to a new phone, and nothing else in the app requires one.
- Your email address, and a first name if you choose to give one. That is the whole of it. We do not ask for anything else and there is nothing else to ask for.
- Your scan history does not go into your account. It stays in the app's own storage on the device, exactly as it does when you are signed out. Signing in on a second phone does not carry it across, because we never had it.
If you subscribe
Apple handles the payment. We never see your card, your billing address or your Apple ID. What we store against your account is the record needed to know that you are subscribed:
- Which Premium price you chose, and the amount.
- Apple's identifier for the subscription, so a renewal updates the same record rather than creating another.
- Whether it is active, and when it renews or expires.
You can cancel at any time in your Apple account settings; the app links straight there. Deleting your Bueno account deletes this record with it.
Who else sees anything
- Supabase hosts our database and API, so anything the app or the site sends us passes through their servers.
- Open Food Facts receives a barcode when we ask it for a product name we do not hold ourselves.
- Brand websites. Company logos in the app are loaded from the companies’ own sites, which means those servers can see that a request came from your device’s IP address.
- Google Fonts, as described above, on the website only.
- Apple processes any subscription payment and tells the app whether it is active. We receive no payment details from them.
There are no advertising networks, no data brokers and no analytics SDKs in either the app or the site.
How long it is kept
- Email addresses: until the app launches and you have been told, or until you ask us to delete yours — whichever comes first.
- Barcode lookups, missing-barcode logs and scan diagnostics: kept as operational records. They are not tied to a person.
- Your account and its subscription record: until you delete the account, which you can do from inside the app. That removes both immediately and it cannot be undone.
Children
Bueno is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect anything from them.
Your choices
- Clear your scan history in the app at any time.
- Email us to have your address removed from the list, or to ask what we hold.
- Deny camera access and type barcodes instead — the app is built to work that way.
- Use the whole app without an account, and delete the account from inside the app if you made one.
Changes
If what we collect changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves. We will not quietly start collecting something this page says we do not.