AI Disclosure

Last updated: August 31, 2026

EATit uses AI to read menus, answer your diet questions, and illustrate dishes. This page names every company that can receive your data for those features, and says exactly what each one receives — including the ones we fall back to when our first choice is unavailable. We never sell your data.

Where AI is used

Menu understanding: your device reads the text on a scanned menu itself. When that reading is not good enough, the menu image is sent to Google Cloud Vision and, if needed, to Google Gemini Vision to be read. The recognised text is then sent to Microsoft Azure OpenAI — or to Google Gemini if that one is unavailable — to structure it into sections, dishes, prices, and dietary tags.

Diet chat: your message, the earlier turns of the conversation, the menu being discussed, and your saved diet profile — including any allergens you have declared — are sent to Microsoft Azure OpenAI, or to Google Gemini if that one is unavailable, to produce the answer.

Dish images: only the dish name is sent — never a photo you took, never anything you typed, never your diet profile. Dish-name searches go to Pexels and Wikimedia; when no real photo of a dish exists, an image is generated by Google Gemini or Microsoft Azure OpenAI. These images are clearly labelled "Illustrative · AI" and carry industry-standard content-provenance (C2PA) metadata.

Photo moderation: a dish photo you upload is screened by Google Cloud Vision and then checked by Microsoft Azure OpenAI (or Google Gemini) before anyone else can see it.

Comparison readers: Azure AI Content Understanding and OpenRouter (Qwen 2.5 VL) are alternative menu readers we measure ours against. They are limited to test environments and to accounts we allowlist for diagnostics; an ordinary scan never reaches them.

Beyond AI: Supabase runs our backend and storage; Google Places receives a restaurant name and coordinates for restaurant lookup — never photos; Apple, RevenueCat and Superwall handle subscriptions; Meta receives app installs and your trial starts and purchases for ad attribution, from the app and again from our servers with your account id in scrambled (hashed) form — no photo, no chat message, no diet profile, and never your email address — plus your advertising identifier only if you allow tracking when iOS asks; Sentry and Datadog receive crash, performance and usage diagnostics, scrubbed of personal identifiers.

Your consent

Before the first AI feature runs, EATit shows a disclosure and asks you to accept it. Your acceptance and its date are stored with your account. AI features stay off until you accept.

Your photos are never used to train AI models unless you separately opt in (off by default).

Accuracy

AI output can be wrong. Dishes, prices, tags, and chat answers are best-effort interpretations of an imperfect source — treat them as guidance, and see the Allergy Disclaimer for anything health-related.