Ethical Compass is a free buying-guide app built by an individual developer. It has no accounts, no advertising, no analytics, and no tracking.
When you scan a barcode, the app sends the barcode number to the Open Facts databases (Open Food Facts, Open Beauty Facts, and Open Products Facts) to look up the product, so it can suggest the relevant buying guide. That query is the only information about your activity the app transmits off your device. Those services receive the barcode you scanned; they do not receive your name, email, or any account or device identifier from the app, because the app has none to send.
The app periodically downloads its buying-guide content file from GitHub Pages. That download sends no information about you — every user downloads the same file.
Your guide browsing, values profile, and any debugging information you choose to save are stored only on your device and are never transmitted anywhere.
The developer does not operate a server and does not store your scans or queries. Open Facts' handling of the queries it receives is governed by its own privacy policy.
The app is a general reference guide with no user accounts or data collection from children beyond what is described above.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL.
Questions about this policy: stevecbaker@gmail.com