Ignia Privacy Policy

At Ignia, privacy is part of the product design.

Ignia combines a wearable necklace with a mobile app to help detect eating events, reconstruct meals, and estimate nutrition information. Because the necklace is worn throughout the day, we believe you should always understand what it captures, why it is used, and how you can control it.

Our principle: Your voice. Your food. Nothing else.

1. Information We Collect

Depending on the features you use, Ignia may process:

• Account information such as your name and email

• Detected eating events

• Estimated foods, portions, calories, protein, carbs, and fats

• Meal confirmations and corrections

• Device and Bluetooth information

• Voice information used for supported meal-correction features

• Information you manually add to the app

Ignia is designed to collect only the information needed to provide its food-detection and nutrition features.

2. Voice & Audio Privacy

Ignia may use voice context to help correct detected meals.

For example, you may say:

“I only ate half.”

“Skip the rice.”

“We shared this.”

Ignia is designed around a rolling 60-minute on-device audio buffer and user-voice filtering so that relevant speech from the wearer can support meal correction.

Ignia is not intended to function as a general-purpose conversation recorder.

Certain voice processing is designed to happen directly on the device before information is used by Ignia.

3. Food Detection

When Ignia detects an eating event, it may create a meal record containing:

• Time

• Detected food

• Estimated portion

• Calories

• Protein

• Other supported nutrition information

Detected meals can be reviewed inside the Ignia app.

You may be able to:

• Confirm the meal

• Edit the food or portion

• Delete the event

• Mark it as Not Food

Ignia's nutrition information is estimated and may not always be completely accurate.

4. Privacy & Capture Controls

Ignia is designed to include a dedicated Privacy & Capture Center where you can manage how the wearable operates.

Available controls may include:

Normal Mode
Standard food-detection functionality.

Private Mode
Stops capture and provides a visible device privacy indicator.

Food-Only Mode
Restricts processing to supported food and eating-related functionality.

You may also be able to view daily capture summaries, delete information, export your data, and revoke cloud processing for supported individual events.

5. Cloud Processing

Some Ignia features may require secure cloud processing.

Where cloud processing is used, Ignia is designed to send only the information reasonably necessary for that functionality.

Certain features, including parts of voice processing, are designed to operate locally or on-device where possible.

6. Health Integrations

Ignia may allow you to send supported nutrition information to:

• Apple Health through HealthKit

• Google Health Connect

This may include information such as calories and protein.

These integrations are optional and require your permission.

You can manage or revoke access through your device or health-platform settings.

7. How We Use Your Information

Ignia may use your information to:

• Detect eating events

• Reconstruct meals

• Estimate nutrition information

• Calculate daily intake

• Process meal corrections

• Maintain your meal history

• Improve recognition of your usual meals and portions

• Operate and secure the Ignia wearable and app

• Diagnose technical problems

• Provide customer support

• Improve product reliability and performance

Ignia's wearable capture is not intended for general surveillance.

8. Your Data Controls

Depending on the feature, you may be able to:

• Review your detected meals

• Correct inaccurate information

• Delete eating events

• Delete meal information

• Export supported account data

• Revoke supported cloud events

• Request deletion of your Ignia account

Some limited information may need to be retained where required by law or necessary for security and fraud prevention.

9. Data Security

Ignia uses reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or disclosure.

However, no digital system can guarantee complete security.

10. Data Retention

Ignia aims to keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide its services, maintain security, meet legal requirements, and resolve disputes.

Specific retention periods will depend on the type of information being processed.

11. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access your information

• Correct inaccurate information

• Request deletion

• Export certain information

• Restrict or object to certain processing

• Withdraw consent where applicable

You may contact Ignia to exercise these rights.

12. Bystander Privacy

Ignia is being designed with the privacy of people around the wearer in mind.

Any production features involving visual or surrounding environmental information will include appropriate privacy safeguards and will be disclosed transparently before launch.

13. Children

Ignia is not intended for children below the minimum permitted age in applicable jurisdictions without any legally required consent.

14. Changes to This Policy

Ignia may update this Privacy Policy as the product evolves.

If we make material changes to how personal information is handled, we will update this policy and provide additional notice where required.

15. Contact Us

For questions about privacy or your information, contact:

Ignia
Website: www.wearignia.com
Email: info@wearignia.com

Privacy in Simple Terms

Ignia should capture only what it needs to understand your food.

You should know when it is operating.
You should be able to make it private.
You should be able to review what it detected.
You should be able to correct it.
And you should be able to delete your data.

Your voice. Your food. Nothing else.