Privacy Policy
Your privacy at Lotta
Lotta holds information about your health: what you take, how you feel, what you eat. That's not something anyone hands over lightly, so this document tells you plainly what we hold, why, who else ever handles it, and what you can ask us to do with it.
Every section starts with a short version, so you can get the answer in a line and read on only if you want to.
If you're in the United States, please also read section 17. If you've visited our website, joined the waitlist or applied to test Lotta, section 18 is the part that applies to you.
1. Who we are
Short version
LOTTA, LDA is a company incorporated in Portugal. We're responsible for your information, and you can write to us about it whenever you want.
Registered office: Lisbon, Portugal
Company number (NIPC): 519547942
We decide what the app records and what it's used for. Data protection law calls that being the "controller", which in practice means we're the ones answerable to you for everything in this document.
If you want to talk to us about your information, write to privacy@lotta.health.
2. What this document covers
Short version
This policy covers everyone who uses Lotta.
If you're in the United States, section 17 sets out what US law adds, and links to our separate Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy.
3. What Lotta knows about you
Short version
What you give us when you sign up and as you use the app, plus whether you have a subscription. Some of it is needed for Lotta to work. The rest is up to you.
Where it comes from
Everything Lotta holds comes from you: what you tell us when you sign up, and what you record as you use the app.
There are two exceptions. Apple sells you your subscription, so Apple tells us whether you have one and what kind. And if you sign in with Apple or Google, they pass us the sign-in details you agree to share.
We don't import your information from other apps. We don't buy data about you from anyone. We don't go looking for anything you haven't recorded yourself.
What you record, section by section
When you sign up
- Your email address, or your Apple sign-in if you use one
- Your first name and your date of birth
- The country you live in
- Your biological sex, your gender (you can choose not to say), and your height
- Where you are in your treatment
- What you'd like help with, and what's on your mind
- When you'd like your reminders
Med
- Your medication: which one, the dose, and when you take it
- Symptoms, and how you're feeling
Eat
- Meals and drinks, including photos of them if you want
- Food allergies and intolerances, and foods that sit badly with you
Weight
- Your weight when you start, and the entries you add after that
- Your BMI, which the app shows from your weight and height
Anywhere in the app
- Notes you type yourself
Behind the scenes
- Whether you have a subscription or a free trial, and what kind
- Your reminder and notification settings
- Only if you switch it on: how you use the app (section 4)
- Crash reports, if the app fails on your phone (section 5)
What's required and what's optional
- Required: your sign-up details and everything in Med. They're what Lotta is, so without them there's no app to use.
- Optional: Eat and Weight. Each one is separate, and you can switch either on or off at any time in Settings → Privacy.
- Optional, and off unless you turn it on: app analytics.
If you leave Eat or Weight off, the parts of Lotta built on them have nothing to work with, so those features won't show you anything. Everything else works exactly as before. Section 9 covers what happens to what you've already logged when you switch something off.
How we look after it
Some of what you record is information about your health. We protect everything you record with specific security measures, which section 12 describes.
Notes you type are just notes
There are three places where you can type freely: a note on any log, a custom allergen name, and a food you tell us sits badly with you.
We store what you write, show it back to you, and include it in any copy of your data you ask us for.
The app never reads it. Nothing you type there is matched against anything or used to pick what you see. If you want something to change what Lotta shows you, record it through the app's own controls.
Your date of birth
We use your date of birth to confirm you're 18 or over.
4. Why we hold it, and our legal reasons
Short version
To run Lotta for you. For what you record, the legal reason is your explicit consent, given part by part on the consent screen, and you can take any part back.
The law requires a legal reason for everything we do with your information. Here's each one.
| What we do | With what | Legal reason |
|---|---|---|
| Show you what you've recorded, select which of our content you see, and turn what you've logged into questions you may want to bring to your clinician | Med, Eat, Weight and your sign-up answers. Your notes are only shown back to you | Your explicit consent |
| Recognise what's on the plate in a meal photo, if you take one | The photo | Your explicit consent, as part of Eat |
| Set up your account, sign you in, and contact you about it | Your email address or Apple or Google sign-in, and your name | Needed to provide the service you asked for |
| Send the reminders you set up | Your reminder and notification settings | Needed to provide the service you asked for |
| Run your subscription | Your subscription status | Needed to provide the service you asked for |
| Find and fix crashes | Crash reports from your phone | Our legitimate interest in keeping Lotta working. You can object to this (section 8) |
| Understand who uses Lotta, in general terms | Your country | Our legitimate interest in understanding who uses Lotta. You can object to this (section 8) |
| See which parts of the app are used, if you switch analytics on | How you use the app, and your country | Your consent |
| Keep a record of your consents, withdrawals and deletions | That record (section 7) | Our legal obligation to show what you agreed to, and to establish or defend legal claims |
| Answer your requests and complaints | What you send us | Our legal obligation |
| Look into fraud or misuse of the app | Your account and how it's been used, never your health record | Our legitimate interest in keeping Lotta safe. You can object to this (section 8) |
| Comply with a court order or the law | Only what's specified | Our legal obligation |
App analytics is a separate question, and it's off unless you turn it on
We'd like to know which parts of the app people use, so we can make the ones that matter better. That's not necessary for Lotta to work, so it's a separate choice, unticked by default, and refusing it changes nothing about the app you get.
If you do switch it on, we don't include health information in it. Not your medication, not your symptoms, not your weight.
We won't call this data anonymous, because it isn't. It's kept apart from your health record and it isn't labelled with your name, but it's still connected to an account, and we'd rather tell you that than use a word that sounds better than the truth.
Three things we don't do
We don't sell your information.
We don't use it for targeted advertising, and we don't let anyone else use it for that either. Lotta has no advertising in it.
We don't use your information to train AI models.
5. Who else handles it
Short version
A small number of companies help us run Lotta. They're all named here, with what each one does.
Companies that work for us
| Company | What they do for us | What they handle | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Hosting and database. This is where Lotta lives | Everything you record, and your account | Ireland (EU) |
| Our food photo recognition provider | Recognises what's on the plate in a meal photo | The photo only. No name, no account, nothing else about you | EU |
| RevenueCat | Subscription management | Your subscription status, your device type and an account code. No health information | United States |
| Brevo | Sends our emails, including your sign-in codes | Your email address and the emails we send you, including whether they're opened | EU, with some support services in the United States |
| Expo | Delivers app updates and notifications to your phone | A code that lets us reach your phone, and basic details about your device and app version. No health information | United States |
| Sentry | Tells us when the app crashes, so we can fix it | Crash reports from your phone, set up to leave out what you record | EU |
| PostHog | App analytics, only if you switch it on, and counts website visits, without cookies | How you use the app. No health information | EU (Germany) |
These companies work only on our instructions. They can't use your information for their own purposes, and their contracts with us say so.
Services you deal with directly
Apple. Apple sells you the subscription. We don't handle the payment, and we never see your card. That's between you and Apple, under Apple's own terms. If you sign in with Apple, Apple confirms who you are under those same terms.
Google. If you sign in with Google, Google confirms who you are under its own terms.
Open Food Facts. A public, non-profit food database based in France. When you search for a food or scan a barcode, it receives what you searched for and your device's internet address, and nothing else. It handles that under its own privacy policy.
6. Where your information is kept
Short version
Everything you record is stored and processed in the EU, on servers in Ireland. That's the same wherever you live.
A few of the companies in section 5 are based in the United States, or use services there: RevenueCat, Expo, and parts of Brevo's service. What they handle is account and device information, never what you record about your health. Those transfers are protected by the safeguards the law requires: standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, the UK's equivalent for UK users, or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. You can ask us for a copy of the safeguards at privacy@lotta.health.
If you're in the UK, your information travels from the UK to Ireland. UK law allows that. The UK has approved transfers to countries in the European Economic Area, which includes Ireland, so no additional arrangement is needed.
If you're in Brazil, your information travels to Ireland, and Brazilian law allows that: in January 2026 Brazil's data protection authority recognised the European Union as providing an adequate level of protection. Where one of the United States companies above handles your account or device information, that transfer is allowed because it's needed to provide the service you signed up for. You keep every right Brazilian law gives you, and section 8 lists them.
7. How long we keep it
Short version
Your health record lives as long as your account does. Delete your account and it's gone, thirty days later. Stop using Lotta entirely and we'll eventually delete it for you, but we'll email you first.
While you're using Lotta
Everything you record stays until you remove it or delete your account. Your logs aren't deleted if your subscription ends.
If you delete your account
Everything goes. It becomes invisible immediately, it's recoverable for thirty days if you change your mind, and after that a job runs that deletes it permanently. Section 10 covers this properly.
If you stop using Lotta without deleting it
People sometimes stop using an app without closing their account. When that happens, we don't keep your information indefinitely.
So: if you haven't opened Lotta for twenty-four months, we'll email you to say the account is heading for deletion, tell you the date, and remind you that opening the app keeps it and that you can ask for a copy of your data first. If we hear nothing for three months after that, the account is deleted, with the same thirty-day window as any other deletion.
Altogether that's about twenty-seven months from your last visit before deletion starts, and about twenty-eight before it's final.
If you have a live subscription, none of this applies. We don't auto-delete an account someone is paying for.
The one thing we keep after everything else is gone
When we delete your data, we keep a record of the consents you gave, the ones you took back, and the deletion itself.
We keep it for two reasons. If you ever ask whether you agreed to something, the law puts the burden on us to prove it, and without a record we can't. And if you ask us to delete your data, the record is the only evidence that we actually did.
It's kept apart from everything else and it doesn't read as health information. Your identifier in it is a code, not your name. Your email address is held separately again, under lock, and the two are only ever put together if you ask us to or if a court requires it.
We keep it for six years after your account is deleted, which covers the usual time limits for legal claims in the countries we operate in. Then it's deleted.
8. What you can ask us to do
Short version
You can see it, correct it, take it, delete it, or tell us to stop. Ask us at privacy@lotta.health and we'll do it inside the time your law allows.
Your rights, one by one
- Find out whether we hold anything about you at all. A yes or no, with nothing else attached.
- Get a copy of everything we hold. Your account, your consents, everything you've recorded, your history, the record of which content the app showed you, your subscription details, analytics if you turned it on, anything you've written to support, and when your data was accessed and why.
- Take your data elsewhere. This one is narrower than a copy, on purpose: it's the information you gave us and the entries you made.
- Correct something that's wrong. We change the specific thing and nothing else.
- Delete your data. Section 10.
- Tell us to stop using it while a question is unresolved, without deleting it.
- Object to us using it.
- Take back your permission, for any part, at any time. Section 9.
- Ask who your information has been shared with.
- Complain. Section 14.
- Appeal, if we turn a request down. We'll tell you how at the time we refuse, and you can always go to a regulator instead or as well.
How to ask
Write to privacy@lotta.health and tell us what you want. You don't need to use particular words or give a reason.
We'll need to be sure it's really you before we hand over health information. That usually means answering from the email address on the account. We'll never make you create an account, or keep one open, in order to exercise a right.
How long we take
| Where you are | When you'll hear back |
|---|---|
| Brazil | We confirm immediately that we've got your request. The full answer within 15 days |
| EU, Portugal, UK | Within one month. If it's complicated we may need longer, and we'll tell you inside the month if so |
| United States | Within 45 days. We can extend once, and we'll tell you before the first 45 days are up |
Two things worth knowing
Getting a copy isn't instant. One of us puts it together by hand, which is why the timescales above are what they are rather than a download link.
If you've already started deleting your account, anything you ask for between then and the final day is handled by email. There's nothing to log in to at that point, so we do it that way instead, and we'll tell you so on the deletion screen.
9. Turning something off, and taking back your consent
Short version
Eat and Weight are yours to switch off whenever you like. When you switch one off, we'll ask whether you want to keep what you've already logged or erase it. Either answer is fine.
Turning off and deleting aren't the same thing
Turning something off stops Lotta using that part of your information from that moment on.
Deleting removes it. That's section 10.
You can do either at any time, from Settings → Privacy. They're two separate controls, and neither one is buried inside the other.
What if I want to stop tracking something?
Switch it off. Eat and Weight are yours to turn on and off whenever you like.
Medication and symptoms are different. They're what Lotta is, so they're part of the app rather than an option inside it. If you want to stop those, you're deleting your account, and section 10 covers what happens then.
What happens to what I already logged?
When you switch a domain off, we'll ask you one question straight away: keep what you've already logged, or erase it?
Both answers are fine. You might be pausing for a month and want your history waiting when you come back. You might want it gone today. We ask instead of guessing, and we write down what you told us, so if it ever comes up, we can show that you were asked and that we did what you said.
If you choose to erase, everything in that part of the app is gone within fifteen days.
If you choose to keep, it just sits there. Nothing reads it. Nothing uses it. It waits until you either switch the domain back on or ask us to delete it, either through this same route or by deleting your account.
There's no time limit on that, because you're the one who ends it. Choosing to keep your data is you telling us to go on holding health information for you, and we treat it as exactly that: your decision, live until you change it.
Does taking back consent undo what came before?
No, and we want to be straight about that. Turning something off stops Lotta using that information from that point forward. It doesn't reach backwards, and it doesn't make what happened before it improper. What it does is stop things, from the moment you say so.
Will turning something off change how Lotta treats me?
Only in the obvious way. Switch off Eat and the food parts of Lotta stop working, because there's nothing for them to work on. That's the switch doing what it says.
Everything else carries on exactly as before. We won't degrade the rest of the app, and we won't treat you differently for having used a right that's yours.
10. Deleting your account
Short version
Everything disappears straight away, you've got thirty days to change your mind, and then it's permanently gone. Deleting your account does not cancel your Apple subscription. Only you can do that.
What happens when you tap delete
Everything becomes invisible immediately. You can still sign in, but there's nothing there.
For thirty days, you can cancel the deletion and get everything back exactly as it was.
After thirty days, a job runs and removes it permanently. That job deletes; it can't read.
The only thing that survives is the record described at the end of section 7: that you consented, that you withdrew, that you deleted. Nothing about your health.
Your subscription is a separate thing, and this part matters
Deleting your Lotta account does not cancel your Apple subscription. We can't cancel it for you. Nobody at Lotta can. An App Store subscription belongs to your Apple ID, and only you can end it, from your Apple settings.
If you delete your account without cancelling, you'll keep being charged for an app showing you nothing. So do that first. The deletion screen points you to the right place in your Apple settings.
If you're on a free trial, the same applies. Deleting your account doesn't cancel it, and unless you cancel it through Apple before it ends, it turns into a paid subscription.
Once you cancel, your subscription runs to the end of the period you've already paid for. Anything to do with refunds is handled by Apple, under Apple's terms, and you can ask them directly.
Cancelling your subscription is not the same as deleting your account
If you cancel or let a subscription lapse, nothing is deleted. Your account stays, your logs stay, and you can ask us for a copy of your data at any time.
If you've asked us for something and then delete
If you've asked for a copy of your data, or made any other request, we finish answering it before the deletion completes. We won't destroy the record we need in order to answer you.
11. When a person can see your data
Short version
By default, nobody at Lotta can look at your health record. There are a few narrow exceptions, they're listed here, and every single access is logged.
The default
Lotta is built so that we can't casually look. There's no admin screen anywhere that displays your health information, so there's nothing for one of us to idly open.
When we can look, and only then
When you've reported a problem and asked us to. You tell us something's wrong; we ask your permission in the app; you say yes; we look at the part you reported, for as long as it takes to fix it. Not your whole history.
When you've made a request under section 8 and we need to reach your data to answer it.
When a court or the law requires it. Only what's specified, nothing more.
When we're investigating fraud or abuse of the app. Your account and how it's been used, not your health record.
Billing questions never need health information, and don't get it.
Every access is written down
Each time someone reaches your data, it's recorded: who, when, and why. That record exists so the rules above can be checked rather than just claimed.
Anyone who could ever reach your health information, including anyone we work with, is under a written duty of confidentiality before they get anywhere near it.
12. How we protect it
Short version
We protect your information with security measures suited to health information.
Our hosting provider is bound by contract to keep it in the EU and to apply the security measures data protection law requires, and access by our team is limited to the situations in section 11.
13. Lotta is for adults
Short version
You have to be 18 or over. If we find out an account belongs to someone younger, it's deleted.
Lotta is built around prescription medication and how it affects your body. It isn't a product for children, and we've set the age at 18 everywhere, higher than the law requires in any country we operate in.
How we check
We ask for your date of birth when you sign up. You can't enter a birth year that would make you under 18.
If someone under 18 gets in anyway
If we find out an account belongs to someone under 18, we delete it and everything in it. We don't keep a record of the child.
If you're a parent or guardian and you think your child has an account, write to privacy@lotta.health and we'll deal with it.
14. If you're unhappy
Short version
Tell us first: write to privacy@lotta.health. We'll acknowledge it within 30 days and tell you what we've done. You can also go to a data protection regulator, at any point, whether or not you've spoken to us.
Complaining to us
Write to us and say what's wrong. We'll come back within 30 days to confirm we've got it, and we'll tell you the outcome once we've looked into it.
You don't have to complain to us first. It's just usually faster, and if we've made a mistake we'd rather fix it than hear about it from a regulator.
Complaining to a regulator
You can complain to the data protection authority in your country. That right exists independently of anything we do. We can't waive it, delay it, or ask you not to use it.
15. When this document changes
Short version
We'll always tell you what changed and when. If a change means doing something new with your information, we'll ask you again rather than assume the old yes still covers it.
Every version of this policy carries a version number and the month and year it was last updated, both at the top of the page. We keep the older versions, so it's always possible to show you the exact wording you agreed to.
What happens depends on what changed
| The change | What we do |
|---|---|
| Rewording, better explanations, same practices | Update the version, publish it, note the date |
| A different company doing the same job as one already listed in section 5 | Update section 5, the version and the date |
| A new kind of information, a new purpose, a new kind of company handling your data, or a company that would use it for its own purposes | Ask you again. The old permission doesn't stretch to cover it |
| Anything that would make the earlier version misleading in hindsight | Ask you again. This isn't a courtesy: a consent given against a description that turns out to be wrong isn't a valid consent |
If we ever change something in a way that reaches back over information we already hold, we'll email you and tell you in the app before the change takes effect. You can then switch off or erase the parts affected in Settings → Privacy, or delete your account.
16. Who to contact
Short version
privacy@lotta.health, for anything at all about your information.
Filipa Figueiredo Filipe, one of our founders, leads data protection at Lotta for every country we operate in. Write to privacy@lotta.health with a question, a request under section 8, or a complaint, and it reaches her.
If you're in Brazil, Brazilian law requires us to name an Encarregada pelo Tratamento de Dados Pessoais and publish how to reach her. That's Filipa Figueiredo Filipe, at the same address, with Margarida Mendes da Maia as her designated substitute.
17. If you're in the United States
Short version
Everything in this policy applies to you. US law adds a few things, and they're gathered here.
Our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy
Washington and Nevada require health information to be described in a separate document. You can read ours in the app under Settings, and at lotta.health/privacy.
What we don't do
We don't sell your personal information, and we don't use it for targeted advertising. Nobody tracks you across other websites or services through Lotta.
If you're in Nevada
- What we collect and who handles it: sections 3 and 5.
- Reviewing and correcting your information: section 8.
- How we tell you about changes: section 15.
- The date this notice took effect: 01/10/2026
Nevada also asks us to give you a way to tell us not to sell your information. We don't sell it, but if you want to tell us anyway, write to privacy@lotta.health. We'll respond within 60 days, and if we need longer we can take another 30 and will tell you.
18. Our website, the waitlist and the beta
Short version
If you've visited our website, joined the waitlist or applied to test Lotta, this is the part that applies to you. Once you use the app itself, the rest of this policy applies too.
Visiting our website
Our legal reason is our legitimate interest in knowing how the site is used, and you can object (section 8).
Cookies
Our website doesn't use cookies, and it doesn't save anything else on your device.
We count visits with PostHog, in a mode that saves nothing on your device. When you open a page or press a button, PostHog receives the page's address, the page you came from, any campaign label in the link you followed, your type of browser and device, and your screen size. To tell visits apart within a day, PostHog turns your internet address and browser into a scrambled code using a key that changes every day, then removes your internet address. A visit on one day can't be linked to a visit on another, and we never learn who you are. We don't use any of this for advertising.
Like any website, our host (GitHub) and the services that deliver our fonts and code (Google Fonts, Cloudflare and jsDelivr) receive your internet address when your browser asks them for those files.
Your choices: you can object to the visit counting (section 8), or block it with your browser's privacy settings or a content blocker. The site works the same either way.
The waitlist
You give us your email address and your country, and we use them to keep your place and tell you when Lotta launches. If you also tick the box for news, we'll send you emails about Lotta. You can unsubscribe from any email.
Legal reason: your consent. We keep your details until 12 months after Lotta launches, or until you unsubscribe, whichever comes first.
Applying to the beta
The application asks your name, your country of residence, your email and where you are in your journey with GLP-1 medication. Because that answer can show you take, or are considering, a prescription medicine, we treat it as health information.
If you came to us through a link we shared, we also save that link's label (for example "instagram") with your application, so we know which channels bring people to Lotta.
Legal reason: your consent, and your explicit consent for the medication answer.
Your application is deleted three months after the beta ends. If you participate in the beta testing, we use your email to invite you, and the rest of the application is deleted once you've joined.
Your application is stored with Brevo, you can find their Terms of Service here and their Privacy Policy is here.
Testing the beta
Apple sends your invitation and installs the test version through TestFlight, under Apple's own terms. Apple passes us any crash reports and feedback you choose to send.
At the start and end of the beta we ask a few questions, such as how confident you feel about eating well and where you are with GLP-1 medication. Your answers are linked to a tester code, not your email address.
Legal reason: your explicit consent. We delete them six months after the beta ends.
Questions about Lotta, or feedback? Write to hello@lotta.health.