Consent Notice

What you agree to

By checking the consent box and continuing, you ask Sumelle to create or access a Firebase account; store the selected friend contact details, private receipt metadata, direct and group expenses, splits, settlements, activity, and profile information you approve; synchronize shared expense data with the people and groups you choose; and process it as described in the Privacy Policy.

Friends and QR codes

Add a friend by name and email, or scan their Sumelle QR code with the camera. Sumelle does not request access to your Contacts. Your profile QR code contains your name and verified email; show it only to people you want to connect with. Scanning fills in details for review and does not save or send anything until you confirm. Saving sends an email invitation and connects shared history using the recipient's verified email. The QR code is not a login credential and does not grant access to private receipts.

Guest mode

Guest mode creates an anonymous Firebase account and stores the display name you provide. Guest mode is limited to five expense or settlement transactions. You may later continue with Google or Apple.

Sharing visibility

Saved receipt metadata is private to your account. Only after you choose a friend or group and create an expense do the approved item names, prices, assignments, expense total, payer, shares, notes, and activity become visible to those people. Private return barcodes are not shared. Treat invite codes as private and share them only with people you trust.

Receipt analysis

If you choose Scan, Photo, or PDF, Sumelle performs text recognition and may send the selected file to Google Firebase AI Logic to suggest merchant, items, prices, subtotal, tax, tip, fees, discounts, date, total, store and transaction references, return details, and detected receipt barcodes. You may select up to three ordered screenshots only when they show one receipt transaction. Original files are not saved in Sumelle's receipt database. Temporary device copies and Google's processing retention are subject to their respective cleanup and security controls; immediate deletion and zero provider retention are not guaranteed. You review and choose what metadata to save.

Notifications

Authentication and service SDKs process technical identifiers, diagnostics, and usage data as described in the Privacy Policy. Google Sign-In may estimate approximate location from an IP address for fraud prevention. This is not advertising tracking.

Notification permission is optional and requested separately by iOS. Declining it does not prevent you from using expenses, receipts, or groups. You can change notification access in iOS Settings.

Withdraw or delete

You may stop using Sumelle at any time. Profile → Settings lets you delete your account and personal data, including your private receipt inbox. Guest account data can also be deleted in the app.

Messages

Messages and conversation details are stored with Google Firebase and are not end-to-end encrypted. Direct chat starts after a connection request is accepted, and its history is available to the two participants. Current registered group members can read the group’s automatic update history, including earlier updates. Blocking stops new direct messages but keeps existing history. Deleting your app data or account removes your direct conversations from Sumelle for both participants; shared group update history may remain. We retain a minimal record of declined or blocked connections to prevent new requests after a data reset.

Group deletion and message safety

A group owner may permanently delete a fully settled group and its shared expense, settlement, and group-update history for everyone; private receipts remain. Do not send threats, harassment, illegal content, or abusive messages. You can block a direct contact and report a selected message for review. For message safety concerns, email alluvenkata5@gmail.com.

Limited automated screening checks abusive text. Authorized support can review a confirmed report and referenced shared label, remove reported content, and restrict messaging. Minimal decision audits omit message text and private receipt details. Operational report alerts do not include reported text or participant contact details. See the Privacy Policy for details.

Questions

Email allevate.support@gmail.com.