Privacy policy
Last updated 12 November 2026
Tabsy turns photos of receipts into a record of what you spend. This policy explains what we collect, why, who processes it for us, how long we keep it and how to delete it. It covers the Tabsy apps for iOS and Android and the website tabsy.app.
Who we are
Tabsy is made by Jeffin Jose, an individual developer based in the United Kingdom, who is the controller of your personal data. Contact: support@tabsy.app.
What we collect
- Account details from Sign in with Apple or Google: your name, email address and, from Google, your profile picture. If you use Apple's “Hide My Email”, we only receive the relay address.
- Receipt photos you take with the camera or pick from your photo library. Tabsy only accesses the photos you choose.
- Receipt and expense details read from those photos or typed by you: merchant, date, items, amounts, tax, currency, category and notes.
- Settings and plans: your home currency and any budgets you set.
- Spaces: the shared spaces you create or join, their members, invites and join requests.
- Sign-in sessions: the IP address and device or browser details of each signed-in session, used to keep your account secure.
- Waitlist: if you join the waitlist on tabsy.app, your email address.
We do not collect your location, contacts or advertising identifiers. Tabsy has no ads, no third-party analytics and no tracking, and we never sell your data.
How we use it
Only to provide Tabsy to you:
- signing you in and keeping your account secure;
- reading your receipts and categorising your spending;
- converting amounts into your home currency;
- showing your spending and budgets, and sharing receipts with the spaces you choose;
- answering you when you contact us, and emailing waitlist members when Tabsy launches.
The legal basis is that this processing is needed to provide the service you asked for (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(b)). For security logs and preventing abuse it is our legitimate interest in keeping Tabsy safe (Article 6(1)(f)). For the waitlist it is your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by emailing us.
Reading receipts with AI
To read a receipt, its photo is sent to Anthropic's Claude, which returns the merchant, date, items and amounts. Anthropic processes the photo only on our behalf and does not use it to train its models. No decision with legal or similarly significant effects is made about you; you can review and edit every result.
Spaces and sharing
Your Personal space is visible only to you. If you create or join a shared space, the other members of that space can see the receipts and expenses added to it, including their photos, and your name as the person who added them.
Who processes it for us
These service providers process data only on our instructions and under data processing terms:
| Provider | What for |
|---|---|
| Vercel | Hosts the Tabsy service and this website |
| Cloudflare | Stores receipt photos |
| Neon | Database for your account, receipts, spaces and budgets |
| Anthropic | Reads receipt photos |
| Apple, Google | Sign you in |
Exchange rates come from Frankfurter, which receives only currency codes and dates, never your data.
Some providers process data outside the UK, including in the United States. Where they do, the transfer is protected by the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, the UK-US data bridge or equivalent safeguards.
How long we keep it
- Receipt photos are kept with their receipt until you delete them. You can delete one photo from its receipt, or every photo from Settings › Data & privacy; the receipt details stay.
- Account, receipt and budget details are kept until you delete them or your account.
- Photos from uploads that never finished are removed after a day.
- Sign-in sessions are deleted when they expire or you sign out.
- Waitlist emails are deleted once we have told you Tabsy is available, or sooner if you ask.
Deleting your data
In the app, go to Settings › Data & privacy › Delete account. Your account, receipts and photos are deleted straight away. Without the app, see how to request deletion.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of your data, ask us to correct or delete it, object to or restrict how we use it, and ask for it in a portable format. Email support@tabsy.app and we will reply within a month. If you are unhappy with our answer, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk) or your local data protection authority.
Security
All data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and at rest by our providers. Receipt photos are stored privately and are only reachable through short-lived links issued to signed-in users who can see that receipt.
Children
Tabsy is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has given us data, contact us and we will delete it.
Changes
If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use data you have already given us, we will tell you in the app first.
Contact
Questions about your data: support@tabsy.app.