Just The Total
Last updated: September 6, 2026
Your shopping list stays on your phone. We don't have an account for you, we don't know your name, and we never see what you buy.
There are two exceptions, and we explain both below: looking up your local sales tax, and finding your ZIP code from your location if you ask us to.
All of this is saved only on your device. It is never sent to us.
If you delete the app, all of it is gone. You can also clear it any time from Settings.
You can point the camera at a price tag and the app will read the price for you.
The picture never leaves your phone. Reading the price happens on the device itself, not on a server. We don't save the photo and we don't send it anywhere — once the price is read, the picture is gone.
The app asks for camera permission the first time you use scanning. If you say no, everything else still works — you just type prices in instead.
Sales tax is different in different places, so the app needs to know roughly where you are to get the total right.
You have two ways to tell it, and both work equally well:
If you share your location, we do not save it — not your coordinates, not a history of where you've been. It is used to find a ZIP code and then discarded.
Turning location off doesn't break anything. Typing a ZIP code is a fully supported way to use the app, not a worse one.
To turn your location into a ZIP code, the app currently asks Android's built-in address service, which is provided by Google. That means your coordinates go to Google at that moment. We're changing this so the lookup happens entirely on your phone. If you'd rather it not happen at all today, type your ZIP code instead.
To find the tax rate where you are, the app sends your ZIP code — and nothing else — to a sales tax service.
It does not send your name, your shopping list, your prices, your total, your budget, or anything that identifies you or your phone. The service is told a ZIP code and answers with a tax rate.
We're moving to a tax table stored inside the app, so this lookup will stop happening at all. This page will be updated when it does.
When something goes wrong, the app writes a note about it to a file on your phone so the problem can be fixed. That file is not sent anywhere.
It only ever leaves your phone if you go to your profile and tap the button to share it, and then it goes wherever you choose to send it.
Just The Total is published by [LEGAL ENTITY NAME], [ADDRESS], United States. For privacy questions, write to privacy@justthetotal.com.
For privacy laws that use the term, we are the data controller for the limited processing described on this page.
This app is built for young people, and we designed it so that being young doesn't cost you anything. Because there's no account and nothing personal is collected or stored on our side, there is nothing about you for us to hold.
The app is intended for people aged 13 and over. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Because the app has no account and no server-side storage, we would have nothing to delete — but if you believe a child under 13 has somehow provided us with personal information, contact us and we will act on it.
Parents and guardians: if you have questions, or want to check what the app does, write to us and we'll answer plainly.
Privacy laws in various places give people rights over their information. Because we hold essentially nothing about you, most of these are satisfied by how the app is built rather than by a request process — but the rights are real and we will honour them.
| You can | How |
|---|---|
| Know what we hold | Nothing personal. Everything the app stores is on your device and visible to you in the app. |
| Get a copy | Your data is already on your phone. Settings also has a diagnostics export. |
| Delete it | Settings → Delete all stored data, or uninstall the app. |
| Correct it | Edit or remove any item, budget or ZIP directly in the app. |
| Object, restrict, or withdraw consent | Deny or revoke the camera and location permissions in Android settings. The app keeps working. |
| Opt out of sale or sharing | We do not sell or share personal information, and never have. |
| Complain to a regulator | You may contact your local data protection authority. |
We will not treat you differently for exercising any of these.
Where the UK or EU GDPR applies, our lawful basis for the two limited transfers described above is legitimate interests — providing the tax calculation you asked for — and, for the camera and location permissions, your consent, which you give or withhold through Android's permission prompts and can revoke at any time.
The sales tax service we use is located in the United States, so a ZIP code sent for a rate lookup is transferred there. No other information is transferred. You have the right to lodge a complaint with your national supervisory authority.
We do not collect, sell, or share personal information as those terms are used in the CCPA and CPRA. We collect no sensitive personal information and carry out no cross-context behavioural advertising.
The app is designed for United States sales tax and is intended for use in the United States. It may be downloaded elsewhere, and where local privacy law applies — including Canada's PIPEDA, Brazil's LGPD, and the Australian Privacy Act — the same practices described on this page apply: we hold nothing about you on our systems.
We hold no personal information, so there is nothing for us to retain. Everything the app stores lives on your device for as long as you keep it there.
Because your data stays on your phone, it is protected by your device's own security — your screen lock and Android's app sandboxing. The two network requests described above use encrypted connections. No system is perfectly secure, but the strongest protection here is that there is almost nothing to protect on our side.
If we change what the app does, we'll change this page and update the date at the top. If the change is a significant one, we'll say so in the app before it takes effect.
Privacy questions: privacy@justthetotal.com