Privacy policy

Last updated: 6 September 2026

Who this covers

This policy covers the Meibo mobile app and this website, meibomedia.com. Meibo is made by an independent developer in Australia.

What Meibo stores, and where

Everything you enter — items, titles, creators, condition, prices, shelf locations, ratings, reviews, tags, loan records, play history, tracklists and wishlist — is written to a database file inside the app’s own storage on your phone. Photos you add and cover images downloaded during a look-up are saved in the same place.

None of it is uploaded. The developer cannot see your catalogue and has no way to retrieve it.

The camera

Meibo asks for camera access so it can read a barcode. The camera is used only while a scan screen is open, and only to decode the barcode. Meibo does not save the camera image or send it anywhere; the number it reads is used to look the item up.

Your photo library and files

When you attach your own photo to an item, or export or restore a backup, the system’s own picker asks you to choose the file. Meibo can only read what you pick.

Look-ups over the internet

Meibo can fill in details for seven of its nine media types, using four services. It does this only when you ask it to — it does not contact anything in the background. Comics and board games have no look-up at all, and nothing about them ever leaves the device.

• Discogs — vinyl, CD, cassette
• Google Books — books
• TMDB — DVD, Blu-ray
• RAWG — video games

A look-up request carries three things: the barcode number or the words you typed, the free API key you obtained from that service and entered in Settings, and — as with any website you visit — your device’s IP address. It carries nothing else about your collection. Each service handles it under its own privacy policy, linked above.

Your API keys are stored on your device only. They are never sent anywhere except to the service that issued them.

Cover images

When a look-up returns cover art, the service’s reply includes a web address for the image, and Meibo downloads it from there and keeps a copy on your device so the catalogue still works with no signal. That address is chosen by the service, so the image may come from a content-delivery host rather than the service’s main site. Downloading an image sends nothing but the request for it.

Export and backup

Exporting produces plain CSV files of your catalogue on your device, and your photos as a separate archive. Where those files then go is entirely your choice — the app hands them to your phone’s share sheet, and nothing is sent anywhere unless you send it.

What Meibo does not do

• No account, sign-in, or profile.
• No analytics, crash reporting, or usage tracking.
• No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
• No selling, sharing, or disclosure of personal information — there is none held to sell.

Device backups

If you have iCloud Backup or Google’s backup service switched on, your phone may include Meibo’s data in that backup. That copy is held by Apple or Google under their terms, not by Meibo. You can turn device backup off in your phone’s settings.

Children

Meibo is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone, children included.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app removes its database, its cached covers and the photos stored inside it. There is no server-side copy, so nothing survives it, and there is nothing to request from us because we hold nothing. Export first if you want to keep your catalogue.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version is posted on this page with a new date at the top. Material changes will also be mentioned in the app’s release notes.

Contact

support@meibomedia.com

If you are in Australia and are not satisfied with a response about your privacy, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.