Privacy notice

Your figures are yours. Here's exactly what happens to them.

This covers the website, the software, and any consultancy work. It is from TELVO LTD, the company responsible for all three.

Last updated 26 October 2026.

The short version

Five things we commit to

They are binding on us.

  1. Your data is never pooled with anyone else's.

    Your invoices, prices, margins and sales are used to run your account and nothing else. They are not combined with other businesses' figures for benchmarks, averages, market reports or a training set. Nobody else's figures are in your account, and yours are not in theirs.

    The one thing that is shared: a library of national merchant patterns — that TESCO PFS is a fuel forecourt and not a supermarket — grows as we work. It holds no names, amounts, volumes or anything identifying a shop, and the importer refuses any entry that does. Your figures are not in it and cannot get into it.

  2. It is never sold, to anyone, for anything.

    Not to suppliers, delivery platforms, data brokers or anyone building a picture of what takeaways pay. There is no arrangement under which your figures become someone else's product, and there will not be one.

  3. It is never shown to anyone as an example — not even anonymised.

    Not in a demo, a screenshot, this website, a pitch, social media or a talk. Taking the name off is not an exception: in a trade this small, a menu and its margins identify a shop. Every screenshot on this site uses invented demo data. Your figures are shown to a person outside Telvo only if you have asked us to, in writing.

  4. You can export everything, whenever you want.

    Your ingredients, costs, recipes and margins, in a format you can open and use elsewhere. No reason needed, and you don't have to be leaving. Ask at [email protected].

  5. You can have all of it deleted.

    The invoice images, the extracted lines, the recipes and the figures. Within one month of asking, normally within a few days. The only exception is what the law requires us to keep (below), and we will tell you exactly what that is at the time.

Who is responsible for your data

TELVO LTD is the data controller — meaning the company decides what is collected and why, and is accountable for it. It is registered in England and Wales, company number 17447926, registered office 34 Hanafey Way, Northampton NN5 7FX.

It is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration number ZC243587.

Your data is handled only by TELVO LTD. We open your account to set it up, to help when you ask, and to keep the service running, and for nothing else.

If a security breach affects your data, you’ll hear from us within 72 hours of our knowing: what happened, and what we’ve done about it.

For a question, an export, a deletion or a complaint, write to [email protected]. It reaches us directly.

What we collect, and why

If you just read the website

Nothing that identifies you, unless you accept the cookie banner. The site counts page views with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which sets no cookie and does not identify you. If you accept, the Meta pixel loads and reports to Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd: the page you are on, the page you came from, your IP address and your browser’s user agent, and then a page view, plus three things if you do them — clicking “Book a demo call”, clicking “Start free” (or “Start my free month”), and booking a call with us. Meta is told that each one happened, not your name, your email or when your call is. If you accepted and then create a Telvo account, our app tells Meta that an account was created, with your email address and mobile number scrambled (hashed) first, so Meta can match the signup to an ad you saw. They are never sent in readable form. With them go your browser’s user agent, and the ad click id and Meta’s browser id (_fbp) if there are any. We use this only to measure our ads. If you rejected or ignored the banner, the app tells Meta nothing. Meta sets its own cookies at that point, _fbp among them. Its automatic collection — reading form fields, button clicks and price-shaped text off the page — is switched off before it loads, so nothing you type here is measured. If you reject or ignore the banner, none of it runs. Your choice is stored in your own browser, not on any server of ours, and you can change it any time on the cookie notice.

If you book a call

Bookings run through Calendly, which collects your name, email and what you write in the booking form, and holds it under its own privacy policy. We use it to prepare for the call and to follow up. If you would rather not use Calendly, email us and we’ll arrange it directly.

If you use the software

Your account: name, email, mobile number, business name and billing details. Your working data: photographs of supplier invoices and the lines read off them, ingredient prices, your recipes and portions, your menu and its prices, your sales and platform figures, your compliance checklists, and the margins calculated from all of it.

Your bank statements, which include payee names — some of those are your staff and your suppliers. They are used only to categorise your costs. No person outside Telvo is shown your figures; the companies whose systems process them are listed below.

Your mobile number is asked for when you sign up, and it is there so we can help you by phone or WhatsApp if you get stuck. It is not passed to anyone else, and nothing is sent to it automatically.

All of it is used only for the three jobs you are paying for: cost the menu, produce the P&L, and run the checks. The five commitments above apply to every part of it.

If your staff use the software

The compliance module holds a record for each of your team: their name, the email or PIN they sign in with, which checks they completed and the time the server recorded it, and the photographs they take of your kitchen for checks that ask for one. It also holds clock-in and clock-out times.

You are the controller of that data, not us. It is your staff, your kitchen and your records; we process it on your instructions. So telling your team it is being collected is your job: a photograph with a name and a time against it is a record about a person.

Photos are kept for twelve months, then deleted. If a member turns on notifications on their phone, the app stores that device’s notification token — nothing else about the device — and deletes it when you remove the member from the account.

If we do consultancy work with you

Whatever you send us to do the job — bank statements, platform statements, supplier invoices, sales reports, rotas — plus our own notes from the day on site and the action plan written from them.

Where our notes touch individual staff, they are about roles, workload and process, not people's personal lives, and the written plan does not name staff.

The legal basis for holding it

UK GDPR requires a lawful basis for each use. Ours are:

Performing our contract
Your account, your working data and your consultancy documents.
Consent
The Meta pixel. You opt in, and you can withdraw at any time with one click — change your cookie choice.
Legitimate interests
Replying to you when you get in touch, keeping the service secure, keeping enough record of who we have worked with to run a business, and counting page views on this website without cookies. If you think any of this overrides your interests, tell us and we will look at it.
Legal obligation
Invoices and payment records we are required to retain for tax. That is the one category we cannot delete on request, and it is our billing records for you — not your operational data.

Who else's systems touch it

“Never shown to anyone” means no person outside Telvo is shown your figures. Some companies’ software does process them: the site has to be hosted and an invoice photograph has to be read. Every one of these is a processor: they act on our instructions, may only use the data to provide their service to us, and may not use it for their own purposes.

Cloudflare
Hosts this website and the software, and runs the database behind it, the storage that holds invoice photographs and compliance photographs, and the login gate. Also sees the standard request information any web server sees, and counts page views on this website (Web Analytics) without cookies.
Anthropic
Reads the lines off photographs of your supplier invoices. Engaged on terms that forbid using your data to train models.
Stripe
Handles subscription billing. Card details go to them and never to us — we see that a payment succeeded, not your card number.
Resend
Sends the email the software has to send: password resets, invitations to your team, an email when a supplier price moves, and the week’s checks. Hosted in Ireland.
Google Workspace
The mailbox behind [email protected], so anything you write to us sits there.
Calendly
Handles call bookings and holds what you enter in the booking form.
Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd
Receives a page view, and the four things above if you do them, if — and only if — you accept the cookie banner. Meta uses that for advertising measurement under its own terms, which is exactly why it is behind a consent gate rather than switched on by default.

Some of these are outside the UK. Where that happens, the transfer is covered by the safeguards UK data protection law requires — the UK adequacy regulations, or the UK International Data Transfer Agreement or Addendum.

How long we keep it

Your account and working data
For as long as you are a customer. If you close your account it is deleted; you do not have to ask separately, and you can ask for it sooner at any point. If you stop using Telvo without closing your account, we keep your data for 12 months from your last sign-in, then delete it.
Consultancy documents
The statements and invoices you send for a job are deleted once the work is finished and the plan is delivered, unless you ask us to hold them for follow-on work. We keep our own copy of the action plan.
Backups
Backups are not edited on request, so deleted data leaves them on a schedule. If you ask for deletion, it leaves the live records straight away and is gone from backups within 30 days.
Billing records
Kept as long as tax law requires, which is currently six years. This is the invoice we raised to you — not your operational data — and it is the only thing a deletion request cannot reach.

What you can make us do

Under UK data protection law you have the right to ask for a copy of what we hold, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, to restrict or object to how it is used, to take it elsewhere in a portable format, and to withdraw consent where consent is the basis.

Email [email protected]. No form and no charge. The law gives us a month; it does not normally take anywhere near that. If we need to check you are who you say you are before handing over data, we will ask for the minimum that settles it.

If you are not happy with how we have handled it, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk. We would rather you came to us first so we can fix it, but that route is yours regardless.

If this changes

The date at the top moves and the current version always lives here. If a change affects how your data is used, rather than fixing a typo, customers are told directly by email.

Questions about any of it: [email protected].