Kitchen Pal is a kitchen management app — pantry, recipes, shopping lists, and meal planning — built and run by an individual developer, not a company. This page explains plainly what the app collects, why, and where it lives. If any of this changes about how the app actually behaves, this page will change to match it.
1Information we collect
Kitchen Pal collects only what it needs to run the features you use.
| Category | What it includes | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Account | Email, display name, a unique handle, and your chosen sign-in method (email, Google, Facebook, or Apple) | Identifies your account and keeps your data separate from every other user's |
| Kitchen content | Recipes, ingredients, instructions, pantry items, shopping lists, meal plans, and any photos you attach | The actual content of the app — this is what you're storing and organizing |
| Household details | Names, allergies, and dietary preferences for people you add to your household | Powers allergen warnings and per-person meal planning |
| Import links | URLs you submit to import a recipe (from a recipe site, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube) | Fetched once to extract the recipe; not tracked or profiled |
| Your own AI key | An Anthropic or OpenAI API key, if you choose to add one | Used only to power AI-assisted recipe extraction on your behalf — see §3 |
| Voice input | Speech audio, while you're actively using the voice assistant | Converted to text so you can add items or search recipes hands-free |
| Camera & photos | Barcode scans and photos you choose to take or select | Product lookups and recipe images |
Kitchen Pal does not run advertising, analytics, or tracking SDKs of any kind. There is no third-party analytics service watching how you use the app.
2How we use it
Your data is used strictly to operate the app's features for your own account:
- Signing you in and keeping your account secure
- Storing and syncing your recipes, pantry, and lists across your own devices
- Extracting structured recipes from a URL or social media link you provide
- Matching allergies and dietary preferences against recipes for the people in your household
- Sending you a notification when something you asked for (like a recipe import) finishes
Nothing here is used to build an advertising profile, sold to a data broker, or shared with anyone for their own marketing purposes.
3Third parties involved
A few services are involved in specific, limited ways — never as a blanket data feed:
Sign-inGoogle, Facebook, Apple
If you choose to sign in with one of these instead of email, that provider handles the login itself and shares only your name and email with Kitchen Pal, under their own privacy policy. Kitchen Pal never sees your password for these accounts.
Your choiceAnthropic / OpenAI
If you add your own API key for AI-assisted recipe extraction, the text of the page or caption you're importing is sent directly to that provider using your key, under their own privacy and data-use terms. This only happens for imports that need it, and only if you've supplied a key — Kitchen Pal has no key or AI access of its own.
Fetched onceRecipe & social media sites
Importing a recipe fetches the public page or post at the URL you provide, one time, to read its content. No account or login on those platforms is used or accessed.
On-deviceApple Speech framework
Voice commands are processed using Apple's built-in Speech framework, governed by Apple's own privacy practices for Siri & Dictation.
4Where it's stored
Kitchen Pal's backend runs on infrastructure operated directly by the developer — not a large third-party cloud platform's managed database, and not shared with any other product. Your API keys, if you add one, are encrypted at rest; they are never stored or logged in plain text.
All traffic between the app and the backend is encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS).
5Retention & deletion
Your content is kept for as long as your account exists. You can delete individual recipes, pantry items, or household members at any time directly in the app. To delete your entire account and all associated data, contact us at the email below — this is handled manually and typically completed within a few days.
6Your rights & choices
- Access — everything Kitchen Pal has for your account is visible in the app itself; there's no hidden data.
- Correction — edit your profile, recipes, or household details any time.
- Deletion — remove individual items yourself, or request full account deletion by email.
- Portability — recipes can be exported from within the app.
- Revoke an AI key — remove your Anthropic/OpenAI key at any time from Settings; AI-assisted import simply stops using it.
7Children's privacy
Kitchen Pal is not directed at children under 13, and knowingly does not collect information from them. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and it will be removed.
8Changes to this policy
If what the app collects or how it's used changes in a meaningful way, this page will be updated and the effective date above will change. Material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.
9Contact
Questions, data requests, or account deletion: [email protected]