How Pantry & Plate handles your information

1. Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to the Pantry & Plate website at pantryandplate.app and the Pantry & Plate mobile app operated by Pantry and Plate LLC. It explains what information we access, collect, use, store, share, retain, and delete when you use Pantry & Plate.

2. Information We Collect

Information you provide

• Account and sign-in information such as your email address, profile details, and selected sign-in method.
• Pantry items, shopping lists, meal plans, household membership, recipes, and other content you create, import, or sync.
• Profile photos, recipe photos, and other images you choose to upload.
• Prompts, links, and images you submit when using recipe import, extraction, or generation features.
• Support, feedback, and privacy requests you send through email, in-app forms, or contact flows.

Information collected automatically

• Device and app metadata such as platform, OS version, app version, and build number.
• Notification preferences and reminder schedules if you enable reminders.
• Feedback diagnostic context such as app version, platform, and sign-in state.
• Firebase Analytics event data about app interactions, feature usage, and reliability or performance trends.
• Basic website usage signals needed for security and performance.

3. How We Use Information

• Provide and maintain pantry, recipe, meal-planning, barcode-scanning, and shopping workflows.
• Authenticate accounts and sync data across your devices and household members.
• Store and display profile photos, recipe photos, and other content you choose to upload.
• Process user-submitted prompts and images to help extract or generate recipe content.
• Deliver reminders and notifications you choose to enable.
• Respond to support, feedback, privacy, and deletion requests.
• Measure feature usage, app interactions, and reliability trends so we can improve product quality.
• Monitor security, prevent abuse, and comply with legal obligations where required.

4. Camera, Photos, and AI Processing

Pantry & Plate may request camera access only when you explicitly start a camera-based feature, such as scanning a barcode or capturing a recipe or profile photo. Pantry & Plate may request photo-library access only when you choose to import an image from your device.

If you choose recipe extraction or generation features, selected images, prompts, and related request data may be transmitted to Pantry & Plate services and OpenAI so the feature can analyze the input and return recipe content. Camera and photo access are not used for background collection.

5. Analytics

Pantry & Plate uses Firebase Analytics to understand feature usage, app interactions, and reliability or performance trends so we can improve the app. We do not use Firebase Analytics for advertising, cross-app tracking, or the sale of personal or sensitive user data.

6. Private Household Recipes

We understand that family recipes can be cherished, guarded, and meaningful history. If you trust Pantry & Plate with a private recipe, we honor that trust.

• Private recipes are intended to be visible only to you and your household members.
• We do not sell, publish, or share private household recipes with other households.
• We do not use private household recipes for marketing or advertising.
• Any public sharing of a recipe must be explicit, opt-in, and clearly labeled.

7. Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell personal or sensitive user data. Data is shared only as needed to provide the feature you choose to use, operate the service, comply with legal obligations, or protect users and the service.

• Supabase for authentication, database storage, file storage, and app-backed functions.
• OpenAI for user-initiated recipe prompt and image processing.
• Firebase Analytics for app analytics and product-improvement insights.
• Apple and Google if you choose those sign-in providers.
• Instacart if you launch connected shopping or delivery flows.
• Food and recipe data providers used by user-invoked features, including USDA, Spoonacular, and Chomp.

8. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards to protect data, including secure transmission practices and access controls appropriate to the service. No internet transmission or storage method is guaranteed to be perfectly secure.

9. Data Storage and Retention

Synced app data is retained for as long as needed to provide the service, satisfy legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements. Retention windows may vary by data type and operational need.

If you request account deletion, Pantry & Plate is designed to delete account-linked data and retain only a minimal anonymized deletion audit record for up to 30 days.

10. Your Choices and Rights

• You may deny camera or photo-library permissions and continue using non-camera features.
• You may disable reminders and notifications from the app or device settings.
• You may edit or remove your content from within the app when those controls are available.
• You may request access, correction, or deletion of your account data.
• You may contact us about objections, restrictions, or questions related to processing.

Submit requests to support@pantryandplate.app.

11. Account Deletion Requests

You can delete your account from within the app. If you choose to delete your account from within the app, Pantry & Plate is designed to remove account data from the local device and Pantry & Plate services, subject to the minimal retention described above. You can also request account deletion by emailing support@pantryandplate.app with subject line Account Deletion Request from the account email.

12. Children

Pantry & Plate is not directed to children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your jurisdiction), and we do not knowingly collect data from children.

13. Policy Updates

We may update this policy over time. If changes are material, we will update the effective date and provide additional notice where appropriate.