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, grocery and shopping lists, meal plans, household membership, recipes, imported recipes, and other content you create, import, or sync.
• Dietary preferences, allergy details, and food preferences you choose to save.
• Profile photos, recipe photos, receipts, screenshots, shared files, prompts, links, and images you choose to upload or submit for app features.
• Support, feedback, parser reports, recipe reports, and privacy requests you choose to send. These may include your message, optional contact email, selected report details, and limited app context shown by the app.
• Subscription and purchase status if subscriptions are enabled in the app build you use.

Information collected automatically

• Device and app metadata such as platform, OS version, app version, and build number.
• Notification preferences, reminder schedules, push-notification tokens, and delivery state if you enable reminders or notifications.
• Feedback diagnostic context such as app version, platform, and sign-in state.
• Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics, and Messaging data used for app interactions, feature usage, crash diagnostics, push messaging, reliability, and performance trends.
• Basic website usage signals needed for security and performance.
• Referral, click, campaign, attribution, and connected-shopping action data when you choose to launch Instacart or other connected grocery shopping flows.

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 photos, recipes, lists, preferences, and other content you choose to upload or save.
• Process user-submitted prompts, links, receipts, screenshots, and images for recipe extraction, receipt parsing, and generation features you choose to use.
• Deliver reminders and notifications you choose to enable.
• Respond to support, feedback, privacy, and deletion requests.
• Review user-initiated parser and recipe reports while minimizing raw recipe, pantry, grocery, receipt, image, prompt, allergy, dietary, and diagnostic content that is not needed for the report.
• Measure feature usage, app interactions, and reliability trends so Pantry & Plate can improve product quality.
• Measure and attribute user-initiated connected shopping flows, prevent fraud or abuse, comply with partner program obligations, and calculate partner compensation.
• Monitor security, prevent abuse, and comply with legal obligations where required.

4. Camera, Photos, Receipts, 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, receipt parsing, or generation features, selected prompts, links, receipts, screenshots, images, and related request data may be transmitted to Pantry & Plate services and OpenAI so the feature can analyze the input and return recipe or receipt 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

Pantry & Plate does not sell personal or sensitive user data and does not use data for cross-app advertising tracking. 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.

Pantry & Plate may share data with:

• Supabase for authentication, database storage, file storage, and app-backed functions.
• OpenAI for user-initiated recipe prompt, image, and receipt processing.
• Firebase Analytics for app analytics and product-improvement insights.
• Firebase Crashlytics for crash diagnostics and Firebase Messaging for push-notification delivery.
• Google Forms for user-initiated feedback or parser-report intake when configured.
• Email providers such as Resend for support, account, invite, welcome, and report-related email delivery when configured.
• Apple and Google if you choose those sign-in providers.
• RevenueCat, Apple, and Google app-store purchase systems if subscriptions are enabled.
• Instacart if you launch connected shopping or delivery flows.
• impact.com for affiliate link tracking, order attribution, reporting, fraud prevention, compliance, and partner compensation related to user-initiated Instacart or connected grocery shopping flows.
• Food and recipe data providers used by user-invoked features, including USDA, Spoonacular, Chomp, BigOven, and Open Food Facts.

8. Connected Shopping, Affiliate Links, and Order Attribution

When you choose to launch an Instacart or other connected grocery shopping flow from Pantry & Plate, the link or checkout flow may include referral, campaign, or attribution information so that Pantry & Plate, Instacart, impact.com, and related service providers can measure qualifying actions, attribute orders, prevent fraud or abuse, comply with partner program requirements, and calculate partner compensation.

For these purposes, impact.com may process information such as referral or click data, IP address, device or browser information, mobile device identifiers, cookie or profile identifiers, campaign or sub-ID values, shared identifiers, and information about resulting actions or orders reported by Instacart or the applicable retailer. Pantry & Plate does not intentionally share raw pantry contents, private recipes, allergy or dietary details, receipt images, payment-card information, or grocery-list contents with impact.com for affiliate attribution.

Pantry & Plate may receive compensation from qualifying purchases or actions that occur after a user launches a connected shopping flow. This does not change the price you pay through Instacart or the applicable retailer.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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. For privacy requests involving connected-shopping attribution data processed by partners such as impact.com or Instacart, contact us at support@pantryandplate.app and we will coordinate with the relevant provider where required.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.