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Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 1, 2026

Who We Are

Foodie is made by Chewable AS, a company registered in Norway. Chewable AS is the data controller for the personal data described in this policy. You can reach us at [email protected].

Information We Collect

  • Account: your email address and name from Sign in with Apple. If you choose "Hide My Email", we only see Apple's relay address.
  • Recipes and lists: recipes you save, write or import, shopping lists, meal plans, ratings and cooking history.
  • Food preferences: the diet, allergies, intolerances and cooking goals you enter. Allergy information can be health data; you choose whether to give it.
  • AI chat: your messages, and short notes the assistant saves about your tastes ("memories") so later answers fit you. You can see and delete them in the app.
  • Voice: when you use the mic or voice cooking, your audio is sent for processing. We do not store recordings.
  • Photos: photos you import to turn into a recipe.
  • Household: if you share a household, its members see its recipes, lists and who changed what.
  • Subscription: your subscription status and purchase history, from Apple through RevenueCat. We never see your payment details.
  • Device: a push notification token, if you allow notifications.

How We Use AI

Chat, recipe import, voice cooking, step explanations and ingredient substitutes use AI. To answer you, Foodie sends what you type or say, the photos you import, and your food preferences and allergies to OpenAI or Google. The app asks for your permission before the first time. AI answers can be wrong: they are not medical, nutrition or allergy advice, and you should always check ingredient labels.

Connected AI Apps (ChatGPT, Claude)

Foodie has an MCP server that lets you connect your own AI app, such as ChatGPT or Claude. Foodie shares your data with a connected AI app only after you sign in with Apple and approve it. The connected AI app can then read and change your recipes, meal plans and shopping list when you ask it to.

What the AI app does with that data falls under its own provider's privacy terms (OpenAI for ChatGPT, Anthropic for Claude). Foodie never sends your data to them on its own.

You can disconnect an app at any time in the Foodie app under Settings, ChatGPT & Claude. Disconnecting takes effect at once. Read the connection guide.

Third-Party Services

We do not sell your personal data. These services process it for us:

  • OpenAI (USA): chat, recipe import from text and photos, voice transcription, step explanations, substitutes and the embeddings behind chat memories.
  • Google Gemini (USA): voice cooking. Your audio goes from your phone straight to Google.
  • Brave Search: web and restaurant searches the chat makes. It receives the search terms, not your account.
  • Jina AI, and YouTube (Google): the address of a recipe page or video you import, to read it.
  • Apple: Sign in with Apple, App Store purchases, and push notifications.
  • RevenueCat (USA): subscription status and purchase history.
  • Expo (USA): delivers push notifications. It receives your push token and the notification text.
  • Cloudflare: sits in front of our servers and the recipe image store for speed and security.

Our API, database and images run on servers we operate. When data goes to a provider outside the EEA, we rely on the EU standard contractual clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

Legal Basis & Your Rights

We process your account, recipe, list and subscription data to provide the service you signed up for. We send your data to AI providers, and process allergy information, based on the permission you give in the app. We keep diagnostic logs based on our legitimate interest in keeping Foodie secure and working.

You have the right to access, correct, export and delete your personal data, to object to or restrict its processing, and to withdraw your permission at any time. Withdrawing permission does not affect processing that already happened. To use these rights, email us at [email protected]. You can also complain to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) or to the data protection authority where you live.

Data Retention

We keep your data until you delete your account. We do not keep voice recordings. AI providers keep what we send them only as their API terms allow, for example up to 30 days for abuse monitoring at OpenAI. Server logs are kept for a limited time and then deleted.

Account Deletion

You can delete your account in the app under Settings. This deletes your email, name, food preferences and allergies, chat memories, cooking history, ratings and usage records, removes you from your households, ends your Sign in with Apple link and deletes your RevenueCat record. Recipes and lists you shared in a household stay with that household. Deleting your account does not cancel an App Store subscription; cancel it in your iPhone settings.

Children's Privacy

Foodie is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data. If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact us and we will delete it.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS). Access to our servers is restricted, and each request is checked against your account. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your data.

Changes to This Policy

If we change this policy, we update it here and change the date at the top. For important changes we will also tell you in the app.

Contact Us

Questions about this policy or your data: [email protected].