Privacy Policy

Tafelo is an app for recipes, weekly menus and cooking. Tafelo is responsible for processing your data and collects as little as possible. This page explains what data the app uses, where it goes and what you can choose yourself. Questions? Email hello@tafelo.app.

On your iPhone and in your iCloud

Your recipes, photos, menus, shopping lists, cooking history, chat conversations and settings are stored on your iPhone. If iCloud sync is on, they are synced through your own private iCloud (Apple CloudKit). We cannot see this data.

Smart features (recipes, photos, menus, chat)

When you use a smart feature, the app sends the content it needs to our server: for example a recipe text, a photo or link you share, your chat question, a short summary of your recipe titles, your dietary preferences, language and region. Our server forwards this to an external AI service that creates the answer. The app asks for your permission before the first use.

Our server does not store this content; it is only processed to create the answer. One exception: if you ask for a recipe by the name of a dish, we keep the recipe the AI wrote for it, with only the dish name, language and region and nothing that links it to you. That way the recipe is ready straight away for the next person who asks for the same dish. Recipes from your own text, photo or link are not stored. We use the AI service under business terms: the service does not use your data to train its AI models.

Credits, security and statistics

To keep track of free credits and prevent abuse, the server stores a random installation ID and monthly counters. For Premium or purchased credits it also stores the App Store transaction ID, to verify your purchase. We use Apple DeviceCheck and App Attest to check that requests come from a genuine Tafelo app.

IP addresses are only used briefly in memory to block excessive requests and are not stored. We keep general daily figures (number of requests, errors, costs) and, per anonymous installation ID, the first and last day of use; we keep these for up to 400 days.

The app also sends, per installation ID, which parts of the app you have used at least once, only as yes/no: for example introduction completed, a suggestion chosen, a recipe saved or created (yourself, with AI or from a photo), a weekly menu created, cooking mode finished, the Premium screen viewed or notifications turned on. This shows us where the app can improve. What you cook or save is not included.

Choose together (polls)

When you create a poll, the dishes in it are stored on our server. People who vote can enter a name if they want (optional); a cookie makes sure each browser votes once. Polls close after 3 days and are deleted after 14 days.

Photos from photo services

When you search for a photo, the name of the dish (translated to English) is sent via our server to an external photo service. The chosen photo is loaded directly from that service's servers, so it sees your IP address. The photographer is credited.

Weather

With your permission, the app uses your approximate location (about one kilometre) to get today's weather from Apple Weather. Your location is not sent to our server; only a short description of the weather may be included with the daily suggestions.

For the row of popular recipes on the home screen, your device turns that location into the country and the province or state you are in. Only those names are sent to our server, never your location. The server counts per province how often dishes from our dish bank are requested, and how many different users do so through an unreadable code that changes every 30 days. The count is deleted after 60 days. Your own recipes never count.

Reminders

Shopping lists are added to Apple Reminders on your iPhone, only with your permission.

Advertising (free version)

The free version shows ads from Google AdMob. In the EU and UK the app first asks for your consent using Google's consent form; without consent, ads are not personalised. Google may collect device and advertising data; see Google's privacy policy. The app does not ask for permission to track you across other apps. Tafelo Premium has no ads.

Website statistics

On tafelo.app we count visits with an analytics tool that runs on our own server. It uses no cookies and does not store IP addresses; we only see general figures such as the number of visitors, pages viewed, country, type of device and which site you came from. This data is not shared with third parties.

Purchases

Subscriptions and credits are handled by Apple. We do not receive any payment details.

Your choices and rights

You can erase everything on your device via Profile → Privacy & Data → Erase All Data, turn off iCloud sync, or delete the app. You can withdraw permission for smart features, location, Reminders and ads at any time in the app or in your iPhone's Settings.

You have the right to access, correct and delete data about you. Because the server only holds anonymous data, we cannot always identify you; email us at hello@tafelo.app and we will help as best we can. You can also lodge a complaint with your data protection authority.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will publish the new version on this page with the date at the top.