Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

We collect the following information when you use Dishlist.

• Account information. Your email address, your name, your username, and a user ID we assign to your account. You can also add a profile photo and a short bio.
• Content you add. Recipes, notes, Dishlists, the photos you choose to upload, your meal plan, and your grocery list.
• Connections with other people. Who you follow, the collaborators you invite, the Dishlists and recipes you share, and any reports or blocks you make.
• Purchases. If you subscribe to Dishlist Plus, your subscription status and purchase history. We never receive your card or payment details.
• How you use the app. A small set of events, such as viewing the subscription screen, buying a plan, or completing a step of onboarding, and how often you use features that have plan limits.
• Notifications. If you turn on push notifications, a token that lets us deliver them to your device.
• Support messages. Anything you send us when you ask for help.

Our servers also keep basic technical logs of the requests the app makes, which we use to keep Dishlist running and secure.

If the app crashes or hits an error, it sends a crash report so we can find and fix the problem. A report includes what went wrong in the app, your device model and system version, the app version, the steps in the app just before the error, and your Dishlist user ID. It does not include your email address, your name, or your IP address.

In the terms Apple uses on the App Store, the data Dishlist collects is: user ID, email address, name, photos, other user content, purchase history, product interaction, crash data, and other diagnostic data. All of it is linked to your account. None of it is used to track you.

Signing In and Guest Use

You can create an account with an email address and password, with Sign in with Apple, or with Google. If you use Apple or Google, we receive the name and email address that provider shares with us.

You can also try Dishlist before creating an account. A temporary guest account holds what you add during that time, and it becomes your account when you sign up.

How We Use Information

• To create and maintain your Dishlist account.
• To save, sync, display, and share your recipes and Dishlists.
• To run the features you ask for, such as recipe imports, nutrition information, and recipe photos.
• To provide Dishlist Plus and apply the right plan to your account.
• To send notifications when you choose to enable them, and emails about your account.
• To understand how the app is used so we can improve it.
• To respond to support requests and troubleshoot issues.
• To keep Dishlist safe, including checking content against our rules and acting on reports.

AI Features

Some Dishlist features use artificial intelligence provided by two companies: OpenAI and Google (Gemini). When you import a recipe, ask for nutrition information, or generate a recipe photo, we send the content needed for that request to those providers. Depending on the feature, that can be recipe text, photos you select, public recipe links, and ingredient lists.

Dishlist asks for your permission before the first time you use one of these features. You can turn AI processing on or off at any time with the AI recipe tools switch in Settings. Please avoid including private personal information in content you send to these features.

AI results can be inaccurate. Check imported recipes, quantities, and nutrition figures before you rely on them.

Other uses of these providers

Two things happen automatically and are not controlled by that switch. To help keep objectionable content off Dishlist, the text and photos you add are checked by OpenAI's automated moderation service. And when items on your grocery list look like duplicates, the text of those items may be sent to OpenAI so they can be combined correctly.

Importing From Social Media

When you share a public TikTok, Instagram, or Facebook post to Dishlist, we fetch that post through a service called ScrapeCreators, and the AI providers named above read it to extract the recipe. If the post includes a video, the video is downloaded only temporarily and deleted after processing. Dishlist does not store or redistribute it.

Nutrition Information

Nutrition figures are worked out by looking up a recipe's ingredients in USDA FoodData Central, a public food database run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The figures are estimates.

Subscriptions

Dishlist Plus is purchased through Apple, using your Apple account. Apple handles the payment, and we never see your card details. We use a service called RevenueCat to process your subscription status and purchase history, so the app knows which plan you are on.

Analytics, Advertising, and Tracking

The usage events described above are tied to your account and sent only to Dishlist's own server. Crash reports go to Sentry and are used only to fix problems. Dishlist contains no third-party analytics or advertising software, shows no ads, and does not track you across other companies' apps or websites.

What Other People Can See

Your profile, your public Dishlists, and the recipes in them can be seen and searched by other Dishlist users. Private and shared Dishlists are visible only to you and the people you invite.

Other people can save their own copy of a recipe they are able to see. A copy belongs to the person who saved it.

Sharing and Service Providers

We do not sell your personal information. We share information with the companies below only so they can provide their services to Dishlist.

• Supabase: accounts and sign-in, our database, and photo storage.
• Railway: hosting for the Dishlist server.
• Expo: delivery of push notifications.
• Resend: account emails, such as confirming your address or resetting your password.
• RevenueCat: subscription status and purchase history.
• OpenAI: AI features and automated content moderation.
• Google: AI features (Gemini).
• ScrapeCreators: fetching the public social media posts you choose to import.
• Sentry: crash and error reports.

Apple and Google also process information when you use them to sign in, and Apple when you subscribe. We may disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect the safety of Dishlist and the people who use it.

Data Retention and Deletion

We keep your information for as long as you have an account. You can delete your account at any time from Settings in the app. Deleting your account permanently removes your profile, the Dishlists you own, the recipes you created, and your photos from our active systems, subject to limited backups or legal retention requirements.

A small number of records that no longer carry your name or email address may be kept, such as a note that the account was deleted and totals of feature usage. Copies of your recipes that other people saved to their own accounts are not removed. Deleting your account does not cancel a Dishlist Plus subscription, and Apple and RevenueCat keep their own records of purchases.

Your Choices

• You can update your account information in the app.
• You can choose who can see each Dishlist.
• You can turn AI processing on or off in Settings.
• Push notifications are optional. You can turn them off in Dishlist or in your device settings.
• You can manage or cancel Dishlist Plus in your Apple account settings.
• You can delete your account from the Settings screen.
• You can contact us to ask questions about your information.

Children

Dishlist is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the date above and post the revised policy on this page.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at support@dishlists.app.