01 · Start here
Overview
Cookette AI ("Cookette AI", "we", "us") is a mobile app that turns the ingredients you have into recipes using an AI model, and helps you plan, shop, and cook. This policy covers every version of the app distributed on Google Play.
By creating an account or using the app, you agree to the collection and use of information as described here. If you don't agree, please don't use the app.
02 · What we collect
Information we collect
We collect only what the app's features need to function. The table below groups it by category.
Name, email address, and profile photo — from Google Sign-In, or the email you register with directly.
Why: create and secure your account, and keep your subscription, cooking level and shared household available when you sign in.
Ingredients you enter, generated recipes, pantry contents, shopping lists, favorites, allergen and dietary preferences, cooking history.
Why: generate relevant recipes, track your pantry, remember what you've cooked.
A photo of a recipe or cookbook page you take with the camera or pick from your gallery, or a plain-text recipe file you import, is sent to Google's Gemini model to read and extract the recipe (title, ingredients, steps). We don't keep a copy of the photo or file on our servers once the recipe has been extracted.
Why: let you digitize a recipe from a physical book, a screenshot, or a text file instead of typing it out by hand.
Used to scan a product's barcode (EAN/UPC) in real time. The camera feed is processed on your device to read the barcode - no photo or video is captured, stored, or sent anywhere for this feature. The barcode number itself is sent to Open Food Facts to look up the product name (see third-party services).
Why: quickly add a scanned product to your pantry or shopping list. Only active while you're on the scan screen, and only if you grant camera permission.
If you pair your account with another user to form a shared household, the other member(s) of that household can see: your display name and avatar; your cooking level, saved-recipe count, and allergy list, but only if you've chosen to share each of those; the chat messages you send in the household chat; and any items you add to the household's shared shopping list, pantry, or equipment list.
Why: let people in the same household coordinate meals, shopping, and pantry stock together. Pairing is opt-in and you can leave a household at any time from Settings.
A photo you choose from your device's gallery to use as the app's background. It's copied into the app's local storage and stays on your device - it's never uploaded to our servers.
Why: personalize the app's appearance.
Crash reports, app version, device model and OS version, and device-integrity signals used to confirm requests come from a genuine copy of the app.
Why: find and fix bugs and protect the app's backend from abuse.
To keep the AI features fair and available to everyone, our server keeps short-term technical records: how many AI requests an account or device made in the last 24 hours, together with one-way scrambled (hashed) codes of the device and network connection. These codes cannot be turned back into a readable identifier. They are not used for advertising or profiling.
Why: prevent automated or excessive use of the AI features.
While the app is open, it sends a random installation code every few minutes so we can see roughly how many people are using the app at a given moment. The code is not linked to your name or account.
Why: understand overall usage and keep the service running smoothly.
When the app can't recognize an ingredient name, it may send that ingredient name and the app language, with a timestamp, so we can add it. No account details are attached.
Why: improve ingredient recognition.
If you subscribe to Premium, the purchase is handled by Google Play; we receive confirmation of your subscription status, not your payment details. If you redeem a promo code, we store which code was used on your account, together with a one-way scrambled (hashed) code of the device it was redeemed on, so that the same code can't be used again on that device. This code cannot be turned back into a readable identifier and contains no name or email.
Why: unlock Premium features and prevent a code from being used more than once.
If you use the receipt (eKasa) import, the receipt identifier you scan is sent to the Slovak Financial Administration's public service to retrieve the receipt's items. No other personal data is sent.
Why: add purchased items to your pantry without typing them in.
Advertising ID and device signals used by our ad provider to show and measure ads.
Why: fund the free tier of the app. See third-party services below.
If you tap the microphone in the chat, the app asks for microphone permission and uses your phone's built-in speech recognition service (provided by Android / Google) to turn your speech into text. Cookette AI does not record, store or upload audio. Only the recognized text is used, exactly like a typed chat message.
Why: let you dictate requests instead of typing. You can deny or revoke the permission at any time in Android settings; the rest of the app works without it.
03 · Purpose
How we use it
- Generate recipes and cooking guidance tailored to your ingredients, allergens, and preferences.
- Extract recipes from photos, cookbook pages, or text files you choose to import.
- Keep your recipes, personal pantry, shopping list, and settings on your device. They are not uploaded to our servers and are not synced between your devices.
- Let you coordinate cooking, shopping, and pantry stock with other members of a household you choose to pair with.
- Operate account features such as sign-in, subscription tier, and promo code redemption.
- Diagnose crashes and performance problems so we can fix them.
- Verify that requests to our backend come from a genuine, untampered copy of the app.
- Show and measure ads for users on the free tier.
- Communicate with you if you contact us for support.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use your data to train models we distribute outside of the app.
04 · Health-related data
Allergies & recipe accuracy
How we treat this data
Allergen and dietary information (for example, a nut or gluten allergy) is health-related data. You enter it voluntarily and we process it only on that basis. We treat it as sensitive: it is used only to filter and generate recipes for you, it is never used for ad targeting, and it is never sold or shared with advertisers. If you choose to share your allergy list with a household you've paired with, it becomes visible only to the other member(s) of that specific household, per the "Shared household" row above - it is never shown to anyone outside it.
Recipe accuracy disclaimer
Recipes are generated by an AI model based on the ingredients and allergies you enter. While the app applies allergen-safety filtering, AI-generated content can still make mistakes — for example, missing an ingredient or substitution that conflicts with your allergy. Always check ingredient labels and use your own judgment before cooking or eating, especially if you have a severe allergy or medical condition. Cookette AI is not a medical service and recipes should not be treated as medical or dietary advice. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for adverse reactions resulting from reliance on generated recipes.
Nutrition data sources
Calories and nutrients shown for recipes are approximate estimates, not laboratory values. For new recipes they are calculated from the app's own ingredient table (raw weights; cooking losses are not included and frying oil is estimated). This table was compiled by selecting entries from the public food composition databases below and adapting them (for example substitute foods for some ingredients, portion weights and rounding). Changes were made to the original data. The data is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. None of these institutions endorses Cookette AI. Nutrition values are not medical or dietary advice.
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, SR Legacy (April 2018). Public domain (CC0 1.0).
- ANSES. Ciqual French food composition table, version 2020 (published 7 July 2020), ciqual.anses.fr. Licensed under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
- © Food Data (frida.fooddata.dk), version 5.5, November 2025, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Public Health England (2021). McCance and Widdowson's The Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset (CoFID). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
05 · Processors
Third-party services
Cookette AI is built on Google's Firebase platform and Google Mobile Ads. These providers process data on our behalf, under their own privacy and security commitments.
Handles account sign-in and identity.
Stores your account, your shared household's pantry, shopping list, equipment and chat, and runs backend logic such as promo code checks and shared-household pairing.
Generates recipes from the ingredients and preferences you provide, and reads recipes out of photos or files you choose to import. Requests are sent to Google's Gemini model, either directly or through our own server (a Firebase Cloud Function), which adds safety instructions and usage limits. Your prompt content (and any recipe photo/file you submit) is processed to produce a response.
Collects crash and diagnostic reports so we can fix bugs.
Delivers app configuration; does not collect personal data.
Confirms that requests to our backend come from a genuine, unmodified copy of the app (using Google Play Integrity), to protect against abuse of our AI and account systems. Does not collect personal information about you.
Shows ads to free-tier users and uses advertising identifiers to measure and personalize them, subject to your device's ad settings.
Processes Premium subscriptions and delivers app updates. Payment details stay with Google.
Only if you use receipt import: the receipt identifier is sent to this public service to look up the receipt's items.
When you scan a product barcode, the barcode number is sent to this free, open product database to look up the product's name. No account or personal data is sent with it.
07 · Duration
Data retention
We keep account and cooking data for as long as your account is active. Household chat messages are automatically trimmed to the most recent 200 per household. Crash and diagnostic logs are retained for a limited period for debugging purposes. When you delete your account, we delete your account, your synced profile and level data, your promo code records, and your AI usage records. If you are in a shared household, deleting your account also removes you from it: your membership and household profile are deleted, and if you were its admin, that role passes to another member. Content you added to the household (shopping list, pantry, equipment, chat messages) belongs to that household and stays with its other members, but your name and account identifier are removed from it, and your chat messages are shown as sent by a "former member". If you were the only member, the household and all of its content are deleted. To remove specific items or messages, delete them before deleting your account, or contact us and we will help. A short-term block placed on an account or device because of abuse of the AI features may be kept so that it can't be bypassed by deleting an account. We may keep limited data where required by law.
08 · Control
Your rights & choices
Access & export
Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Correction
Update your profile and preferences directly in the app's Settings.
Deletion
Delete your account and associated data from the app, or by contacting us.
Household pairing
Leave a shared household at any time from Settings - your data stops being visible to the other member(s) going forward.
Ad personalization
Limit ad tracking in your device's system settings (Settings → Privacy → Ads).
If you're in the EEA, UK, or a region with similar laws, these correspond to your rights under GDPR (access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection). If you're a California resident, they correspond to your rights under the CCPA/CPRA. To exercise any of them, contact us using the details below. You can also lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority (in Slovakia: Úrad na ochranu osobných údajov SR).
09 · Age
Children's privacy
Cookette AI is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, contact us and we will delete it.
10 · Protection
Security
We use industry-standard safeguards provided by Firebase — including encryption in transit, access-controlled cloud storage, and Firebase App Check's device-attestation checks on our backend — to protect your information. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we work to protect your data using commercially reasonable means.
11 · Location
International transfers
Your information may be processed and stored on Google Cloud / Firebase infrastructure located outside your own country. Google maintains appropriate safeguards for these transfers under its own compliance programs.
12 · Updates
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as the app evolves. Material changes will be reflected by updating the effective date at the top of this page, and, where required, we'll notify you in the app.
13 · Reach us
Contact
Questions about this policy, or requests about your data, can be sent directly to the developer: