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Meals at Home  •  Last updated

The short version

1 Information we collect

Meals at Home is a meal-planning app. It doesn't have user accounts, and it doesn't run a server that stores your household's information. Here's exactly what exists, and where.

Information you provide, kept on your device

When you use the app, the following is saved locally on your phone (via standard on-device storage), and is never transmitted to us:

  • Household member names/avatars, dietary restrictions, and dislikes you enter during setup
  • Your weekly meal plans, current and previous
  • Your cooking history — which dishes you've made and when
  • Ratings and recipe links you attach to dishes

We — the people who make this app — never see this information. It's not uploaded, backed up to our servers, or accessible to us in any form.

Anonymous usage analytics

We use Aptabase, a privacy-focused analytics provider, to understand which features people actually use. This is limited to:

  • A randomly generated install identifier — not your name, email, or device ID, and not linked to any account, because there is no account
  • Event names like "app opened," "meal planned," or "week shared" — never the actual dish names, notes, or household details you entered
  • Basic technical context: app version, OS name/version, and general locale
In practice: we can tell that people plan meals often and share weeks occasionally. We cannot tell what anyone cooked, who they cooked it for, or who they are.

The Pro waitlist form

If you choose to join the Pro waitlist, the app opens an external form (hosted by Tally) in your browser. Anything you submit there — like an email address — is collected by Tally on our behalf and is governed by Tally's own privacy policy, not this one.

2 How we use information

The anonymous analytics events described above are used only to:

  • Understand which features are actually useful, and which aren't
  • Find and fix bugs and crashes
  • Decide what to build next

We do not use this information for advertising, profiling, or any purpose beyond improving the app.

3 Sharing & third parties

We do not sell your information. We don't have any to sell — it lives on your device, not ours. The only outside parties involved are:

  • Aptabase — processes the anonymous usage events described in Section 1
  • Tally — processes the Pro waitlist form, only if you choose to open it
  • Apple / Google — your app store handles the download and, on iOS, its own app-level privacy disclosures

We do not work with advertising networks, and we do not share data with anyone for marketing purposes.

4 Storage & retention

Your household data, meal plans, and cooking history are stored using your device's standard local app storage. They stay on your device for as long as the app is installed, and are permanently deleted when you uninstall it — we have no copy to retain.

Anonymous analytics events are retained by Aptabase in line with their own data retention practices, and are not linked back to you individually.

5 Your choices & rights

Because your household and meal data never leave your device, you're always in control of it directly in the app — edit or delete it in My Home & History any time, or uninstall the app to remove all of it at once.

If you're a California resident, the CCPA gives you the right to know what personal information a business collects and to request its deletion. As described above, we don't collect personal information tied to an identifiable person in the first place — the analytics we do receive are anonymous by design, so there generally isn't a "your data" record for us to locate or delete. If you believe we hold identifiable information about you, contact us using the details in Section 9 and we'll look into it.

6 Children's privacy

Meals at Home is intended for general audiences and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will address it.

7 Security

Because your data stays on your device, its security is primarily tied to your device's own protections (passcode, encryption, etc.) — we'd recommend keeping those enabled. Where we do transmit anonymous analytics events, we rely on our provider's standard security practices. No method of storage or transmission is 100% secure, and we can't guarantee absolute security.

8 Changes to this policy

If we change what we collect or how we use it, we'll update this page and revise the "Last updated" date at the top. If a change is significant, we'll make a reasonable effort to bring it to your attention in the app.

9 Contact us

Questions about this policy or how Meals at Home handles information? Reach out here.