1. Introduction
Pantry Cook ("we", "us", "our", or "Company") operates the Pantry Cook application. This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our service and the choices you have associated with that data.
2. Information Collection and Use
We collect different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our service to you.
2.1 Types of Data Collected:
- Account Information: When you create an account, we collect your email address and authentication credentials through Firebase Authentication.
- Pantry and Recipe Data: Information about your pantry items, recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists that you voluntarily enter into the application.
- Device Information: Technical data such as device type, operating system, and app version for troubleshooting and analytics.
- Feedback Data: When you submit feedback or bug reports, we collect this information to help us improve the application.
2.2 Storage Locations:
- Cloud Storage: Your account data and pantry information are stored for synchronization. We do not sell, trade, or rent this data.
- Feedback and bug reports are processed and stored temporarily for our response purposes.
3. Use of Data
We use the collected data for the following purposes:
- To provide, maintain, and improve our service
- To notify you about changes to our service
- To respond to your inquiries and provide customer support
- To gather analysis or valuable information to improve the Service
- To monitor the usage of our service
- To detect, prevent, and address technical and security issues
4. How We Disclose Personal Information
We may share personal information with third-party service providers who help us provide, maintain, and improve our service. These third parties include:
- Google: Cloud storage, authentication, and analytics services for user accounts and pantry data
We may also disclose personal information when required by law, to protect our legal rights, prevent fraud, or protect the safety and security of our service and its users.
We may share aggregated or anonymized information for any purpose. This means the information we share does not identify specific individuals and cannot be linked back to you.
5. Your Privacy Choices
You have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Access: You can access and review the personal information we maintain about you through your account settings
- Correct: You can correct or update inaccurate personal information through your account settings
- Delete: You can request deletion of your personal information at any time or delete your account in your profile section. Upon account deletion, we will permanently remove your data from our servers within 30 days.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at legal@pantrycook.app
6. Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide our service and fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. When you delete your account, we will permanently remove your data from our active servers within 30 days, except where we are required to retain information by law or regulation.
Cached or backup copies of your data may take additional time to be fully removed from our systems.
7. Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
We recommend that you:
- Choose a strong, unique password for your account
- Do not share your password or login credentials with others
- Turn on two-factor authentication (2FA) from the settings
- Keep your device and application up to date
8. Automatic Data Collection
In addition to information you provide directly, we automatically collect certain information about your use of our service:
- Metadata and Analytics: We may collect information about how you use our service, including IP address, device type, operating system, app version, pages visited, time spent on the app, and user actions. We use this information to improve our service and understand user behavior
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect this information
- Crash Reports: We may automatically collect information about app crashes or errors to help us improve stability and performance
9. Third-Party Links and Services
Our Service may contain links to other websites and applications that are not operated by Pantry Cook. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party sites and services, and we are not responsible for their content, privacy practices, or security measures.
We encourage you to:
- Be aware when you leave our service
- Read the privacy policies of any third-party sites before providing personal information
- Review their terms of service and data practices
Your use of third-party services is governed by their respective privacy policies and terms of service.
10. Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we discover we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will immediately delete such information from our servers.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time as we improve our service or change our practices. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the bottom of this page.
Your continued use of the Service after we post changes means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us:
- Email: legal@pantrycook.app
- In-App: Use the feedback feature in the application
We will respond to your inquiry as promptly as possible.