Privacy Policy

• Identifiers. Your account ID and a random ID for your app install, used to sync your data between devices and resolve conflicts. They are not advertising identifiers.
• Technical and diagnostic data. App version, request IDs, error codes, response times, and usage counts, used to keep the Service working and enforce fair-use limits. Meal Map diagnostics are minimized to timing, failure codes, and coverage signals, and never include your body measurements or raw private plan content.

We do not use advertising or third-party analytics tools, we do not read your contacts or Apple Health data, and we never use your location in the background.

• Provide the Service: recommendations, Search, Meal Map, Cookbook, pantry, Ask Chef, and Community.
• Sync your data across your devices while you are signed in.
• Keep Aptiva safe: moderate published content, prevent abuse, and enforce our Terms of Service.
• Respond to support requests and send messages about your account.
• Fix bugs and improve features using minimized technical data.

We do not sell your personal information, share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, or use it to track you across other companies’ apps or websites.

Ask Chef, dictation, photo questions, and recipe writing help use Google’s Gemini API. They are available only if you are 18 or older, based on the birth year you gave at sign-up; for younger users they are turned off and nothing is sent to Google. The app asks for your permission before you first use them. When you use one:

• Ask Chef sends your question, the recent conversation, your food preferences, pantry item names, the catalog recipes that fit your preferences, and a short summary of your current meal plan if you have one. Your height, weight, and birth date are not sent.
• Photo questions send the photo you attach, for that question only. We do not store the photo.
• Dictation sends your audio clip to be transcribed. Only the resulting text is kept.
• Recipe help sends the recipe text you are working on.
• Ask Chef on the map sends your question, the recent conversation on that map, the recipe and dish, the listed restaurants’ names, categories, addresses, websites, distances, travel times, and dish-answer counts, and the allergies, diet, and goal you declared. It never sends your coordinates. Gemini may use Google Search to look up menus and other public pages about those restaurants, and the reply shows the pages and searches it used.

These requests pass through Aptiva’s server, which knows your account so it can apply usage limits. We do not send your name, email address, or account ID to Google. Google processes this information under the Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy. AI answers can be wrong and are not medical advice.

Links out of the app. If you tap a Walmart shopping link, Walmart receives the ingredient or product you chose. Some of these links are affiliate links, so Aptiva may earn a commission. Your allergies, diet, and account details are never sent. If you open a YouTube video, YouTube’s own policies apply. Recipe videos and photo tutorial pages come from third-party sites and load inside the app, where those sites’ own privacy policies apply. Restaurant search is subject to the Apple Privacy Policy.

If Aptiva is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, information may transfer to the new owner, who must keep honoring this Policy.

• Private by default. Your preferences, Meal Map details, pantry, activity, Ask Chef chats, and draft recipes are visible only to you.
• When you publish a recipe or review, other Aptiva users can see it with your display name and avatar color. Reviews and their photos appear only after they pass moderation.
• Friends can see your display name, avatar color, when you became friends, and, if you turn on weekly sharing, how many meals you cooked this week. They never see your allergies, diet, pantry, or searches.

• We keep your information while your account is active.
• When you delete your account, we delete your account, synced data, Ask Chef history, recipes, reviews, and review photos right away, and remove your published content from Community.
• A minimal, de-identified record that consent was given and that content was moderated may be kept for up to 90 days, then deleted.
• Recipes you delete are permanently removed after 30 days.
• Backups kept by our hosting provider expire on their normal rotation.
• Your location, restaurant search areas, and the restaurants Apple returns are not received or stored by Aptiva. Dish answers stay with your account until you delete it.

• Access and export. Profile, Settings, Account and sync, Export my cloud data.
• Correct. Edit your preferences and Meal Map details in the app at any time.
• Delete. Delete individual recipes and reviews, or your whole account from Profile, Settings, Delete account.
• Permissions. Camera, microphone, photos, and location are requested only when you use a feature that needs them. Turn them off any time in iOS Settings.
• AI memory. Turn off, remove, or clear what Ask Chef remembers from its Memory controls.

Depending on where you live, including California and other US states, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of your information, to limit the use of sensitive information, and to appeal our decision on your request. Email iamdavidchen0@gmail.com and we will respond within the time the law requires. We will not treat you differently for using these rights.

Information is encrypted in transit. Your sign-in session is stored encrypted on your device with a key kept in the iOS Keychain. Database rules restrict your data on our servers to your account. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a strong, unique password.

Aptiva is for people 13 and older, and people under 18 need a parent or guardian’s permission. We ask for your birth year when you sign up. Ask Chef and the other AI features are only for people 18 and older; if you are younger, they stay off and none of your information is sent to our AI provider. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, email us and we will delete it.

If we make a material change, we will update the effective date above and tell you in the app before the change takes effect.

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