Pantry Kitchen Journal Privacy Policy

Pantry Kitchen Journal ("Pantry") is made by TAKE INTEREST Inc. This policy covers the Pantry iOS app. The short version: your kitchen data stays yours. Receipts, pantry items, recipes, and cooking history stay on your device or in your own private iCloud. Signing in is optional and adds only the account information described below. Current diagnostics include Sentry crash reports and Mixpanel usage analytics for a short, fixed list of product actions. If a future release adds advertising, tracking, additional analytics, or other data uses, we will update this policy and the App Store privacy label before that release ships.

What the app does with your information

Pantry reads the grocery receipts you photograph or import and turns them into a kitchen inventory with shelf-life estimates and recipe options. All of that processing happens on your device, using Apple's on-device text recognition. Your receipts, items, and consumption history never reach us or any third party.

Syncing

If your device is signed into iCloud, Pantry stores its data in your private iCloud database so your kitchen syncs across your own devices. That data is controlled by your Apple account, protected by Apple's iCloud security, and readable only by you. TAKE INTEREST Inc. cannot access it. If iCloud is off, everything simply stays on your device.

Accounts (optional)

You can use all of Pantry without an account. If you choose to sign in with Apple or Google, the app sends the provider sign-in token to a TAKE INTEREST verification service. That service checks the token is genuine and sends back a confirmation. The token carries no kitchen data, and the service stores nothing. We receive your verified email address, and your name if the provider shares it. Your account record lives on your device in the iOS Keychain. It never enters iCloud Keychain, and it never reaches our servers.

You can sign out, or delete your account, inside the app at any time (Account > Delete account). Deleting removes the account record from your device. Skipping sign-in changes nothing about the rest of the app.

What we collect

Kitchen content: we do not collect your receipts, pantry items, recipes, consumption history, grocery habits, or household content.

Account data: if you sign in, we process your verified email address and optional name only for account sign-in.

Diagnostics (on by default, one tap to turn off)

Two helpers are on by default so we can fix crashes and see which features help. Turn either off any time from your Profile page or Settings > Privacy choices. Turning one off stops it immediately and your choice sticks.

Crash reports send a technical stack trace when the app crashes, so we can fix the bug. Usage analytics counts a short, fixed list of actions, like receipt captured or recipe generated. Diagnostics do not include receipt text, item names, recipe content, email addresses, names, household names, location, advertising identifiers, or IP-based geolocation. Events outside the fixed list are dropped before they leave the device.

These use two service providers (Sentry for crashes, Mixpanel for counts). Each receives only what this section describes.

Network connections: Pantry connects to Apple's iCloud for your private sync, to the TAKE INTEREST verifier for optional sign-in, and to Sentry and Mixpanel for diagnostics while those switches are on. The current release does not send data to advertising networks. Future advertising, tracking, additional analytics, or other data uses must be disclosed here and in the App Store privacy label before they are enabled.

Notifications

If you enable the weekly digest, the notification is scheduled locally on your device. We never see it.

Deleting your data

Delete items in the app any time. Delete your account inside the app (Account > Delete account). Deleting the app removes its on-device data. To remove synced data, delete Pantry's data from iCloud in Settings on your device (Settings > your name > iCloud > Manage Account Storage).

Children

Pantry is not directed to children under 13. If we learn that we collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete it.

Changes

If a future version of Pantry changes these practices, including by adding advertising, tracking, additional analytics, new account features, or new data sharing, we will update this policy and the app's App Store privacy label before that version ships.

Contact

TAKE INTEREST Inc.
support@takeinterest.ai