Privacy

The short version: your dishes are yours, we do not sell them or share them with other users, and you can delete all of it from inside the app. The long version is below.

Last updated: 28 October 2026

What we store

• Your dishes: name, category, ingredients, servings and, if present, calories and carbohydrates.
• Your weekly plans and what you ate each day.
• Your shopping list, including what you tick off and what you add by hand.
• The photos you take of your dishes, and the cover of an imported recipe if you keep it with the dish.
• Your account: an identifier and, if you connect Apple, Google or GitHub, the email address and name that provider gives us. You can use the app without an account.
• Your subscription, if you have cocínala Plus: the status Apple sends us, explained below.
• Your vote (thumbs up or down) on each version's release notes, if you give one.

We do not ask for your phone number or address, and we never see your payment details: cocínala Plus is paid to Apple. The app has no advertising.

Where it lives

On Supabase, with servers in the European Union (Ireland). Every row carries your identifier, and the database enforces rules that stop one account from reading another's data. Photos go to private storage: there is no public address from which they can be viewed.

Photos and artificial intelligence

When you photograph a dish, that image is sent to OpenRouter, which routes it to the model that recognises the food, along with the names and categories of your saved dishes so it can tell you whether it is one of them. It is used for nothing else.

When you import a recipe from a link (Instagram, TikTok or a website) or paste some text, the link, the post's caption, its cover and, if needed to get the steps, its video are also sent to OpenRouter. What comes back is the recipe card, which you review before saving it.

If you ask the app to propose a dish's ingredients, its name is sent. And if you turn on "Let the AI propose it" in Weekly rules, to propose the week it sends the names of your dishes with their categories and ingredients and what you have eaten in the last few weeks, never your photos. What comes back is a proposal you can change dish by dish.

The app asks you before the first time anything is sent, and you can withdraw permission in You → Use AI with photos and recipes.

Our account is configured not to use providers that train on what is sent to them. That setting is the reason we ruled out a cheaper model that was only available by accepting the opposite.

We do not send your email address or your identifier to the model: only the image and the list of dish names.

Analytics

We use PostHog, in its European region, to learn things like how many people finish adding their dishes or how often the camera is used. Events are tied to your account identifier, not to your name or email, and never carry the content: we do not know which dishes you have or what you eat. If you delete your account, they are deleted there too.

You can turn it off: You → Share usage data.

The subscription

cocínala Plus is bought on the App Store and the payment is processed by Apple: we receive neither your card nor any payment details. When you buy, Apple receives from us the identifier of your cocínala account — not your email — so the purchase is tied to it.

What we do receive from Apple, signed by Apple, is the subscription status: the product, the purchase and expiry dates, whether it is in a grace period or has been refunded, and a transaction identifier. We keep it to know which AI allowance you are entitled to, and Apple tells us when it changes. If you delete your account, that record is detached from it; the subscription stays with your Apple account, and is cancelled or refunded with Apple.

What we do NOT do

• We do not sell or hand over your data to anyone.
• There is no advertising and no third-party trackers.
• There is no social side: no other user can see your dishes, your plan or your photos.
• This website sets no cookies and loads no analytics or third-party scripts. That is why it never asks you to accept anything.

How to delete everything

From the app: You → Account → Delete account. Your dishes, plans, shopping list, rules, profile and photos are deleted, and the account is removed. It cannot be undone and no copy is kept.

If you would rather start over without losing the account, You → Account → Delete my data empties your dishes and plans.

Children

cocínala is not directed at children under 14 and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Your rights

You can access and delete your data from within the app. For anything else — correcting something, taking it with you, or just asking — write to soporte@cocinala.app and we will reply. If you think we are getting it wrong, you can complain to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD).

Changes

If this changes, the date at the top changes. If a change affects what we do with your data, we will say so in the app.