🍲 Privacy Policy

The “What to Cook?” app (Slovak: “Čo variť?”) · effective from 26 October 2026

This policy explains what data the “What to Cook?” app (the “app”) processes, why, and how you can have it deleted. You can contact the operator of the app by e-mail at covarit@gaming.sk.

Using the app without an account

You can use the app without signing in. Your recipes, ingredient list and meal calendar are then stored only on your phone and are not sent anywhere. The app only downloads the public recipe database.

What data we process if you create an account

• E-mail address and password – to sign you in. The password is stored only in encrypted (hashed) form.
• Your recipes, meal calendar, notes and shopping list items – so they can be shared with the members of your household.
• Your name – the name you enter in your profile or when joining a household; other household members can see it, and it appears as the author of recipes you share.
• Recipe photos – only the ones you add yourself (taken with the camera or picked from your gallery).
• Recipe ratings, recipes you propose for the public database, and feedback you send us from the app.
• A record of AI use – the time of the request, the AI model used and its cost, so we can keep to the daily limit and control costs.

We do not collect your location, contacts, advertising identifiers or payment data. The app contains no ads and no third-party tracking tools.

Usage statistics

To learn which features are worthwhile, the app adds one use to a daily total for selected features (such as cooking mode or the meal plan). These totals contain nothing about you or your phone and cannot be linked to a specific person. If you have an account, we also store the days you opened the app, the app version and the language, so we can see how many people use the app.

Camera and photos

The app asks for access to the camera and gallery only when you want to add a photo to a recipe or a shopping list item. It does not access any other photos on your phone.

Notifications

If you turn on the daily reminder or cooking timers, the app schedules notifications on your phone. No data is sent anywhere for this.

If notifications are allowed, we may occasionally send you news about the app. For this we store a technical address of your phone (an Expo token) and the app language; the messages are delivered by Expo and Google. You can turn these off in your phone settings (Apps → What to Cook? → Notifications → App news).

AI features

When you use an AI feature (recipe ideas from your ingredients, ingredient substitutions, a weekly meal plan, nutrition estimates, importing a recipe from a link or finding a recipe online), the information needed for it – for example your list of ingredients, the recipe, a web page address or a note you write – is sent to the Claude service by Anthropic, which returns the result. Your e-mail address and other data about you are not sent.

Where the data is stored

Account data is stored in the Supabase service (database and photo storage, servers in the EU). All transfers are encrypted (HTTPS). We do not sell your data or share it with third parties for marketing.

How long we keep the data

We keep your data for as long as you have an account. Records of AI use serve only the daily limit and cost overview. When you delete your account, we delete your data.

Your rights and deleting your account

You have the right to access, correct and delete your data. How to delete your account and data is described on the Delete account page. If you feel we are not handling your data correctly, you can also contact the Office for Personal Data Protection of the Slovak Republic or the data protection authority in your country.

Children

The app is not intended for children under 16.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will publish the updated version on this page.