Cookyard Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 9, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Cookyard handles information when you use the app. Cookyard is designed to help you manage pantry items, shopping lists, recipes, recipe imports, timers, and related AI-assisted cooking features.

Information Cookyard Handles

Information you create in the app. Cookyard stores the pantry items, shopping items, recipes, recipe ingredients, recipe steps, recipe tips, source links, thumbnails, timers, onboarding state, and certain feature-usage counters that you create or save while using the app.

Camera and photo library content. If you choose to scan pantry items or cookbook pages, Cookyard may access the camera or photos you select. Pantry photo scans may be sent for AI-assisted recognition and validation. Cookbook page images are first processed on-device for text recognition, and the extracted text may then be sent to the backend if you choose to import a recipe from those pages.

Recipe import and discovery data. If you import a recipe from a video or link, Cookyard sends the URL you provide to its backend service so the recipe can be processed. If you use recipe discovery, Cookyard sends a list of pantry ingredients and selected filters so matching recipes can be returned.

Subscription data. If you view, purchase, or restore a subscription, Cookyard uses RevenueCat and Apple to manage subscriptions. The app may receive subscription status, entitlement information, purchased product identifiers, and an app user identifier generated for subscription management.

Notification data. If you allow notifications or alarms, Cookyard schedules local alerts for recipe timers and recipe-import completion. Cookyard does not use remote push notifications in the current app implementation.

How Information Is Used

Cookyard uses the information above to operate the app's features, including saving your pantry and recipes on your device, recognizing ingredients from photos, importing recipes from videos or cookbook pages, generating or retrieving AI-assisted recipe tips, managing subscriptions, and sending local timer or import-completion alerts.

Shared Recipe Features

Recipes you add or submit through backend-powered Cookyard features, including recipe imports from links, videos, or cookbook pages, may be stored or processed as part of Cookyard's recipe processing and discovery features. This may include making recipes or recipe-derived content discoverable, usable, or savable by other Cookyard users.

Where Data Is Processed

On your device. Cookyard stores most app content locally on your device. It also performs some processing on-device, including cookbook-page OCR before text is sent for recipe import.

Backend and service providers. Some features send data off-device to operate correctly. Based on the current app implementation, these features may use a backend hosted on Google Cloud, Firebase AI Logic / Google AI for pantry-photo ingredient recognition, and RevenueCat for subscription management. Apple also processes purchase transactions and subscription billing.

Tracking and Advertising

Cookyard does not include third-party advertising SDKs in the current app implementation and does not request App Tracking Transparency permission. The app is not designed to track you across other companies' apps or websites for advertising purposes.

Data Storage

Information you save in Cookyard is stored locally on your device unless it is sent off-device for a feature you choose to use, such as pantry photo recognition, recipe discovery, recipe import, AI tips, or subscription handling. Cookyard does not currently provide an in-app account system or user cloud-sync feature in the reviewed implementation.

Cookyard does not intentionally keep pantry scan photos or cookbook page images as part of your saved app library. Instead, the app saves the results you choose to keep, such as recognized ingredients, imported recipe content, and local app state. Photos that remain in your photo library continue to be governed by Apple and your device settings.

Your Choices

You can choose whether to grant access to your camera, selected photos, notifications, and alarms. You can also delete pantry items, shopping items, recipes, and timers inside the app, and removing the app from your device will remove locally stored app data on that device. Subscription management is handled through Apple.

Children's Privacy

Cookyard is not directed to children under 13, and the app is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to This Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. If the policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this page with a revised "Last updated" date.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or Cookyard's privacy practices, please contact the developer through kofiloski.com/About.