Privacy Policy
Without an account, everything you enter in Plate & Kettle stays on your phone. Sign in, and your history syncs to Plate & Kettle's server so it can follow you to another phone. The AI features send the question, photo or recipe you give them to Anthropic, the company that makes the Claude model, and the answer comes back to you.
Plate & Kettle never sells your data, never shares it for advertising, and has no advertising partners. Delete My Account removes your data from the phone and the server.
- Who we are
- On your phone
- What leaves your phone
- Apple Health
- This website
- How long we keep it
- Your rights
- Children
- Security
- Changes
Plate & Kettle makes the app and runs this site
Plate & Kettle is a meal-prep, food-logging and training app for iPhone, with a companion web version. "We" and "us" mean Plate & Kettle. Write to privacy@plateandkettle.com with any question about your data, and a person will answer.
Much of what you log in a nutrition and training app counts as consumer health data under laws in Washington, Nevada and other states. Our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy covers that data on its own, as those laws require.
Everything you enter starts on your phone
The app saves what you enter on your phone first. With no account, data leaves the phone only when you use a feature that needs another service, such as a barcode lookup or an AI question.
| What | Examples | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| Your profile | Age, sex, height, weight, activity level, goal, calorie and protein targets | Your phone; our server if you sign in |
| Your food log | Foods, portions, meals, times, favorites, saved meals | Your phone; our server if you sign in |
| Body and day records | Weigh-ins, measurements, steps, water, day notes such as sick or traveling | Your phone; our server if you sign in |
| Training | Sessions, sets, weights, reps, reps in reserve, cardio, templates | Your phone; our server if you sign in |
| Your kitchen | Pans and containers, pantry, recipes, menus, shopping lists, cooked batches | Your phone; our server if you sign in |
| Progress photos | Photos you attach to a weigh-in | Your phone only |
| Timers and reminders | A running cook session, rest timers, Lock Screen state, notification times | Your phone only |
Data leaves your phone only for a feature you use
| Recipient | What they receive | When |
|---|---|---|
| Plate & Kettle's server, hosted by Supabase in the United States | Your email address, your name if you give one, your Sign in with Apple identifier, and your saved history, minus progress photos and timers | Once you sign in, a few seconds after each change |
| Anthropic, which runs the Claude model behind the AI features | The question you ask plus the numbers it needs to answer (your targets, what you've eaten that day, recent training and your trend weight); or the plate, label, shelf or receipt photo you take; or the recipe text or link you paste | Only when you use Ask Your Coach, photo reading, recipe import, menu building or Plan My Week |
| Open Food Facts, a public food database | The barcode number you scan | When you scan a barcode we haven't already saved on your phone |
| Kroger | Your chosen store and the ingredient names on your list; with your Kroger sign-in, the items for your basket | When you price a list at Kroger or send it to a Kroger basket |
| Instacart | Your shopping list | When you hand the list to Instacart |
| Apple | Your sign-in request; the audio of a spoken food entry where your phone can't transcribe it on the device; purchase records | When you use Sign in with Apple, voice logging, or buy a subscription through the App Store |
Anthropic's commercial terms bar it from training its models on what Plate & Kettle sends, and it keeps requests only for the limited period those terms allow for safety and abuse review. Plate & Kettle's AI service keeps no copy of your questions, photos or answers. It does keep a count of how many AI requests your account made that day, to apply the daily limit.
Kroger, Instacart and Apple are separate companies, and their own privacy policies govern what you do in their services.
We would also disclose data if a valid legal order required it, and we would tell you first unless the law forbids it.
What we never do
- Sell your data, or share it for targeted or cross-context advertising.
- Give or sell it to data brokers.
- Track you across other companies' apps and websites.
- Use your health data for anything other than running the features you use.
Apple Health data is read, never written, and never used for marketing
With your permission, Plate & Kettle reads four types of data from Apple Health: workouts, active energy, weigh-ins and steps. On Android, the same four come from Health Connect. They keep your training and trend line current without double entry.
Plate & Kettle never writes to Apple Health or Health Connect. Data from either one is never used for advertising or marketing, never sold, and and shared only with the services that run a feature you use. You can turn off access at any time in the Health app's settings.
plateandkettle.com sets no cookies and runs no analytics
This website keeps no record of who visits it beyond the standard server logs our web host, GoDaddy, writes for every request (your IP address, the page asked for, the time and your browser type). GoDaddy keeps those logs for a limited period to run and secure the server.
If you join the beta, we keep the email address you give us, the time you gave it and which form you used. We use it only to send your TestFlight invite and to tell you about the beta. Ask us to remove it and we will.
The site's fonts and images come from plateandkettle.com itself, so loading a page sends nothing to any other company. A light or dark mode choice is saved in your own browser and never sent to us.
How long we keep it
- On your phone: until you delete it, delete the app, or tap Erase Everything.
- On our server: for as long as your account exists. Delete My Account removes it at once, and backup copies clear within 30 days.
- AI requests: Plate & Kettle keeps none. The day's request count resets at midnight.
- Beta sign-up emails: until the beta ends or you ask us to remove yours.
You can see, export, correct and delete your data
- See and export it: Export Everything in Settings writes your whole history to one file. You can also email us for a copy of what's on our server.
- Correct it: edit any entry in the app, or ask us.
- Delete it: Delete My Account in Settings, or email us.
- Withdraw permission: sign out to stop sync, stop using the AI features, or turn off Health access in the Health app.
- Appeal: if we turn down a request, reply to our answer and ask us to reconsider. If we still say no, you can complain to your state attorney general.
We answer every request within 45 days, and we won't charge you or treat you differently for making one. Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, Virginia, Washington and other states with privacy laws have these rights by law, and we give them to everyone.
Plate & Kettle is for people 13 and older
We don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 13. If we learn that we have, we delete it. Users from 13 to 17 should have a parent's permission, and Plate & Kettle shouldn't be used to run a calorie deficit for anyone under 18 without a doctor's guidance.
Security
Everything sent between the app and our server travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS). Our database encrypts stored data, and row-level security lets each account read and write only its own records. Passwords are handled by our authentication provider and stored only as salted hashes. The keys for Anthropic and our database live on the server and never ship inside the app.
No system is perfectly secure. If your health data is ever accessed without your permission, we'll tell you by email and in the app within 60 days of finding out, as the Federal Trade Commission's Health Breach Notification Rule requires.
Plate & Kettle is offered in the United States
The app is available on the United States App Store, and our server and providers store data in the United States.
Changes
If we change this policy in a way that affects data we already hold, the app will ask for your agreement before the change applies to it. Smaller changes appear here with a new effective date.