The short version: Trivet does not collect your personal data. Your recipes, photos, cookbooks, plans, and grocery lists are stored on your device. If a future update adds iCloud sync, it will use only your own iCloud account. We have no servers that hold your recipes, no analytics that identify you, no advertising, and we never sell data. Our App Privacy label reads Data Not Collected.
Who we are
Trivet is made by Handler Labs LLC, the data controller for any processing described here. You can reach us at [email protected] with any privacy question, and a postal mailing address is available on request.
What stays on your device
Everything you create in the app lives in a local database on your iPhone: recipes, ingredients, steps, photos, cookbooks, tags, meal plans, grocery lists, and your settings. If a future update adds iCloud sync, that data will move through Apple's CloudKit to your own private iCloud account only. Either way, we cannot see it, and it never touches a server we control.
The import service
When you import a recipe from a web link, the app may send that link to a small import service we run. The service fetches the page, extracts the recipe, and returns it to your device. It is stateless: it stores nothing about you, keeps no logs of your recipes, and does not associate requests with any identity. If you import by pasting text or scanning a photo, that happens entirely on your device and the service is not involved.
Importing from a link also means connecting to the recipe’s own website. If our import service cannot reach a page, your device fetches it directly, and when a recipe has a photo, your device downloads that photo from whatever site hosts it. Those websites receive a normal web request, including your device’s IP address, exactly as they would if you opened the page in a browser. We do not control those sites and we do not receive that information.
Purchases
If you buy Premium or Lifetime, the purchase is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see your payment details, and there is no third-party billing service in between: whether your purchase is active is read on your device from Apple's own records. Apple's terms govern the payment itself.
What we do not do
- We do not use third-party advertising or ad tracking.
- We do not use analytics that identify you. Any product metrics are coarse and anonymous.
- We do not sell, rent, or share your data.
- We do not require an account, an email, or a password.
Your rights and control
Because your data lives on your device, you control it directly. You can edit or delete any recipe at any time. You can export your entire library to a file you keep. To remove everything, delete the app, which removes the local data. Depending on where you live, you may have rights under laws such as the GDPR or the CCPA. Since we do not collect personal data, there is little for us to provide, but you can always contact us with a request.
Children
Trivet is a general-audience cooking app and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone, including children.
This website
The gettrivet.com website uses no tracking cookies and runs no advertising or analytics that identify you. Standard server logs may record basic request information for security, with no profiling.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update the date above and post the new version here. Material changes will be noted in the app where appropriate.
This page describes our practices in plain language. It is not legal advice. Privacy law varies by country and changes often.