ChefKeep — Privacy Policy
Last updated: 2 November 2026
ChefKeep helps families keep track of what is in the kitchen, cook it before it goes to waste, and eat well. ChefKeep is run by LNI, LLC ("we", "us"). This policy covers the ChefKeep app for Android and iOS and the website at chefkeep.com, and explains what happens to your data.
The short version
- Without an account, your kitchen, receipts, shopping list and preferences stay on your phone.
- With an account, they are saved to your family's ChefKeep account so everyone in your family sees the same kitchen, lists and meal plan. Only members of your family can see your family's data.
- To read receipts and answer questions, ChefKeep sends the receipt or your question to an AI provider (Anthropic's Claude). You can turn this off.
- ChefKeep has no ads, does not track you across other apps or websites, and never sells your data.
- You can delete your data and your account in the app (Profile → Manage Data) or on chefkeep.com (My Profile → Delete account).
Using ChefKeep without an account
Everything is stored on your phone in the app's own storage and removed when you uninstall ChefKeep:
- Kitchen items, with quantities, storage location, freshness dates, prices and the store they came from
- Scanned receipts, including the photo if you took one
- Your shopping list
- Your preferences: display name, diet, cooking time, excluded ingredients, reminder settings and AI settings
We cannot see any of this.
Your ChefKeep account
When you create an account or log in, we keep:
- About you: your name, email address, password (stored only as a secure hash) and profile photo if you add one.
- If you sign in with Google, Apple or Facebook: the name, email address and account ID that service shares with us, so we know it's you next time. If you choose Apple's "Hide My Email", we get Apple's relay address instead. For Sign in with Apple we also keep a token Apple gives us, to end the sign-in with Apple if you delete your account. We don't get your password or anything else from those accounts, and ChefKeep doesn't post anything.
- Shared with your family: kitchen items (with prices, the store and the store's location as printed on the receipt), the shopping list, recipes, the meal plan and who ate each meal, receipts and receipt photos, and favorite recipes. Receipt photos are private to your family.
- Subscription status: whether you have ChefKeep Pro and which plan.
Your data is kept on our servers and with our hosting and cloud storage providers, who process it only to run ChefKeep for us.
Family members and healthy-eating guidance
A family admin can add family members and, optionally, each person's birthday, relationship (for example "son"), activity level, sport, training hours and weight. ChefKeep uses these only to show healthy-eating guidance for each person, comparing published dietary guidelines with the family's meal plan. These details:
- are visible only to members of your family;
- are never sent to an AI provider, used for advertising, or shared with anyone;
- can be changed or removed at any time on the Family page.
The guidance is general information, not medical advice.
Store prices
Prices from your receipts are used to show your family's grocery spending and to compare prices between stores. The store location comes from the address printed on the receipt; ChefKeep does not use your phone's location.
What is sent to other services
AI (only when you use it)
ChefKeep uses Anthropic's Claude to:
- read a receipt you scan: the receipt photo and the text your phone recognised on it;
- tidy up item names, estimate how long food keeps and suggest recipes: the names of the foods involved;
- answer Ask ChefKeep AI: your message, with a short summary of your kitchen and preferences;
- on chefkeep.com, read a recipe you paste or save with the "Save to ChefKeep" button, and match recipe ingredients.
Your name, email and family details are not sent with these requests. ChefKeep does not keep your assistant conversations. Turn off Use AI to read receipts in Profile and receipts are read on your phone only. Test versions of the app can also use Google Gemini for the same tasks.
These providers process requests under their own terms: Anthropic (privacy policy), Google (privacy policy).
Recipe links
When you import a recipe from a link on chefkeep.com, our server visits that page to read the recipe, the same way a browser would.
Food pictures
Food and recipe pictures come from TheMealDB and Wikipedia. Those requests carry only the food name, nothing about you.
Purchases
ChefKeep Pro is bought through Google Play or the App Store. They handle the payment; ChefKeep receives a purchase receipt to confirm your subscription and never sees your payment details.
Emails and notifications
We send account emails, such as password resets. The app's reminders are scheduled on your phone. If you allow notifications on chefkeep.com, your browser's push service delivers them.
Cookies
chefkeep.com uses only the cookies it needs: to keep you logged in, protect forms, and remember settings such as kiosk mode on a shared screen. We do not use advertising or analytics cookies.
What we never do
- Sell or rent your data
- Show ads, or build an advertising profile from your groceries, meals or health details
- Track you across other apps or websites
- Ask for your contacts, precise location or microphone
Permissions, and why
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Camera | To photograph a receipt or a profile photo. Opens only when you tap. |
| Photo library | To pick a receipt or profile photo you already took. |
| Notifications | For the reminders you switch on in Profile. |
| Internet | Your account, AI requests and food pictures. |
Each one is optional. Refusing any of them leaves the rest of the app working.
Children
ChefKeep is meant for adults running a household. A parent can add children to the family and enter their details for the healthy-eating guidance; the parent manages that information and can change or remove it at any time. We do not knowingly let children under 13 create their own account.
Keeping and deleting your data
We keep your account data while your account exists.
- On your phone: Profile → Manage Data lets you delete all receipts, clear your kitchen, or remove everything ChefKeep keeps on the phone. Uninstalling ChefKeep also removes it.
- Some of your data: delete receipts, kitchen items, list items, recipes, meals and family members' details in the app or on chefkeep.com, without closing your account. See https://chefkeep.com/delete-data.
- Your account: in the app, choose Profile → Privacy & Data → Manage Data → Delete account, or log in at chefkeep.com and choose My Profile → Delete account (steps at https://chefkeep.com/delete-account). This deletes your login, profile photo, app sign-ins and the Google, Apple or Facebook sign-ins linked to it, and profiles you created. If no one else in your family has a login, the whole family and everything in it is deleted too; otherwise the family's shared kitchen, lists, recipes and meal plans stay with the others.
- For anything else, including a copy of your data or deleting a whole family, contact us at the address below.
Google Play and the App Store keep their own records of purchases.
Changes
If this policy changes materially we will update the date at the top and note it in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions, requests about your data, or concerns about this policy:
LNI, LLC · support@lnidigital.com
This policy is published at https://chefkeep.com/privacy-policy.
