Privacy policy

Who we are

Family Menu (“we”) is a family meal-planning app and this website, familymenuapp.com. This page explains what personal data the app stores, why, and what you can do about it. Questions: [email protected].

What the app stores

To work, Family Menu keeps the following about you and your family:

• Account: your email address, your name, and your password in hashed form, or the identifier Apple or Google gives us when you sign in with them.
• Family members: each member’s name, role (adult or child), photo or avatar, and the family’s shared photo. A child’s profile is created by an adult in the family; the child then connects to it with a member code, using their own account. For children we store only a first name, an avatar colour and an optional photo. No email is needed.
• Meals and ratings: the meals your family adds (name, preparation time, photo, ingredients, recipe steps and recipe link) and each member’s ratings.
• Photos you upload: member, family and meal photos.
• Push tokens: a device token from Apple or Google, used only to send you notifications such as a reminder to add meals. You can turn notifications off in your device settings.
• Technical data: your IP address and request logs, kept briefly to keep the service secure and to limit abuse.

How we use it

We use this data only to run the app: to sign you in, show your family’s meals, suggest a dinner everyone will eat, send the emails and notifications the app needs, and keep the service secure. We do not sell your data, show ads, or use analytics or advertising trackers. This website sets no cookies.

Who else handles it

We use service providers to run Family Menu: a hosting provider for our servers, Cloudflare for delivering this website, Amazon SES for sending email, and Apple and Google for push notifications and sign-in. They process data only on our behalf. When you share a menu or an invite link, anyone with that link can see what it shows.

Keeping and deleting your data

We keep your data while your account exists. You can delete your own account in the app. Your account and personal details are then removed, while the family’s shared meals and scores stay for the rest of the family. To have data removed in other cases, write to us.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of your data, to correct it, or to delete it, and you can complain to your data protection authority. Write to [email protected] and we will answer within 30 days.

Children

Family Menu is meant for families. A child’s profile is created by an adult in the family, who is responsible for it; the child connects to it with a member code. For children we store only a first name, an avatar colour and an optional photo, and nobody receives marketing. When you create your own account you confirm that you are 16 or older.

Changes

If we change this policy we will update the date above and, for material changes, tell you in the app.