Privacidad
Very al Dente turns recipe links and cookbook photos into recipes you can cook from. To do that, some of what you put into the app has to leave your phone. This page says exactly what leaves, where it goes, and what we never touch.
There is no account
There's no sign-up, no login, no password. On first launch the app creates an anonymous ID — a random string — and that's the only thing tying your library to you. We never ask for your name, email address, or phone number, and we have no way to find out who you are.
If you delete the app, that ID goes with it. There's no way to move a library to a new phone, and no way for us to recover one.
What we collect, and why
Recipe links you paste or share. The link goes to our server, which fetches the page and reads its text. We keep the link and the recipe we made from it.
Cookbook photos you upload. They go to our storage, and the photo itself is read by an AI model to pull the recipe out of it. Photos are kept so you can look at the original page again from inside the recipe. If you type a note alongside the upload — "only the sauce" — that note goes to the same model.
Social links — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Pinterest. We fetch the post's caption, its description, and its text transcript where one exists, and we download the cover image. We do not download, store or play the audio or the video.
Crash and performance reports, through Sentry: what went wrong, where in the code, your device model and iOS version. No personal data is attached — that's switched off explicitly.
A small set of usage events, through PostHog: which parts of the app get used, like adding a recipe, opening the ingredients, starting a timer, searching your library. Keyed to the anonymous ID, naming the feature and a recipe id but never a recipe's text. They exist to show us where people get stuck, not to build a profile. We can also play back the screens you move through. What you type is blacked out, so are photos you take, and it stops completely while you're cooking. PostHog also works out a rough country and city from the connection the event arrived on. We don't keep the connection's address, only the place it points at, and it's there so we can see where people are using the app.
The website. veryaldente.com counts visits and taps on the download button, through PostHog, so we can see which message brought people here. No cookies, and nothing that recognises you on a later visit. Your language and appearance choices are kept by your browser, not by us.
Your notification token, if you allow notifications, so we can tell you when a recipe has finished parsing.
What never leaves your phone
Your shopping list goes into Apple's Reminders app on your device. We write it once and never see it again.
Your language, theme, measurement system, where you'd got to in a recipe, and your country and shop for ingredient lookups all stay in local storage.
Recipes you've already saved are stored on the phone. That's why the app works with no connection.
Who else handles it
| Who | What they get | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Database, file storage, the anonymous ID | EU (Ireland) |
| Sentry | Crash and performance reports | EU (Germany) |
| PostHog (the website) | Visits and taps on the download button | EU |
| PostHog | A small set of usage events, the screens you move through, and a rough city | EU |
| AI providers that read and structure recipes | Recipe text, and cookbook photos | United States and China |
| Services that fetch captions, descriptions and transcripts from social posts, and search the web for a published version of a recipe | The link you shared | United States |
| Apple | The push notification itself | Apple's network |
That's the whole list. One row crosses borders: the AI that reads and structures recipes runs in the United States and in China. Everything else stays in the EU.
If you want to know exactly which company sits behind any row, email us and we'll tell you.
What we don't do
- No advertising. None, anywhere.
- No tracking you across other apps or websites. There's no advertising identifier in the app, and it never asks permission to track you — because it doesn't.
- Nothing is sold. Nothing goes to data brokers.
- No location from your phone. The app never asks for it and can't read it. The only sense we have of where you are is the rough city above, worked out from your connection.
- No contacts, no health data, no payment details.
What's yours and what isn't
A recipe made from a public web page isn't private to you. The page was already public, and what we keep is our reading of it. What is private is the fact that you added it: nobody else can see your library.
Cookbook photos work differently. They're yours, in private storage only your anonymous ID can read. One exception worth knowing: the app crops a copy of your first photo to use as the recipe's cover image, and cover images sit in a public bucket. The address is long and random and isn't listed anywhere, but it isn't password-protected either. The originals stay private.
Removing things
Removing a recipe from your library removes it from your library. If it came from a web page, our reading of that page stays on our server, and it holds nothing about you. If it came from your photos, the recipe and the photos are still on our server after you remove the card.
To have everything under your anonymous ID erased, photos included, email us. Open Settings → App and tap User ID — that copies it. Send us that, and we'll delete it.
This website
This site counts visits, through Vercel Web Analytics. It sets no cookies and keeps no identifier: each visit becomes a hash that's discarded after 24 hours. What's kept is the page you looked at, the site you came from, roughly where in the world you were, and which browser and device you used. None of it can be tied back to you, and none of it follows you to other sites. That's why there's no cookie banner here — there'd be nothing to consent to.
Children
The app isn't designed for or directed at children under 13.
Changes
If this page changes, the date at the top changes.
Contact
Questions about any of this, or a deletion request: ciao@veryaldente.com