Plate & Paper Privacy Policy
Plate & Paper is designed as a private, on-device recipe library. It does not require an account, include advertising, or silently upload your cookbook.
Information Plate & Paper handles
Plate & Paper stores the recipes, notes, collections, tags, favorites, source links, meal-plan entries, shopping-list items, pantry items, cooking history, active cooking timers, and one active cooking-session draft you choose to create in the app’s private storage on your device and in its private App Group container. The active session may include the current recipe step, serving count, ingredient-prep checks, and an unfinished rating or note so cooking can resume after the app closes. Cooking history may include the serving count, rating, and note you save after cooking.
Plate & Paper does not sell personal information or track you across other companies’ apps or websites.
Recipe links and images
When you ask Plate & Paper to import a public recipe webpage, the app requests that page to look for recipe information published by the source. For supported public TikTok and YouTube links, Plate & Paper may also request the platform’s official public embed metadata. The source website or platform may receive ordinary network information, such as your IP address and request headers, under its own privacy policy. Recipe images displayed from a source URL are requested from that source or its image host.
When you choose a recipe photo or screenshot, Apple’s on-device text-recognition framework reads the image. The image and recognized text are not uploaded to a Plate & Paper-operated service in this build. Plate & Paper reports incomplete or unrecognized recipe sections for your review rather than filling them with generated content.
When you save a recipe with a selected photo, screenshot, or supported webpage image, Plate & Paper creates a size-limited normalized cover and stores it in the app’s private local storage. You can replace or remove that cover in Edit. Replacing or removing a cover deletes the previous local cover file, and deleting the recipe deletes its local cover.
Sharing and the share extension
The Plate & Paper share extension accepts a recipe link, useful text or caption, and an optional screenshot or photo only when you explicitly share them to Plate & Paper. Those related parts may be retained together as one queued capture in the app’s private App Group container so the main app can process them without discarding the fallback text or image. Image files are size-limited and remain local. After a successful save or explicit queue removal, Plate & Paper deletes the queued source image. A successfully saved recipe keeps a separate normalized local cover under the retention rules above.
Backup and restoration
When you choose Create cookbook backup or Share a household copy, Plate & Paper creates a versioned .plateandpaperbackup document on your device containing your cookbook data, kitchen data, cooking history, and normalized local covers. Backups created under the former Supperkeep name (.supperkeepbackup) and original ReciDrop working name (.recidropbackup) remain readable, so the rename does not strand an existing archive. Active cooking-session drafts, active timers, and pending share imports are temporary and are not included. Restoring a backup clears those temporary cooking states so they cannot remain attached to recipes that were replaced. The file is sent only to the destination or person you choose through Apple’s document or share interface. When you choose Restore from backup, Plate & Paper reads the document you select, checks its format and integrity, and asks for confirmation before replacing local data. Plate & Paper does not automatically upload backups or provide live cloud or household sync in this build.
Subscriptions
Purchases and subscriptions are processed by Apple. Plate & Paper receives StoreKit product and entitlement information needed to show an offer, complete or restore a purchase, and verify access. Plate & Paper does not receive your full payment-card details. Apple handles purchase information under Apple’s Privacy Policy.
Analytics, advertising, and accounts
- No account or sign-in is required.
- No third-party advertising SDK is included.
- No third-party analytics SDK is included in this build.
- Plate & Paper does not sell or rent your recipe data.
Retention and deletion
Saved cookbook and kitchen data remain on your device until you delete the applicable item, use Delete all data, or remove the app’s data. Completing a cooking session clears its resumable draft. Delete all data clears recipes and covers, collections, meal plans, shopping and pantry items, cooking history, the active cooking-session draft, active timers and their notifications, and queued share-extension captures. You can create a cookbook backup, including normalized local covers and saved kitchen data, before deletion.
Children and your rights
Plate & Paper is a general-audience utility and is not directed to children under 13. Because cookbook data stays on your device in this build, you can access, correct, export, or delete it directly in the app.
Changes and contact
No Plate & Paper-operated remote import or sync service is configured in this build. If a future release sends recipe content to such a service, this policy and the App Store privacy disclosure will be updated before that feature is enabled. For privacy questions or a rights request concerning information you sent to Plate & Paper support, contact apps@cerostudios.net.