MySous Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 5, 2026

MySous is made by Ryan Richmond, an individual developer in the United States. This policy explains what MySous stores, what it sends to service providers, and the choices you have.

Your recipes, iCloud and sharing

MySous saves recipes, revisions, notes, photos, cooking history, preferences, meal plans and grocery lists on your device. If you enable personal iCloud sync, your cookbook, including notes and photos, also syncs through Apple's CloudKit under your Apple Account. You can turn personal sync off in Profile.

Shared cookbooks use CloudKit to share recipe histories, notes, photos and author information with the people who have access. Shared households also share meal plans, grocery lists, member display names, dietary styles and avoid lists. Only put information in a shared cookbook or household if you are comfortable with its members seeing it. Recipients can keep copies they have saved even after you remove their access.

MySous does not create a separate sign-in account. Apple handles iCloud identity and sharing. Names you choose for shared households and the people you invite are used for those features. Selecting a contact uses Apple's system picker; MySous does not upload your address book to the MySous server.

Cook mode progress, settings and cooking history are stored on your device. Cooking timers can also be sent to a paired Apple Watch through Apple's WatchConnectivity and stored for its timer display and complication. Notifications and alarms are handled by Apple on your devices.

AI features and your permission

Before a remote AI feature sends data, MySous asks for your permission. You can decline and continue using local cookbook, planning, shopping and cooking features. You can withdraw permission in Profile under AI data sharing. Withdrawal stops future AI requests; it does not recall requests already sent or delete data held by providers.

When you allow AI features, requests pass through the MySous server on Vercel:

• Ideas, full recipes and recipe changes: your request, recipe text as needed, serving count, ingredients, time and cuisine choices, and the active dietary profile, including allergy/avoid lists and kitchen equipment, go to Anthropic (Claude). When cooking for a shared household, the profile may combine members' restrictions. Obtain their permission before sharing their information with AI.
• Questions while cooking: your question, recipe ingredients and steps, current cooking step and active dietary profile go to Anthropic. Private recipe notes and local photo file names are excluded.
• Text imports: your device first tries to organize pasted, shared or scanned text. If AI is needed, recognized or pasted text and a default serving count go to Anthropic. Your dietary profile is excluded. Scanning and recognition happen on your device; the scanned image itself is not uploaded.
• Video-link imports: the video URL goes to our server, which retrieves available public title, creator and description information from the source platform. Recipe text is organized with Anthropic. This does not upload your photo library or download the original video to your cookbook.
• Optional illustrations: recipe title, summary, ingredients and steps go to OpenAI. Private notes, local photo names and dietary preferences are excluded. OpenAI also receives a hashed install identifier to help prevent abuse.

Ordinary web-recipe imports are downloaded directly by your device from the source website; that site sees your network address. If extracted text needs AI processing, the text-import rules above apply. Photos you add to a recipe are not sent to AI providers; they can sync through iCloud or be shared with cookbook members as described above.

Identifiers, purchases and service operation

MySous creates a random install identifier, stored on your device, and sends it to our server for usage limits, optional analytics and feedback. It is not your name or Apple ID. Deleting your data resets this identifier.

For App Attest, Apple verifies app/device integrity. Our server stores the attestation key identifier, public key, verification counter and associated install identifier to check subsequent requests and prevent abuse. These verification records remain until removed through service maintenance; resetting the app does not automatically erase old server verification records.

Purchases use Apple's StoreKit. Apple processes payment; MySous does not receive your payment card details. The app can send an Apple-signed transaction to our server to verify Premium access. This proof includes product, transaction and renewal/expiry information. The server verifies it and does not intentionally store the transaction payload. Usage counters are stored separately and reset with their daily or monthly limit period. Premium remains subject to service safety and rate limits.

Public recipe links

Creating a public recipe link stores a recipe snapshot on our server: title, summary, ingredients, steps, safety notes, times and tags. Private notes, photos, household preferences and cooking history are excluded. Anyone with the link can read and forward it. The page asks search engines not to index it, but the link is not a private invitation.

The snapshot remains until revoked. Revoking removes the recipe copy and leaves a small marker preventing the link from being recreated accidentally. It does not remove copies recipients already saved.

Optional analytics and support

Usage analytics is off by default. If enabled in Profile, events contain feature names, timestamps, install identifier, app version, local recipe identifiers, and simple codes/counts. They exclude typed requests, recipe titles/text, dietary profiles and private notes. Turning analytics off clears unsent events and stops future analytics. Received events are kept for up to seven days.

For support, email kyneticfitnessapp@gmail.com. Your email service and ours process the message and reply address; messages remain in the support inbox until deleted. Avoid sending information you do not want included in a support conversation.

The in-app feedback feature, when delivery is available, sends your message, category, optional reply email, optional recipe title/ID, app version, device model/iOS version, install identifier and timestamp through our server and Resend to support. Unsent feedback is kept locally for retry. Delivery receipts without message text or email are retained for seven days. If in-app delivery is unavailable, contact us by email.

Service providers and retention

• Apple: iCloud, sharing, notifications/alarms, Watch communication, App Attest and StoreKit. Apple's account and retention policies apply to information Apple holds.
• Anthropic: AI recipe help and text organization, with the request information described above.
• OpenAI: optional recipe illustrations and a hashed abuse-prevention identifier.
• Google Analytics: processes optional website analytics only after you opt in.
• Vercel: hosts our API and website and processes network requests, including internet addresses and technical service logs.
• Upstash Redis: stores usage counters, attestation verification records, optional analytics, feedback receipts and public recipe snapshots/revocation markers.
• Resend: delivers in-app feedback when configured.
• Video source platforms: receive requests for public information about a video you choose to import.

Our application logs allow only technical fields such as request ID, route, model, timing, result and usage counts. They exclude request text, recipe content and dietary profiles. AI request/response content is processed in memory rather than intentionally saved by the MySous server, except for public recipe snapshots you explicitly create. Hosting and AI providers may retain information under their own policies and service terms. We do not promise zero retention or account-specific provider settings we have not verified.

We do not sell your information or use advertising SDKs in the native app. Separately, this website offers optional Google Analytics only after you choose Allow analytics. Google receives website page and App Store-link activity, analytics cookies and online identifiers, and browser, device and network information that can include IP-derived technical data. We disable advertising and personalization signals. Page URLs exclude query strings and fragments, and we omit referrers. Analytics preferences in the footer lets you decline or withdraw consent; withdrawing stops tracking and removes this site's Google Analytics cookies. This website choice is separate from analytics controls in the native app. We may disclose information when legally required.

Your choices

• Manage AI data-sharing permission and optional analytics in Profile.
• Turn personal iCloud sync off, leave shared cookbooks or households, and manage member access in the app. Turning personal sync off does not end shared-cookbook participation.
• Export your cookbook from Profile. Exports can include private notes, dietary preferences and cooking history; choose recipients carefully.
• Use Delete my data in Profile to clear local recipes, history, preferences and settings and revoke your public links. You can also choose to remove your personal synced cookbook from iCloud. If public links cannot be revoked, deletion pauses so you can retry. Shared cookbook ownership and copies held by other members require separate sharing controls; a local reset does not erase other people's copies.
• Ask support about information held in the support inbox. Because there is no MySous account, we may need details of your message or device identifier to locate records. Provider-held information, completed requests, Apple purchases and recipients' saved copies are not automatically erased by a local reset.

Children and food safety

MySous is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from them. Contact support if you believe a child has provided personal information.

Recipes and allergy warnings are guidance, not medical advice or a guarantee of safety. AI can make mistakes. Always check food labels, cross-contact risks and safe cooking temperatures.

Changes and contact

We update the effective date when this policy changes and provide an in-app notice for material changes when appropriate.

Privacy and support: kyneticfitnessapp@gmail.com.

Ryan Richmond, United States.