rMealPrivacy policy
In short: rMeal has no account, no server of its own, no ads and no tracking. I (the maker) never see your recipes or your data. They stay on your own devices and, if you turn it on, in your own iCloud.
Who is responsible
rMeal is made by Rory Meijer, the Netherlands. Privacy questions: through the contact form.
What rMeal stores, and where
Your recipes, photos, meal plan, grocery lists, pantry, collections and settings are stored on your device. With iCloud on, they are kept through Apple's CloudKit in the private database of your own iCloud account, so they appear on your other devices. I have no access to it. Apple's privacy policy applies.
If you share your kitchen with a household, you share that data through iCloud sharing; only the people you invite can see it.
When rMeal talks to others
| When | With whom | What |
|---|---|---|
| You paste or share a recipe link | That website (also Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest) | Your device opens the public page, as your browser would, and reads the recipe. Nothing of yours is sent beyond what a browser sends (such as your IP address). |
| You scan a barcode | Open Food Facts | Only the barcode number, to look up the product. |
| You share a recipe as a QR code with its photo | Apple CloudKit (rMeal's public database) | The recipe and photo, under a random code. Anyone with the code can open the recipe for 30 days; after that the code stops working. rMeal then deletes it from iCloud as soon as one of your devices with rMeal is online. To delete them right away: Settings → iCloud → Remove my QR codes. |
| You open rMeal or the news in the app | Apple CloudKit (rMeal's public database) | Nothing of yours. The app fetches the news posts, just like a shared recipe. Which posts you read stays on your device. |
| You send a message through the contact form on rmeal.eu | Me, by email | Your name (if you fill it in), your email address, the topic and your message. The website doesn't keep it. Against spam, the server remembers an untraceable code of your IP address for one hour, only to count how many messages come from one place. |
| You send feedback | Me, by email | What you write, plus app version, system version, device type, language and the number of recipes. You can delete that last line. |
Translation happens on your device with Apple's own translation. Scanning, speech and hand gestures are processed on your device too. Nutrition values come from tables built into the app.
Permissions
rMeal only asks for access when you use a feature that needs it: camera (scanning, hand gestures), microphone and speech recognition (hands-free cooking), calendars (your meal plan), reminders (your grocery list), notifications and alarms (timers, use-by dates). You can turn these off at any time in your device's settings.
What rMeal does not do
- No analytics, ads or tracking, our own or anyone else's.
- No selling or passing on of data.
- No account, password or email address needed.
If you have allowed it on your device, Apple may share crash reports and usage statistics with me. They are anonymous and come through Apple.
Keeping and erasing
Data stays as long as you keep it in the app. Settings → Erase all data erases everything on this device, or everywhere including iCloud. Export all recipes takes everything with you in an open format.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you can access, correct, delete and port your data. As I don't hold your data, you can usually do this yourself in the app. If anything doesn't work, email me. You can also complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens.
Children
rMeal is suitable for all ages and collects no personal data from anyone.
This website
rmeal.eu uses no cookies and no analytics, and loads nothing from third parties. The contact form sends your message to me by email; see the table above. Like any server, the web host keeps short technical logs (such as IP address and time). A recipe you open through a QR link sits after the # in the link and is never sent to the server by your browser.
Changes
If anything changes, I update this page and the date at the top.