Taarif — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-10-05. A Turkish translation (KVKK) follows the English.

Taarif ("we", "us") makes a cooking app that turns the food you have into dinner. This policy explains what we collect, why, and your choices.

What we collect

Account — your name, email, and the sign-in method you choose (email, Sign in with Apple, or Google). If you use Sign in with Apple's private-relay email, that's what we store.
Your kitchen data — the pantry, shopping list, recipes you cook, taste ratings, household membership, and meal plans you create. This is the core of the app and stays tied to your household.
Fridge and receipt photos — a photo of your shelf or a grocery receipt, either taken with the camera or chosen from your photo library, is sent to our AI provider to read the ingredients and discarded immediately after — we do not store the photo. Only the ingredients you confirm are saved to your pantry. Choosing an existing photo reads only the one image you pick; we never browse your library.
Receipt spending (Taarif Plus) — only if you choose to save a scanned receipt to Spending: what you reviewed on it — the store's name, the date, the total and its currency, and the food lines with their quantities and prices. Never the photo. You can delete any saved receipt in the app (Profile → Spending). A receipt you save also counts toward your kitchen's total. If you share a kitchen with other people, they can see the store, date, total and your first name for receipts saved while you are all in that kitchen — not the food lines. They cannot delete your receipts. People who join later never see what was saved before they joined, and receipts saved before 23 September 2026 stay private to you for good.
Shared content (Tables) — photos and captions you choose to post to the social feed, plus any reports or blocks you make.
Purchases — Taarif Plus subscriptions are processed by Apple and managed through RevenueCat; we receive the subscription status (active/expired), not your card details.
Notifications — if you allow notifications, your device's push token, so the reminders you turn on can reach you.
Diagnostics — crash and performance reports, tagged with your account ID so we can find and fix a problem you tell us about.
How the Taarif Plus screen is used — when you open or close it, or start a purchase, we record that moment with your account ID.

We do not collect your location, precise or approximate.

How we use it

To suggest recipes, read fridge and receipt photos, plan your week, and power the shared kitchen.
To total the receipts you save by month — for you, and for the kitchen you share.
To keep the Tables feed safe: captions are checked by an automatic word filter on our own servers before they post, anyone can report a post or a person, and our team reviews every report.
To send the reminders you turn on — nothing else.
To provide and bill Taarif Plus.
To fix crashes and improve the app.
To understand how people decide about Taarif Plus (the Plus-screen moments above).

We do not sell your data, and we do not use your food or kitchen data for advertising.

AI processing

Your recipe suggestions are ranked on our own servers, without AI, and what you post to Tables is never sent to AI. AI is used for three things, each handled by Google's Gemini as a processor for that single request:

Fridge and receipt photos — the photo is discarded as soon as the ingredients (and, for a receipt, its prices, total, store and date) are read.
"Dinner from scratch" — the ingredients in your inventory and your household's diets.
The weekly plan — the recipes that fit your kitchen, what is about to expire, your household's size and diets, and your taste ratings.

We use Gemini on Google's paid API terms, under which Google may not use this data to train its models.

We ask first. The first time you use one of these features, the app says what goes to Google and asks for your permission; nothing is sent until you allow it. You can withdraw that permission at any time in Settings › Privacy & data — the AI features then ask again before they run, and everything else keeps working.

Google — as our AI processor (above), and through Firebase Cloud Messaging, which delivers notifications (your push token and the notification's text).
Apple / RevenueCat — to process and validate subscriptions.
Sentry — crash and performance reports.
Our email provider — to deliver sign-in and verification emails.
Our hosting/infrastructure providers — to run the service.

We share only what each provider needs, and only to run Taarif.

Retention & deletion

Your kitchen data is kept while your account is active. A receipt you saved to Spending is kept until you delete it or your account. You can delete your account in the app at any time (Profile → Delete account); deletion runs on a 30-day grace period — signing back in within those 30 days restores your account — and then permanently removes your data. Shared Tables you posted are removed with your account.

Children

Taarif is rated 13+ and is not directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect data from children under 13.

Your choices

Withdraw AI permission (Settings › Privacy & data) — the AI features ask again before they run; everything else keeps working.
Turn camera/photo access off — you can still add pantry items by name, by typing a barcode, or by picking a photo you already took.
Turn notifications off, individually (Settings ▸ Notifications). Everything is off by default except use-soon reminders, and we send nothing else — no offers, no streak nagging, no "we miss you".
Delete a saved receipt (Profile → Spending), or your whole account, in-app.
Contact us for access/correction/deletion: info@debblabs.com.

Changes

We'll update this page and the "last updated" date when this policy changes.