Privacy Policy

1. Information Kept on Your Device

Everything you create in the App stays in the App's private storage on your phone:

• Recipes — recipes you add or edit, including ingredients, steps and tags. If you attach a photo, the App keeps a reference to that image on your device; the photo is not uploaded.
• Meal plans — the meals and drinks you schedule, guest counts, locked meals and saved week templates.
• Grocery lists and pantry — generated and manually added items, and the staples you mark as already at home.
• Preferences — household size, diets, allergies, disliked ingredients, cuisine choices, cooking-time limits, kitchen equipment and reminder settings.

Meal suggestions and grocery lists are worked out on your device; we do not receive them. When you export recipes or a backup, or share a recipe or list, it goes only to the location, app or person you choose.

If you have Android backup turned on, Android may include the App's data in your device backup with Google, under your Google account settings and Google's privacy policy. We cannot access those backups.

2. Your Account (Google Sign-in)

The App asks you to sign in with your Google account. When you do, Google shares with us, through Firebase Authentication:

• Your name and email address, and your Google profile picture link if you have one.
• An account ID created by Firebase for the App.

We use this only to identify your account, to keep your Premium status and cloud backup with it, to apply any Premium access we have gifted to it (for example for app review or promotions) and to prevent misuse. We do not use it for advertising or marketing.

This information is stored by Google Firebase (Google Cloud) on our behalf and is sent over encrypted connections. Google also processes your sign-in under Google's own privacy policy.

3. Cloud Backup

When you are signed in, the App backs up what you created — your own recipes, meal plans, week templates, pantry list, manually added grocery items and preferences — to your account, once a day and shortly after you close the App (only when something changed), and whenever you tap Back up now. Built-in recipes and recipe photos are not included.

The backup is compressed and stored in Google Cloud Firestore (Mumbai region) on our behalf, linked to your account ID, and can only be read by your signed-in account. It is used solely to restore your data when you ask (for example on a new phone). You can switch automatic backup off in Settings → Cloud backup; the latest backup is deleted when you delete your account.

4. Subscriptions & Payments

Lena's MyKitchen Premium (with a free trial for new subscribers) is sold through Google Play Billing. Google processes the purchase under the Google Play Terms of Service and Google's privacy policy. We do not receive your name, email address, card or bank details.

So that Premium works on all your phones and stays correct after renewals, cancellations or refunds, the App sends the purchase token of each Google Play purchase to our server, which checks it with Google Play and stores, for your account: the product (monthly, yearly or lifetime), its status, renewal or expiry date, whether it renews automatically, and a one-way fingerprint of the purchase token. Google Play also notifies our server when this status changes. We do not receive your name on the card, card number, UPI ID or bank details. Purchases also carry a one-way code derived from your account ID so they cannot be claimed by another account.

You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in the Google Play Store.

5. Permissions

• Notifications — only if you turn on meal-prep reminders. Reminders are scheduled on your device.
• Internet — for Google sign-in, cloud backup, checking Premium status and Google Play Billing.
• Photos — when you choose to add a photo to a recipe, Android's photo picker gives the App access to that one image only.
• Google Play Billing — to check and purchase subscriptions.

The App does not request location, contacts, camera, microphone or call-log access, and does not use advertising identifiers, analytics or crash-reporting services.

6. How Information Is Shared

• Service providers — Google (Firebase Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Functions and the Google Play Developer API) stores and processes your account basics, cloud backup and Premium status, only to provide these services to us. Google Play processes purchases.
• Your choices — apart from cloud backup, recipes and lists leave your device only when you export or share them.
• Legal requirements — where required to comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process or a valid governmental request.

We do not sell your information, and we do not share it for advertising.

7. Retention & Security

Data on your device stays until you delete it in the App, use Settings → Clear all data, clear the App's storage, or uninstall the App. Your data is protected by Android's app sandbox, so other apps cannot read it.

Your account basics, cloud backup and Premium status are kept until you delete your account. When you delete it, they are removed from Firebase straight away (copies in Google's own disaster-recovery backups are cleared on Google's normal schedule). Purchase records required for accounting or fraud prevention may be kept by Google Play under its own policies.

8. Your Choices & Rights

• Cloud backup — switch automatic backup off in Settings → Cloud backup.
• Delete your account — in the App, open Settings → Account → Delete account. This deletes your account, your cloud backup and Premium records on our side, and everything the App stores on your phone. You can also request deletion on the web without the App.
• Delete only your recipes and plans — use Settings → Clear all data, or uninstall the App.
• Keep a copy — Settings → Export full backup saves your data to a file you choose.
• Reminders — switch them off in Settings at any time.
• Questions and requests — you may contact us under applicable Indian data protection law, including the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

Write to privacy@snappyapps.in. We will respond within a reasonable time and in accordance with applicable law.

9. Children's Privacy

Lena's MyKitchen is intended for adults who plan meals for a household and is not directed at children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact privacy@snappyapps.in.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when the App or our practices change, or for legal or regulatory reasons. We will update the "Last updated" date above and, for material changes, give notice in the App or on this page.

11. Grievance Officer & Contact

For questions, concerns or complaints about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, including grievances under applicable Indian data protection law, contact:

We aim to acknowledge and address privacy-related requests within 30 days.

Recipes and suggestions in the App are general cooking guidance, not medical or nutritional advice. Always check ingredients against your own allergies and dietary needs.