Privacy Policy

Effective October 12, 2026

This policy explains what happens to your information when you use the FridgeSmart app for iPhone and iPad. FridgeSmart is made by Stefano Anania ("we", "us"), an independent developer.

FridgeSmart is built so that we don't receive information about you. There are no accounts, the app doesn't talk to any server of ours, and it contains no advertising, analytics or tracking software.

What we collect

Through the app, nothing. We don't collect, receive or store personal information from FridgeSmart, and we have no way to identify you or to see how you use it.

There are two things we can receive outside the app:

• Messages you send us. If you contact us for support, we receive your email address and whatever you choose to write. We use it only to answer you, and we delete it if you ask.
• Apple's reports. Apple gives every developer totals such as how many times an app was downloaded. If you've chosen to share analytics with app developers in your device's settings, Apple also passes on crash and usage reports. These come from Apple, not from code in the app, and they don't tell us who you are.

Our website and support form

FridgeSmart's website, where this policy and the support form live, is hosted by Netlify. Like any web host, Netlify processes your IP address and basic browser details to deliver the pages and keep the service secure. The site sets no cookies and uses no analytics or advertising.

If you send the support form, Netlify stores what you enter, checks it for spam with an automated filter, and passes it to us.

What stays on your device

• Your fridge. The food you add: its name, how many you have, where it sits, when you bought, opened or froze it, any date printed on the pack, any note you write, and the barcode number and brand if you scanned a barcode.
• Your history. What you ate and what you threw away, with the app's rough estimate of what it was worth. This is what the Waste & wins stats and badges are made from.
• Your shopping list.
• Your fridge door. The notes, drawings, letters and magnets you put on it, and any photos you pin.
• Recipes. Dinner ideas you save, favourite or cook, and any picture you make for one.
• Your settings. For example the look of your fridge, your reminder time, how many people you usually cook for, and any diets, allergies and dislikes you enter.

All of this is kept in the app's own storage on your device. FridgeSmart doesn't sync it to iCloud or to your other devices, and we can't see it. If you back up your device, to iCloud or to a computer, the backup may include it, as it does for other apps.

The FridgeSmart widgets, cooking timers on the Lock Screen, and the Siri and Shortcuts actions read the same information on your device. So that you can find food from your device's search, the app also adds what's in your fridge to the search index on your device.

Camera and photos

If you allow it, FridgeSmart uses the camera to photograph your fridge or a receipt and to scan barcodes and printed dates. You can also choose photos from your library; the app sees only the photos you pick.

Photos you scan are used to work out what food is in them. The app doesn't save them. A photo you pin to your fridge door is saved, at a smaller size, in the app's storage on your device.

Apple Intelligence

FridgeSmart uses Apple Intelligence to recognise food in photos, read receipts, understand a list you type and suggest dinners. This is done by Apple's models, on your device or through Apple's Private Cloud Compute. It is never done by a server of ours or by another AI company.

• Fridge photos. Each photo is first checked on your device. The photos, and any words read from the packaging in them, are then processed through Private Cloud Compute when it's available, and on your device when it isn't.
• Receipts. The text on the receipt is read on your device. That text, which can include whatever is printed on the receipt, is then processed through Private Cloud Compute when it's available, and on your device when it isn't.
• Dinner ideas. The app sends the list of food in your fridge and how fresh each item is, how many people you're cooking for, the effort and mood you chose, and any diets, allergies and dislikes you entered. It is processed through Private Cloud Compute when it's available, and on your device when it isn't.
• Lists you type. When you add food by typing a list, it is processed on your device.
• Recipe pictures. If you make a picture for a recipe, the app gives the name of the dish to Apple's Image Playground, which creates the picture.

Apple states that Private Cloud Compute doesn't store this data or make it available to Apple. We don't receive it. If you'd rather keep everything on your device, turn off "Use Private Cloud Compute" in FridgeSmart's settings.

Barcodes and Open Food Facts

When you scan a barcode, the app sends the barcode number to Open Food Facts, a free public food database, to look up the product's name, brand and category. Like any internet request, this reaches Open Food Facts from your IP address. The request names the app and its version and carries nothing else about you or your fridge. Open Food Facts handles these requests under its own privacy policy.

This is the only service outside Apple that the app contacts. If you'd rather not use it, add food by name or with a photo instead.

Microphone and speech

In Cook Mode you can turn on Hands-free and say "next" or "back" to move between steps. The app uses the microphone and speech recognition only while Hands-free is on, and stops listening when you turn it off or leave Cook Mode.

Your speech is recognised on your device where your device and language support that. Where they don't, the audio is sent to Apple's speech recognition service, which Apple handles under its own privacy policy. The app doesn't record or keep the audio or what you said, and we never receive it.

Reminders

If you choose "Send to Reminders", the app asks for access to your reminders so it can create a list called FridgeSmart and add your shopping items to it. iOS grants this as full access, but the app only looks for its own list and adds to it; it doesn't read your other reminders. What you send becomes part of the Reminders app, and syncs with iCloud if you've set Reminders up that way.

Notifications

If you turn on the morning reminder, it is scheduled as a notification on your device. Reminders are created by your device, not sent from a server. A reminder names the food to use up, so it may be visible on your Lock Screen.

Siri, Shortcuts and search

When you ask Siri about FridgeSmart or run one of its shortcuts, Apple processes the request under its own privacy policy and the app answers from the data on your device.

Sharing your shopping list

If you share your shopping list, it goes to the app or person you choose, and what happens to it there is up to them.

What we don't do

• We don't sell personal information, and we don't share it for advertising.
• We don't track you across other companies' apps or websites, and the app contains no third-party advertising, analytics or tracking code.
• We don't build a profile of you, your household or what you eat.

Because the app doesn't track you, there is nothing for a "Do Not Track" or Global Privacy Control signal to switch off.

How your information is protected

What FridgeSmart stores is kept in the app's own storage on your device, protected by your device's passcode and encryption.

Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live, the law may give you the right to know what personal information a business holds about you and to have it corrected or deleted. Because we hold none from the app, you control it yourself:

• You can change or remove any food, note, recipe or shopping item in the app. "Empty the fridge" in FridgeSmart's settings removes all the food at once.
• Deleting the app removes what it stored on your device. Anything you sent to Reminders stays in Reminders until you delete it there.
• You can turn the camera, microphone, speech recognition, Reminders and notifications on or off for FridgeSmart in your device's Settings at any time.
• If you've written to us, ask and we'll delete the correspondence.

We won't treat you differently for making any of these choices.

Where your messages are handled

FridgeSmart is run from the United States. If you write to us from another country, your message is handled there.

Children

FridgeSmart isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update the date at the top and post the new version on this page.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent to Stefano Anania through the support form at fridgesmart-app.netlify.app/support.