Cook Cards Privacy Policy

The short version. Cook Cards keeps your cooks on your iPhone. There is no account, no Cook Cards server, no analytics and no advertising. A card you share carries only the cook you chose to put on it, and nothing about you.

What the app stores, and where

Your pits, cooks, ratings, notes and photos are stored in the app’s private storage on your iPhone. The calibration the app learns about each pit is worked out on the phone from your own rated cooks and stays there.

Sharing a card

A card is an image with a QR code, and the link inside it carries the whole cook: the cut, the weight, the pit temperatures, the timeline and your notes. It is made on your phone and goes only where you send it. Anyone who sees the card can open and clone the cook, so share only what you are happy to make public. The card does not include your name, your location or anything about your phone unless you typed it into the cook.

Cloning a card

Opening a card happens on your phone, from the link in the QR code. No server is involved and nothing is reported back to the card’s maker.

Weather

If you allow it, the app can look up the weather for a cook. That lookup goes to Apple’s WeatherKit and sends the approximate location of the cook to Apple under Apple’s privacy policy. Without it, the weather can be typed in, and the app works the same. Location is used only for that lookup and is not stored beyond the cook.

Camera and photos

The camera is used only when you scan a card’s QR code or take a photo for a cook. Photos you pick come through the system picker, which hands the app only the photos you choose.

Children

Cook Cards is not directed at children under 13 and collects no data from anyone.

Deleting your data

Delete a cook and it is removed from your phone. Deleting the app removes everything. Cards you have already shared are copies in other people’s hands.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.