Privacy Policy

Effective September 11, 2026

Who we are

Chef is made by Designed Partners ("we" or "us"). If you have a question about this policy, email support@designedpartners.com.

What stays on your phone

Chef stores the following in the app's storage on your device. We don't upload it to our own servers and we don't keep copies:

• Your kitchen: the ingredients you have and the ones you're out of
• Your shopping list
• Your cookbook: meals you've saved or cooked, your ratings and notes
• Your profile and settings: the name you give Chef, household size and household members' names, allergies, your notes to Chef, favorite cuisines, spice preference, equipment and how much detail you want
• Your progress in a meal you're cooking

If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or a computer, this data may be included in that backup, which Apple or your computer handles.

What's sent when you use Chef's AI

Chef uses AI to suggest meals, write recipes, adjust them and help while you cook. When you refresh ideas, ask Chef for a meal, build or adjust a recipe, ask for help during a step, check your food with a photo or ask Chef to recreate a restaurant dish, the app sends:

• Your request: what you typed, and the meal or step you're on
• Your kitchen: the names of ingredients you have and are out of
• Your cooking profile: the name you gave Chef, household size and members' names, allergies and dietary restrictions, your notes to Chef, favorite cuisines, spice preference, equipment and detail preference
• A few cookbook meals: the names and ratings of up to five recent meals, so Chef learns what you liked
• A photo, only when you tap Check my food. The app shrinks it, sends it once and doesn't save it.

Allergy and dietary details can be sensitive. Providing them is up to you, and they're used only to plan recipes around them.

Chef's server

Requests go to Chef's server, hosted by Railway, which passes them to Anthropic and returns the answer. The server doesn't store your requests, the answers or your photos.

• Its logs record only the kind of request, whether it worked, how long it took and its size in AI tokens. They don't include what you sent.
• To prevent abuse, it keeps your IP address in memory for about a minute to limit how many requests one device can make. It doesn't write the address to its logs.
• Railway may keep standard network logs, such as IP addresses and request times, under Railway's privacy policy.

Anthropic

Anthropic's AI models write Chef's responses. Anthropic processes requests under its Commercial Terms of Service, which don't allow it to train its models on this content. Anthropic may keep requests and responses for a limited time, for example to monitor for misuse.

What we don't do

• We don't ask for an account, email address or phone number.
• We don't use your location or your contacts.
• We don't use advertising, analytics or crash-reporting services.
• We don't track you across other apps or websites.
• We don't sell or share your information for advertising.

Camera and photos

Chef asks for the camera only for Check my food, so you can compare your food with the step you're on. If you don't allow the camera, Chef lets you pick a photo from your library instead. You can change either permission any time in the iPhone Settings app, under Chef.

Links to other sites

Chef may show links to recipes or articles for inspiration. Those sites have their own privacy policies, which we don't control.

Your choices, and deleting your data

• You can edit or remove anything in your kitchen, cookbook, shopping list and profile at any time.
• To erase everything, tap your profile at the top of the screen, then Start over. This clears your kitchen, shopping list, cookbook and settings on this phone.
• Deleting the app also removes its data from your phone.

Because Chef's server doesn't keep what you send, we don't hold any of your data to delete. If you have a question or request, email us and we'll help.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal information, or to object to how it's used. Almost everything Chef knows about you lives on your phone, where you control it directly. For anything else, email support@designedpartners.com.

Where requests are processed

Chef's server and Anthropic may process requests in the United States and other countries. Requests travel over encrypted HTTPS connections.

Children

Chef isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has sent us information, email us.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top of this page. If a change is significant, we'll also tell you in the app.

Contact

Designed Partners
Email: support@designedpartners.com