FamFeed — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 25 May 2026

FamFeed (“the app”, “we”, “us”) is a family meal-planning app. You can browse dishes, plan a weekly menu, build cooking guides, and generate grocery lists. This policy explains what information the app handles and why. We’ve tried to keep it plain and honest.

You do not create an account to use FamFeed. There is no email/password sign-up. The app identifies your household with a randomly generated family identifier that is not linked to your real-world identity.

Information you provide

• Family profile — a family name and the names (or nicknames) you choose for family members.
• Dietary preferences and allergies — any allergies or dietary restrictions you add for family members, so the app can tailor recipes and flag ingredients. This is health-related information; you choose whether to provide it, and you can leave it blank.
• Meal plans, menus, and grocery lists you create in the app.
• Imported links — if you use the “import reel” feature, the public social-media URL (e.g. an Instagram Reel link) you paste in, so we can fetch its public caption to suggest a recipe.

Information collected automatically

• Family/member identifier — a random ID generated on your device to group your data. It is not your name, email, or phone number.
• Usage & diagnostics — basic, aggregated analytics about how features are used (for example, that a recipe was generated), and standard crash/diagnostic information, to keep the app working and improve it. This data is not used to identify you personally.

How we use your information

• To provide the core features: storing your meal plans, menus, grocery lists, and family profiles.
• To generate recipes, cooking guides, and translations using AI.
• To sync your household’s data across the app.
• To understand usage in aggregate and improve the app’s reliability and features.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use it for third-party advertising.

Third-party services

FamFeed relies on the following services to operate. Your data is shared with them only as needed to run the app:

• Google Firebase (Realtime Database, Cloud Functions, Analytics) — stores your app data and processes requests on Google’s infrastructure. See the Firebase Privacy & Security page.
• Google Gemini API — when you generate a recipe, cooking guide, translation, or import a reel, the relevant text (e.g. dish details or an imported caption) is sent to Google’s generative-AI API to produce the result. See Google’s Privacy Policy.
• Instagram / Meta (oEmbed) — when you import a reel, we request the link’s public caption via Instagram’s public oEmbed endpoint. See Instagram’s Privacy Policy.

Data retention and deletion

Because FamFeed has no account system, your data is tied to the random family identifier on your device.

• On-device data is removed when you delete the app from your device.
• Server-side data (the copy stored in Firebase for your family identifier) can be deleted on request. Email us at the address below and we will delete your household’s stored data.

Children’s privacy

FamFeed is a household meal-planning tool intended to be set up and used by adults. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Family-member names you enter are at your discretion; we recommend using first names or nicknames only.

Data security and international transfers

Data is transmitted over encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS) and stored on Google’s servers, which may be located in the United States or other countries. We rely on Google’s infrastructure security measures to protect data in transit and at rest.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the EU GDPR or California’s CCPA), you may have the right to access, correct, or delete your information, or to object to certain processing. Because we don’t hold an account or contact details for you by default, the simplest way to exercise these rights is to delete the app and/or email us with your family identifier so we can locate and remove your stored data.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the app evolves. When we do, we’ll revise the “Last updated” date above. Material changes will be reflected here before they take effect.

Contact

Questions or deletion requests: morriswch@gmail.com