Privacy Policy

1. Overview

• Cookyno is a meal planner application that lets you plan meals, optionally manage recipes, generate shopping lists, and—if you choose—share planning with other people through a household or group workspace.
• Creating an account requires certain profile information (your name and email address). You may sign in with Google or Apple, or using credentials supported by the app.
• Content you enter—such as meals, recipes, ingredients, and shopping lists—is stored securely in the cloud so it syncs across your devices.
• If you enable sharing or join a household, other members may see your profile details and collaborate on shared planning data as described below.
• We use analytics partners—currently Mixpanel and Microsoft Clarity—to understand how the product and our websites are used. Details appear in Sections 2.2 and 6.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide

When you use Cookyno, you may provide:

• Email address — required to create and authenticate your account (including when you sign in with Google or Apple).
• Name — required as part of your profile so we can identify you in the app and in shared households.
• Meal planning content — information you choose to enter, such as meals (including type, date, and titles), ingredients attached to meals, recipes and recipe ingredients, and shopping-list items derived from your planning.
• Household / group participation — when you create or join a household, we associate your account with that group so shared features work as intended.

We do not ask you for:

• Phone number or postal address as a requirement to use the app
• Sensitive categories of data (such as health diagnoses) unless you voluntarily type free-form notes—we treat general meal names as everyday planning information, not medical data.

2.2 Automatically Collected Information

We may collect limited technical and diagnostic information needed to operate and improve the service, such as:

• Device and app metadata (for example device model, operating system version, language, timezone, and app version)
• Security and reliability signals (such as authentication events, aggregated usage patterns, crash logs, or performance diagnostics)

Analytics shared with Mixpanel

We use Mixpanel, a product-analytics service, to collect usage signals such as events (for example features opened or actions taken within the app or compatible web surfaces), timestamps, session identifiers, coarse device or browser characteristics, and—depending on how we configure the SDK—an anonymous distinct ID or an identifier linked to your account so we can measure cohorts and funnels. Mixpanel processes this information solely as our processor and in accordance with its documentation; it may receive IP-derived coarse location data only as described in Mixpanel's privacy notice.

Experience analytics shared with Microsoft Clarity

We use Microsoft Clarity, operated by Microsoft Corporation, primarily on our marketing website. Clarity may collect interaction data such as clicks, scrolls, page navigations, form interactions (excluding sensitive fields we configure to mask when supported), heatmaps, and limited session replay snippets that help us diagnose usability issues. Clarity typically relies on cookies, storage, or similar technologies to associate interactions with a pseudonymous browser identifier.

Data processed by Mixpanel or Clarity is disclosed to those vendors so they can provide their services to us; they must use it under their agreements with us and their public privacy statements. Review Mixpanel's and Microsoft's privacy policies for retention, subprocessors, and regional rights.

Unless we specifically disclose otherwise in-product, we do not collect precise geolocation from Cookyno.

3. How We Use Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Create and secure your account
• Provide core meal planner features—planning meals, recipes, and shopping lists—and sync that content across your devices
• Operate household / group features when you opt in, including showing member profiles within the group and applying permission roles (such as owner, editor, or viewer) where available
• Maintain, secure, debug, and improve the service
• Measure engagement and product performance through analytics tools such as Mixpanel (for example feature adoption, retention, and funnel diagnostics)
• Understand navigation and usability on our websites using Microsoft Clarity (including optional session replay on pages where Clarity is enabled)
• Communicate important notices about the app or this policy when necessary
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Use

4. Households, Sharing, and Visibility of Member Data

Cookyno may offer optional collaboration features that let multiple users plan together (for example a household or shared workspace). These features are voluntary—you choose whether to create or join a group.

When you participate in a household or otherwise share planning access with others:

• Profile visibility: Other members can typically see each participant's name and email address associated with the household, so everyone understands who is in the group.
• Shared planning data: Depending on product permissions, members may view shared meals, recipes, shopping lists, and related ingredients. Users with editor (or equivalent) access may also create, modify, or delete that shared content.
• Viewer-only roles: Where the app supports read-only roles, those members can see shared content but may not be able to edit it.

Do not invite people you do not trust with meal-planning data or your contact details. If you leave a household or remove someone, their continued access depends on how the product applies updates; contact [email protected] if you need help.

5. Data Storage and Cloud Infrastructure (Supabase)

Account information and the meal-planning content you save inside Cookyno are stored using Supabase, a cloud database and authentication infrastructure provider.

Supabase processes information on our behalf as a service provider and stores data so your account and sync features work reliably. Their handling is governed by their agreements and security practices.

Supabase may host or process data in data centers located in the United States, European Union, or other regions they operate, consistent with their documentation.

6. Third-Party Services

Cookyno relies on trusted vendors to deliver authentication, cloud sync, analytics, and website diagnostics. Depending on how you interact with us, limited personal or pseudonymous information you generate may be transmitted to those subprocessors so they can operate their services on our behalf.

• Supabase — account authentication (including email-based flows), database storage, and synchronization for your planning data
• Google— Sign in with Google, subject to Google's policies
• Apple— Sign in with Apple, subject to Apple's policies
• Mixpanel — product analytics; receives usage events and related identifiers/ properties necessary to report how features perform (see Section 2.2). Mixpanel processes such information under its agreements with us.
• Microsoft Clarity — website experience analytics provided by Microsoft; receives interaction signals from pages where our Clarity implementation is loaded (see Section 2.2). Microsoft processes those signals under its privacy statement.

If we introduce additional processors (for example subscription billing validation through Apple or Google), we will update this policy or in-product disclosures accordingly.

Each provider maintains its own privacy policy; we encourage you to review them.

7. Sale of Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information. Disclosure of analytics or diagnostic data to vendors such as Mixpanel or Microsoft Clarity is strictly for operating and improving Cookyno and our websites—not for independent sale by those vendors.

We otherwise share information only with service providers who help us operate Cookyno, bound by appropriate contractual protections where required by law.

8. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Cookyno mobile application does not rely on browser cookies for core functionality in the same way our marketing website does.

When you visit pages where we deploy Microsoft Clarity, Microsoft may set or read cookies, storage entries, or similar technologies to stitch sessions together and deliver replay/ diagnostic features. Mixpanel integrations on web may also use cookies or local storage where configured.

You can manage many browser-side controls through your browser or device settings; however, disabling certain technologies may limit functionality of our sites or analytics accuracy.

9. Your Choices and Rights

9.1 Account Deletion

You may delete your account from within the app (see our Delete account page for summary instructions). When you delete your account, we delete your personal account data and associated cloud content without undue delay as part of that process, subject only to limited exceptions required by law or legitimate backup/security cycles described below.

9.2 Regional Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export, restrict, or object to certain processing of your personal information, including rights under the GDPR, LGPD (Brazil), or U.S. state privacy laws. To exercise those rights, email [email protected].

10. Data Retention

• We retain profile and planning information until you delete your account or we remove it in accordance with this policy.
• After account deletion, residual copies may persist briefly in encrypted backups until those backups rotate according to our infrastructure provider's schedules.
• Diagnostic records held by subprocessors may remain for periods described in their respective policies.
• Analytics platforms such as Mixpanel and Microsoft Clarity retain interaction logs according to their default schedules, project settings we configure, or your opt-out choices described in their notices—those timelines may extend beyond deletion of your primary Cookyno account because analytics datasets are often pseudonymous aggregates.

11. Security

We implement commercially reasonable safeguards—including encrypted connections and access controls—to protect your information. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure. Please protect your devices and sign-in methods, especially when using shared households.

12. Children's Privacy

Cookyno is not directed to children under 13 (or the minimum age required in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe we collected information from a child, contact us and we will take appropriate steps to delete it.

13. Links to Third Parties

The app or website may contain links to third-party sites or policies (such as OAuth providers). We are not responsible for their practices—review their policies separately.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the effective date above and, when appropriate, provide additional notice inside the app or by email. Material updates are also published on our website at https://cookyno.app. Continued use after an update means you acknowledge the revised policy.

15. Contact Us

Questions or privacy requests? Contact Akyno Apps at [email protected].