Privacy policy
Who we are
Kubbord is made by Night Shift Studio, an independent developer in Indiana, USA. Contact: nightshiftstudioapps@gmail.com.
What Kubbord stores, and where
| What | Where | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your pantry, shopping list, saved recipes, settings, kitchen tools, diet and allergy choices, what you cooked and threw away, and money-saved estimates | On your phone only | So the app works, including offline |
| An anonymous account ID (your Kubbord ID in Settings) | Our server (Supabase, Canada) | To keep your own recipes, ratings and scan allowance. It contains no name or contact details. |
| Recipes you write, their photos, ratings, reports and comments | Our server | Private recipes are visible only to you. Recipes you share are visible to everyone, with your nickname if you set one. |
| An optional nickname, and your "Feature my recipes" choice | Our server | Shown on recipes you share; tells us whether we may feature them |
| How many scans and AI requests you have used | Our server | Free allowances and abuse limits |
| Your Kubbord Plus subscription status | Our server | To unlock paid features. Payment is handled entirely by Google Play; we never see your card. |
Photos and AI
When you photograph a shelf, fridge, receipt or online order, the photo goes over an encrypted connection to our server and from there to Google's Gemini AI service, which reads it and returns a list of items. We do not keep your photos; they are discarded once read. The same service translates recipes, checks shared recipes for spam or unsafe content, and matches food names. We use Gemini under Google's paid terms, under which Google does not use your content to train its models. Receipts may show the last digits of a card; Kubbord does not store them.
Barcodes and product information
When you scan a barcode, Kubbord looks it up in Open Food Facts, a free public product database. Only the barcode or product name is sent, never anything about you. Product details may be kept on our server so the next scan of the same product is faster. That is product information, not yours.
Notifications
"Use it soon" reminders are scheduled on your phone from your own pantry. Nothing about them is sent to us.
Links to shops
Kubbord may suggest cookware or grocery delivery with links to shops. Kubbord may earn a commission from these links, at no extra cost to you. When you tap one you leave Kubbord and that shop's privacy policy applies.
What we don't do
- No advertising and no advertising IDs.
- No selling or renting of data to anyone.
- No tracking across other apps or websites, and no location tracking. Your region is a setting you choose.
- No access to your contacts, messages or files beyond the pictures you pick.
Who processes data for us
- Supabase: database and server functions, hosted in Canada.
- Google: Gemini AI and Google Play (installs, payments).
- Open Food Facts: product lookups by barcode or name.
Data may be processed in Canada, the United States and other countries where these providers operate.
How long we keep it
Account data stays while you use Kubbord. Shared recipes stay public until you unshare or delete them, or a moderator hides them. Subscription records are kept as long as needed for the subscription and for tax and accounting. Server logs are kept briefly for security and fixing problems. Backups clear within about 30 days.
Your choices and rights
- Unshare or delete your recipes in the app at any time.
- Uninstalling Kubbord, or clearing its data, removes everything stored on your phone.
- To delete your server data, see Delete my account. To get a copy of it, email us with your Kubbord ID. We respond within 30 days. Depending on where you live (for example the EU, UK, California or Canada) you may have further rights, and we honour them.
Children
Kubbord is a general kitchen app and isn't directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has shared something, contact us and we'll remove it.
Security
Connections are encrypted, every table on our server is protected so each account reaches only what it should, and AI keys never leave our server. No system is perfect, so we keep as little as we can.
Changes
If this policy changes we'll update the date above, and tell you in the app about important changes.