Famileats

Privacy Policy

Last updated August 20, 2026

Famileats is an iOS meal-planning app operated by Surettech, a sole proprietorship of Jeff Surette based in Massachusetts, USA. This policy explains what the current app stores, what can leave the device, who processes it, and the choices you have.

The short version

  • Family names, household details, birth information, allergies, aversions, meal plans, ratings, pantry selections, and shopping lists are stored in the app's local database.
  • Famileats has no user account or Famileats-hosted data store in the current version.
  • Optional AI ranking sends a deliberately limited, anonymous planning request to Anthropic. Names, birth information, allergies, and aversions are excluded.
  • Famileats has no advertising or analytics and does not sell your personal information.

Information stored on your device

The app stores the information needed to plan and remember your household's week:

  • Your household name.
  • Family member names, adult or child role, and birth month and year.
  • Dietary rules, allergies, and ingredient aversions.
  • Cooking schedule, day-by-day busyness, lunch schedule, and shopping day.
  • Pantry selections.
  • Meal plans, shopping lists, check-off state, ratings, favorites, and retired meals.
  • App settings.

This information is stored in the app's local database. Famileats does not upload it to a Famileats server. Apple may include app data in an iPhone or iPad backup depending on your device and iCloud backup settings; those backups are controlled by Apple and you.

Optional AI-assisted ranking

The released version of Famileats makes no network requests at all. Your week is planned entirely on your device. The AI path described below is not part of that build. This section describes how it works internally, and what will be sent if and when a Famileats-hosted service ships.

Famileats can build a complete weekly plan with its on-device planning engine. An optional development feature can ask Anthropic's Claude API to rank the already-eligible recipe pool before the on-device planner finishes the week. The model chooses from the curated library; it does not invent recipes.

Before a request is built, Famileats removes recipes and lunch items that fail your household's allergy, dietary, or aversion rules. A planning request can then contain:

  • Family members represented only as positional labels, such as “Member 1 (child),” plus dietary rules such as pescatarian.
  • Cooking days and the busyness selected for each day.
  • Recently used recipe identifiers.
  • Recent dinner feedback, including recipe name and rating.
  • Names and planning metadata for eligible recipes in the built-in library.

The request does not contain real family member names, your household name, birth month or year, age, allergies, aversions, your full meal-plan history, or your shopping list.

In internal development builds only — never in one you can install — the Anthropic API credential is stored in the iOS Keychain and requests go directly from the device to Anthropic. Famileats does not receive or store that credential. A user-supplied credential is not the planned path for a public beta. This policy will be updated before a Famileats-hosted AI service is distributed.

Anthropic says commercial API inputs and outputs are not used to train its models by default and are automatically deleted within 30 days, subject to exceptions for usage-policy enforcement, legal compliance, or a different written agreement. Read Anthropic's training policy and retention policy.

Reminders export

If you choose Send to Reminders, Famileats asks for Reminders access and creates a dedicated weekly list with one reminder per shopping item. The app uses that permission only for the export you request; it does not read or upload your existing reminders. The exported list is then handled by Apple Reminders and may sync through iCloud according to your Apple settings.

Famileats does not currently integrate with Instacart or another grocery-ordering service. The standard iOS share sheet can share the shopping list as plain text.

Children's privacy

Famileats is for parents and other adult caregivers and is not directed to children. Children do not create accounts or interact with Famileats as users. An adult may enter information about a child to size portions and pack lunches. That identifying information stays in the local app database. If optional AI ranking is enabled, the request can include only an anonymous “child” role label and the dietary rules described above.

Selling, advertising, and tracking

Famileats does not sell or rent personal information, does not use it for third-party advertising, and does not track you across apps or websites. The iOS app contains no advertising or analytics SDK.

This website

famileats.com is a static site. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads no third-party resources.

It is hosted by Vercel, which records standard request information such as IP address, browser user agent, and the page requested, in order to serve the site and protect it against abuse. Famileats adds no analytics on top of that and never joins it to anything from the app. DNS and the hello@famileats.com mailbox run on Cloudflare, so an email you send us passes through their systems on the way to us.

Service providers

Famileats uses a small number of providers to operate:

  • Apple for App Store and TestFlight distribution.
  • Vercel for hosting famileats.com.
  • Cloudflare for DNS and for routing email sent to us.

These providers process information only as needed to supply their services, under their own terms and privacy policies. The app sends none of your household's information to any of them.

Retention and deletion

Locally stored app information remains until you edit it, use the in-app reset option, or delete the app. Famileats currently has no server-side account data to retain or delete. Data in Apple-managed device backups or an exported Reminders list must be managed through the applicable Apple service.

Security

Famileats limits off-device processing and keeps the current local data store inside the app's iOS sandbox. API credentials are stored in Keychain rather than app preferences or source code, and network requests use HTTPS. No product can promise perfect security.

Your choices and rights

You can review and change family details, dietary rules, schedules, pantry items, and ratings inside the app. You can reset the household to remove the local database. Because the current version has no account or Famileats data store, we generally have no app data that we can access, correct, or delete on your behalf. You can still contact us with an applicable privacy-rights request.

Changes to this policy

We will update this policy before any change that introduces an account, cloud sync, a hosted AI service, server logs, analytics, or another third party that processes your information. We will revise the date above and provide additional notice where appropriate.

Contact

Questions or privacy requests? Email hello@famileats.com.