Privacy Policy

Effective September 12, 2026

Recipe Tin is made by Zossoz, Inc. (“Zossoz,” “we,” “us”). Recipe Tin exists to hold your family’s recipes, so it is built on a simple rule: everything you add stays on your device.

The short version

• Recipe Tin has no account and no sign-up.
• We operate no servers and collect no personal data.
• Recipes, photos, and voice notes live only on your device.
• On-device retyping and suggestions run entirely on your device.
• Import from a Link fetches only the exact page you paste — directly from your device, never through a Zossoz server.
• No ads, no analytics, no tracking, no data sales. Ever.

What Recipe Tin stores, and where

Your recipes, card photos, voice notes, and settings are stored locally on your device, in the app’s own storage. Nothing is ever sent to Zossoz — we have no servers to send anything to.

Import from a Link

When you paste or share a recipe URL and tap Get Recipe, Recipe Tin fetches only that exact page — and, if it’s a live page, the one photo on it — directly from your device to that site. This request never passes through a Zossoz server; we never see the link, the page, or the image. Nothing else is sent anywhere, and no request is made until you ask for one. If you paste a page’s saved text instead of a live link (“Paste Page Source”), no request is made at all. Sharing a link to Recipe Tin from another app’s share sheet works the same way — the link is only saved on your device until you open the app and choose to import it.

Camera

Recipe Tin asks for camera access to photograph a recipe card. Photos are saved only to the recipe you’re creating or editing.

Microphone

Recipe Tin asks for microphone access to record voice notes about a recipe — the story behind it, in your own words. Audio is captured only while you are actively recording.

Photo library

You can import an existing photo of a recipe card from your library instead of using the camera. Recipe Tin only reads the photo you choose.

On-device intelligence

Optional features — retyping a photographed card, suggesting an ingredient substitution, reconstructing a lost dish, and tasting-adjustment suggestions — run entirely on your device using Apple’s on-device models. Nothing about your recipes is ever transmitted to Zossoz or any third party.

Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight

Recipe Tin lets you find a recipe or start Cook Mode by name through Siri, the Shortcuts app, or Spotlight search. This works by indexing your recipes’ searchable text (title, ingredients, story, and so on) on your device only, using Apple’s on-device frameworks. None of it leaves your device.

Purchases

Recipe Tin Cookbook — link and Paprika import, the Apple Intelligence features, and cookbook export — unlocks with a single one-time, non-consumable purchase. Payment is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store; Recipe Tin and Zossoz never see or store your payment details. You can restore a previous purchase at any time from Settings, and the purchase covers your whole family through Family Sharing when it’s turned on.

What we don’t do

• No analytics or tracking SDKs of any kind.
• No advertising, and no data sales — we have nothing to sell.
• No collection of names, emails, contacts, or identifiers.

Children

Recipe Tin is not directed at children under 13 and, consistent with the rest of this policy, collects no personal information from anyone.

Deleting your data

Delete individual items in the app at any time. Deleting the app removes all locally stored data.

Changes to this policy

If Recipe Tin’s behavior ever changes in a way that affects your privacy, we will update this policy and note the new effective date above before the change ships.

Contact us

Zossoz, Inc.
Email: privacy@zossoz.com
Phone: (305) 788-2174