The short version: Trivet does not collect your personal data. Your recipes, photos, cookbooks, plans, and grocery lists are stored on your device. When iCloud sync is on, they are also kept in your own private iCloud storage, which Apple runs for your Apple Account and we cannot see. No server of ours stores your recipes, we use no analytics, we show no advertising, and we never sell data. Our App Privacy label reads Data Not Collected.
Who we are
Trivet is made by Handler Labs LLC, the data controller for any processing described here. You can reach us at support@handlerlabs.app with any privacy question, and a postal mailing address is available on request.
What stays on your device
Everything you create in the app lives in a local database on your device: recipes, ingredients, steps, photos, cookbooks, tags, meal plans, grocery lists, and your settings. Apart from iCloud sync, which you control and which is described below, the only way your recipes leave the device is when you export or share them yourself. We cannot see your library, and no server of ours stores it.
iCloud sync
Trivet can keep your library in step across your iPhone and iPad using iCloud. The copy lives in your private iCloud storage, tied to your Apple Account, and Apple handles it under Apple’s own terms and privacy policy. Trivet runs no sync server, we never receive a copy, and we have no way to read it. On a new install, Trivet syncs whenever the device is signed in to iCloud. If you installed Trivet before sync existed, your library stays on that device until you turn sync on in Settings > iCloud. To stop syncing on a device, use Settings > iCloud > Stop Syncing on This Device. The device keeps its library, and your iCloud copy and your other devices are unchanged. Signing out of iCloud, or switching it off for Trivet in iOS Settings, hides the synced library on that device until iCloud is back on; the recipes stay in your iCloud. Delete All Data in Trivet’s Settings removes the library from the device and, only while iCloud sync is running, from your iCloud and every device that syncs with it. If sync is not running, the iCloud copy is not deleted and may come back.
Reminders
If you connect your grocery list to Apple Reminders, Trivet reads and writes the one list you choose, using Apple’s own Reminders on your device. That list lives in your Reminders and iCloud, and you share it from Reminders. Trivet keeps no copy anywhere else.
The import service
When you import a recipe from a web link, the app may send that link to a small import service we run. The service fetches the page, extracts the recipe, and returns it to your device. It is stateless: it stores nothing about you, keeps no logs of your recipes, and does not associate requests with any identity. It runs as a Cloudflare Worker, so the request travels over Cloudflare’s network. If you import by pasting text, or by scanning a photo, a PDF, or a saved video, that happens entirely on your device and the service is not involved.
Importing from a link also means connecting to the recipe’s own website. If our import service cannot reach a page, your device fetches it directly, and when a recipe has a photo, your device downloads that photo from whatever site hosts it. Those websites receive a normal web request, including your device’s IP address, exactly as they would if you opened the page in a browser. We do not control those sites and we do not receive that information.
Social links and the Discover browser
When you save a recipe from a TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, or Pinterest link, your device connects to that platform to read the public post, the same way a browser would. The platform receives a normal web request, including your device’s IP address, and we do not receive that information or the post link. If a caption points to a recipe page, that page’s link is imported like any web link, through our import service, which stores nothing. The Discover tab is a web browser built into the app. It loads sites directly from your device and uses a private session, so cookies and site data are not saved to disk. If you search from Discover, the search goes to DuckDuckGo.
Purchases
If you buy Premium or Lifetime, the purchase is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see your payment details, and there is no third-party billing service in between: whether your purchase is active is read on your device from Apple's own records. Apple's terms govern the payment itself.
What we do not do
- We do not use third-party advertising or ad tracking.
- We do not use analytics. Trivet’s release builds send no usage events. The only numbers we see are the sales and download totals Apple reports to every developer.
- We do not sell, rent, or share your data.
- We do not require an account, an email, or a password.
Your rights and control
Because your data lives on your device, and in your own iCloud if you use sync, you control it directly. You can edit or delete any recipe at any time. You can export your entire library to a file you keep. To remove everything, use Delete All Data in Settings. While iCloud sync is running, that also removes your library from your iCloud and from every device that syncs with it; if sync is not running, the iCloud copy is not deleted and may come back. Deleting the app on its own removes the local data but not an iCloud copy. Depending on where you live, you may have rights under laws such as the GDPR or the CCPA. Since we do not collect personal data, there is little for us to provide, but you can always contact us with a request.
Children
Trivet is a general-audience cooking app and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone, including children.
This website
The gettrivet.com website uses no tracking cookies and runs no advertising or analytics that identify you. Standard server logs may record basic request information for security, with no profiling. The import helper on this site sends the link you paste to the same import service the app uses, which stores nothing, and the recipe scaler runs entirely in your browser.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update the date above and post the new version here. Material changes will be noted in the app where appropriate.
This page describes our practices in plain language. It is not legal advice. Privacy law varies by country and changes often.