Panistry
Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 12, 2026
Panistry ("we", "us") is an app that teaches people to cook. This policy explains what we collect, why, who we share it with, and the choices you have. Panistry is operated by Volodymyr Viedienieiev, an individual entrepreneur registered in Ukraine. Questions: [email protected].
What we collect
Account
Your email address, and your password (stored only as a secure hash), or the email, name and profile picture link Google shares if you sign in with Google, or the email (which can be a private relay address) and name Apple shares if you sign in with Apple.
Why: to create your account and sign you in.
Learning and cooking progress
Lessons and tests you complete, your answers, recipes you mark as cooked and when, your skill check and skill progress, favorites, recipe lists, grocery list, units setting. Your phone's time zone is sent to count your streak by day and isn't stored.
Why: to run the app: show your progress, XP, streak, skills and history.
Dish photos
Photos you choose to add when you finish a dish or a practice task.
Why: to show them in your history and, if you ask for it, to get AI feedback on your dish.
Ingredients you add
Names and nutrition of ingredients you create yourself.
Why: to show them only to you.
Usage analytics
Which screens, lessons and recipes you open, lessons and tasks you complete, dishes you cook (with or without a photo), whether a cooking timer's alert reached you (and if notifications and exact alarms are allowed), and app opens, with your account's random id, your device model, OS and app version. Never your email, your answers or your photos.
Why: to learn which parts of the app help people cook and fix what doesn't. You can turn it off in Profile → Your data.
Crash and error reports
Technical details of an error (device model, OS version, app version, what failed) and your account's random id, never your email or photos.
Why: to find and fix bugs.
Data kept only on your phone
Your theme, cooking voice and the step you reached in a lesson, a cooking session in progress, recorded cooking voices you downloaded, dishes waiting to be sent while offline.
Why: to work offline and pick up where you stopped; your own data here is removed when you sign out.
We do not collect your location, contacts or advertising identifiers, and we do not show ads. The microphone is used only while you turn on hands-free cooking, to hear commands like "next". Your phone's speech recognition service (Google's on Android, Apple's on iOS) turns your words into text, and it may process the audio on its own servers under its own privacy terms; Panistry gets only that text, to match a command, and never receives, records or stores audio. Cooking timer alerts are scheduled on your phone; we don't send push notifications.
Who we share it with
We don't sell your personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We share it only with the services that run the app for us:
- Supabase (database, sign-in and photo storage), servers in the EU (Ireland).
- Anthropic (Claude, US), only when you ask for AI feedback on a dish photo: the photo and the recipe or task it belongs to are sent to generate the feedback.
- Sentry (error reports, US), as described above.
- PostHog (usage analytics, US), as described above, unless you turn it off.
- Google or Apple, only if you choose to sign in with them.
Anthropic doesn't use the photos and texts we send to train its models and deletes them within 30 days; the feedback itself is saved with your account.
Why we're allowed to use it (legal bases)
- To provide the app you asked for (contract): your account, progress, photos, ingredients you add, and AI feedback when you ask for it. An email address is required to have an account; everything else is up to you.
- Our legitimate interests, balanced against yours: crash and error reports to keep the app working and secure, and usage analytics to improve it. Analytics is on by default and you can turn it off at any time in Profile → Your data.
- Your consent, through your phone's permissions: the camera and photos (to add a dish photo), the microphone and speech recognition (hands-free cooking) and notifications (cooking timers). You can withdraw it at any time in your phone's settings; what was done before stays lawful.
AI feedback on your dish is advice only: no decision with legal or similarly significant effects is made about you by automated means.
Where your data goes
Panistry is run from Ukraine. Your account data and photos are stored in the EU (Ireland). Anthropic, Sentry and PostHog process data in the US; for transfers from the EU and UK we rely on their data processing terms, which include the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
How long we keep it
As long as you have an account. Dish photos that no longer belong to any dish are deleted within two days. When you delete your account, your account and everything stored with it (progress, photos, ingredients, lists) are deleted right away; backups that may still hold it are deleted within 30 days. Usage analytics (kept for up to 1 year) and error reports (up to 90 days) are linked only to your account's random id, never your email, and expire on their own; email us if you want them deleted sooner. Anthropic deletes what was sent for AI feedback within 30 days.
Your choices and rights
- Get a copy of your data: Profile → Your data → Download my data. You get a ZIP file with your data (as JSON) and the original photos of your dishes; the download link works for an hour, and the file is deleted from our servers within a day.
- Delete your account and all your data: Profile → Your data → Delete account, or on the web at panistry.com/delete-account without the app. It can't be undone.
- Turn off analytics: Profile → Your data.
- Correct your data: most of it you can change in the app; for anything else, email us.
- Depending on where you live (for example California under the CCPA, or the EU and UK under the GDPR), you may have further rights, such as to know, access, correct or delete your data, or to object to how we use it. Email [email protected] to use them; we'll answer within 30 days and won't treat you differently for using them. In the EU and UK you can also complain to your data protection authority.
Because we don't track you across other apps or websites, the app works the same whether or not your browser or device sends a "Do Not Track" signal.
Children
Panistry is not meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child under 13 has given us data, email us and we'll delete it.
Security
Data is sent over encrypted connections, each user can reach only their own data, and dish photos are private to their owner. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your data.
Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update the date above and, for important changes, tell you in the app.