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Track your pantry, rescue food before it expires, and discover recipes with what you already have. Coming soon to the App Store.

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PantryBucks Privacy Policy

Effective 10/21/26.PantryBucks is made by Prickly Pear Software LLC in Scottsdale, Arizona.
This policy explains what the app collects, where it goes, and what you
can do about it.

The Short Version

PantryBucks does not ask for your name, your email address, or a password.
There are no accounts. We cannot tell who you are, and we cannot connect
your pantry to you as a person.Your pantry lives on your phone. A copy is saved to our server so you do
not lose it, and you can turn that off.When you scan a receipt, a shelf, or a recipe, the photo is sent to an AI
service to read it. We do not keep it, and neither does the AI service
beyond 30 days.If you record allergies or a diet, that goes into your backup and to the
AI service that writes your recipes. Nowhere else.You can export everything, and you can delete it.

What the App Collects

What you put inItems in your pantry, shopping lists, saved recipes, meal plans, prices
you have paid, and what you did with food you tracked - used it, froze
it, or threw it away.Photos you scanReceipts, shelves and fridges, barcodes, and recipe pages. The app asks
for camera access to take them, and for photo library access if you want
to scan a picture you already have. These photos are sent to be read and
turned into text. We do not store them.Allergies and diets, if you tell usPantryBucks has a place to record food allergies and a diet you follow, so
that it can keep them out of the recipes it suggests. You do not have to
fill it in, and the app works without it.Two of the diet options - Halal and Kosher - say something about your
religion. Allergies are health information. We treat both as sensitive,
and this section says exactly where they go.What you record is kept on your phone. It is also included in your cloud
backup, which is on unless you turn it off. And it is sent to the AI
service when it writes you a recipe, so that the recipe can honour it -
the words "Halal" and "Kosher" are included, because the AI needs to know
what rules to follow.It is not shared with anyone in your household, even if you share a
pantry with them. It never goes into the community price pool. We do not
use it for anything other than making recipes work for you.If you would rather none of it left your phone, you can turn off cloud
backup in Settings, and you can leave the allergy and diet fields empty
and tell the recipe writer what to avoid each time instead.A device identifierWhen you install the app, it creates a random identifier so your phone can
talk to our server. It is not tied to your name, your email, your phone
number, or your Apple ID. If you delete and reinstall the app, you get a
new one, and the old one cannot be connected to it.Anonymous usage dataCounts of how often features are used, to help us understand what works.
These are numbers only - no text you wrote, no photos, nothing that
identifies you. You can turn this off in Settings.

What the App Does Not Collect

Your name, email address, phone number, or postal address.
Your contacts, your calendar, or your location.
Your payment details - Apple handles subscriptions, and we never see your
card.
Any login credentials, because there is no login.

Where Your Data Lives

On your phoneYour pantry, lists, recipes, and history are stored on your device. The
app works without an internet connection.Backed up to our serverA copy of your pantry is saved so that you do not lose it if something
goes wrong. This is on by default and you can turn it off in Settings.The copy is locked to a key held on your phone. That key is the only way
to open it, change it, or delete it. We cannot read your backup without
it, and neither can anyone else.That also means we cannot recover it for you. If you lose your phone and
the key is gone with it, the copy cannot be opened by anyone, including
us. An unused backup is deleted automatically after a year.If you turn backup off, we stop keeping a copy and the existing one is
deleted.Shared with your householdIf you share a pantry with someone, the shared pantry and lists are stored
on our server so both phones can see the same thing. Anyone in your
household can see the shared pantry. Invitations expire a few minutes
after they are created and are then deleted.

Who Else Sees Your Data

Google (Firebase)We use Google's Firebase to store data and run the app's server. Data is
held in the United States.AnthropicScanned photos and recipe requests are sent to Anthropic's AI service to
be read and understood. Nothing identifying is attached. Anthropic deletes
these automatically within 30 days and does not use them to train its
models.AppleSubscriptions are handled by Apple. We receive confirmation that a
subscription is active. We do not receive your payment details.We do not sell information about you, and we never will - we do not have
any. We may license or sell aggregate grocery price data, which contains
no identifier and is not connected to any person. We do not share anything
with advertisers, and we do not build a profile of you.

Community Price Data

When you scan a receipt, PantryBucks contributes grocery prices and store
names to a shared pool, so the app can tell everyone where things cost
less.These contributions carry no account, no email, and no device or user
identifier. They record what was bought, at which store, in which city, on
what date, and at what price. Nothing links one contribution to another
from the same phone, so no purchase history builds up about you.If you correct an item name the app read wrongly, that correction is
shared too, so the app reads it better next time.You can turn all of this off in Settings, under Usage Analytics. The same
switch covers anonymous usage data and community price data.Turning it off stops anything further being sent. It does not withdraw
contributions already made - they carry nothing identifying, so there is
no way to find them again.

What You Can Do

Export everythingSettings has an option to save a copy of your pantry as a file you keep.Delete your dataTurning off cloud backup deletes the copy on our server. Erasing the app's
data in Settings removes what is on your phone. Deleting the app removes
everything on the device.Turn off usage data and price contributions
Settings has a switch for both, under Usage Analytics.Because there are no accounts, we cannot look up your data for you, and we
cannot delete it on request - we would have no way to find it. The
controls in the app are how it is done, and they work without us.

Children

PantryBucks is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly
collect information from them.

For California Residents

California law gives residents the right to know what personal information
a business collects, to request its deletion, and to opt out of its sale.PantryBucks does not sell personal information and does not share it for
cross-context behavioral advertising.The practical position is unusual and worth stating directly: because the
app has no accounts and collects no identifiers tied to a person, we
generally hold no personal information about you as California law defines
it. If you believe we hold information about you, write to the address
below and we will do what we can - but in most cases there is nothing for
us to look up, which is by design rather than evasion.You will not be treated differently for exercising any of these rights.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or what
happens to it, we will update this page and change the date at the top.

Contact

[email protected]Prickly Pear Software LLC
Scottsdale, Arizona