Effective October 15, 2026. Last updated October 17, 2026.
Dinner Agent is an iPhone app that helps your household plan dinners, keep track of food and shop. It’s made by Zack Gabbard (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what we collect, where it goes, how long we keep it and the choices you have. Contact: support@cyberhubsoftware.com.
Most of your kitchen stays on your iPhone. Our server keeps a random household ID, your plan and how much AI you used. When you turn Chef on, what Chef needs to answer you goes to Claude (by Anthropic) and, on calls and steps read aloud, to Grok (by xAI). Neither company uses it to train AI. We don’t sell or share your information, show ads or track you.
Your household profiles (names, ages, allergies, diets and tastes), pantry, grocery list, weekly plans, your recipes and photos, Chef conversations, what Chef remembers, and the audio of steps already read aloud in Chef’s voice are saved on your iPhone. We don’t copy them to our servers.
You can start without an account. If you sign in with Apple, Apple gives the app a private ID for you and, if you choose, your first name. Both stay on your iPhone. We don’t receive your email address. Your birthday is checked on your iPhone and never saved: the app keeps only that you’re 18 or older. If someone under 18 tries to sign up, the iPhone remembers it, so the app stays closed to them on that phone.
Only if you turn on Share your kitchen: your household profiles, pantry, weekly plans, grocery list, recipes, stores and favorites are kept in your iCloud account and shared, through Apple, with the people you invite. They’re encrypted, and we can’t see them. Chef conversations, what Chef remembers and your alerts stay on your own iPhone. Stop sharing or leave any time in Settings → Share your kitchen.
To run Plus, Chef and calls, our server keeps:
For each Chef call we keep only how long it lasted and technical numbers used to fix problems: how quickly Chef answered and how often you talked over it. We never record your voice or what was said.
Receipts, order screenshots and recipes you ask us to read pass through our server to Claude and aren’t stored by us. When you import a recipe link, your iPhone opens the page, like Safari would. If it can’t, our server opens it instead. If you report one of Chef’s answers, we keep that answer and your note for up to 1 year so a person can review it.
To stop abuse, our server briefly counts requests from each internet (IP) address; those counts are deleted within about 10 minutes. Our server host, Cloudflare, keeps short technical logs (which feature was used, whether it worked, and the first few characters of the household ID, never what you said) for a short time.
If you email us, we use your email address and message only to help you. They’re kept in our email (Gmail, by Google) for as long as we need them to help you, and we delete them if you ask.
Chef’s AI is used only after you turn Chef on.
Claude, by Anthropic, receives:
Grok, by xAI, receives your voice and the same kitchen notes during a call with Chef, and the words of recipe steps read aloud in Chef’s voice.
Names from profiles are swapped for labels like “Person A” before anything is sent, including in what you type. Your voice on calls is sent as you say it, and names that aren’t in a profile are sent as written. Neither company receives your household ID or your Apple ID.
Neither company uses any of it to train AI. Anthropic usually deletes what it receives within 30 days, and keeps it longer only if it’s flagged for misuse or the law requires it. xAI uses it only to answer, then deletes it.
Chef’s answers, recipes and voice are made by AI, and the app labels them that way. Turn Chef off in Settings at any time. Everything else keeps working, and steps are then read aloud by your iPhone’s built-in voice, on your phone.
When a step is read aloud in Chef’s voice, the audio made from that step’s words is kept on our server for up to a year, so the same step doesn’t have to be made again. That includes steps from recipes you added. It holds only the step’s words turned into speech: never your voice, your name or who asked.
When you scan a barcode, the barcode number is looked up in Open Food Facts, a free public food database, to find the product’s name. Your iPhone asks Open Food Facts directly, so, like any website, it sees your internet (IP) address. Nothing else about you is sent.
Subscriptions are bought and managed through Apple. Apple tells us whether a purchase is active. It never shares your card details with us. Reminders and alerts are scheduled by your iPhone.
We don’t sell or share your personal information (including “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising), we don’t show ads, and we don’t track you across other apps and websites. We don’t use your information to profile you for decisions with legal effects. Because we don’t track, we treat Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals as already honored.
| What | Where | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Profiles, pantry, plans, recipes, photos, chats, Chef memory, saved read-aloud audio | Your iPhone (and iCloud if sharing) | Until you delete them or your account |
| Household ID, household secret, app security keys, plan and renew/end dates | Our server | Until the last adult deletes the account |
| Reported answers and notes | Our server | Up to 1 year, or until account deletion if sooner |
| AI usage and cost counts; call lengths and call diagnostics (response times, never audio) | Our server | Kept as totals. On deletion, unlinked from you |
| Apple purchase ID and refund records | Our server | Kept after deletion, unlinked from your household, so a purchase can’t be reused |
| Request counts by IP address | Our server | About 10 minutes |
| Read-aloud audio of recipe steps | Our server | Up to 1 year |
| Copies of deleted server records in backups | Our server host | Up to 30 days |
| Receipts, screenshots, imported pages | Pass through only | Not stored by us |
| Support emails | Our email (Gmail) | As long as needed to help you, or until you ask us to delete them |
| What Anthropic receives | Anthropic | Usually within 30 days; longer only if flagged or legally required |
| What xAI receives | xAI | Deleted after answering |
Wherever you live, you can ask us to:
Residents of California (CCPA/CPRA) and of other states with privacy laws, including Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon and others, have these rights by law. They also have the right to appeal a decision and to not be treated differently for using them.
To make a request, email support@cyberhubsoftware.com, or use Settings → Delete account. We’ll check it’s you before we act, for example by asking you to confirm the request from the Dinner Agent app on your phone, and we reply within 45 days. If we decline, reply to our answer to appeal. You can use an authorized agent.
In the last 12 months, the categories of information we handled were:
They came from you, your iPhone and Apple, and were used only to run the app. They were disclosed only to service providers: Anthropic, xAI, Apple, Cloudflare (our server host), Google (our email) and Open Food Facts (barcode numbers only).
Allergies and diets are sensitive information, and some states (such as Washington, Nevada and Connecticut) call them consumer health data. We collect them only when you enter them, use them only to check food and answer you, and share them only with Anthropic and xAI to do that, and only when Chef is on. We never sell them, use them for ads or use them to infer anything else about you. To see or remove them, edit or delete a profile, turn Chef off, or use Settings → Delete account. To ask what we have or to have it deleted, email support@cyberhubsoftware.com. Read more in our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy: https://cyberhub28-dotcom.github.io/dinneragent-site/health-data
The app is for adults 18 and over. Kids can be part of a household profile set up by an adult, but we don’t knowingly collect information from children. If you think a child has used the app, email us and we’ll delete it.
Data in transit is encrypted. Our server doesn’t store names or chats, except an answer you choose to report. Only the real app, checked by Apple, can use Chef. No system is perfectly secure, so we keep as little as we can.
If this policy changes, we’ll post the new version here and in the app before it takes effect, and update the dates above.
Zack Gabbard, support@cyberhubsoftware.com