Last updated: 26 October 2026
This policy describes how GapPlate (“the app,” “we,” “our”) handles information when you use it. It covers the GapPlate app. The GapPlate Recipes website (gapplate.com/recipes) has its own GapPlate Recipes Privacy Policy.
Information we collect
Profile information you provide. When you set up GapPlate you may enter your age, gender, height, weight, ethnicity or preferred cuisines, and dietary restrictions. This is used only to set your nutrient targets and personalise suggestions inside the app.
Food and nutrition data you log. Foods, recipes, nutrients and diary entries you add, scan or photograph are stored so the app can track your nutrition over time.
How your data is stored
Everything above is stored locally on your device in a private database. We have no access to it. The only information the app sends to us is described under “The GapPlate website” below, and only when you use those features.
The GapPlate website (gapplate.com)
Some features use our website, gapplate.com. Your diary, profile and health details are never sent to it. The app sends only what each feature needs:
- Searching the online library or the Recipes Market Place, and adding a food or recipe from them: the words you search for and the name of the food or recipe. These are not linked to you.
- Asking us to add a food or a recipe: its name, any note you write and, if you give it, your email address, which is never shown. The food or recipe will be live soon in the app and on the website. If you gave your email, we use it only to tell you when it is in, or why we couldn’t add it (one email a day at most), and to ask you about it if we need to.
- Adding a food that isn’t in the library, when you use your own AI key: the food’s name only, with nothing about you, so the foods people ask for most can be added for everyone.
- Sharing a recipe: the recipe (name, ingredients and amounts, steps, cooked weight and the nutrient values of its ingredients), an optional link, your name if you choose to show it, and your email address, which is never shown. A shared recipe becomes public on the website.
To stop spam and copying, the website keeps a scrambled (one-way) form of your internet address for up to two days. What the website keeps, and for how long, is described in the GapPlate Recipes Privacy Policy.
Third-party services
Google Gemini (optional). AI features work only if you add your own Google Gemini API key and allow AI. From version 1.6.3, the app first shows a screen, “AI and your data”, that lists what is sent and to whom. Nothing is sent to Google Gemini until you tap Allow AI features, and you can change your answer at any time in Settings → AI.
When AI is allowed, the app sends what each feature needs directly from your device to Google, using your key: for example a food or nutrient name or description, a meal photo you chose to log, the text of what you said when logging by voice, a question you ask in the nutrition chat, your day’s totals and foods for a suggestion, or profile details such as age, gender and dietary restrictions used to personalise a suggestion. The app may also ask AI for missing nutrient values of foods in the background. Your email address is never sent. Google handles this data under the Gemini API terms and its own privacy policy. With a free key, Google may use what is sent to improve its products.
AI can make mistakes. AI answers, estimates and suggestions (including nutrient values, targets and cooked weights) can be wrong or out of date. Check anything important, and talk to a doctor or a registered dietitian before making health decisions. GapPlate is a nutrition-tracking tool, not medical advice.
Open Food Facts. When you scan a barcode, the barcode number is sent to the Open Food Facts database (openfoodfacts.org) to look up the product. Nothing else is sent.
Your API key
Your Gemini key is stored securely on your device and used only to authenticate the app’s requests to Google on your behalf. We never see it. If you create a backup file, it includes your profile and API key, so keep backups private.
What we don’t do
- We do not sell your data.
- We do not show ads or use advertising SDKs.
- We do not use analytics or tracking services.
- We do not collect your diary, profile or health details on any server; the app sends our website only what is described above.
Rating the app
After you have logged food on a few different days, the Android app may show Google Play’s own rating card, once. Google decides whether it appears, and your rating and review go to Google Play, not to us. Settings → App → Rate GapPlate opens the app’s Google Play page.
Feedback and crash reports
Sending feedback or a crash report from the app opens your own email app with a pre-filled message. Sending it is optional and entirely under your control; nothing is sent automatically.
Deleting your data
You delete your GapPlate data yourself, in the app and on the GapPlate website, at any time:
- On your phone: everything you logged in GapPlate (profile, diary, foods and recipes) is stored only on your phone. Uninstalling the app deletes it permanently. A backup file you made is not affected; delete it yourself.
- On the GapPlate website: go to gapplate.com/recipes/my, enter the email you used, open the sign-in link we email you, and choose Delete my recipes and details. Straight away, this deletes your recipes, your About you and links, and takes your email address off any food or recipe requests you sent us.
What is kept. A recipe that someone else has used in their own recipe can’t be deleted: it stays, without your name or link, as “… recipe” (for example “Boiled rice recipe”), and we keep your email address with it, never shown, only as the record of who allowed us to publish it, for as long as the recipe is published. Foods added to the shared library because you asked for them stay; they contain nothing about you. A recipe already included in a released version of the apps stays in that version. Scrambled internet addresses are deleted automatically after two days.
Children
GapPlate is not for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has sent us information (for example an email address when sharing a recipe), contact us and we will delete it.
Teenagers aged 13 to 17 should use GapPlate with a parent or guardian, who agrees to this policy and the Terms for them. They should talk to a doctor or a registered dietitian before changing their diet. GapPlate is not meant for weight loss in children or teenagers.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date.
Contact
Questions about this policy: gapplate@gapplate.com
