Privacy Policy
Last updated 24 September 2026 · Effective 24 September 2026
The short version: Nimmi has no account and no server of ours. Everything you enter (your cuisines, your dietary requirements, your household size, your store, your plan and your grocery list) is stored on your iPhone and stays there. We cannot see it, because it is never sent anywhere. The one thing that does leave your phone is the check on whether you have paid, and it says nothing about your cooking.
On this page
1. Who we are
This policy covers the iPhone app Nimmi (“Nimmi”, “the app”) and the website at nimmi.food. In this policy, “we” and “us” mean the developer of Nimmi, who is the data controller for the purposes of data protection law. You can reach us at support@nimmi.food.
2. What we collect
Nothing about your cooking. Nimmi has no user accounts, no backend server of ours, and no advertising, crash-reporting or attribution SDKs. Your cuisines, food rules, household size, stores, plans, recipes and grocery list are never sent anywhere. We do not collect, receive, store, sell or share any of it.
The subscription is the exception, and it is worth being exact about. Nimmi uses RevenueCat to record and check whether you have paid, which is what lets a subscription you bought on one iPhone come back when you restore it on another. RevenueCat receives a random identifier it generates for your installation, the purchase and renewal history Apple reports for it, and ordinary technical details such as the app version, the platform and the country of your App Store. It does not receive your name, your email address, your cuisines, your requirements, or anything you plan or cook. We never learn who you are from it either: there is no name or email on our side to attach it to.
Anonymous usage, only if you say yes. Nimmi asks once whether you'll share anonymous usage, and it is off until you tap Allow. If you allow it, the app sends PostHog a record of which features get used: for example that onboarding was finished, the paywall was shown, a recipe was imported (and whether from a link, and which kind of site, or a photo), cook mode was started or finished, a meal was added to the planner, or the grocery list was shared. Each event carries a random identifier PostHog creates for your installation, the app version, your device model and operating system version, your approximate country (from your IP address, which PostHog doesn't store with the event), and a few counts such as how many dinners a week you plan.
It never sends your recipes, their names or ingredients, anything you search for, your grocery items, your cookbooks, your ratings, or your food rules. Food rules such as halal, vegetarian or vegan can reveal religion or belief, so they never leave your iPhone in any form. There is no name, email or account to link any of it to, and it isn't used to track you across other apps or websites. You can turn it off at any time in Settings, Privacy, and the app stops sending immediately.
In App Store terms, Nimmi's privacy report is Purchase History (for the subscription) and, only if you allow anonymous usage, Product Interaction and a Device ID (for analytics). None of it is linked to your identity and none of it is used to track you.
3. What the app stores on your iPhone
Nimmi keeps the following on your device so it can do its job. None of it leaves your iPhone, and none of it is visible to us:
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Cuisines you chose | To pick recipes you'd actually cook |
| Dietary requirements (for example halal, vegetarian, vegan, no beef, gluten-free, nut-free) | To rule out recipes that don't meet them. These are hard constraints and are never relaxed |
| Household size and dinners per week | To scale recipes and decide how many nights to plan |
| The stores you shop at | To sort your grocery list into the aisle order of the one you're walking |
| Your current and recent meal plans, including any breakfasts and lunches you add | To show the week and avoid repeating the same dinners |
| Recipes you add yourself, their source link if they came from one, and your cookbooks | So you can cook, plan and shop for them |
| Favourites and the ratings you give after cooking | For the Favourites and Top rated selectors |
| Your shopping day, if you turn on the weekly reminder | To send that one reminder |
| Grocery items you've ticked off or marked as already at home | To keep them off the list |
| Whether you've finished onboarding | So you don't see it twice |
This is held in your app's own storage on the device. If you have iCloud Backup switched on, your iPhone may include app data in your encrypted device backup; that is Apple's backup of your device, governed by Apple's privacy policy, and we have no access to it.
4. Purchases and subscriptions
Subscriptions are sold and processed by Apple through the App Store using your Apple Account. We never see, receive or store your name, email address, card number or billing address. Apple tells the app only whether a valid purchase exists, so it can unlock the app; that check is handled on your device by Apple's system frameworks.
Apple provides us with aggregate, anonymised sales and download reports in App Store Connect. Those reports do not identify individual customers. Apple's handling of your purchase is covered by Apple's privacy policy.
5. Third parties and tracking
Nimmi contains two third-party SDKs: RevenueCat, which handles subscriptions and nothing else, and PostHog, which receives anonymous usage only if you allow it. What each receives is set out in section 2. Both are bound by their own privacy terms to protect that data at least as well as this policy does.
Beyond that, Nimmi has no advertising, no ad identifier (IDFA), no App Tracking Transparency prompt because nothing tracks you across apps, no crash reporting, no attribution, no fingerprinting, no cross-app or cross-site tracking, and no data brokers. We do not sell or share personal information, and we never will.
Adding a recipe from a link
When you paste a link to add a recipe, your iPhone fetches that one page directly from the site it belongs to (for example a recipe blog, TikTok, Instagram or YouTube), the same way Safari would if you opened it. That site sees an ordinary visit: your IP address and the kind of device and browser, as with any page you open. Nimmi sends it nothing about you, your food rules or your plans, and there is no Nimmi server in between. The recipe it finds is read on your iPhone and saved only there.
Adding a recipe from a photo
A photo of a cookbook page or recipe card is read on your iPhone using Apple's on-device text recognition. The photo is not uploaded anywhere and is not kept after the text is read.
On-device AI
On iPhones that support Apple Intelligence, Nimmi uses Apple's on-device language model to arrange imported recipe text into ingredients and steps. It runs entirely on your iPhone. No recipe text or anything else is sent to Apple, to us, or to any third-party AI service.
iCloud sync
If you're signed in to iCloud, the recipes you add, your cookbooks, favourites and ratings, and how many free imports you've used are kept in iCloud's key-value storage under your Apple Account, so they appear on your other devices and come back if you reinstall. Apple stores this under Apple's privacy policy; we have no access to it. Your food rules, plans and grocery list stay on each device.
Sharing your grocery list
"Share list" hands your list to iOS as plain text, and you choose where it goes (Messages, WhatsApp, email and so on). It goes only to the people you send it to, through the app you pick, and we never see it. To shop together live, send the list to Reminders and share that list from the Reminders app with the people you choose; Apple syncs it between you through iCloud.
Reminders and notifications
If you choose "Send to Reminders", Nimmi writes your grocery list into a list in Apple's Reminders app, which syncs through your own iCloud account under Apple's privacy policy; we never see it. Notifications (a trial reminder, a weekly shopping-day reminder you choose, and cooking timers) are scheduled on your iPhone. Nothing in the app requires you to allow either.
6. This website
nimmi.food is a set of static pages. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics and embeds no third-party scripts or fonts, which is why you aren't being asked to accept anything. Our hosting provider may keep short-lived server logs (including IP addresses) for security and reliability, as any web host does. If you email us, we hold that email so we can reply to you.
7. Deleting your data
Deleting the Nimmi app from your iPhone removes everything it stored, including your preferences, plans and lists. There is no account to close and no copy of any of it anywhere else. The one record held off your device is the purchase history at RevenueCat and at Apple, which is what a restore relies on; email us and we will have the RevenueCat record deleted. If you'd like the email you sent us deleted, ask and we'll delete it.
Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription; see how to cancel.
If you allowed anonymous usage and want it deleted, copy the anonymous ID shown in Settings, Privacy, turn it off, and email us the ID; we'll delete the records for that ID at PostHog. It isn't linked to your name, so the ID is the only way to find them.
8. Children
Nimmi is a general-audience cooking app and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.
9. Your rights (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA)
Data protection law gives you rights of access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction and objection, and the right not to have your personal information sold or shared. We hold very little: your cooking never leaves your iPhone, and the only record anywhere else is the purchase history described in section 2. Ask and we will give you a copy of it, or have it deleted, in writing and free of charge, and we will not discriminate against you for asking.
If you are in the EEA or the UK and you're unhappy with our response, you can complain to your local data protection authority.
10. Changes to this policy
If Nimmi ever gains a feature that sends more off your device than the subscription check, the recipe-link fetch and the optional anonymous usage described above, we will update this policy, change the date at the top, and disclose it in the app before the feature is used. We will not start collecting personal information quietly.
11. Contact
Questions about privacy: support@nimmi.food. We aim to reply within two business days.