Privacy Policy
Acedia Kitchen for iPhone and iPad · Last updated 16 September 2026
Acedia Kitchen collects nothing about you. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no server operated by the developer. Your recipes are stored on your device and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud account, which the developer cannot read.
The rest of this page explains that in more detail. It is short because there is very little to describe.
No accounts and no server
The app has no sign-up, no login, and no user accounts. There is no backend service. The developer operates no server that receives data from the app, so there is nothing for the developer to store, read, sell or hand over.
No analytics, tracking or advertising
The app contains no analytics, no crash-reporting service, no advertising and no third-party SDKs. It has no package dependencies at all — no Swift Package Manager, CocoaPods or Carthage packages are used. Nothing in the app contacts a third party.
The app's privacy manifest declares no tracking, no tracking domains, and no collected data types. It does not use the App Tracking Transparency prompt because it has no reason to.
What the app stores, and where
Your recipes, ingredients, units, versions, notes and timers are stored on your device. If you have iCloud enabled, they also sync to your own iCloud account so they appear on your other devices.
That sync uses CloudKit's private database in the container
iCloud.com.pathossociety.Acedia-Kitchen. A CloudKit private
database is accessible only to the Apple Account that owns it. The
developer has no access to its contents and cannot read your recipes.
Apple's handling of that data is governed by
Apple's privacy policy,
not this one.
If you turn iCloud off, the app keeps working with the copy on your device.
Settings stored on your device
The app uses iOS's standard preferences storage (UserDefaults)
for its own settings only — declared with reason code CA92.1.
Two things are kept there: a flag recording that the starter units were
seeded on first launch, and your light or dark paper preference. Neither
leaves your device.
Sharing a recipe
Exporting a recipe writes a .arecipe file, or Markdown, which
you then send yourself through the iOS share sheet — AirDrop, Mail,
Messages, Files, or wherever you choose. The app uploads nothing anywhere.
Where that file goes afterwards is up to you and the service you hand it
to.
Timers, alarms and notifications
Timers and alarms are entirely local to your device. Alarms use AlarmKit and notifications are local notification requests scheduled by the app. There is no push server, and the developer sends no messages to the app. If you grant notification permission, it is used only to ring the timers you started.
Children
The app is not directed at children, and since it collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children either.
Deleting your data
Because nothing is collected, there is nothing held about you to request, export, correct or delete. Concretely:
- Deleting the app removes the copy stored on your device.
- Data held in your iCloud account is yours to manage in Settings → your name → iCloud on your device, the same way as for any other app.
- If you are somewhere that grants you rights over the personal data a company holds about you, the honest answer is that this developer holds none to act on.
Changes to this policy
If the app ever starts doing something this page does not describe, this page will be updated before that version ships, and the date at the top will change.
Contact
Questions about privacy in Acedia Kitchen can go to hector.f.plata.s@me.com.