It's Dinnertime! privacy policy
Effective September 2026 · It's Dinnertime! is made by Smart Home Life LLC.
The short version
We do not collect your data. The app has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. Your recipes, plans, lists, photos, ratings and notes live on your device and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud storage that only you can read.
What stays on your device or in your iCloud
Recipes you save, weeks you plan, your grocery list, dish photos you take, your ratings and notes, and your settings. If iCloud is on, Apple syncs these between your devices through your private iCloud database. We cannot read it: it belongs to your Apple Account, not to us.
Your grocery list is kept in Apple's Reminders, in a list you choose, so you can share it with your family the way you already share Reminders. That data is governed by your device and your Apple Account, not by us.
What leaves your device, and what it carries
- Fetching a recipe you asked for. When you paste or share a recipe link, the app fetches that page directly from that website, the same way a browser would. The website sees an ordinary page request from your device.
- Store prices (Pro). When you look up prices, the app asks our price service for a product search at your chosen store. The request carries the search words and the store, and for the store picker your zip code. It never carries your name, an account, or anything that identifies you, and our service keeps no record of who asked or what anybody searched. Price data comes from the store's own public catalog service.
- Signing into a store's website (optional). If you connect a store like Walmart or Costco, you sign into that store's own website in a secure web view on your device. Your sign-in belongs to that store; we never see or store your credentials, and their privacy policy governs what they do.
- AI planning. Meal planning and substitutions run on Apple Intelligence, on your device or on Apple's Private Cloud Compute, which is designed so that nobody, including Apple and including us, can read your requests.
- Purchases. Pro is bought through Apple. We receive no payment details. The app verifies your purchase with a signed receipt; our service checks the signature and keeps nothing.
What we collect
Nothing. We run no analytics and no crash-reporting SDKs. If you choose to share diagnostics with Apple, Apple may show us standard crash reports under Apple's own privacy terms; these contain no recipes, plans, or identities.
Data retention and deletion
We hold no data about you, so there is nothing for us to retain or delete. Everything the app stores is yours to delete: remove recipes and photos in the app, remove the app to delete its local data, and manage or delete its iCloud data in Settings > iCloud > Manage Storage on your device.
Consent
The app asks permission before using the camera (scanning barcodes or cookbook pages), photos (dish pictures), Reminders (your grocery list), and location (finding stores near you, only if you use "Use current location"). Every feature has a path that works if you say no, and you can change any of these later in Settings.
Children
It's Dinnertime! is made for adults who plan and cook meals. It is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone, children included - we do not collect information at all.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new effective date. Because the app collects nothing, changes would most likely narrow, not widen, what is described here.
Contact
Smart Home Life LLC · anthonyharmond@smarthomelifellc.com
Support for help with the app.