Privacy policy

Your recipes stay on your iPhone. Cookfile has no account, no server, no analytics, no ads and no tracking.

Last updated 10 November 2026.

Who we are

Cookfile is made by Greyledger, the trading name of Angus Taylor, a sole trader in the United Kingdom, who is the controller of any personal data described here. Contact: [email protected].

What the app does with your data

• Your recipes. Recipes, photos, tags, shopping lists and settings are stored on your iPhone, in the app's own storage.
• Nothing is sent to us. Cookfile has no account and no server. It contains no analytics, advertising or tracking code, and we never receive your recipes or anything else you enter.
• Web pages. When you open a recipe page in Cookfile, the page loads directly from its own site inside the app, as it would in a browser. The site sees an ordinary visit from a browser on your iPhone (Cookfile uses Apple's WebKit, the engine Safari uses), and handles it under its own privacy policy. As in a browser, a site can store cookies and similar data in Cookfile's browser; they stay on your iPhone and iOS manages them.
• Recipe photos from a page. When you tap Save this recipe on a web page, Cookfile downloads the recipe's photo from the address the page gives for it (the site or its image server). The request says it comes from Cookfile.
• Screenshots, photos and scans. Pictures you choose, and pages you scan with the camera, are read on your iPhone with Apple's text recognition. They are not sent to us or anywhere else. Cookfile asks for camera access only to scan a page.
• What you copy. When you open "Paste recipe text", Cookfile may fill the box with text you have just copied. When you choose From a website, or tap Paste in Cookfile's browser, it uses a link you have copied. Either stays on your iPhone.
• Other apps' files. A library file you import is read on your iPhone.
• Exports and sharing. When you export your library, share a recipe or share a shopping list, the file or text is made on your iPhone and goes only where you choose to send it (for example by email, AirDrop or Files). What happens to it then is governed by the service you send it through.
• iCloud and device backups. If your iPhone backs up to iCloud or a computer, iOS may include the app's data in that backup, under Apple's terms.
• Purchases. Cookfile Pro is a one-time purchase handled by Apple through the App Store. We do not receive your payment details. Apple tells the app whether the purchase is active.

If you email us

If you write to [email protected], we receive your email address and what you send, and use them only to reply. We keep the correspondence for as long as needed to deal with your request and for our records, and delete it on request where the law allows. Our email is hosted by service providers acting on our instructions.

Your choices and rights

• You can turn camera access on or off at any time in the iPhone's Settings. Without it, you can still add recipes from pictures in your photos.
• Deleting the app deletes everything it stored on the phone (other than copies in your own backups or files you exported). Export your library first if you want to keep it.
• Under UK data protection law you have rights to access, correct and erase personal data we hold, and to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk). The only personal data we can hold about you is email you send us.

Children

Cookfile is not directed at children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with its date.