How Shoku handles your family's data

Effective September 19, 2026

The short version

Who sees it: You and the family members you invite
Do we sell data: Never
Ads: None — no ad networks, no ad tracking
Delete anytime: In-app, Settings → Delete account permanently

1 What we collect

Shoku is a shared household app, so most of what it stores is the kitchen information you and your family put into it. Here's exactly what that includes:

Category	Examples	Why
Account	Email, name, password (or Google sign-in identity)	Sign you in, identify you to your family
Household data	Pantry items, shopping lists, recipes, meal plans	The core of what the app does
Family membership	Who's in your household, invite codes, roles	Control who can see and edit shared data
Usage events	Actions like "recipe saved" or "item added", tied to your account, not to ad identifiers	Understand what's useful, fix what isn't
Device preference	Whether App Lock (Face ID / fingerprint) is turned on	Remember your setting

Biometric unlock happens entirely on your device through iOS or Android's own Face ID / Touch ID / fingerprint system. Shoku never receives, transmits, or stores your actual biometric data — only the on/off preference.

2 AI recipe suggestions

When you tap "What can I cook tonight?", the names of your pantry items are sent to Anthropic's Claude API to generate recipe ideas. Recipe URLs you paste to import are fetched server-side to pull out the ingredients and steps. Neither is used to identify you personally beyond generating that one response, and we don't build advertising profiles from it.

3 Who we share it with

Your family members — anyone you invite into your household sees the pantry, shopping list, recipes, and meal plans you share.
Supabase — our database, authentication, and file-storage provider. They host the data; they don't use it for anything of their own.
PostHog — our analytics provider, for the usage events described above.
Anthropic — processes pantry item names to generate AI recipe suggestions, per §2.

We don't sell data to anyone, and we don't work with advertising or data-broker networks.

4 How long we keep it

Your data stays until you remove it. Deleting a pantry item, recipe, or list entry removes it immediately. Deleting your account (Settings → Delete account permanently) removes your login and any household where you're the only member, along with that household's pantry, shopping list, recipes, and meal plans. If you leave a shared household instead, its data stays intact for the family members remaining in it.

5 Security

Data in transit is encrypted (TLS). Your session is stored in your device's secure hardware-backed keychain, never in plain text. Database access is scoped with row-level security, so a request can only ever reach data belonging to a household you're actually a member of.

6 Children

Shoku is operated by adults planning meals for their household — it isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect account data from them.

7 Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll update the date at the top and, for material changes, let you know in the app.

8 Contact

Questions about your data or this policy: shoku.kitchenos@gmail.com

The agreement between you and Shoku

Effective September 19, 2026

1 Using Shoku

Shoku helps a household track its pantry, plan meals, and manage a shared shopping list. You need an account to use it, and you're responsible for what happens under that account — keep your password to yourself, and let us know if you think someone else has access to it.

2 Family households

A household is a shared space: anyone you invite can view and edit the pantry, shopping list, recipes, and meal plans in it. Only invite people you actually want to share that with. Family admins can remove members and manage invite codes.

3 Your content

Recipes, notes, and pantry entries you add are yours. By adding them, you're giving your household members permission to view and edit them as part of normal use of the app, and giving Shoku permission to store and process them to provide the service.

4 AI and imported recipes — use your judgment

AI-suggested recipes and recipes imported from a URL are generated or parsed automatically, and can be wrong — about quantities, about an ingredient being safe for an allergy, about anything. Always use your own judgment before cooking or eating something the app suggested, especially around allergens, expiry dates, and food safety. Shoku is a planning tool, not a substitute for your own kitchen sense.

5 Acceptable use

Don't use Shoku to store or share anything illegal, abusive, or that isn't yours to share.
Don't try to access another household's data, or interfere with the service for other users.
Don't reverse-engineer or resell access to the app.

6 No warranty

Shoku is provided as-is. We work to keep it reliable, but we don't guarantee it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that recipe suggestions will suit your dietary needs. To the extent the law allows, Shoku isn't liable for indirect or incidental damages arising from your use of the app.

7 Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time from Settings. We may suspend or terminate access for accounts that violate §5.

8 Changes to these terms

We'll update the date above when these terms change, and flag material changes in the app.

9 Contact

Questions about these terms: shoku.kitchenos@gmail.com