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Privacy Policy for Bite

Effective Date: October 18, 2026
At Bite, your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you use the Bite app, the website at biterecipes.co, the Bite connector for AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT, and related services (together, “Bite”), how we use and share it, and the choices you have. It should be read together with our Terms of Service.

Information We Collect

  • Account information: When you sign up or sign in, we collect your email address, your name if you provide it, and any profile information you choose to add, such as a username or profile photo.
  • Content you create: Recipes, photos, collections, notes, meal plans, shopping lists, reviews, replies and other content you add to Bite.
  • Photos: If you allow access to your photo library, Bite uses only the photos you choose to add, such as recipe or profile photos.
  • Content you import: When you save a recipe from Instagram, TikTok, a website, a photo or another source, we receive the link, text or image you share with Bite so we can turn it into a recipe.
  • Questions you ask: If you use features that let you ask questions about a recipe, we receive your questions and the recipe they relate to so we can answer them.
  • Connected AI assistants: If you connect an AI assistant to Bite, we keep a record of the connection (which assistant, when you connected and when it was last used) and the security tokens that let it reach your account. When your assistant uses Bite, we receive the requests it sends, such as a search, a recipe or link to save, or meal plan changes, so we can carry them out. We keep a log of which Bite actions were used, by which assistant, and whether they worked, and we note which assistant saved each recipe, but not the recipes, notes or other content involved. We do not receive your conversations with the assistant, only the requests it sends to Bite. If you ask your assistant to report a problem to us, we receive the report it writes, which may describe the recipe, meal plan or shopping list involved. We use it to fix the problem and delete it if you delete your account.
  • Community activity: Who you follow and who follows you, and the recipes and collections you save, cook, share or interact with.
  • Purchases: If you buy a subscription or other purchase, Apple or Google processes the payment. We receive information about the purchase and subscription status, but not your payment card details.
  • Notifications: If you allow push notifications, we receive a device token so we can send them.
  • Automatically collected information: Usage data, such as how you interact with the app, device information, such as your operating system and app version, and crash and performance logs. When you visit our website, our hosting provider may log your IP address, browser type and the pages you request.
  • App events, usage analytics and campaign information: We record how you use the Bite app, such as the screens you open, recipes you view, save, cook or add to your meal plan, imports, searches and subscription checkouts, so we can understand which features are used, improve the app and measure how well our marketing works. These events are linked to your Bite account ID and include your username, device type, operating system, app version, subscription status and whether you arrived through one of our marketing links. We do not include the text of your recipes, notes, reviews or Ask Bite messages in these events. For searches, we record only the number of results, plus the words of a recipe search that found nothing, with anything that looks like an email address, phone number or link left out.
  • Advertising information: If ads are shown in your version of Bite, our advertising partners may collect or receive information such as your IP address, device information, app activity, ad views, ad clicks and general location inferred from your IP address to show, measure and improve ads.
We do not collect your precise location or your contacts.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:
  • Create and manage your account and sign you in.
  • Save, import, organize and display your recipes, and turn imported content into recipes.
  • Provide community features, such as public profiles, following, sharing and discovery.
  • Answer questions you ask about recipes.
  • Let AI assistants you connect search your recipes and public Bite recipes, and update your library, collections, meal plan and shopping list when you ask them to.
  • Generate images for recipes that don’t have one.
  • Provide paid features and manage subscriptions.
  • Keep Bite safe, including automatically screening uploaded photos and usernames, reviewing reports, preventing abuse and enforcing our Terms of Service.
  • Understand how Bite is used, fix crashes and improve the app.
  • Send notifications and communicate with you about updates, support or feedback.
  • Display and measure ads and sponsored content, and measure our marketing campaigns.
  • Comply with legal obligations.

What Other People Can See

Your profile name, username and photo, the recipes and collections you make public, and community activity such as follows may be visible to other Bite users. Public content can also be opened by anyone who has a share link to it. Content you keep private is not shown to other users.

Connected AI Assistants

You can choose to connect Bite to an AI assistant, such as Claude or ChatGPT. You approve each connection yourself after signing in to Bite. The connector is free to use. Meal planning and shopping lists through it need an active Bite Pro subscription, as they do in the app. Our connector page explains how it works.
While connected, your assistant can access:
  • recipes you have created, saved, favorited or marked as cooked
  • collections you own or that others have shared with you
  • your meal plan and shopping list
  • your private recipe notes
  • public recipes on Bite
It cannot access your email address, password or payment details, or other users’ private recipes.
When you ask, your assistant can search public Bite recipes, save and favorite recipes, create collections and add recipes to them, create, import or edit your own recipes, plan meals, update your shopping list, add private notes and mark recipes as cooked. Recipes saved through an assistant are private. If a recipe doesn’t have an approved photo, it is saved as a draft until you add one in Bite. Your assistant cannot delete anything, edit other people’s recipes, change a recipe’s privacy, post reviews or follow people. If it edits one of your recipes that is already public, the change is visible to others, just as if you made it in the app. Marking a recipe as cooked notifies the recipe’s creator, just as it does in the app.
You can disconnect an assistant at any time from Settings → Connected apps on biterecipes.co. Access ends immediately. Connections may also expire and ask you to sign in again. Deleting your Bite account removes all of your connections. Information your assistant already received stays with the assistant’s provider under its own policies.
We keep a log of which Bite actions your assistant used, without recipe or other content, for 90 days to keep the connector secure and working, and we keep usage counts, including which assistant was used, to understand how the connector is used, including through PostHog.

How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your personal information for money. We share information only in the following situations:
  • With other users: As described in “What Other People Can See” above.
  • With AI assistants you connect: If you connect an AI assistant, such as Anthropic’s Claude or OpenAI’s ChatGPT, we share the Bite information it asks for on your behalf. See “Connected AI Assistants” below for exactly what that includes. The company that provides the assistant handles that information under its own terms and privacy policy, not ours, and may keep it as part of your conversation history.
  • With service providers: These providers process information on our behalf and only as needed to provide their services to us:
    • Google Firebase and Google Cloud, for sign-in, databases, file storage, hosting, notifications and app infrastructure.
    • Google Gemini, an artificial intelligence service, to import and format recipes from the links and content you share, to answer questions you ask about recipes, to screen the recipe and profile photos you upload or that come from links you import (including through a connected AI assistant), and to generate recipe images.
    • Firebase Crashlytics and Sentry, to report crashes and errors so we can fix them.
    • PostHog, Inc. (United States), for product analytics. PostHog processes usage events on our behalf and does not use them for its own purposes or for advertising.
  • With Meta: We use the Meta (Facebook) SDK to send Meta the app events described above, such as sign-ups, recipe views, searches, saves and subscription checkouts, and we use Meta App Links to tell which of our campaigns brought you to Bite. This helps us measure and attribute our advertising. We have turned off the SDK’s advertiser ID collection and advertiser tracking, so Meta does not receive your device’s advertising identifier from Bite.
  • With advertising partners: We use Google AdMob to display ads in Bite. Bite currently shows only non-personalized ads, and asks for consent where required. Google may still collect or use information such as IP address, device information and ad interactions to serve and measure ads and to prevent fraud. Under some U.S. state laws, sharing app activity with advertising and measurement partners may be considered “sharing” or “targeted advertising.” You can learn more about how Google uses data from apps that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
  • With app stores: Apple and Google process purchases and subscriptions under their own privacy policies.
  • For legal reasons: If required by law, to respond to valid requests from public authorities, or to protect the rights, safety and security of Bite, our users or others.
  • Business transfers: If Bite is involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to this Privacy Policy.

Ads, Sponsored Content, and Privacy Choices

Bite may show ads or sponsored content in feeds, discovery surfaces or other parts of the app. Sponsored items may link to third-party websites, apps, products or services. Those third parties are responsible for their own privacy practices.
Where required, Bite or our advertising partners ask for your consent before using information for certain advertising-related purposes. You may also be able to manage ad, tracking or privacy choices through in-app prompts, your device settings, Google settings or other controls made available by our partners.
On iOS, you may be asked whether to allow tracking under Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework. On Android and iOS, your app store privacy disclosures may also describe data used for advertising, analytics and app functionality.

How Long We Keep Information

We keep your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide Bite. When you delete your account, we delete or anonymize your personal information and content within 30 days, except for information we must keep to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse or enforce our agreements, and copies that remain in backups for a limited time. If you connect an AI assistant, we keep the connection until you disconnect it, it expires or you delete your account, and we keep the log of which connector actions were used for 90 days. Usage analytics events are kept for up to 12 months. When you delete your account, we also delete your analytics history from PostHog, keeping only one anonymous record that an account was deleted, which is not linked to you.

Data Security

We take data security seriously and use measures designed to protect your personal information, including:
  • Storing your data with Firebase, which uses industry-standard encryption and safeguards.
  • Limiting access to your personal information to authorized people who need it.
  • Letting connected AI assistants reach your account only through secure, revocable sign-in tokens. We never give an assistant your password.
However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Your Choices and Rights

  • Account information: You can update your email or profile information within the app.
  • Content: You can edit or delete recipes and other content you’ve added at any time.
  • Connected AI assistants: You can see and disconnect the assistants connected to your account at any time from Settings → Connected apps on biterecipes.co. You can also remove Bite from the assistant’s own settings.
  • Account deletion: You can ask us to delete your account and the personal information and content associated with it. See Delete Your Account for how.
  • Device permissions: You can turn off photo library access and push notifications at any time in your device settings.
  • Advertising choices: You can use in-app privacy prompts, device settings and advertising partner controls to manage certain advertising preferences where those choices are available.
  • Privacy rights: Depending on where you live, including in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, California and other U.S. states, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or receive a copy of your personal information, to object to or restrict certain processing, to opt out of targeted advertising, and to withdraw consent. To make a request, email us at support@biterecipes.co. We may need to verify your identity before responding, and we will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights. You may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

International Users

Bite is operated from the United States, and our service providers may process information in the United States and other countries. Those countries may have data protection laws that differ from the laws where you live. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards for these transfers.

Children’s Privacy

Bite is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete it promptly.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated policy on this page and update the effective date, and we will notify you in the app or by email before material changes take effect.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your information, please contact us at support@biterecipes.co.