Privacy

This page explains what Mealora collects, why, and how you can delete it. We keep it short because we collect very little.

What we collect

• How you sign in: your e-mail address (Google or an e-mail code) or your mobile number (SMS code). We use it only to sign you in and, if you ask, to tell you about your account.
• The name each member shows in a group (you choose it, for example “Maa” or “Rahul”), so others see who changed the menu, and a member's own plate note if they add one.
• Your household answers: number of adults and kids, food rules, fasting days, meals to plan, cooking time, dislikes and (if you give it) your city.
• Your plans, grocery lists, kitchen stock, pantry items, notes for the cook, video links you add and feedback on dishes.
• Your cook book, if you use it: the cook's name, and if you add them, their phone number and UPI ID, salary, attendance, leave and payments. This is visible only to your group and is used only to show the cook book and open a UPI payment.
• If you switch on phone notifications, a technical address for your browser so we can send them.
• What you do with your menu: dishes swapped, added or removed, meals skipped, how many people are eating, and the mood words from “Ask AI” (for example “light” or “spicy”, never the text you type). This is how Mealora learns your family's taste.
• How you arrived (for example, a shared menu link or a campaign tag) so we know which channels work.
• Basic usage events (for example, “plan generated”) without advertising cookies.

We do not collect ages or photos of anyone in your household. For children we store only a count. We do not collect health or medical information. Your cook's details are never shared outside your group, never used for research and never sold.

Why

To plan your meals, build your grocery list, keep your plan on every device, learn your family's taste so each week fits you better, plan the next week for you when nobody does (you can switch this off in “Your taste”), and improve the product. We do not show ads.

Anonymous food trends and research

We never sell or share your personal data: your name, phone number, e-mail, notes, or anything that identifies you or your family.

• Anonymous trends. We may publish or share, including with food businesses and researchers, counts across many families, for example “dal tadka is the most-cooked dinner in Bengaluru”. A number is used only when it comes from at least 10 different families, so no family can be picked out.
• Research sharing, only if you say yes. In “Your taste” you can switch on “Help food research”. Then your group's food choices (dishes planned, cooked, liked and swapped, by week) with city, diet, family size range and who cooks may be shared with food and nutrition research partners under a random code, never with your name, phone, e-mail or notes. A group is included only when everyone in it has said yes. It is off unless you switch it on, and you can switch it off any time; sharing stops from then on.

Where it is stored

Data is stored with our database provider (Supabase) and served through our hosting provider. Meal planning and “Ask AI” requests may be processed by our AI provider (Google Gemini or Anthropic Claude). They contain your household rules, dish codes and what you type in “Ask AI”, never your name, phone number or e-mail. On Google's free tier, Google may use these requests to improve its products, so don't type personal details into “Ask AI”.

Your choices

• Use Mealora without signing in; your plan stays on this device.
• Delete your account any time from Settings → “Delete my account”. This deletes your sign-in, your membership and, for groups where you are the only member, the group with its plans, lists, cook book and feedback.
• Edit or remove your cook's phone number and UPI ID any time in the cook book.
• Switch off research sharing or automatic planning any time in “Your taste”.
• Withdraw consent by deleting your account or writing to us.

Contact

For any privacy request, write to hello@mealora.co.in. We reply within 7 days.