Privacy Policy

Your recipes belong in your kitchen. Here’s how HalfSheet handles your information.

Last updated November 10, 2026

This policy covers the HalfSheet app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and halfsheet.app. HalfSheet is provided by Frederico. For privacy questions or requests, contact support@halfsheet.app.

Your recipe library

Recipes, ingredients, prices, methods, and related library information are stored on your device. When iCloud is available and enabled for the app, the library syncs using Apple CloudKit in your private iCloud database. The app does not upload your library to a HalfSheet server. It connects to iCloud for sync and sharing, and to the App Store for tips and the subscription. At most once a day it also asks the App Store whether a newer version of HalfSheet is out. On iPhone and iPad, when you use Import from Link or share a web page to HalfSheet, the page and its photo come from the website, as they do in a browser, and the recipe is read on your device. The page is not sent to us. HalfSheet does not require an account with us.

Apple processes iCloud data under its own terms and privacy policy. You can manage iCloud access in System Settings on your Mac or in Settings on your iPhone or iPad. Turning off sync does not, by itself, delete previously stored copies.

Sharing recipes

You can share a recipe with people you choose, the way Notes shares a note. The share travels through Apple’s iCloud, not through us. The people you invite see the recipe’s title, ingredients and amounts, method, notes, and photos, and they can edit it if you let them. Your ingredient prices never leave your library. You can stop sharing at any time from the recipe, and a person you invited can leave. Apple processes shared data under its own terms and privacy policy.

Tips and subscription

HalfSheet is free. You can leave a tip or subscribe to support its development. Apple handles the payment through the App Store; we never see your payment details. The app asks Apple whether your subscription is active, to show the supporter’s seal. It keeps on your device whether your support is active, until when, and the subscription’s name, so the seal and the Support page show without asking the App Store each time; none of it leaves your device or reaches us. You can manage or cancel the subscription in your Apple Account settings.

Analytics and advertising

The app has no advertising or third-party analytics or tracking SDKs. We do not sell your personal information or use your recipes for advertising. Apple may separately process App Store transaction information and diagnostic reports according to your Apple settings and its policies.

Visiting this website

This website has no advertising, analytics scripts, embedded third-party media, or marketing cookies. Its pages and images are served from this website. Our hosting provider and Cloudflare process technical request information, such as IP addresses, requested URLs, browser information, and request times, to deliver and protect the website. Cloudflare may use essential security cookies when necessary. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

We do not enable a separate visitor access log for this website on our server. Operational or security records may be retained by our infrastructure providers under their policies. The website does not receive your in-app recipe data.

If you subscribe on this website, we keep your email address so we can send you HalfSheet news. Subscribing is optional and has nothing to do with the app or your recipes. Your address is stored on our server, and Microsoft Azure delivers the emails and tells us whether each one arrived. We don’t track whether you open our emails or click their links. Every email has a link to unsubscribe, and you can ask us to delete your address at support@halfsheet.app.

The news pages and the signup run on Ghost, which looks up your approximate country from your IP address using GeoJS when you subscribe.

Contacting us

If you email support, we receive your email address and whatever you include in your message. We use that information to respond and resolve the issue. Please send only the details needed for support and remove private recipe content, credentials, and other sensitive information from attachments.

We keep support correspondence while it is needed to address your request and related follow-up, or to meet legal obligations. You can request deletion by email. Information may also be processed by the email provider used to deliver and store the correspondence.

Deleting and managing data

You control your library in the app. Deleted recipes and ingredients move to Recently Deleted, where you can recover them or delete them permanently. The app removes items that have been in Recently Deleted for more than 30 days when its cleanup runs. With iCloud sync active, library changes are synchronized through Apple.

You can manage stored iCloud app data in Apple’s account and storage settings. Removing the app alone may not remove iCloud copies, backups, or exported files. Copies you export or back up remain where you saved them until you delete them. Contact us if you need help finding the relevant controls; we cannot erase your private iCloud library on your behalf.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict the use of personal information, object to processing, or complain to your local privacy authority. Contact us to exercise rights concerning information we hold, such as support correspondence.

Service providers and security

We use infrastructure and email providers to operate the website, send the newsletter, and respond to support. We share information only as needed for those purposes, when you direct us to do so, or when legally required. Providers may process information in countries other than your own. We use HTTPS for website traffic. No system can guarantee absolute security.

Children and policy updates

HalfSheet is a general-purpose cooking tool and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly solicit children’s personal information. Please contact us if a child has sent personal information to support so we can address it.

We may update this policy when the app or our practices change. The date above identifies the latest version. Material changes will be described here and, where appropriate, within the app.