Effective October 1, 2026 · Updated October 29, 2026 · thepantry.app
The Pantry is a kitchen-management app built by a family, for families. The short version: your kitchen data belongs to you, we don't sell it, and we collect only what the app needs to work.
If you connect your Pinterest account, you pick which boards to bring in. The Pantry reads the Pins on those boards to find the website each recipe came from, then reads the recipe from that website and saves it to your recipes with a link back to its source. We keep only the key Pinterest gives us to read your boards, never your Pinterest password, and we don't keep your Pins, boards or pictures. We never post, save or change anything on your Pinterest. Disconnect any time from your Profile, which deletes the key; deleting your account deletes it too.
Our website, thepantry.app, uses the Meta Pixel and Meta's Conversions API so we can tell whether our ads on Facebook and Instagram lead to sign-ups and upgrades. When you visit the website in a regular browser, Meta may receive the pages you visit, your browser type, your IP address, and cookies Meta sets. The pixel runs only on our public pages. It never runs on your kitchen pages once you're signed in, on our sign-in and sign-up forms, or in a browser that sends a Global Privacy Control signal. When you create an account or upgrade on the website, we tell Meta that it happened, along with a scrambled (hashed) copy of your email address and account number, so Meta can match it to an ad you saw. Meta handles that information under the Meta Privacy Policy. You can manage the ads you see in your Facebook and Instagram ad settings, and most browsers can block these trackers. None of this runs inside our iPhone or Android apps.
Our home page also uses Impact, an affiliate network, to count visits to the page.
Besides the companies named above, other companies host our servers, deliver and protect the website, send our email, deliver notifications to your phone and store our backups, and they handle your information to do that work for us. The one that delivers the website also counts visits without cookies, inside our apps too. To learn which companies these are, email support@thepantry.app.
If you invite family members to your kitchen, they can see the shared inventory, meal plan, and grocery list. If you choose to share a recipe with the community, it becomes visible to other users under your display name. Both are your choice, always.
Your data stays for as long as you have an account. To get a copy of it, tap Download my data on your Profile page. To delete your account and its data, email us at the address below and we will remove it. Backups age out on a rolling schedule, and a deleted account is fully cleared from all of them within 90 days.
Traffic is encrypted with HTTPS everywhere. Passwords are stored hashed (bcrypt). Servers are firewalled, patched automatically, and monitored.
The Pantry is a general-audience household tool and is not directed at children under 13. Accounts are created by adults in the household.
If this policy changes in a meaningful way, we will note it here with a new effective date.
Questions or deletion requests: support@thepantry.app