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Privacy Policy — Mise

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Who we are

Mise is made by Dumb Lemon, an independent software studio (“we”). This policy explains what the app does with your information. Questions about it go to hello@dumblemon.com.

Summary

  • No analytics, no ads, and no tracking.
  • Without an account, your kitchen stays on your iPhone.
  • If you sign in, your kitchen is stored on our server so it syncs with your household.
  • Recipes you import and things you say for a voice list are read by OpenAI so Mise can turn them into a recipe or list. You review the result before it’s saved.

We don’t sell or share your data, and we don’t use it for advertising. We use it only to run the app for you.

Data the app uses

Your kitchen: pantry items, recipes, grocery lists, stores, meals, and cooking progress
WhyTo run the app. Without an account it’s kept only on your iPhone. If you sign in, it’s stored on our server so it syncs between members of your household.
Where it goesStored on our server. Also handled by Convex.
How longOn your iPhone until you remove the app. On our server until you delete your account or your household.
Your account, if you sign in: an identifier from Apple, and the name and email you choose to share, or a guest identifier
WhyTo sign you in and connect you to your household. If you choose “Hide My Email”, we get a private relay address from Apple instead.
Where it goesStored on our server. Also handled by Convex.
How longUntil you delete your account.
Household membership and its invite code
WhySo the people you invite share one kitchen.
Where it goesStored on our server. Also handled by Convex.
How longUntil the household and its members’ accounts are deleted.
Recipes you import: the link, or the text you paste or share
WhyTo read the title, ingredients, and steps. The app or our server opens the link to read the page, and the recipe text goes to OpenAI. You review the result before it’s saved.
Where it goesSent through our server to OpenAI. We don’t keep it.
How longNot kept by us after the recipe is read. The recipe you save is part of your kitchen, above. OpenAI keeps API requests for up to 30 days to detect abuse, then deletes them.
Voice lists: the text of what you say
WhyTo turn it into a list of pantry or grocery items for you to review. Speech becomes text on your iPhone when it supports that, otherwise through Apple. Audio never reaches us.
Where it goesSent through our server to OpenAI. We don’t keep it.
How longNot kept by us. OpenAI keeps API requests for up to 30 days to detect abuse.
Kitchen helper questions, with your pantry and the recipe you’re looking at
WhyTo answer cooking questions such as substitutions and scaling.
Where it goesSent through our server to OpenAI. We don’t keep it.
How longNot kept by us. OpenAI keeps API requests for up to 30 days to detect abuse.
Recipe searches: the words or ingredient you search for
WhyTo find recipes. Signed in, our server searches the web with Brave Search. Otherwise, and when that finds nothing, the app searches TheMealDB directly.
Where it goesSent through our server to Brave Search, TheMealDB. We don’t keep it.
How longNot kept by us.
Server logs: requests to our server and any error
WhyTo keep the service running and fix problems.
Where it goesStored on our server. Also handled by Convex.
How longKept by Convex for a limited time, then deleted.
Settings, reminders, and cooking timers
WhyTo remember your choices and schedule use-soon reminders on your iPhone.
Where it goesStays on your device.
How longUntil you remove the app.

Third-party services

These services receive only what’s listed here, and only to provide the feature described. Their own terms and privacy policies also apply.

Permissions

Microphone
Optional. Used only while you’re making a voice list. Speech recognition, which iOS asks about with it, turns your speech into text. You can type instead.
To turn it offSettings → Privacy & Security → Microphone.
Notifications
Optional. Used for use-soon reminders, scheduled on your iPhone after you turn them on in Settings.
To turn it offiPhone: Settings → Notifications. Android: Settings → Apps → the app → Notifications.

The app asks before using any of these, and you can change your mind at any time. Everything else keeps working without them.

Keeping and deleting your data

  • Remove your kitchen from one iPhone: Settings → Sign Out, or remove the app.
  • Delete your account: Settings → Delete Account. We delete your account right away, and your household and its kitchen if no one else is in it, from our server. Other members keep a shared household. If you can’t open the app, email hello@dumblemon.com.
  • Backup copies that Convex keeps so our server can recover from a failure expire on their own. We never use them to bring back data you deleted.

When you delete your account, we delete your data from our server straight away. If you can’t open the app, email us and we’ll help you delete it.

Security

  • Everything between the app and our server travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS).
  • Only you, signed in to your account, can read your data through the app. We look at it only if you ask us to help with a problem.
  • Data on your phone is protected by your device’s own security, such as its passcode and encryption.

Children

The app isn’t meant for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. If you think a child has made an account, email us and we’ll delete it.

Changes to this policy

If our practices change, we’ll update this page and its effective date before the new version of the app is released. We won’t start collecting new data without updating this policy first. This version is effective November 4, 2026.

Contact

Dumb Lemon
hello@dumblemon.com