Privacy Policy
This policy explains what the Karta app for iPhone (“Karta”, “we”) does with information. Karta is made by an independent developer based in the United States.
What stays on your iPhone
Everything you do in Karta is stored only on your device: the recipes you save, what you have cooked, the intolerances you tell Karta to avoid, how many people you cook for, your filters and your shopping list. We do not receive a copy of any of it. It is removed when you delete the app. If you back up your iPhone with iCloud or a computer, that backup is handled by Apple or by you, under Apple's terms.
Anonymous usage data
To understand whether Karta works — for example, how often a visit ends with someone cooking a recipe — the app sends anonymous usage events through TelemetryDeck, an analytics service designed for privacy that processes the data on our behalf. The events are:
- the app coming to the foreground or going to the background;
- a recipe being shown, opened, started, finished or left;
- a summary of each visit: how long it lasted, how many recipes were seen and whether one was cooked.
Each event carries the time, the recipe's identifier where relevant, and a random identifier for that visit. TelemetryDeck also records basic technical details such as the device model, the iOS version, the app version, and the language and region settings. It identifies devices only with an anonymised, one-way scrambled identifier, never with your name, email, Apple ID, advertising identifier or precise location. Your intolerances, household and shopping list are never sent. We use this data only in aggregate, to improve Karta.
Subscriptions
Karta Club is sold through the App Store. Apple handles payment and billing; we never see your name, email or payment details. The app only learns from Apple whether a subscription or free trial is active, so it can unlock the features you paid for.
Recipe photos and videos
Recipe photos and technique videos may be downloaded from a content server. Like any web request, this reveals your device's IP address to the server so it can send the file back. We do not use it to identify you or to build a profile.
What we do not do
- No accounts and no sign-in.
- No ads, and no tracking across other companies' apps or websites.
- No selling or renting of data, and no sharing for advertising.
Children
Karta is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Your choices
You can delete everything Karta stores by deleting the app. Because the usage data is anonymous, we generally cannot link it to you; if you have a question or request about it, write to us and we will help as far as we can.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will post the new version on this page with a new effective date.