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Mealwren privacy policy

Last updated November 13, 2026. This policy covers the Android app Mealwren: Weekly Meal Planner (com.tinyfair.mealwren) published by Tinyfair on Google Play.

The short version

The app works on your device. We do not have accounts or servers, and we never receive your recipes, meal plans or grocery lists. Data leaves your device only for ads, purchases, crash reports and anonymous usage statistics (Google), for recipe pages you choose to save, and for a small settings file the app downloads from our website, as described below.

Data that stays on your phone

Recipes, plans and lists
Your recipes, notes, ratings, meal plans, grocery lists, pantry items and prices stay in the app's private storage on your device. We never receive them, and usage statistics never include their content.
Recipes from websites
When you save a recipe from a link, your phone downloads that web page directly from the website you chose. The website sees a normal web request, as it would in a browser. We do not receive the link or the recipe.
Photos of recipes
If you scan a recipe from a photo, you pick or take the photo yourself, and the text is read on your device. The photo is not uploaded.
Backups
Backup files you export are saved where you choose. We never see them.
Purchases
Handled by Google Play; we never see your payment details.

Settings file from tinyfair.my.id

When it starts, the app downloads a small settings file from https://tinyfair.my.id/config/mealwren.json (the minimum app version and how often ads may appear). The request sends no personal data and no identifier. Like any web request, our web host sees your IP address in its standard server logs; we do not use it to identify you or link it to anything else. Android Auto Backup may include the app's data in your Google account backup if you have it turned on.

Ads (Google AdMob)

The free version shows ads from Google AdMob: a small banner on some screens such as the recipe list, and an occasional full-screen ad at a natural break, for example after you save your week (never in your first session, at most a few a day). There are no ads in cooking mode or on the grocery list while you shop, and video ads appear only when you choose to watch one, for example for 24 hours of Pro. To show and measure ads, Google may collect your device's advertising ID, an approximate location from your IP address, information about ad interactions, and diagnostics. Your recipes, plans and lists are never passed to the ad SDK. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland the app asks for your consent first, and you can change it later under Settings, Privacy choices. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in your Android settings. See how Google uses information from apps that use its services. Pro removes all ads.

Crash reports (Firebase Crashlytics)

If the app crashes or hits a serious error, it sends a crash report to Firebase Crashlytics, a Google service that helps us find and fix the bug. A report contains the error and where it happened in the code, the app version, the device model, the Android version, and a random installation ID that is not linked to you, your Google account or your advertising ID. It never contains your recipes, meal plans or grocery lists. Reports are kept for 90 days. See Firebase privacy and security.

Usage statistics (Google Analytics for Firebase)

To learn which features people use and where the app can be better, the app sends a few general usage events to Google Analytics for Firebase, such as that a screen was opened, a week was planned, an ad was shown, or the Pro offer was shown or Pro was bought. Events never contain recipe names, ingredients, links, prices or anything you type. Firebase adds the app version, device model, Android version, country, a random app instance ID and, when ad consent allows it, your advertising ID. Collection follows your choice (Google Consent Mode). We do not use Google signals, we do not send a user ID, and we do not sell this data. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, statistics are only collected if you allow it in the consent form (Settings, Privacy choices lets you change this). Data is kept for 14 months. See Firebase privacy and security.

Usage statistics (Google Analytics for Firebase)

To learn which features people use and where the app can be better, the app sends a few usage events to Google Analytics for Firebase: that the main screen opened, that a main task finished (for example "saved"), that the Pro offer was shown or Pro was bought, and that an ad was shown. Firebase adds the app version, device model, Android version, country, a random app instance ID and, when ad consent allows it, your advertising ID. Events never contain your recipes, your meal plans or your grocery lists, your name, email or anything you type. We do not use Google signals, we do not send a user ID, and we do not sell this data. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, statistics are only collected if you allow it in the consent form (Settings, Privacy choices lets you change this). Statistics are never collected for users under 13. Data is kept for 14 months. See Firebase privacy and security.

Purchases (Google Play)

Pro is sold through Google Play Billing as a weekly, monthly, 3-month or yearly subscription (the yearly plan has a free trial for new subscribers) or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel them in Google Play. We do not see your payment details; Google Play tells the app only whether Pro is active.

Permissions

Notifications, for the reminders you turn on (plan your week, shopping day, thaw meat) and cooking timers; exact alarms and start at boot, so reminders and timers ring on time and survive a restart; vibration. No location, contacts or microphone permission. Photos are picked with Android's photo picker or taken with your camera app, only when you scan a recipe. Google's ad and purchase libraries add the advertising ID, network state and billing permissions. Internet is used for recipe pages you choose to save, ads, purchases, crash reports, usage statistics and the settings file described above, never to upload your recipes, plans or lists.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them.

Your choices and deleting data

Mealwren has no account and keeps no data on our side. To delete everything Mealwren stores, uninstall the app or clear its storage in Android settings (Apps, Mealwren, Storage). For ad and statistics data, use Settings, Privacy choices in the app or your Android advertising ID settings. Questions: support@tinyfair.my.id.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date. Questions: support@tinyfair.my.id.