Palate

Privacy Policy

Last updated · July 21, 2026

Palate is a private notebook for what you eat. You tell it about a meal, and it remembers what you liked so it can help the next time you go back. This policy explains what data we collect, how we use it, who processes it, and the control you have. We keep it plain because your notebook is personal.

What we collect

Account information. Your email address, used to create and sign in to your account.
Content you create. The restaurants, visits, dishes, notes, and ratings you log — your food memories.
Voice input. When you use the microphone, your speech is transcribed to text so the app can read your question. See “Microphone & voice” below.
Diagnostics. If enabled, anonymized crash and error reports that help us fix problems. These do not include your account identity.

What we do not collect: we do not collect your precise or device location (a restaurant’s location is only what you type), we do not use advertising identifiers, and we do not track you across other apps or websites. Palate shows no ads.

Microphone & voice

The microphone is used only while you are actively capturing — you tap it, you speak, it stops. Palate never listens in the background. Speech-to-text runs on your device where your phone supports it, so your audio never leaves the phone. Where on-device recognition is unavailable, a brief request is made to transcribe it and the audio is discarded immediately after. We do not store voice recordings. Only the resulting text of your question is sent to answer it.

How we use your data

To provide the core feature: store your food memories and answer your questions from your own history.
To authenticate you and keep your notebook synced to your account across devices.
To keep the service reliable and secure, and to diagnose problems.

Service providers

We use a small set of trusted providers to run Palate. They process your data only to provide their service to us, under their own security and privacy commitments. We do not sell your data, and we do not share it for advertising.

Provider	Purpose	Data involved
Clerk	Account sign-in & identity	Email address, account identifiers
Anthropic / Google (Gemini)	The AI that generates answers	Your question and the relevant notes needed to answer it
Voyage AI	Semantic search over your notes	Text of your visit notes (as embeddings)
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech	Reading answers aloud (when enabled)	The text of the answer to be spoken
Sentry	Crash & error monitoring	Anonymized diagnostics (no account identity)
Railway	Hosting & database	All stored account data (encrypted in transit)

Data retention & deletion

We keep your notebook as long as your account exists. You can permanently delete your account and everything in it at any time from Account → Delete account in the app. Deletion is immediate and irreversible — your restaurants, visits, notes, preferences, and account identity are erased, with no backup retained on our side.

Security

All data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS). Your data is isolated per account so one user can never see another’s. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable measures to protect your information.

Children

Palate is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we will delete it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete your personal data. You can delete everything yourself in the app, or contact us for any request. We do not sell personal information.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as Palate evolves. Material changes will be reflected by the “Last updated” date above, and where appropriate, noted in the app.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email mypalateapp@gmail.com.