Weekly Table has no account, no advertising and no analytics. Your plan, your food log and your recipes are kept on your device.
A few optional features send something off your device when you use them: scanning a barcode, asking for a photo estimate, and iCloud sync. Each one is described below, with what is sent and where it goes.
What stays on your device
Your plan, log and recipes
The meals you plan, the food and exercise you log, your weight readings, your goals and the details you enter to work out a calorie figure (age, height, sex and activity level), your recipes, grocery list, pantry, long-term storage log, your own foods and your settings. These are held in the app's own storage on your device.
Photos you add to recipes or to your storage log
If you attach a photo, the copy you pick is saved in the app's own storage on your device. Weekly Table cannot see any other photo in your library. These photos are never uploaded and are not part of iCloud sync.
What leaves your device, and when
Nothing below happens unless you use the feature.
Scanning a barcode
The app includes a list of about 130,000 packaged products sold in Canada and the United States, taken from Open Food Facts, a public food database. Searching that list and scanning a product that is on it happen entirely on your device.
When you scan a product that is not on the list and the app has not seen before, it sends the barcode number to Open Food Facts to look up the name and nutrition figures. Only the barcode number is sent. As with any website, their server also sees the internet address the request came from. The result is saved on your device, so scanning the same product again contacts no one.
Photo calorie estimates
When you tap Photo and take a picture of your plate, that picture is sent to Weekly Table's estimate service, which is hosted by Vercel, and passed on to OpenAI, whose software looks at it and returns a calorie estimate. Only the picture is sent: no name, no account and nothing from your log. The estimate service does not keep the picture, and the app does not save it. OpenAI handles it under its own privacy policy. Please don't photograph anything you would not want to send.
iCloud sync (optional, iOS app)
If iCloud sync is on, your plan, log, recipes, pantry, goals and settings are stored in your own iCloud account so your iPhone and iPad stay matched. This goes through Apple; the developer cannot see it. Figures read from Apple Health and the photos you attach are not included. You can turn sync off in Settings.
Sharing
If you tap Share the list or Share progress, the app hands that text to your device's share sheet. Where it goes from there is your choice, and the privacy policy of the app you send it with applies.
Apple Health
If you turn on Apple Health in Settings, Weekly Table reads your active energy and your workouts so your calorie budget can account for what you burned. It only reads; it never writes to Health. The figures it reads stay on your device. They are not sent to the developer, are not stored in iCloud, and are never used for advertising or shared with anyone. You can turn this off in Settings, or in the Health app under the apps that have access.
Camera and photo library
The camera is used for two things: scanning barcodes and taking a photo for a calorie estimate. The photo library is opened only when you choose to attach a photo to a recipe or to your storage log.
What the app does not do
- No account, sign-in, or email address
- No analytics, tracking, or crash reporting
- No advertising, and no advertising identifiers
- No location access
- No contacts, calendar, or microphone access
- Nothing is sold, and nothing is shared except as described above
Working without a signal
Planning, logging, the 12,000 built-in recipes, your own recipes and the grocery list all work with no signal. A signal is needed only to scan a barcode for the first time, to get a photo estimate, and for iCloud sync.
The web app
The web version of Weekly Table is served by Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel's servers see the internet address of each request. Weekly Table itself sets no tracking cookies and keeps no record of visitors.
Importing a recipe from a website
The Import from a website feature works by you copying a recipe page in your browser and pasting it into the app. Weekly Table does not visit the website, does not fetch anything, and never sees which sites you browse. It only reads the text you paste in, and that reading happens on your device.
Backing up and deleting your data
The Back up or restore option in Settings copies your data to your clipboard as text so you can paste it somewhere you control. Deleting the app deletes the data on that device. If iCloud sync was on, the synced copy stays in your iCloud account and returns if you reinstall with sync on. The developer holds none of your data, so there is nothing for the developer to delete.
Children
Weekly Table is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date at the top.
Contact
Questions about this policy or about the app can be sent to richardjallinson@gmail.com.