Privacy policy
Last updated 15 November 2026.
Plateoff is a home-cooking league: you check in the meals you cook with a photo, other cooks judge them without seeing your name, and you climb a weekly table. This page says what the app at live.plateoff.app and this website collect about you, why, who can see it, and how to take it back.
Who is responsible
Plateoff is run from Brazil and is the controller of your data under Brazil's data protection law (LGPD). For anything on this page, write to hello@plateoff.app.
What we collect
| What | Where it comes from | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Email address | You type it to get a sign-in code, or Google gives it to us when you choose Continue with Google | Signing you in and recognising your account |
| Name and profile picture from Google | Google, only if you sign in with Google | Kept with your sign-in record. The app does not show them: your name and avatar in the league are the ones you choose |
| Display name and avatar | You choose them in the app | How other cooks see you |
| Dishes | The photo, title, note and recipe you save with each check-in | Your record, your groups' feeds and the weekly league |
| Votes | The choices you make when judging pairs of dishes | Scoring the league |
| Groups and chat | Groups you start or join, messages, comments and reactions you post | Running the groups |
| Follows, mutes, blocks and reports | Your actions in the app | Showing you what you asked for and keeping the league safe |
| Settings and permissions | Your choices in Settings, including each time you grant or withdraw the training permission below | Respecting those choices, with a record of when they were made |
| Usage statistics | The app, while you are signed in: which screens you open, how far you get when checking in a meal, and which errors you see, each with the time and a random visit number. Only while "Share usage statistics" is on in Settings | Seeing what works and fixing what does not, as counts across all cooks and, when needed, one cook’s activity |
| Technical data | Your IP address and browser details, as with any website | Delivering the pages, security and preventing abuse |
Photos are re-encoded on your device before upload, so the location and camera details stored inside the original file do not reach us.
When you add a photo of a dish and have not written its title yet, the app sends a small copy of that photo (768 pixels on its longest side, without location or camera details) to Anthropic, to suggest up to three titles and to see whether the ingredient of the day is in the dish. This happens for every new photo while the title is empty, and you can ignore the suggestions. We do not keep that copy or the suggestions; we only note when a suggestion was asked for, for two days, to limit each cook to 30 a day.
We do not ask for, and the app has no field for, your weight, body measurements, calories, health information, phone number or address.
Signing in with Google
If you choose Continue with Google, Google tells us your name, email address and profile picture, and nothing else. We use the email address to sign you in and to recognise your account; if you have signed in by emailed code with the same address, it is the same account. We do not get access to your Google password, contacts, files or any other Google data, and we never post anything to your Google account.
We do not sell this data, use it for advertising, or pass it to anyone other than the service providers listed below, who only handle it to run Plateoff for us.
Who can see what
- Other cooks see your display name, your avatar, and the dishes, comments and messages you share with a group you are both in.
- League judging is blind: a dish you enter is shown to other cooks without your name while it is being judged. Names appear with the results when the week closes. Anonymous does not mean invisible: someone who knows your cooking may recognise a dish.
- Dishes you keep just for yourself are not shown to other cooks.
- Your email address is never shown to other cooks.
- We can see reported content in order to review it, and can access the database to run and fix the service.
Companies that handle data for us
- Supabase stores the database, the sign-in records and the photos, in its São Paulo, Brazil region.
- Cloudflare delivers the app and this website.
- Resend sends the sign-in emails.
- Google confirms who you are, only if you sign in with Google.
- Anthropic reads a small copy of each new dish photo to suggest titles (see above), in the United States.
Some of these companies are based outside Brazil and may process data in other countries, including the United States, under their own data protection terms.
The training permission
Settings has a switch, off by default, that allows your league data to help build a future dish model. No such model exists today and nothing is sent to any AI provider. If you turn it on, the anonymous comparisons you vote in and the dishes you upload from then on may be included in a research export, and only when the voter and the cooks of both dishes have all allowed it. Names, groups, chat and dishes kept just for you are never included. Turning it off, or deleting a dish or your account, removes your part from every later export.
Usage statistics
To learn how Plateoff is used, the app notes which screens you open, how far you get when checking in a meal, and which errors you see. It never notes your photos, your words or anything you type. These notes are kept with the rest of your data in our own database and go to no other company. We mostly read them as counts across all cooks. To understand how the app is used, or to fix a problem you hit, the Plateoff team can also look at one cook’s activity: their visits with the screens, steps and errors above, alongside the meals and votes they made and the packs they joined. That view never shows a photo, a note, a comment, a chat message or the title of a meal kept just for you. We keep them for thirteen months. They come with Export my data and are erased when you delete your account. Settings has a switch, "Share usage statistics", that is on unless you turn it off; turning it off stops the notes at once.
Cookies and storage on your device
We use no advertising trackers and no analytics from other companies. The app stores what it needs to work in your browser: the token that keeps you signed in, your settings, and unsaved drafts. This website sets no cookies of its own, and the sample vote on its home page is a demonstration: nothing you pick is sent or saved.
How long we keep it
We keep your data while your account exists. You can delete a dish at any time, and you can delete your whole account in Settings. Deleting your account removes your dishes, photos, recipes, reactions, follows and group memberships, empties your comments and chat messages, and replaces your name with "Former cook". Votes you already cast stay in past results, no longer tied to your name.
The sign-in record that holds your email address is not removed automatically yet. Write to hello@plateoff.app from that address and we will erase it.
Your rights
Under the LGPD, and similar laws elsewhere, you can ask us to confirm what we hold about you, give you a copy, correct it, delete it, or stop using it, and you can withdraw a permission you gave. Two of these you can do yourself in Settings: Export my data downloads a copy, and Delete my account erases it as described above. For the rest, write to hello@plateoff.app. You may also complain to Brazil's data protection authority, the ANPD.
We rely on your consent for the training permission, on our agreement with you to provide the league for the rest of your account data, and on our legitimate interest in keeping the service secure for technical data and in improving it for usage statistics.
Age
Plateoff is for adults. You must be 18 or older to create an account.
Changes to this page
If we change what we collect or how we use it, we will update this page and its date, and tell you in the app before a change that matters takes effect.