Plato

Plato (“the App”, “we”, “us”) is developed and operated by Torhen. Plato uses artificial intelligence to identify products in your pantry from a photo and suggest recipes. This Privacy Policy explains how we handle information when you use the App.

1. TL;DR

• No accounts. We don't ask for your email, name, phone, or address.
• No analytics, tracking, or advertising.
• We don't sell or share your data with advertisers.
• Photos you take are processed on the fly by our AI provider and are NOT permanently stored on our servers.
• Your preferences (diets, appliances, shopping list) live only on your device.
• Not for users under 13 years old.

2. Information We DO NOT Collect

Plato does not collect:

• Name, email, phone, address.
• Device identifiers (Advertising ID, IMEI, MAC).
• Location (GPS, WiFi, IP-based).
• Contacts, calendar, calls, SMS, or other installed apps.
• Biometric data.
• Financial information.
• Usage statistics, analytics events, or crash reports.

3. Information We Process Temporarily

3.1. Pantry Photos

When you tap “Camera” or “Gallery”, the image is sent encrypted (HTTPS) to our server (Cloudflare Worker) and from there to the Anthropic (Claude) AI service to identify visible products. The image is discarded after processing.

Retention:

• On your device: held in memory while the screen is open. Cleared when you exit.
• On our server: not stored. The function processes the image in memory and releases it when the response completes.
• On Anthropic: up to 30 days for abuse monitoring per their policy, then deleted. Anthropic does not use this data to train their models under their commercial API terms.

We don't recommend photographing products containing sensitive personal information (labels with your name, prescriptions, documents).

3.2. Ingredient List and Cooking Preferences

When generating recipes, we send the server the ingredient list (without the photo), your dietary restrictions, available appliances, selected mode, and number of people. This is processed ephemerally, not stored.

4. Information Stored on Your Device

Plato stores the following data locally on your phone using SharedPreferences. This information never leaves your device:

• Selected language.
• Dietary restrictions (vegetarian, low-carb, etc.).
• Appliances and kitchen basics.
• Shopping list.
• Onboarding flags (tutorial seen, disclaimer accepted, tips seen).

Uninstalling the App or going to Settings → Apps → Plato → Storage → Clear data permanently removes all this information.

5. Third-Party Services

5.1. Cloudflare

Hosts our proxy server. Receives the photo, ingredient list, and your IP. May retain request logs for up to 7 days for security. Cloudflare Privacy Policy.

5.2. Anthropic (Claude)

Processes the image and generates recipes. Receives the image (base64-encoded) and prompt data. Retains up to 30 days for abuse monitoring, no model training. Anthropic Privacy Policy.

5.3. Google Fonts

The App downloads the “Plus Jakarta Sans” font from fonts.google.com on first run. Google Privacy Policy.

5.4. Google Play Store

If you download Plato from Google Play, Google collects its own information about you as a Play Store user, beyond our control.

6. Subscriptions and Payments

Plato is free in its current version. The future premium subscription will be processed exclusively via Google Play Billing. We don't retain any of your financial information.

7. Cookies

Plato is a native mobile app, does not use cookies, web beacons, or pixel tracking.

8. Security

All communications between the App and our server are encrypted (HTTPS / TLS 1.2+). The AI provider's API key lives encrypted on the server, never in the APK. Despite reasonable precautions, no system is 100% secure.

9. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you have the right to:

• Access: all the information we retain about you lives on your device.
• Rectification: edit all your preferences within the App.
• Erasure: uninstalling the App removes ALL your local information.
• Object / portability: we don't store data on our own servers.

EU (GDPR): rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection (Arts. 15-21). Legal basis: explicit consent (Art. 6.1.a) and contract execution (Art. 6.1.b).

California (CCPA): right to know, delete, and opt out. We don't sell your data.

Chile (Law 19.628): access, modification, cancellation, and blocking of your data.

To exercise your rights, write to contacto@torhen.com.

10. Children's Privacy

Plato is not directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect data from minors. If we discover we collected data from a minor without parental consent, we will delete it immediately.

11. International Transfers

Your data may be processed in the United States (Anthropic, Cloudflare) or on Cloudflare's global network. These providers have Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) per GDPR.

12. Changes to This Policy

If we make material changes, the updated version will be available at the same URL and reflected in the Google Play listing. Continued use of the App constitutes acceptance.

13. Contact

Torhen
Email: contacto@torhen.com