Tidaali lives in your kitchen. It knows what your family eats, who does the cooking and what everyone is tired of. That is a lot to be trusted with, so here is exactly what it keeps, why, and what it will never do.
Last updated: 21 September 2026
The short version. No advertising. No usage analytics. No trackers of any kind. Tidaali never asks where you are, never asks for your camera, your photos or your contacts. It remembers who is in your kitchen, what you have cooked and what you are planning next — the things a meal planner needs to be useful — and nothing more. None of it is sold. None of it leaves your kitchen unless your family chooses to share it.
Tidaali is based in India. Write to accounts@tidaali.com with any question about this policy or your data.
Whoever starts a household signs up with an email address and a password. That is used to let you back in, and to help you recover access if you forget. We will not email you about anything else.
Everyone else needs only a name — whatever your family already calls you. No email address, no password, no phone number. Someone sends you a link, you tap your name, and you are in. That is the whole of it, and it is deliberate: a shared kitchen should not need paperwork.
| What | Why it is there |
|---|---|
| Your kitchen's name, how many people eat, the cuisines and diets you prefer, your time zone | So the planner suggests food your family actually eats, at the right time of day |
| The names your family members chose | So you can see who planned Thursday, and who voted for the biryani |
| Meals you plan and cook, dish names, dates and meal slots | This is the planner itself. It is also what lets Tidaali notice that you have had rajma three Tuesdays running |
| Notes you write, reminders you set, votes you cast | The parts you chose to use |
| Invitation codes and the cook screen's code | So you can bring family in, and hand a menu to whoever is cooking |
That is everything it keeps about your kitchen. The only other personal detail Tidaali ever asks for is your weight, if you use Protein, to work out a daily target — and that stays on your phone and is never sent to us.
Switching on notifications stores an address for that one device — a push endpoint in a browser, a token in the app. It points at a phone, not at a person, and it carries nothing but Tidaali's own reminders. Switch them off and it is deleted.
A handful of small things are kept on the device itself: your sign-in, whether you prefer light or dark, your notification address, the weight and activity level you gave Protein, and a note that you have already seen the introduction. Clear your browser data or uninstall the app and they go with it.
Three services help run Tidaali. None of them is an advertiser, and none of them gets your data to use for their own ends.
| Service | What it does |
|---|---|
| Supabase | Keeps the database and handles signing in. Everything above lives here. |
| Sentry | Tells us when something breaks — what went wrong, which screen, and basic device details — so it can be fixed rather than quietly annoying you. |
| Google Fonts | Serves the typeface. Like any font or image loaded from another site, Google's servers see your IP address when it loads. |
If you installed Tidaali from an app store, Apple or Google also carry the reminders you asked for, the same way they carry every other app's.
A kitchen is shared by design. Anyone who has joined your household sees the plan, the dishes, the notes and who did what — that is rather the point of planning together.
The cook screen is a read-only menu, reachable by whoever holds its link. It shows the planned meals and nothing else: no account, no history, no way back into your kitchen.
Kitchen Circles lets two households swap meal ideas, and it only ever connects kitchens that already know each other. There is no directory, no search, no suggestions and no way to stumble across a stranger's kitchen. A connection happens only when someone shares an invitation with you directly and a member of your family accepts it. Invitations expire, and either side can disconnect whenever they like. You choose who your kitchen talks to, and nobody else can make that choice for you.
Stories work the way they do elsewhere: the kitchen that shared one can see which of its connected kitchens opened it, and which cooked from it.
Tidaali is made for the adults who run a household, and is not aimed at children. We do not knowingly collect anything from a child. A parent may of course add a child's first name as a member of their own kitchen — that name is visible to their family and to nobody else.
Your kitchen's history stays as long as your family is using Tidaali; a planner with no memory is not much of a planner. If you ask us to delete it, we do so within 7 days. Technical error reports are held briefly and then deleted automatically, within 90 days at most.
Depending on where you live you may have further rights over your data — including under India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and the GDPR if you are in the EU or UK. The same address handles those, and you will not be asked to justify yourself.
Everything travels encrypted. Kitchens are separated at the database level, so one household simply cannot read another's. Getting into a kitchen needs a link that your admin controls, and invitation codes expire on their own.
If anything ever did go wrong with your data, we would tell you.
We will update the date at the top, and where it actually affects you, we will say so in the app rather than hoping you re-read this page.
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