Gil Leibovitz, doing business as SourdoughGuru ("us", "we", or "our") operates the SourdoughGuru mobile application (the "Service").

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information ("Personal Data") and collect data about your activity. This may include, but is not limited to:

• Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, which may include your email address, first name and last name, and User ID.
• User Content: Information you post to the Service as defined in our Terms of Use. This includes, but is not limited to:
  • Recipes and Baking Data: Information you provide when you create a recipe or log a baking process, such as ingredients, steps, timings, and notes.
  • Public Recipe Data: If you choose to share a recipe, the title, ingredients, hydration, and instructions become publicly accessible via a unique URL. Its photo is also included unless you choose to exclude it when sharing.
  • Public Bake Data: If you choose to share a finished bake, its loaf card becomes publicly accessible via a unique URL: the recipe, its hydration, how long the bake ran, which attempt it was, and the loaf photo if the bake has one. Your display name appears on it only if you turn on "Show my name".
  • Starter Data: Information you log about your sourdough starter, such as feeding times and ratios.
  • Photos: Images you upload, such as photos of your bread for AI analysis, for your personal logs, or to illustrate a recipe. When you share a recipe, its photo is included in the public snapshot unless you choose to exclude it; when you share a bake, its loaf photo is included. Before a photo is published we check it automatically for inappropriate content and remove its hidden metadata, including location.
• Usage Data: Details of your interactions with the Service, such as feature usage, taps, and crash data.

Public Recipe and Bake Sharing

Our Service allows you to generate a public URL for your recipes and finished bakes. By choosing to share, you acknowledge:

• Visibility: Anyone with the link can view the shared recipe or bake, including any photo and, if you chose to show it, your display name, on a public web page.
• Revocation: You can "Stop Sharing" at any time, which immediately deletes the public snapshot from our database and storage.
• Link previews: When you send a shared link in a chat app or social network, that service may create and keep its own preview image. We cannot remove previews that other services have already stored.

Deep Linking & App Setup

To help you find a shared recipe automatically after you install the app, we use standard store handoff tools:

• Store Referrer: On Android, we check a one-time "referrer" code provided by the Google Play Store to identify which shared recipe led you to the app. This is used solely to navigate you to the correct recipe on your first launch.

Use of Data

SourdoughGuru uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide, maintain, and improve our Service.
• To manage your account and your subscriptions.
• To provide AI-powered features, which may involve sending your anonymized baking data and photos to a third-party AI service for analysis.
• To personalize your experience.
• To provide customer support.
• To monitor the usage of our Service for security and analytical purposes.
• To communicate with you about your account or our services.

Your Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following, some of which might result in our inability continue serving you:

• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information that is inaccurate.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: contact@sourdough.guru

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"). These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

• Firebase (Google): We use Firebase for backend services including authentication, database (Firestore), cloud storage, and analytics.
• Google AI (Gemini): We use Google's AI services to power features like recipe generation and crumb analysis. Data sent for analysis is processed in accordance with Google's privacy policy.
• OpenAI: We may use OpenAI's models for certain AI-powered features. The data sent for analysis is handled as per OpenAI's privacy policy.
• RevenueCat: We use RevenueCat to manage in-app subscriptions. Payment is processed through the respective app stores (Apple App Store, Google Play Store).
• PostHog: We use PostHog for product analytics to improve user experience.

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, or country. We use Firebase services, and your data will be stored on their servers.

Disclosure Of Data

We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect our rights, prevent wrongdoing in connection with the Service, or protect the personal safety of users.

Security Of Data

The security of your data is important to us. We use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, such as those provided by our backend service provider (Firebase), but we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• By email: contact@sourdough.guru