Friddy is an AI-powered kitchen, grocery, and food-planning application operated by Everything Essential. Friddy helps users manage kitchen inventory, track expiration dates, generate recipe and shopping recommendations, compare grocery options, analyze receipts, and improve grocery spending decisions.
By accessing or using Friddy, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We collect information to provide, maintain, personalize, secure, and improve Friddy.
When you create or use a Friddy account, we may collect:
Guest (anonymous) accounts. When you first open Friddy, the app signs you in automatically with an anonymous guest account so you can use Friddy without registering or providing any personal details. A guest account is identified only by a random account ID issued by Firebase Authentication; for a guest account we do not collect your name, email, or phone number. Data you create as a guest — such as kitchen inventory, shopping lists, and preferences — is stored under that anonymous ID.
Upgrading a guest account. You can later create a permanent account by adding an email address and password. Your existing guest account is then upgraded in place: the same account ID is kept, so the data you created as a guest carries over to your registered account. From that point we collect and store your email address (and display name, if provided). If you instead sign in to a different existing account, the data under your guest account is not transferred and remains associated only with the anonymous ID. You can delete a guest or registered account at any time in the app (Profile → Settings → Account), which removes the associated data on the same schedule described in "Data retention".
To provide Friddy's inventory and food-planning features, we may collect information you enter or generate in the app, including:
To support grocery planning, price comparison, and smart basket optimization, we may collect:
If you use receipt scanning or purchase verification features, we may collect:
Friddy uses Anthropic's Claude API for recipe analysis and Google's Gemini API for receipt analysis. Both providers contractually agree not to use data submitted through their APIs to train their models. Data sent to these providers is processed only to generate the specific output requested by the user and is not retained by the providers beyond their stated retention periods.
Depending on the AI feature, we may process:
Friddy may request general location information to improve store availability, grocery recommendations, regional pricing, or market-specific features. We may collect:
Friddy does not require continuous real-time location tracking for core kitchen and grocery features unless a specific feature clearly asks for it and you grant permission.
We may automatically collect technical and usage information, including:
This information helps us maintain app stability, detect abuse, improve user experience, and secure the Service.
We use the information we collect for the following purposes.
We use your data to create and manage your account, store and display your kitchen inventory, track expiration dates, generate recipe suggestions, build shopping lists, recommend grocery purchases, analyze receipts, update your inventory after confirmed purchases, and provide spending and waste insights.
We may use your information to personalize recipe recommendations, expiring-food alerts, shopping suggestions, budget-aware grocery plans, store or product recommendations, smart basket optimization results, and reorder reminders.
We may use your data to generate AI-assisted outputs, including meal ideas based on inventory, estimated expiration dates and shelf-life predictions, grocery optimization suggestions, price insights based on your own purchase history and current market prices, receipt review results, budget-saving recommendations, recipe extraction from cooking video links you provide, food waste reduction insights, savings tracking showing how much Friddy helped you save, and personalized shopping plans.
If Friddy offers paid features, we may use account and subscription status data to confirm premium access, enable premium-only features, prevent unauthorized access, and manage billing-related access through app store or payment providers. Friddy does not directly collect full payment card numbers unless we separately state otherwise. Payments are generally handled by app stores or third-party payment processors.
Note: All features are currently available free of charge. Paid subscription features may be introduced in the future, at which point this section will apply.
We may use information to debug errors and crashes, improve app performance, prevent fraud, abuse, or unauthorized access, enforce our terms and policies, monitor system reliability, and test and improve product features.
We may use your contact information to send account-related notices, security alerts, service updates, customer support responses, important policy updates, and optional product or feature announcements, where permitted.
We do not sell your personal information. We may share information only in the situations described below.
We may share information with trusted vendors that help us operate Friddy. The current list of processors is:
| Processor | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Google Firebase | Authentication, database, cloud functions, storage |
| Anthropic | Recipe AI analysis, expiry prediction, price analysis |
| Google Gemini | Receipt AI analysis |
| Google (YouTube Data API) | Retrieving public video title and description for recipe analysis |
| Apple | Payment processing (App Store) |
| Coupang Partners | In-app product price comparison and affiliate purchase links |
When you use AI-powered features, relevant data may be sent to third-party AI providers to generate outputs. We send only the data needed for the feature. For example, the receipt-review feature may send receipt text or image information to Google Gemini to identify purchased items. The recipe analyzer feature may send a recipe URL and your inventory data to Anthropic Claude to generate meal suggestions. When you paste a YouTube cooking video link, Friddy uses the YouTube Data API to retrieve the video's public title and description, which are then sent to Anthropic Claude to extract ingredients and cooking steps. Friddy does not download, store, or process the video content itself. The price insights feature searches for matching products on Coupang via the Coupang Partners API to display current prices and affiliate purchase links. Only the item name is sent as a search query; no personal data is shared with Coupang through this search.
Friddy displays product prices and purchase links from grocery partners such as Coupang, retrieved via the Coupang Partners API. Friddy may also include affiliate links on the Everything Essential website and blog. If you click a purchase link in the app or on our website:
Unless clearly stated, Friddy does not automatically complete purchases on your behalf.
We may disclose information if we believe it is necessary to comply with applicable law or legal process, respond to lawful requests from authorities, protect the rights, property, or safety of Everything Essential, users, or others, investigate fraud, security incidents, or misuse, or enforce our agreements or policies.
If Everything Essential is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, or sale of assets, user information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will take reasonable steps to ensure continued protection of user information.
Friddy stores and processes information in countries where Everything Essential, its service providers, or infrastructure partners operate. The following international transfers occur:
| Recipient | Country | Data transferred | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google (Firebase) | United States | All user data | Network transmission during service use |
| Anthropic | United States | Recipe analysis data, inventory data, price history | API call network transmission |
| Google (Gemini) | United States | Receipt analysis data | API call network transmission |
| Google (YouTube Data API) | United States | YouTube video URL (to retrieve public title/description) | API call network transmission |
| Coupang | South Korea | Item name search queries (for price lookup) | API call network transmission |
These transfers are protected by contractual safeguards and the recipients' applicable security frameworks.
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide Friddy, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, improve security, and maintain business records.
| Data category | Retention period |
|---|---|
| Account information | Until account deletion |
| Guest (anonymous) account data | Until the account is deleted or upgraded (same schedule as registered-account data) |
| Inventory and shopping data | Until account deletion |
| Receipt images | 30 days after AI analysis |
| Receipt extracted text | Until account deletion |
| Payment records | 5 years (Korean E-Commerce Act) |
| Login records | 3 months (Korean Communications Privacy Protection Act) |
| Fraud / abuse records | 1 year |
You may request deletion of your account or certain personal data as described in Section 6.
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to access your personal information, correct inaccurate information, delete personal information, withdraw consent where processing is based on consent, object to certain processing, request restriction of processing, request information about how your data is used, and request account deletion.
You can delete your account at any time directly within the Friddy app:
Upon deletion:
You may also request account deletion by emailing ee.friddy@gmail.com. We will respond within 10 business days. To exercise other rights, contact us at the same address. We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
Friddy may request device permissions, including:
You can manage permissions through your device settings. Some features may not work properly if permissions are disabled.
Friddy is not intended for children under the age required by applicable law to consent to data processing (14 years in Korea). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children without appropriate consent. If you believe a child has provided personal information to Friddy without appropriate consent, please contact us at ee.friddy@gmail.com so we can take appropriate action.
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information, including authentication controls, database access rules, encryption in transit, role-based access controls where applicable, logging and monitoring, secure cloud infrastructure, and limited internal access to user data.
Friddy uses automated systems and AI models to generate recommendations. These outputs may include suggested recipes, grocery optimization results, budget recommendations, inventory predictions, expiration reminders, receipt matching results, and food waste insights.
These recommendations are for convenience and informational purposes only. Friddy does not guarantee that AI-generated recommendations are always accurate, complete, safe, or suitable for your personal circumstances. Users are responsible for reviewing allergy information, ingredient suitability, food safety, expiration status, grocery prices, store availability, and purchase decisions.
Friddy may help organize food information, but it is not a medical, nutrition, or food safety authority. You should independently verify whether food is safe to consume. Friddy's allergy and dietary features are intended to assist users, but they may not detect every risk. Always review ingredient labels, allergen warnings, and official product information before consuming food.
Friddy may contain links to third-party websites, grocery platforms, affiliate partners, payment providers, or external services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or policies of those third parties. When you leave Friddy, your activity is governed by the third party's own terms and privacy policy.
Under Korea's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), Article 31, we designate a Personal Information Protection Officer to oversee personal information handling and respond to user inquiries.
Personal Information Protection Officer
Name: Siyoun Kim
Position: Co-founder, Everything Essential
Email: ee.friddy@gmail.com
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify users through the app, email, website, or another appropriate method. The "Effective Date" at the top of this document indicates when the policy was last updated.
If you have any questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how Friddy handles personal information, please contact:
Everything Essential
Email: ee.friddy@gmail.com
A Korean-language version of this Privacy Policy is available at 한국어 버전.
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