Your kitchen information
Ingredient notes and exclusions, portions, time limits, taste preferences, confirmed cooking history, shopping lists and cooking progress are saved on your device. Shopping items can include quantities from several recipes. In the current version, we do not receive this kitchen information on a Fornel server and no account is needed.
Recipes work offline. Apple backups and device transfers may include app data, depending on your settings. Fornel currently has no cloud synchronization.
Dinner preferences and history
Your favorites, hidden dishes, “Suggest less often” choices and recent cooking history help order suggestions on your device. “Not today” applies only to the current visit; shown and skipped ideas are not saved as browsing history.
Only cooking that you finish and confirm is added to history, with the recipe, portions, date and time. Opening a recipe does not record a cooked meal.
Tonight without shopping
This mode uses your local ingredient notes. Confirming amounts saves “At home”; reporting something missing saves “Need to buy”. Amount checks apply only to the chosen recipe and portions and reset when portions change or a new check starts. These notes do not measure or automatically deduct stock.
Maps and location
Finding shops and calculating routes uses Apple services and requires internet. Location permission is requested when you choose “Use my location”. You can enter a city or neighborhood instead.
Apple processes the search text, map region and routing information needed for these services. Fornel does not save your coordinates or run background location tracking. You can change location permission in iOS Settings. Apple handles its services under Apple’s privacy policy.
Advertising and analytics
The current version has no ads, tracking, usage analytics, subscriptions or in-app purchases. We do not use the advertising identifier.
Managing your information
You can edit ingredient notes and shopping items in the app. In “Taste & history”, you can clear taste preferences or cooking history separately, keeping your pantry, exclusions, shopping and unfinished cooking.
Deleting Fornel through iOS removes local app data; offloading preserves it. Manage Apple backups separately in your device settings. We cannot retrieve or delete your local kitchen data remotely.
Support messages
Support contact: fornel.support@icloud.com
We use your support messages to answer questions and fix issues.
We delete closed support correspondence and attachments within 90 days of the last reply.
Email support to request earlier deletion of messages and copies we control. Provider backups follow the provider’s deletion rules; immediate removal from those backups cannot be guaranteed.
Mail provider: Apple iCloud Mail
This website
We do not use analytics, tracking scripts, forms or browser storage on this website. Our hosting provider processes connection information.
Hosting provider: Cloudflare Pages (Free, static hosting)
Cloudflare Pages hosts this website and processes connection data, including IP addresses and traffic information, to deliver and protect it. Retention of technical data depends on processing purposes, legal requirements and Cloudflare's applicable terms and privacy practices.
Questions and changes
Privacy contact: fornel.support@icloud.com
This policy describes the current version. Before introducing changes to how we handle your information, we will update it and obtain consent where required.