Gustivela Privacy Policy
The safest way to protect your data is to never collect it. Gustivela was engineered from day one as a purely offline application.
1. Zero Servers & Zero Cloud
The Gustivela mobile application does not communicate with any backend server. There are no analytics, telemetry, or crash reporting services transmitting data in the background.
2. No Accounts or Registration
We do not ask for email addresses, phone numbers, names, or social logins. You download the app and cook immediately, with full access to every feature.
3. Strictly Local Storage
Recipes you create, kitchen photos, favorite lists, and shopping checklists are stored exclusively on your device’s local memory (in an isolated sandbox).
4. Encrypted Backup Under Your Control
To prevent data loss when switching devices, the app provides complete export into a .gustivela archive, optionally password-protected with military-grade AES-256 and PBKDF2 (100,000 iterations).
5. Offline AI Assistant
The app includes an assistant that answers questions about recipes and about how the app works. It runs entirely on your device: your messages, its answers and your own recipes are processed only on your phone and are never sent to us or to anyone else. Conversations are not saved: they stay in the phone's memory only while the app is open (at most the last 40 messages) and are gone when you close the app or start a new conversation. To find your own recipes, the app keeps a search index of them in its private storage on your device; it is removed together with the app's data. The assistant's answers come from the recipes and the help in the app and may contain mistakes: check quantities, temperatures and cooking times in the recipe itself.
