How YesChef Kitchen Systems handles your data.
Last updated: 13 August 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how YesChef Kitchen Systems ("YesChef", "we", "us") collects, uses and protects the information you provide when using the YesChef app and this website. By using YesChef you agree to the practices described below. If you have any questions, contact us at enquiries@YesChefKitchenServices.com.
We collect only the information needed to run your kitchen account:
We do not collect payment card details through the app or this website, and we do not buy or import personal data about you from third parties.
Your data is held in an encrypted cloud database and is transmitted over secure, encrypted connections (HTTPS) at all times. The app is offline-first: your data is also held locally on your device so you can keep working without an internet connection, and it syncs securely to the cloud when you reconnect.
We use your information solely to provide and operate the YesChef service — to store your records, sync them across your devices, and support your account. We do not use your operational data for advertising.
We do not sell or rent your personal or operational data, and we never share it for advertising. Your kitchen’s data belongs to you. We rely on a small number of trusted service providers ("processors") purely to operate the service on our behalf — under contracts that require them to protect your data and use it only for that purpose.
The app can create a recipe from a photograph of a page, and read a supplier invoice or delivery note the same way. That reading happens in the cloud, not on your device. When you scan, the photograph is sent over an encrypted connection to our server, and on to OpenRouter, which passes it to a vision model that returns the text. The current app has no on-device alternative: if you scan a page, the image leaves your device.
For this feature OpenRouter acts as our processor and routes the request to a model host on our behalf. Its handling of your image is governed by the OpenRouter privacy policy, which states that OpenRouter does not use inputs or outputs for model training, and that it does not persist image files beyond the time needed to route the request — but also that some model hosts may use inputs for training, and that data may be processed in the United States or elsewhere outside the European Economic Area. We do not currently restrict the request to a particular country or model host, so you should not assume a scanned photograph is processed in the UK or the EU.
If that is not acceptable for a particular document, do not scan it — recipes and deliveries can both be entered by hand instead.
You have the right to:
To access, correct or delete your data, email us at enquiries@YesChefKitchenServices.com. We will action verified requests promptly. See also our account deletion page.
The YesChef app does not use cookies. This website uses no tracking cookies and does not profile visitors.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with a revised "Last updated" date.
For any privacy questions or requests, email enquiries@YesChefKitchenServices.com.