Privacy Policy
The short version
Sorrel has no accounts and no servers. Your recipes, photos, grocery lists, and meal plans are stored on your device and are never sent to us — because there is no “us” to send them to. Sorrel contains no ads, no analytics, and no tracking SDKs. The app uses the internet to fetch a recipe page when you ask it to import one, and — only if you say yes to the question it asks on first launch — to send a report if it crashes.
Who this policy covers
This policy applies to the Sorrel app for Android (com.burnsoft.sorrel) and to this website. In this policy, “Sorrel”, “we”, and “us” refer to the developer of the Sorrel app.
What Sorrel stores on your device
Everything you create in Sorrel is written to private app storage on your phone:
- Recipes you import, type in, or edit — including titles, ingredients, steps, notes, times, and source links
- Recipe images, saved as files on your device
- Grocery lists, collections, and meal plans
- App settings and preferences, such as your theme and units
This data stays on your device. It is not uploaded to us, sold, shared, or used for advertising. We have no ability to read it.
What leaves your device
Sorrel requests a single Android permission — INTERNET — and uses it in exactly three situations:
- Importing a recipe. When you paste or share a link, your device requests that page directly from the website that hosts it. There is no Sorrel server in the middle. That website will see your IP address, the page you requested, and a standard mobile browser user-agent string, the same as if you had opened the link in Chrome. What that site does with those details is governed by its privacy policy, not this one.
- Loading recipe images. Images are fetched from the website the recipe came from and then cached on your device.
- Sending a crash report — but only if you turned that on. See the next section.
Sorrel makes no other network requests. It does not phone home, check in, or report usage.
Crash reports
Sorrel asks you once, on first launch, whether it may send a report when it crashes. The answer defaults to no. If you dismiss the question, back out of it, or tap outside it, that counts as declining, and Sorrel stays silent. You will not be asked again — the setting lives under ⋮ → Settings → Send crash reports, and you can turn it on or off there at any time. Turning it off stops reporting immediately.
If you turn it on, then when the app crashes it sends:
- The error and the stack trace — which part of Sorrel's code failed
- Your device model, and the Android and Sorrel version numbers
That is the whole list, and it is sent only at the moment of a crash — never on launch, never while you use the app. Your recipes, photos, and lists are never included. Sorrel explicitly turns off the parts of the crash reporter that would attach a screenshot, a view hierarchy, your IP address, or any identifier for you or your device.
Crash reports are processed on our behalf by Sentry, whose handling of them is described in Sentry's privacy policy. We use them for one thing: finding and fixing bugs.
What we do not collect
Sorrel operates no servers of its own. Apart from the crash reports described above, the app has:
- No account, sign-up, login, or email collection
- No analytics or telemetry SDK — nothing measures how you use the app
- No advertising, ad networks, or advertising identifiers
- No access to your location, contacts, camera, microphone, call logs, or files outside its own storage
Google Play
Sorrel is distributed through the Google Play Store, and a few things are handled by Google rather than by us:
- Purchase. Sorrel is a one-time purchase processed entirely by Google Play. We never see or receive your payment details. Google provides us only aggregate, anonymous sales and statistics reporting.
- Review prompt. Sorrel may occasionally ask you to rate it using Google Play's built-in in-app review flow. The prompt and any rating you leave are handled by Google Play.
- Android backup. Sorrel allows Android's standard Auto Backup. If backup is enabled in your device settings, Android may copy Sorrel's app data to your own Google account storage so it can be restored to a new phone. That backup belongs to you and goes to your Google account — not to us. You can turn it off in your device's system backup settings.
These interactions are covered by Google's Privacy Policy.
Files you export
Sorrel can export recipes and create backup files. These are written only when you ask for them, only to the location you choose, and they are never transmitted anywhere by the app. Once a file is exported, it is yours to manage.
Keeping and deleting your data
Because your data lives on your device, you are in full control of it:
- Delete an individual recipe, list, or plan inside the app at any time.
- Clear everything at once with Android's “Clear storage” option for Sorrel in system settings.
- Uninstalling Sorrel removes its app data from your device.
There is no server-side account to close. If Android Auto Backup is enabled, a copy may remain in your Google account until you remove it through Google's backup settings. If you turned crash reporting on, switching it off stops any further reports; to have reports already sent deleted, write to us at the address below.
Children
Sorrel is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.
This website
This site is a set of static pages hosted on Vercel. It sets no advertising cookies and has no login. Two things are worth naming:
- Vercel Web Analytics records aggregate page views and clicks on the download buttons so we can tell whether the page is working. It is cookie-free and does not follow you across other websites. It is processed by Vercel as described in Vercel's privacy policy.
- Google Fonts are loaded from Google's servers, which means Google receives your IP address when the page loads, as described in Google's Privacy Policy.
Standard web server logs kept by our hosting provider may include IP addresses for security and reliability purposes.
Changes to this policy
If Sorrel ever gains a feature that changes how data is handled — for example optional cloud sync or household sharing — this policy will be updated before that feature ships, and the “last updated” date above will change. Material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or about privacy in Sorrel generally, can go to sorrelapp@burnsforce.com.