Last updated: November 10, 2026
Fourna’s person in charge of the protection of personal information is the app’s founder. For any question, access or correction request, or complaint: confidentialite@fourna.ca.
When you create your account: your e-mail address and password (stored encrypted, we never see it). What you choose to add: your username, display name, bio and profile picture. What you post: recipes, photos, videos, comments, messages and groups. Your activity in the app: follows, likes, saved recipes, shopping list, reports, blocked accounts and the number of photo analyses used that day. We do not collect your location, your contacts or any advertising identifier.
Only to: create and secure your account, run the app (feed, search, messages, groups, shopping list), moderate content, analyse a photo when you ask us to, send you the e-mails you need (confirmation code, password reset) and meet our legal obligations. We do not sell your information and we do not do targeted advertising.
Your username, display name, bio, profile picture and public recipes are visible to other users. Recipes in a private group are only visible to its members. Your messages are only visible to the people in the conversation. Your shopping list, saved recipes and reports stay private.
Supabase hosts the database, accounts, photos and videos in Canada (Montréal). Resend sends e-mails (e-mail address and code) from the United States. Anthropic analyses the photos you submit to the fridge scan, dish recognition or handwritten-recipe reading, in the United States; a photo is only sent when you use these features, and Anthropic does not use it to train its models. Some recipe photos are loaded from Wikimedia Commons, which then receives your device’s IP address. The app is distributed by Apple (App Store) and Google (Google Play). These providers only use your information to provide their service.
Some of these providers are located in the United States. Before entrusting them with information, we assess whether they protect it adequately, and we only share what is strictly necessary (for example, only your e-mail address and the code to send an e-mail).
If “Available offline” is turned on, a copy of your shopping list and recipes is kept on your phone so it works without network. It is erased when you sign out. The app only accesses your camera, photo library and microphone when you choose to take or add a photo or video.
Your information is kept as long as your account exists. When you delete your account in Settings › Account, your profile, recipes, photos, videos, comments, messages and shopping list are deleted immediately, and erased from our backups within 30 days at most, unless the law requires us to keep them.
At any time you can: access your information and get a copy in a structured format, have it corrected, withdraw your consent, ask for its deletion or complain about how it is handled. Most of this can be done directly in the app (Edit profile, Delete my account). For anything else, write to confidentialite@fourna.ca: we reply within 30 days. If our answer does not satisfy you, you can contact the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec or the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Exchanges between the app and our servers are encrypted, and access to data is restricted by strict security rules. If a privacy incident creates a risk of serious harm, we will inform you and the Commission d’accès à l’information, and we keep a register of such incidents.
Fourna is not intended for children under 14, who cannot create an account. If we learn that an account belongs to a child under 14, we delete it.
We will update this policy if our practices change, for example with a new feature or a new provider. For any significant change, we will let you know in the app.