Privacy policy

Your child's information stays with your family

Last updated 9 November 2026

• Who we are
• With your family
• Usage counts
• Google Analytics
• New content
• Buying
• This website
• Writing to us
• Children
• Who else
• Your rights

Who we are

Bib & Table is an iPhone app and this website, made by Ganna Dzyuba Glushchenko, an individual in Spain. "We" and "us" in this policy mean Ganna Dzyuba Glushchenko, who decides how your data is used (the "controller" in data protection law).

Questions or requests about your data: privacy@bibandtable.com.

What stays with your family

Everything you put into the app is stored on your iPhone, in the app's own storage, and in your own iCloud:

• your children's names and birth dates;
• the meals you log, the foods tried, reactions, allergies, your family's diet, your notes and any photos you add;
• your plans, grocery lists, foods and dishes you add yourself, and your reminder settings.

We never receive any of it. A few things work entirely on the phone too:

• Blib, the app's helper, runs on your iPhone's Apple Intelligence. What you say or type to Blib is not sent to us.
• Siri and Shortcuts are handled by Apple, under Apple's privacy policy.
• Reminders are scheduled on your phone.
• "Export for the doctor" makes a document on your phone, and you choose who to send it to.

Your iCloud

If your iPhone is signed into iCloud, the app keeps a copy in your own iCloud, so it's safe if you change phones and your other devices stay up to date. It lives in your private iCloud database, under your Apple account: Apple stores it, and we, as the app's makers, can't see or read it. Your child's name and birth date, and everything about their health (allergies, your family's diet, reactions and their symptoms, what they ate and how it went, notes, and your worries), are end-to-end encrypted, so not even Apple can read them. The rest, such as photos and plans, is protected by iCloud's own encryption, which is end-to-end too if you turn on Apple's Advanced Data Protection. Apple's handling is covered by Apple's privacy policy.

Sharing a child with a partner or carer

You can invite someone, such as your partner, a grandparent or a nanny, to a child. They see that child's records from their own iCloud account and, if you allow it, log meals too. You choose who, with Apple's sharing, and you can remove them at any time. Only the people you invite can see a shared child; we can't. The invitation itself carries no name, only "A family on Bib & Table".

Deleting it

Delete everything in the app's Settings removes it all from the phone and your iCloud, and stops sharing the children you shared: they're removed for everyone you invited. A family someone else shared with you is left as it is for them. Your iPhone's own iCloud backup also includes the app's data until the backup is replaced.

Anonymous usage counts

Unless you turn it off, the app tells our own server what happens in it, so we can see which features help and what to fix. Each count is an event such as "a meal was logged", "a recipe was opened" or "onboarding was finished". An event carries:

• a random install number made on your phone the first time you open the app. It isn't your Apple ID, your phone's advertising identifier or anything else about you, and Delete everything replaces it with a new one;
• the time, the app and iOS version, and whether you see US or UK guidance;
• your feeding stage: expecting, before solids, first foods, finger foods or family table. The phone works it out from the birth date, which stays on the phone;
• whether you're on early access, free or subscribed;
• details of the event itself, as counts and choices, never your words. For example: how many foods were in a meal, but not which foods your child ate; which food or recipe page you opened; and that an allergen step was recorded, but never which allergen. Nothing about your child's health goes into an event: not which allergens, not reactions, not allergies, not your family's diet.

The few events about allergen steps and the emergency screen go to our own server only, never to Google. We use the events only as counts and patterns across all families, to improve the app; we never try to work out who you are. We delete every event two years after it happened, automatically.

To turn it off: the app's Settings › Help improve Bib & Table › Share anonymous usage. Nothing more is sent after that.

To delete what was sent: Settings › Help improve Bib & Table › Delete my usage data. Our server deletes every event your phone sent, for good, and a new install number starts; your family's log stays. If your phone is offline, the app asks again until the request gets through. Delete everything does the same, and also clears the phone.

Google Analytics in the app, only if you say yes

During setup, the app asks whether you'd like to help through Google Analytics as well. If you say yes:

• the same kind of events go to Google Analytics, except the ones about allergen steps, diet settings and the emergency screen, which never go to Google;
• Google Analytics uses an app instance number of its own. We switched off the advertising identifier, advertising features and Google's ad signals;
• Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC process the data for us as our processor, and may process it in the United States under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and Google's standard contractual clauses. Google Analytics keeps it for no longer than 14 months.

If you say no, the Google Analytics code in the app is never started and makes no connection to Google. You can change your answer any time in Settings › Help improve Bib & Table. Saying no, or deleting your usage data, also resets Google Analytics' number on your phone, so nothing sent later can be joined to what came before; what Google already received is deleted when its retention period ends.

New guides and pictures

The app downloads new food guides and pictures from our website, which Google's Firebase Hosting serves. Like any request on the internet, it reveals your phone's IP address to that server so the files can reach you. We don't use it to identify you, and the request carries nothing about you or your child.

Buying

During early access the app is free. "Reserve the founding price" doesn't charge you or collect any details: your choice is kept on the phone, and an anonymous count tells us how many families reserved. When subscriptions start, you'll buy them through Apple. Apple handles the payment and tells the app whether a subscription is active; we never see your card or your Apple ID. Apple's handling is covered by Apple's privacy policy.

This website

The website has no accounts and no forms. Firebase Hosting, run by Google, keeps standard server logs (such as IP address and browser) to deliver and protect the site. Google Analytics runs on the website only if you say yes in the banner; the cookies policy lists every cookie and how to change your choice.

If you write to us

If you email us, we use your address and what you wrote only to answer you, and delete it once we no longer need it for that. Please don't send your child's name or health details; we don't need them to help.

Children

Bib & Table is for parents and carers, not for children to use, and we don't knowingly collect information from children. What you log about your child stays with your family, as described above.

Who else handles data for us

We don't sell personal data, and we don't share it for advertising. Only these companies handle data for us, and only to provide their service:

• Google: Firebase Hosting for this website and the app's downloads, and Google Analytics if you say yes;
• our server host, which runs the server that receives the anonymous usage counts;
• our email provider, for messages you send us;
• Apple, for the App Store, purchases, Siri, iCloud sync, sharing and backups, under Apple's own terms.

We would disclose data only if the law required it.

Why we're allowed to use it

For people in the European Union and the United Kingdom:

• Anonymous usage counts: our legitimate interest in keeping the app working and making it better, balanced by keeping the counts free of anything that identifies you, and your switch to turn them off;
• Google Analytics in the app and on the website: your consent, which you can withdraw any time;
• Server logs for this website and the app's downloads: our legitimate interest in delivering and protecting them;
• Answering your email: our legitimate interest in helping you.

Your rights

You can ask us to show, correct or delete the personal data we hold about you, to limit or object to how we use it, or to give it to you in a portable format, and you can withdraw consent at any time. Write to privacy@bibandtable.com.

The usage counts aren't linked to your name, so we can only find yours by its usage ID: the app shows it in Settings › Help improve Bib & Table. Quote it in your email and we'll send you everything we hold for it, or delete it. You can also delete it yourself at any time with Delete my usage data, without writing to us. We answer requests within a month.

You can complain to a data protection authority: in Spain the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, in the UK the Information Commissioner's Office, or the authority where you live.

If you live in the United States

We don't sell or share personal information, and we don't use it for targeted advertising. Depending on your state, you have the right to know, correct and delete it; write to us and we'll answer, without treating you any differently.

Changes

If we change how the app or website uses data, we'll update this page and its date first. If a change matters, for example a new kind of data or a new company handling it, the app will tell you before it happens.