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Tadka Privacy Policy

Last updated: 4 November 2026

Effective date: 4 November 2026 · Version: 1.0

This policy explains how the Tadka app (“Tadka”, “we”, “us”), made by Provantic Technologies Private Limited, handles information. Package name: in.provantic.tadka.

The short version

  • No account and no sign-in. We run no analytics or tracking of our own.
  • Your food profile, kitchen, saved recipes, shopping list, cooking journal and your versions of recipes stay on your phone. We never see them.
  • The free version shows a few Google AdMob ads on browsing screens, only to adults, and never while you cook. Lifetime removes all ads.
  • Purchases are handled by Google Play. We never see your card or UPI details.

1. What stays on your phone

Your setup answers (diet, allergies, dislikes, household size, spice level, stove and equipment, and your year of birth if you give it), the ingredients you tick in My Kitchen, saved recipes and collections, your shopping list, ratings, notes and “next time” changes, and your versions of recipes. This data is stored only on your device. Android cloud backup and device-to-device transfer are turned off for it, so the app does not copy it to Google Drive.

2. Ads (free version only)

Ads come from Google AdMob and appear only on the Home, Search and Saved screens, never in cook mode, on timers, in Dinner Conductor or during setup.

  • Adults only. Setup asks for your year of birth. It is optional. If you don’t give it, or if you might be under 18, the ad software never starts and no ads are shown.
  • Your choice. Where the law requires it (for example the EEA, UK and some US states) Google asks for your consent first. You can change it any time in Settings → Ad privacy.
  • What Google may collect when ads are shown: the device advertising ID, approximate location (from your IP address), interactions with ads, and diagnostic data. Google’s use is described at policies.google.com/technologies/ads. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in Android settings.
  • Ads never receive your recipes, kitchen, lists, notes or diet.
  • Buying Lifetime switches ads off completely.

3. Google Play Billing

Lifetime is a one-time in-app purchase processed by Google Play under Google’s terms and privacy policy. The app checks with Google Play on your phone whether your Google account owns Lifetime. We receive order details from Google (for example order ID and country) for accounting and refunds, but not your payment details.

4. Notifications and permissions

  • Notifications and alarms: cooking timers and the Dinner Conductor reminder ring through notifications scheduled on your phone. Nothing is sent to us.
  • Internet: used only for Google Play Billing and, in the free version, ads.
  • No camera, microphone, contacts, location or storage permissions are requested.

5. Things you choose to share

If you share a shopping list, a backup file or a “just cooked” message, the Android share sheet sends it to the app you pick. Recipe pages link to the public websites each recipe was checked against; opening one takes you to that site, which has its own privacy policy.

6. Children

Tadka is a general cooking app and is not directed at children under 13. Anyone who may be under 18, or who doesn’t give a year of birth, never sees ads and the ad software never starts.

7. Food, allergy and nutrition information

Allergen tags come from each recipe’s listed ingredients. Packaged ingredients such as hing, sauces and spice blends can contain allergens not shown, so always read the label. Calories are rough estimates, not medical or dietary advice.

8. Your rights

Because your data lives on your phone, you control it. Settings → Delete everything erases it; uninstalling the app removes it; Settings → Back up exports it to a file you keep. You can withdraw ad consent in Settings → Ad privacy. For questions about purchase records or anything else under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 or similar laws, write to us.

9. Security

The app talks to the internet only over HTTPS, keeps no account or password, and stores nothing about you on our servers.

10. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be on this page and in the app with a new date.

11. Contact and Grievance Officer

Provantic Technologies Private Limited, Prestige Atlanta, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560034, India.
Grievance Officer · provantict@gmail.com
We acknowledge complaints within 24 hours and resolve them within 15 days.