Menu Studio Privacy Policy

Last updated November 3, 2026

Menu Studio helps restaurant owners make and share menus. This policy explains what happens to your information when you use the app. There is no sign-in, and we don't ask for your name or email.

Your menus

The menus and logos you make are saved on your iPhone. They stay there unless you choose to share them or put one online.

Putting a menu online

With Premium, you can put a menu online. The app sends that menu and its logo to our server, which shows it to anyone who opens its link or scans its QR code.

• What we keep. The menu as customers see it, an editable copy so you can get it back on another iPhone with the same Apple Account, and its logo. We keep them until you take the menu offline or delete it in the app, which removes them. If your subscription ends, customers no longer see the menu, but we keep it so it comes back if you subscribe again, until you remove it in the app.
• Your link. We keep your link, with no menu on it, so printed codes keep working if you put a menu online again.
• Knowing it's yours. There's no sign-in. We store the identifier Apple signs for your Apple Account and this app, and your subscription's transaction number and end date. It isn't your name or email.

Scanning a menu

When you scan a menu, the app first looks for text in your photo on your iPhone. Then, with your permission, it sends the photo to our server, which asks an AI service to read it and sends the result back.

• The AI service is Google's Gemini. Google receives your photo to read it. Google says it doesn't use this data to improve its products, and that it may keep it for up to 55 days to detect misuse and meet legal requirements. Authorized Google staff may review flagged content. See Google's terms.
• We don't keep your photos. Our server holds a photo only while it's being read, and doesn't record the photo or the menu's text.
• Avoid private details. Please photograph only the menu, and leave out people or anything private.

Scan limits and subscriptions

To apply the monthly scan limit, the app sends information signed by Apple that identifies your Apple Account for this app, and your subscription if you have one. This identifier isn't your name or email. We store it with the month and the number of images you've used.

Apple handles subscription payments. We never see your payment details.

Technical logs

Our server records each scan's AI service, usage and cost, and whether it succeeded. These records don't include your photo, menu text or account identifier. Our hosting provider, Railway, runs the server and stores this information. Your information may be handled in other countries, including the United States.

Who we share with

We share your information only with the companies named in this policy, and only to run the app. They provide the same or equal protection of your information as this policy describes.

What we don't do

• We don't sell your information.
• We don't use it for advertising or track you across other apps and websites.
• The app contains no third-party analytics.

Your choices

• You can decline to send photos, and type your menu in instead.
• You can take your menu offline at any time on the app's QR code screen, which removes it from our server.
• You can withdraw your permission at any time by not scanning, or by deleting the app. No photo is sent unless you scan one, and the app asks again if you reinstall it. A photo already sent can't be recalled from Google, which may keep it as described above.
• Deleting the app removes the menus saved on your iPhone.
• To ask about or delete the information we hold, email us. Please send us the details we'd need to find it.

Children

Menu Studio is made for restaurant owners and isn't directed at children.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date above.

Contact

support@ninthfern.com