Your recipes are yours.
Full stop.

Everything on this page is something we do today, written so you can verify it. No vibes, no generic security-theatre graphics.

A note from our Founder

Over the last year, talking to the people who run food businesses, one theme keeps coming up: who can see my recipes?

It's a fair question. A recipe isn't just a list of ingredients. It's the thing a small brand spent months getting right, the thing a product manager negotiated with their buyer, the thing that makes one hot-sauce different from the next. So if we're asking you to trust us with it, we owe you plain answers about what happens to it inside Nibblr.

This page is those answers. Every line below is something we actually do today, not a promise about what we might do later. Where we haven't got somewhere yet, we say so. If anything here raises a question, send it to security@nibblr.co.uk and we'll get back to you within a working day.

Anna-Sophie, Founder & CEO

What we don't do

We do not train AI on your recipes.

Our AI features (recipe chat, ingredient-from-photo) use Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's embedding API under zero-retention, no-training terms. Your recipes are never used to train any model, ours or theirs.

We do not share data between customers.

Every database query is scoped to your organisation in code, and that boundary is covered by an automated test suite that runs on every build. A change that breaks isolation fails the build before it reaches production.

We do not sell or mine your data.

Our business model is subscriptions. We don't run ads, we don't sell analytics, and we don't pass your data to marketers.

Where your data lives

Location

Nuremberg, Germany. Our production server sits inside Hetzner's ISO 27001-certified facility, with biometric access control and 24/7 on-site security. Your data never leaves the EU.

In transit

TLS 1.3 on every public endpoint, and HTTP is redirected to HTTPS. Server administration is over SSH with key-based authentication only; no password logins. Outbound calls to the AI providers also go over HTTPS.

Backups

30 days of rolling backups, age-encrypted before they leave the server, stored in Hetzner object storage in a separate German data centre (Falkenstein). The storage provider only ever sees ciphertext.

At rest

Customer data is stored on an encrypted volume. If the physical disk is removed from our server (for example, during hardware replacement of a failed drive), its contents cannot be read. Backups are age-encrypted at rest too, so even a compromised storage account would leak only ciphertext.

Who can see your data

You, and anyone in your organisation. Nobody else.

If something goes wrong

Security incident

If we discover a breach that affects your data, we'll notify you within 72 hours, the deadline set by UK GDPR. We'll tell you what happened, what we know, and what we're doing about it.

You want your data out

Every recipe can be exported to CSV or PDF from inside the app, at any time with no export queues or vendor lock-in.

You want your data removed

Closing your account removes your data from the app immediately. We retain enough of it to meet our billing and legal obligations (usually for six years under UK HMRC rules). If you want to exercise your right to erasure under UK GDPR Article 17, email security@nibblr.co.uk and we'll handle it within 30 days.

Things you can verify

ICO registration

Nibblr Ltd is registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner's Office. Reference number available on request. Email security@nibblr.co.uk.

Sub-processor list

Every third party that processes customer data, with last-verified dates.

See the list →

Data Processing Agreement

We'll send you a signed copy of our DPA on request. Email security@nibblr.co.uk.

Security whitepaper

For formal security reviews, we have a longer technical write-up available on request. Email security@nibblr.co.uk.