CookDex — Privacy Details
Effective Date: April 25, 2026
CookDex is a self-hosted automation service for Mealie. It is designed to run on your own server and does not phone home, collect telemetry, or include analytics or tracking.
What Knownframe Receives
Nothing from your CookDex instance. Knownframe does not operate a CookDex cloud service and does not receive your recipes, credentials, logs, settings, task results, or usage data.
Data Stored by CookDex
- Admin users and sessions — Stored inside your CookDex instance for local authentication.
- Runtime settings — Mealie URL, task policies, schedules, and other configuration you enter in the web UI.
- Secrets — Mealie API keys, optional provider API keys, and related credentials are encrypted at rest on your server.
- Task logs and reports — Generated locally when you run maintenance, import, audit, backup, or taxonomy workflows.
- Recipe metadata — Recipe names, ingredients, taxonomy, and related data retrieved from your Mealie instance for the tasks you run.
Network Access
- Your Mealie instance — CookDex communicates with the Mealie URL and API key you configure.
- Recipe source websites — Recipe Dredger can crawl and import from the source sites you configure.
- Optional AI providers — If you enable AI categorization, recipe names and ingredient lists may be sent to your configured provider, such as OpenAI API or your own Ollama instance.
- GitHub Container Registry — Docker pulls and updates fetch CookDex images from GHCR when you choose to install or update.
What CookDex Does Not Do
- No telemetry or product analytics
- No advertising identifiers
- No cross-site tracking
- No CookDex-hosted cloud sync
- No outbound data sharing with Knownframe
Deleting Data
CookDex data lives in the volumes you mount for the service, including cache, logs, and reports. To delete CookDex data, stop the container and remove those local volumes or directories from your server. Your Mealie data remains in your Mealie instance unless you delete it there.
Contact
Questions about CookDex privacy? Email privacy@knownframe.com.