Privacy Policy

Pit Book: BBQ Smoker Log · Last updated November 1, 2026

In short: your cooks, recipes and pictures stay on your phone. We don't have accounts or servers and don't collect anything ourselves. If you connect MEATER, the app talks to MEATER's service for your probe's temperatures. The app is free because it shows ads from Google AdMob, and Google collects some data to show and measure those ads.

What's stored on your phone

Your cooks (what you smoked, its weight, the smoker and fuel, temperatures, what you did and when, ratings and notes), your recipes and your settings are saved inside the app on your iPhone or Android phone. Pictures you take or add are saved inside the app too, not in your photo library. We never receive any of it. Deleting a cook removes its temperatures, notes and pictures; deleting the app removes everything. Your phone's own backup (iCloud or Google) may include the app's data like any other app's.

Camera and photos

The camera is used only when you tap Take Picture. When you add pictures from your library, the app gets only the pictures you pick. Pictures are made smaller and kept with the cook.

Reminders

"Check your temps" reminders are notifications your phone schedules itself. Nothing is sent anywhere.

MEATER (optional)

If you connect a MEATER account, the email address and password you type are sent directly to MEATER Cloud (run by Apption Labs, MEATER's maker) to sign in. Pit Book keeps only the sign-in token MEATER returns, stored securely on your phone, never your password. While a cook linked to a probe is open, the app asks MEATER Cloud for that probe's temperatures about twice a minute and saves them with the cook. MEATER handles your account under its own privacy policy. Signing out in Settings deletes the token.

Importing recipes

When you import a recipe from a link, the app opens that web page the way a browser would and reads the recipe from it. The website sees an ordinary visit from your phone. Nothing about it is sent to us.

Purchases

Remove Ads is bought through the App Store or Google Play, who handle the payment. The app only learns whether you own it.

Advertising

Pit Book shows ads from Google AdMob. To serve ads, limit how often you see them, measure them and prevent fraud, Google's software in the app may collect information such as your device's advertising identifier (on iPhone, only if you allow tracking), IP address, coarse location derived from it, device and app information, and how you interact with ads.

On iPhone you choose whether the app may use your advertising identifier when iOS asks ("Allow" or "Ask App Not to Track"); you can change it any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking. On Android you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's Settings › Privacy › Ads (or Settings › Google › Ads). In regions that require it (such as the EU, UK and some US states) the app also asks for your ad consent, and Privacy Choices in the app's Settings lets you change it. Ads still appear if you decline, but they're less personalized.

Google's use of this data is covered by Google's privacy policy and how Google uses information from apps that use its services.

What we collect

Nothing. We don't run servers, analytics or accounts, and we don't sell or share your cooks, recipes or pictures with anyone.

Children

Pit Book is a general-audience app and isn't directed at children under 13.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, for example when optional cloud backup is added, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date. Questions: kingjuk@gmail.com.