This page explains how to delete your account and data in the Dad’s Dinner app, published by Dad Whats for Dinner (Pty) Ltd (reg: 2025/616693/07) (“Dad’s Dinner”, “we”, “us”). It supplements our Privacy policy and Terms of use.
Delete your account in the app
- Open the Dad’s Dinner app and sign in.
- Go to the Settings tab.
- Tap Delete account, then Delete my account.
Your account is deleted immediately, and this cannot be undone.
Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription. Cancel it in your Apple App Store or Google Play account first (see our Terms of use, section 5).
Guests, and anyone who cannot use the app
A guest account (used without signing up) has no name or email address, so we cannot find it from an email. To delete a guest’s data, create an account in the app, which keeps your guest data, then delete it as above. Guest data left unused for 2 years, with no active subscription, is deleted automatically (see our Privacy policy, section 10).
If you have an account but cannot use the app, email us from the address linked to your account. We may ask you to confirm your identity before we delete anything, and we will confirm when it is done.
What we delete
- your sign-in account;
- your profile, date of birth, body details and preferences;
- your nutrition diary (including entries you deleted earlier) and goals;
- your meal plans, shopping lists, fridge list and favourites;
- recipes you imported, their page photos and your dish photos;
- your push notification tokens;
- your subscription record at RevenueCat, which manages subscriptions for us;
- your usage history at PostHog; and
- the app’s data on your phone.
On iPhone, we also remove the app’s access to the Apple or Google account you signed in with. On Android we cannot, so you can remove it yourself: for Google at myaccount.google.com, which lists the third-party apps connected to your account, and for Apple under Sign in with Apple in your Apple Account settings.
What we keep, and why
- Store records: Apple and Google keep their own records of your purchases and sign-ins under their own privacy policies. We cannot delete these.
- Analytics and crash history: usage events already sent to Firebase Analytics, and crash reports in Firebase Crashlytics, are not deleted with your account. They are linked to identifiers, not to your name or email address. Firebase Analytics keeps event data for 2 months and user data for 14 months; Crashlytics keeps crash reports for 90 days.
- Emails with us: support emails are kept for 2 years after our last message.
- Change log: deleted data can remain in our database’s change log for about four weeks before it is overwritten.
- Legal records: information the law requires us to keep, or that we need for a legal claim, for as long as that applies.
- Anonymous statistics: information that no longer identifies you.
Delete some of your data and keep your account
You can delete parts of your data in the app without deleting your account:
- Health data: in the Settings tab, tap Delete health data and confirm. This deletes your nutrition diary, your nutrition goals and your body details (sex, height, weight and activity level), and the diary asks for your OK again before you next use it. Your account, date of birth, dietary preferences, recipes and plans stay.
- A diary entry: remove it in your Diary. What you ate is deleted at once. We keep only a marker with no food details, so your other devices know the entry is gone.
- Dietary preferences: change or clear them in Settings → Edit Profile. Guests can do this once they have created an account.
- An imported recipe: in Settings → My Recipes, tap the ⋯ menu on the recipe, then Delete. To remove only the dish photo, open the recipe, tap the camera button on the photo, then Remove photo. The page photos you imported from are deleted within 30 days of upload either way.
- Meal plans and favourites: remove a meal in the Planner, or tap the heart on a recipe.
- Shopping and fridge list: in the Fridge tab, remove items you added yourself. To take a recipe’s ingredients off, or empty the whole list, tap the bin beside the filters, then pick the recipe and tap Remove, or tap Clean Fridge.
Removing diary entries, recipes, photos, plans and list items needs an active subscription. If yours has ended, email us and we will delete them for you, or delete your account.
To delete anything else without deleting your account, email us from the address linked to your account (see Questions below). Deleted data can stay in our database’s change log for about four weeks before it is overwritten.
Questions
Contact our information officer at nico@
This page was last updated on 1 October 2026.