This is the short, plain version, because a policy nobody reads protects nobody. Recipe Share is a free app for keeping a food library, tracking what you eat, and sharing recipes. This page explains exactly what we hold, what we never hold, and who else touches it.
1 · The one-sentence version
Everything below is the detail behind that sentence.
2 · What stays on your phone, and what reaches us
The split below is not a setting or a preference — it is how the app is built. The health side of it is never transmitted anywhere.
On your device only — never sent to us
- Your food journal — what you ate and when
- Body weight and any measurements
- Your activity log
- Calorie and macro goals
- Any dietary notes or restrictions you enter
- Your food library and recipes themselves
Held on our server
- An anonymous account — a random ID and a secret key your phone stores. No name and no password. There is no email attached to it unless you give us one, which we ask for only if you want free credits. If you do give us one, it is attached to that same account. You can ask us to delete the whole account at any time (see §6).
- Your Recipe Share credit balance, and how many credits each AI action used.
- Counts of what kind of thing happened — a session began, an item was added, a search ran, a recipe was shared. Counts only, never contents.
- If an AI request failed, a short code for why we couldn't answer — never what you asked.
- Anything you type into the in-app message box, because you sent it to us on purpose.
Things we specifically do not record
- Not your search text. When you use an AI search, the words go to Anthropic to answer the question and are not stored by us.
- Not the names of your foods, and not their categories. We record that an item was added and whether it was a food or a recipe. Not what it was.
- Not anything from the tracker. We may record that the tracker was opened. Never a single number inside it.
- No cookies, no tracking pixels, no advertising or analytics services. No Google Analytics, no Meta or TikTok pixel, nothing of that kind, anywhere in the app.
- No IP address stored with your activity or your messages. An address is used briefly to limit signup and message abuse, and those counters are deleted within about two days.
3 · We do not sell your data, and we do not try to un-anonymise it
Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to researchers, not in aggregate, not ever. There is no consent box here to opt out of, because there is nothing to opt out of.
We also commit publicly, here, not to re-identify anonymous data. Some of what we keep is a plain daily tally with no account attached — for example, how many recipes of each kind were shared on a given day. We do not attempt to work out which person any of those counts came from, we do not combine them with anything else in order to do so, and we do not permit anyone else to. Those tallies are only started once enough people are using the app that a count describes a pattern rather than a person.
4 · Outside services the app uses
These are all of them. We have grouped them by what they actually receive, because the two groups are not the same thing.
4a · Services that receive something you give the app
| Who | What they do | What reaches them |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | The AI that estimates nutrition and reads label and recipe photos | The text or photo you submit for that one request |
| Supabase | The database holding accounts, credits and counts | Everything in the right-hand column of §2 |
| Netlify | Hosts the app and runs the server code | Ordinary web request information, kept in their logs briefly |
| Cloudflare | The "are you a human" check when an account is first created | Only what that check needs; it does not use tracking cookies |
| USDA FoodData Central a U.S. government food database |
Looks up nutrition facts when you search for a food in the Pantry | The food name you typed, sent from your phone at the moment you search. Not sent with your name, your account, or anything else about you. |
| Open Food Facts a non-profit product database |
Looks up a packaged product when you scan a barcode | The barcode number, sent from your phone at the moment you scan. Nothing else. |
4b · Services that only send files to your device
These do not receive anything you type, save, or log. Your device asks them for a file — a typeface, a small piece of program code — and they send it. Being asked, they can see your device's internet address and which file was requested, the same as any website you visit. We want to name them rather than leave them unsaid.
| Who | What they send |
|---|---|
| Google Fonts | The two typefaces the app is set in |
This group used to have two more entries. The code that draws the charts and the code that draws the QR square are now served from this app's own site, so no outside company is asked for them (changed 31 July 2026).
Neither group receives anything from the left-hand column of §2 — your food journal, weights, activity and goals never leave your device, so there is nothing of theirs to send. And none of the services above is an advertising or tracking company; we do not use any.
5 · How long we keep things
| What | Kept for |
|---|---|
| Your account and credit balance | As long as the account exists |
| Activity counts (a session, an item added, a search) | About 180 days, then deleted |
| Messages you send us | About 90 days, then deleted |
| Codes for why an AI request failed | About 30 days, then deleted |
| Abuse-limit counters | About 2 days |
Long-run totals with no connection to any account — for example "how many searches ran in July", or "how many dessert recipes were shared today" — are kept indefinitely, because they describe the app rather than a person. They carry no account, no device and no identifier of any kind, they are never started until enough people are using the app for a count to describe a pattern instead of a person, and we commit in §3 above not to try to reverse them.
6 · Your choices
Deleting the data on your phone
Clearing this site's data in your browser settings erases your food library, your journal and everything else local — permanently, with no copy anywhere. Back up first if you want to keep it.
Deleting what we hold
Message us and ask, and we will delete your account row and the records tied to it. Because the account is anonymous, please send the request from the same device so it can be matched to the right account.
The app works fully without an email address. You can keep a food library and track what you eat without ever giving us one. We ask for an email when you want free credits, after you have used up the ones you started with. If you give us one, we may occasionally send recipe tips and app updates, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
Children
Recipe Share is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.
7 · Who runs this, and how to reach us
Recipe Share is an independent app built and run by one person in Orange County, New York. It is not a company product and has no investors.
Two ways to get in touch, and both reach the same place:
- Inside the app — the "Message us" button. Easiest, and it arrives with your account attached.
- By email — recipeshare.help@gmail.com. Use this one for privacy requests, data deletion, and copyright or takedown notices.
8 · Changes to this policy
If what we collect ever changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves. There is no version of this app that quietly starts collecting more than what §2 lists.