Privacy policy

My Kitchen Board is a meal planner for a household: recipes, a weekly plan, and the grocery list that falls out of it. This page says what it stores, where that goes, and how to get rid of it.

Using it without an account

You can plan meals without signing in. In that mode everything you create stays in your browser's storage on that one device. It is not sent to us, it is not backed up, and it is gone if you clear your browser data or switch devices.

What we store when you sign in

Signing in uses your Google account. Google gives us your email address, your name and your profile picture, and we keep those so the app can show who is who in a shared household. We never receive your Google password, and we ask Google for nothing beyond your basic profile.

After that, what we store is what you put in:

• Recipes, their ingredients, steps, notes and the earlier versions you have saved.
• Your meal plan, including which family members are eating which meal.
• Grocery lists, pantry contents and the names, colours and order of the family members you add.
• Household settings — its name, time zone, locale, and who belongs to it.
• Photos you upload for a recipe, or ask the app to draw for one.
• A record of recipe views, so a shared recipe can show how often it has been opened.

Everything above is visible to the members of your household, and to nobody else, unless you publish a recipe.

What becomes public

Recipes are private until you choose to publish one. A published recipe appears on this site at a public address, readable by anyone and by search engines: its title, description, ingredients, steps, servings, timings and photo.

Ratings and comments on published recipes are public too, and they carry the display name from your Google profile. Your email address is never shown.

Photos are served from a public storage domain. The address of a photo is hard to guess, but it is not secret: anyone who has the link can open it, including for a recipe you have not published. Treat a recipe photo the way you would treat any file you have put on the web.

Companies that process it with us

We run on other people's infrastructure, and these are the only companies your data reaches:

• Supabase — the database and the sign-in system. Your household's data lives here.
• Vercel — hosting. It handles requests to the site and keeps short-lived server logs.
• Cloudflare R2 — storage for recipe photos.
• Google — sign-in, and the Gemini model described below.

Importing a recipe, and drawing a photo

When you paste a link to import a recipe, our server fetches that page. If the page publishes structured recipe data, that is all we use. If it does not — which is common for blogs and video descriptions — the page's text is sent to Google's Gemini model to be read into a recipe. The site you linked to sees a request from our server, not from you.

Asking the app to draw a photo for a recipe sends that recipe's title and description to the same model. No photo of yours is ever sent to it.

Cookies

The only cookies we set are the ones that keep you signed in. There is no advertising, no analytics service and no third-party tracker on this site.

Deleting your data

You can delete individual recipes, plans and lists at any time from within the app.

To delete everything, open Settings → Household and delete your account. Because this is irreversible, it asks you to sign in with Google again first, and to type the confirmation exactly. It then removes your account, the household data attached to it, and your recipe photos from storage.

Content you have already published — a public recipe, a rating, a comment — should be unpublished or deleted before you delete the account, if you want it gone. Backups may hold copies for a short period after deletion before they age out.

Keeping it

We keep your data for as long as your account exists. We do not sell it, and we do not share it with anyone beyond the companies listed above.

Children

This is a tool for running a household kitchen and is not directed at children. Accounts are for adults; a parent is welcome to add children as family members in a plan, which stores nothing but a name and a colour.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the date at the top of this page changes with it.

Contact

Questions about any of this, or a request to see or delete what we hold: [email protected].