Privacy Policy

We collect account details such as your name, email address, sign-in activity, and profile preferences. We also collect the recipes, cookbook names, photos, notes, family stories, ratings, favorites, meal plans, grocery items, invitations, and settings that you add to Home Cooked.

Some features collect information only when you use them. Recipe idea prompts, recipe photos for import, optional AI provider settings, image search terms, and nearby grocery-store searches are processed so those features can work. Location is used only when you ask to find nearby stores or type a location for that search.

We use your information to operate the app, keep you signed in, sync your cookbooks, send invitation and account emails, power recipe imports and AI idea features, build grocery and meal-planning views, improve reliability, prevent abuse, and comply with legal obligations. We do not sell your personal information.

Your cookbook content is shared with the people who have access to that cookbook. Outside your invited members, we share information with service providers that help run the app, such as authentication, database, storage, email, hosting, AI, image search, and location-search providers. They receive the information needed to perform their services.

We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect the service, or to respond to security, fraud, or safety issues.

Home Cooked uses necessary cookies and local storage to keep you signed in, remember app state, support offline recipes, and make core features work. Hosting and infrastructure providers may create standard server logs for security and reliability. We do not use advertising tracking cookies.

Recipe photos, cookbook covers, imported files, and other uploaded content are stored so the app can display and process them. Avoid uploading images or documents that include private details you do not want visible to cookbook members. Some stored files may be accessible to anyone who has the direct file link.

We keep account and cookbook information while your account is active or as needed to provide the service. You can delete recipes, cookbooks, and some settings in the app. Some records may remain for a limited time in backups, logs, security records, or where retention is needed for legal or operational reasons.

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information, including authentication, access controls, and provider security features. No online service can promise perfect security, so use care with invitations, shared devices, and the email account you use to sign in.

Home Cooked is intended for adults and household organizers, not for children creating accounts on their own. If you believe a child provided personal information without appropriate permission, contact us through the support channel in the app so we can review and delete it if needed.

We may update this Privacy Policy as the app, providers, or legal requirements change. We will update the date above when we do. Questions or privacy requests can be sent to privacy@tryhomecooked.com. This plain-English page is practical product information and should not be treated as attorney-drafted legal advice.