Privacy policy

What Feast Picker keeps

• Your Google account basics. When you sign in with Google, Feast Picker gets your name, email address, Google account ID and profile photo, and keeps them with when you last signed in.
• What you add. Your recipes, with their ingredients, steps, tags, times, servings, calories, links and photos; the recipes you save; your meal plan and the meals you’ve cooked; and your shopping list, with what you’ve checked off.
• How many pages AI read for you each day, to keep to a daily limit.

It’s used only to run Feast Picker for you: to show your recipes, plan your meals, make your shopping list and read recipes from the pages you give it.

Reading recipes from other sites

• When you import a link, Feast Picker’s server opens the page, and for a Pinterest pin, the recipe page the pin links to. The site sees Feast Picker asking for the page, not you.
• Feast Picker keeps the recipe it found there, without who asked, for up to 90 days, so anyone who imports the same link gets it straight away.
• When a page doesn’t set out its recipe clearly, Feast Picker may send the page’s address and text to an AI model, through Vercel AI Gateway, to read the recipe. Nothing about you is sent with it.
• Recipe photos and your Google profile photo are loaded through Feast Picker’s server, so the sites they come from don’t see you looking at them.

The extension and the bookmark

The Save to Feast Picker extension for Chrome, and the Save to Feast Picker bookmark, save the recipe on the page you’re looking at. They do nothing until you click them.

• When you click, they read the page you’re on: its address and title, what it tells search engines and social sites about itself (such as its description and photo), its recipe markup, and the text of its main part, or of the whole page when it has no main part. Nothing else: not your other tabs, your history, or what you’ve typed into forms.
• They open Feast Picker in a new tab with that page in the part of the address after the #, which browsers don’t send to servers. Feast Picker keeps it in that tab until the recipe’s been read, and sends it to its server to read the recipe, for you to check and save.
• What they send is used only to read that recipe for you, and isn’t kept for anyone else. It’s never sold, or used for anything else.
• The extension asks Chrome to read the page you’re on when you click it, to add its item to the right-click menu, and to run on Feast Picker’s own pages, only to tell Feast Picker it’s installed. It keeps nothing itself.

The extension’s use of the information it receives follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

Public recipes

Your recipes are private unless you make them public. You can make up to three public: anyone with the link can see them, including people who aren’t signed in, and search engines may list them. Your name and email address aren’t shown with them.

Cookies and your browser

A cookie keeps you signed in. Feast Picker has no advertising or tracking cookies, and no analytics. Your browser also remembers a few choices for you, such as your meal planner settings and how your shopping list is grouped; these stay in your browser.

Who else handles it

• Google, to sign you in. Feast Picker’s use of information received from Google follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.
• Vercel, which hosts Feast Picker, and the service that stores its database.
• AI models, through Vercel AI Gateway, which get a page’s address and text as above.
• The sites you import from, which see Feast Picker’s server asking for their pages.

No one else. Feast Picker doesn’t sell your data or share it for advertising.

Keeping and deleting

What you add is kept until you delete it. You can delete your recipes and planned meals at any time; deleting a recipe deletes its ingredients and steps, and takes it off your plan. To delete your account and everything in it, email lamberson.david.ray@gmail.com.

Children

Feast Picker isn’t meant for children under 13.

Changes

If what Feast Picker keeps or shares changes, this page will say so, with a new date at the top.

Questions

Email lamberson.david.ray@gmail.com about anything on this page. You can also go back to Feast Picker.