Privacy & your data

What we store

• Your account: name, email address, a scrambled (hashed) version of your password (never the password itself), and anything you add to your profile (location, bio, cookbook name, theme).
• Your cooking: recipes, photos, reviews, follows, and your shopping list.
• Support notes: if you write to "Ask a grandson," we keep your message and email so we can answer you.

Cookies

One cookie, and it's not the kind you bake: a sign-in cookie so the site remembers it's you. No advertising cookies, no analytics trackers, no third-party anything watching you browse.

The recipe helper (AI)

When you use "Tidy up my recipe," the recipe text you typed is sent to Anthropic (the company behind the Claude AI) to be formatted into ingredients and steps. Only the recipe text goes. Your name, email, and everything else about you stays put.

Your email

We use it to sign you in and to answer support questions. No newsletters, no marketing, and we never sell or share it.

Where it lives

Everything is stored on our own rented server (hosted by Hostinger). Recipes, reviews, and cookbook pages are public to anyone visiting the site; your email and shopping list are not.

Deleting your data

Want your account and everything in it gone? Write to Ask a grandson from your account and say so. A real person will remove it, recipes, photos, and all.

Questions

Ask a grandson (tech support) is the fastest way to reach the person who runs this site.