Privacy Policy

Last updated September 30, 2026

Snap and Simmer is a recipe keeper you share with the people you cook with. This page explains what we collect, why, who helps us run the service, and how to delete your account. It covers the website at snapandsimmer.com and the Snap and Simmer apps for iPhone and Android.

The short version: we keep what you save so the app works, we share it only with the services that run Snap and Simmer for us, we never sell it, and you can delete your account at any time.

What we collect

Your account: your name, email address and a scrambled (hashed) copy of your password. We never store the password itself.
What you save: recipes, photos, notes, tags, ratings, comments, favorites, your cooking log, meal plans, shopping lists and cookbooks.
What you send us to read: links, pasted text, photos of recipe pages and videos you upload or link to. We use them to write out the recipe. Photos of recipe pages are not kept. Uploaded videos are deleted once they have been read, apart from a still picture that may become the recipe's photo.
Your kitchen: which kitchens you belong to, your role in each, and the email addresses of people you invite.
Printed book orders: the shipping name, address, phone number and email for the order. Card details go straight to our payment processor; we never see or store your card number.
Technical information: our servers record basic request details, such as IP address and time, to keep the service secure, limit abuse and fix problems.

We don't use advertising trackers, and we don't build profiles of you for advertising.

How we use it

To run the app: saving, showing and sharing your recipes with the people in your kitchen.
To read recipes from links, photos, text and videos, and to paint a picture for a recipe that doesn't have one.
To send emails you need, such as confirming your address, resetting your password, invitations and order updates.
To print and ship books you order.
To keep the service safe and working, including daily limits that stop abuse.

Who can see your recipes

Recipes live in a kitchen. Everyone in that kitchen can see its recipes, and what each person can change depends on their role (owner, partner or member). Some things stay yours alone, such as a member's shopping lists and private picks. A recipe is visible to someone outside your kitchen only if someone in your kitchen shares a link to it.

Services that help us run Snap and Simmer

We share information with these companies only as needed for them to do their job for us:

Service	What it does	What it receives
Railway	Hosts our servers and database	Everything stored in the app
Cloudflare	Stores photos; paints recipe pictures; turns video speech into text	Photos, recipe titles and ingredients, video sound
Anthropic	Reads recipes from pages, text, photos and videos; suggests tags and shopping aisles; helps write cookbook pages	What you send us to read, and the recipes, ratings and comments a cookbook page is written from
Apify	Downloads TikTok and Instagram videos you link to	The link
Resend	Sends our emails	Your email address and the email
Stripe	Takes payment for printed books and subscriptions	Your payment details, email and, for a subscription, your kitchen's name
Lulu	Prints and ships books	The book files and the shipping name, address, phone and email

We don't sell your information and we don't share it for advertising. We would disclose information only if the law required it.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time, in the app or on the web: open Settings (the You tab), then Delete my account. You can also go straight to snapandsimmer.com/delete-account and sign in. Before anything is deleted we show you exactly what will happen:

Your account, sign-in, ratings, comments, favorites, cooking log, private lists and book orders are deleted.
A kitchen you own goes to your partner if it has one. Otherwise it is deleted with its recipes, cookbooks and lists.
Recipes you added to someone else's kitchen stay in that kitchen.
Photos from the recipes, kitchens and cooking log entries that are deleted are removed from our storage, unless something that remains still uses them.

If a printed book you ordered is still being printed or shipped, you can delete your account once it arrives. Copies in our backups are removed as those backups expire, within 60 days. Stripe keeps its own record of payments as the law requires.

You can also email us to ask for a copy of your information or to have it corrected or deleted.

How long we keep things

We keep your account and what you save for as long as you have an account. Temporary files, such as uploaded videos, are deleted once they have been read. Request logs are kept only as long as needed for security and troubleshooting.

Security

Connections to Snap and Simmer are encrypted, passwords are stored only as hashes, and access to our systems is limited. No service can promise perfect security, but we work to protect your information.

Children

Snap and Simmer isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them. If you think a child has given us information, email us and we'll delete it.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we'll update the date at the top of this page. If a change is significant, we'll let you know by email or in the app.

Contact

Questions or requests: privacy@snapandsimmer.com