CleanPlate Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 18, 2025

Welcome to CleanPlate. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you use our website and Chrome extension.

1. Information We Collect

1.1 Chrome Extension

Our Chrome extension collects the following information:

• Website Content: We analyze the content of web pages you visit solely to detect recipes and display the CleanPlate banner. This analysis happens locally in your browser.
• Recipe URLs: When you click the CleanPlate banner, we send the URL of the current page to our servers to extract the recipe content.

1.2 CleanPlate Website

Our website collects the following information:

• Recipe Information: We process and store recipe data (ingredients, instructions, cook times) that you choose to extract.
• Local Storage: We use your browser's local storage to save your recipe preferences and saved recipes on your device.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To detect recipes on web pages and provide the recipe extraction service
• To improve our recipe detection and extraction algorithms
• To store your recipe preferences (like serving sizes) and saved recipes

3. Data Storage

Our Chrome extension does not store your browsing history or track which websites you visit. The extension only activates when it detects recipe content on a page you are viewing.

Recipe data is processed on our servers but is not associated with individual users. We do not maintain profiles of users or their recipe preferences on our servers.

Your saved recipes and preferences are stored locally on your device using browser local storage. This data never leaves your device unless you explicitly choose to create an account in the future.

4. Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services:

• Vercel: For hosting our web application

These services may collect some standard information such as your IP address and browser type. We encourage you to review their privacy policies for more information.

5. Future Account Services

In the future, we may offer optional account creation to provide enhanced features like cross-device synchronization of saved recipes. If we implement this feature:

• Account creation will be entirely optional
• We will update this privacy policy with details about what information is collected
• We will request your explicit consent before collecting any personal information

6. Your Rights

You have the right to:

• Access the information we have about you
• Correct any inaccurate information
• Request deletion of your information
• Withdraw consent at any time (where applicable)

7. Privacy Policy Updates

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify users of any significant changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.