Privacy Policy

What we collect and why

We keep your account email and sign-in identity, saved recipes, notes and collections, meal plans, grocery items, shared links, uploaded recipe photos, import outcomes, language and store preferences, support requests, feedback and outbound shopping click records. This lets us save your recipes across devices, read recipes, troubleshoot imports, respond to requests and compare shopping clicks with affiliate reports. Feedback also includes the current page, platform and browser user agent. Shopping click records include the store, number of items and source screen, not your payment or cart details.

Recipe reading and other services

We send recipe text, photos, available spoken transcripts and video content to third-party AI providers through Lovable to extract recipes, answer cooking questions and estimate nutrition. We use Supadata to request transcripts and video metadata; it receives the shared video link. Transcripts are saved with your recipes so the cooking helper can use them. We use Firecrawl and direct web fetching to read public video captions and page information and to find Walmart products. These services receive the content needed for that request. Do not upload sensitive personal information in recipe photos.

Lovable Cloud provides account, database and photo storage. When you use Google sign-in, Google processes your sign-in. Your browser stores the sign-in session and language choice so you can stay signed in and keep your preferences.

Original videos remain on their social platforms for playback; we save links and embed them. To read a cooking video, we may temporarily download an available video file and send it for AI analysis, or supply an accessible YouTube video link. Downloaded video files are not kept in your recipe box. Loading or playing YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook or Pinterest embeds connects to that provider, which may receive your IP address, device information and set cookies under its own privacy rules. Public recipe sharing is optional; anyone with an enabled share link can read that recipe.

Shopping links and commissions

Walmart, Amazon, Instacart and Target links take you to those stores. They handle your shopping and purchases under their own policies. Walmart links may be wrapped in Impact affiliate tracking when enabled, with a recipe or grocery-list label so we can measure which screen led to a click. We record the store, item count and source screen for outbound shopping clicks. Links may be affiliate links, meaning Makeable may earn a commission on purchases; it does not change your price. We do not receive your payment card information.

Basic website analytics

Lovable’s analytics records page visits, referral sources, country, browser, operating system, device type, time on page, page speed, errors and button/link clicks. These are recorded for every visitor on our published website. The editor preview is not counted. This analytics uses no cookies, stores nothing on your device, does not keep IP addresses and does not identify visitors. Detailed data is kept for 90 days and daily summaries for one year. Lovable collects this data for us. Lovable’s privacy policy explains how it handles it.

Community profiles and shared recipes

When you share a recipe to the Makeable community, other signed-in Makeable members can see that recipe, your display name, your profile photo, your short bio and the grid of recipes you have shared. Your email address is never shown. Members can save a copy of a shared recipe to their own recipe box with credit and a link to your profile. Imported social recipes show our written ingredients and steps with credit and a link to the original creator; we do not re-host the creator’s video or thumbnail.

To stop sharing, turn off sharing on any recipe, use Share recipes, or choose Settings → Unshare all my recipes. You can edit or remove your display name, photo and bio in Settings. Deleting your account removes your profile and shared recipes. Copies other members already saved stay in their recipe boxes with your credit.

Local Eats and location

Your home area is optional. We keep only city, state, ZIP and an approximate ZIP centroid for distance; only your city may be shown to other members. OpenStreetMap (Nominatim) receives city searches or a one-time location lookup, and Zippopotam.us receives ZIP lookups. Exact GPS coordinates are discarded after lookup and are not stored. You can change or clear your area in Settings.

Reviews and their photos, display names, restaurant updates and owner replies are visible to signed-in members. Restaurant claims include your submitted role, business contact details and note, which authorized staff review; claim contact details are not publicly displayed. Approved restaurant owners may manage details, publish updates and reply to reviews.

Marketing emails and your choice

Makeable sends recipe ideas and product updates by email only if you opt in, using the unchecked box at sign-up, the one-time question in the app, or Settings → Email updates. We record whether you opted in, when, where you chose it (sign-up, prompt or Settings) and your language, and we use your email and display name to send these emails. Every marketing email includes a one-click unsubscribe link that works without signing in, plus our mailing address. You can also turn them off in Settings at any time. Account emails such as password resets, email verification and email-change confirmations are separate and always sent. We never sell or rent your email address; an email delivery provider sends messages on our behalf.

Staff and support access

A small number of authorized Makeable staff (owner, admins and support) can view account information to help you and keep the service safe: sign-up and last sign-in dates, sign-in methods, language, recipe counts, import and shopping-click history, shared content, reports, feedback and support requests, and a read-only view of your recipes, grocery list and settings. Staff can never see your password. They can send you a password reset or verification email, and authorized admins can change your account email (with a confirmation sent to the new address), suspend an account that breaks our terms (which blocks sign-in and hides its community content) or delete an account on request. Every staff action is recorded in an audit log that cannot be edited or deleted.

Retention, deletion and your choices

We keep saved account content until you delete it or delete your account. In Settings → Delete account, confirm deletion to remove your recipes, grocery items, meal plans, import history, pending imports, saved transcripts, feedback, account-linked support requests, shopping click records, preferences and uploaded recipe files, then your sign-in account. Public support requests submitted while signed out are not linked to your account; contact support@makeableapp.com to request their removal. Providers and backups may retain information according to their retention requirements; anonymous analytics summaries cannot be linked to your account for deletion.

We do not sell personal data. We share it only with service providers needed to operate Makeable, at your direction, or when legally required. Contact support@makeableapp.com to request access, correction or deletion or ask a privacy question.

Children and updates

Makeable is not intended for children under 13. We may update this policy and will show the revised effective date here.