Privacy
Last updated 3 October 2026.
This is a private family cookbook, run by Bryan Armitage. It is not a business, it sells nothing and it shows no advertising. If you would rather not be on it at all, say so and you will not be.
What signing in gives the site
Signing in is handled by Google. The site asks Google for three things only: your name, your email address and your profile picture. It stores those, along with the account identifier Google provides and the date you first signed in and last signed in. It never sees your Google password, and it has no access to your Gmail, your contacts, your calendar or your files.
What else is stored
- Comments you leave on a recipe, under your name. Commenting needs an account.
- Ratings, which anyone may leave without signing in. A rating stores nothing but the number of stars and the random label described below.
- Recipes you submit, until they are approved or declined.
- Photographs you send in. Every picture is converted to a new JPEG when it arrives, which removes the information your camera or phone attaches to it, including where it was taken.
Cookies
One cookie, which keeps you signed in for up to ninety days, and a token inside it that stops other websites from submitting forms on your behalf. If you rate a recipe without signing in, that same cookie is given a random label so the site can tell the rating is yours and let you change it later. The label means nothing anywhere else. There is no analytics, no advertising and no third party tracking of any kind. Nobody is measuring what you read.
Reading a photograph for you
If you ask the submission page to read a recipe out of a picture, that picture is sent to Perplexity, which runs it through Anthropic's Claude, and the transcription comes back into the form for you to check. Their own terms apply to that one request. The cookbook keeps nothing from it: the picture is not stored unless you then send the recipe in. Nothing else on this site, no photograph you add to a recipe and no comment, is ever sent anywhere.
Server records
The web server keeps an ordinary access log: the address requested, the time, the browser and the internet address it came from. Those logs are deleted after fourteen days.
Who can see it
Family members with an approved account see the recipes, ratings, comments and approved photographs. As the administrator, Bryan can also see account names and email addresses and the pictures and recipes waiting for approval. Nothing is sold, rented or passed to anyone else. Google is involved in the sign-in itself, and profile pictures are loaded from Google's servers when they are shown, so Google's own privacy policy applies to that part.
Removing things
You can delete your own comments and photographs yourself. Ask, at armi0024@gmail.com, and your account and everything attached to it will be deleted.
Children
The site is not aimed at children and asks for nothing beyond what is above.