Legal
Privacy
Last updated: 2026-05-12
What we collect, what we do with it, and what rights you have over it. In plain English.
What we collect
When you use FasterPlate, we store:
- Your email address (used to sign you in)
- Your password, encrypted (or nothing, if you sign in via email link only)
- Your name and public handle (if you choose to add them)
- The recipes you add
- The shopping lists and menu plans you generate
- Basic activity logs (when you signed in, how many recipes you've imported, and the like) — used to enforce limits and find bugs
That's it. We don't collect:
- Your location
- Your phone contacts
- Your browsing history
- Your payment card details — our payment partner handles those and they never come near our database
- Anything from third-party tracking scripts — we don't have any
What we do with it
- To run the app. Your recipes are stored so you can find them again. Your email is used to send sign-in links and the recipes friends share with you. None of this is shared with anyone else.
- To enforce limits. We track automatic recipe imports per year so we can enforce the 50-per-year cap.
- To fix bugs. When the app errors, we may log technical details. These never include your recipes or contents — just the page address and an error message.
- To comply with law. If a court orders us to hand over data, we'd have to. This has never happened.
Who else touches your data
Four companies help us run FasterPlate, each handling a specific bit of the service. Each is bound by their own privacy commitments. They don't share your data with anyone else and neither do we.
| Company | What they do | What they see |
|---|---|---|
| Fly.io | Hosts the app on servers in Sydney | Everything stored in the app's database |
| Resend | Delivers our emails to your inbox | Your email address (only when we send you a message) |
| Anthropic | Powers the AI recipe import | The text or PDF you upload when importing |
| Lemon Squeezy | Processes payments | Your email + payment card details (not visible to us) |
| Sentry | Notifies us when the app crashes so we can fix it | Only the technical details of the error (which page broke, what went wrong) — never your recipes or content |
| PostHog | Counts signup-funnel events ("a new account was created", "a shopping list was generated") so we can see if the app is working for people | Just the event name and your internal account number — never your email, name, or recipes |
| Backblaze | Stores a daily backup of the entire app database (off-site, so a fire or hardware failure at our main host doesn't lose your recipes) | A copy of the database. Stored encrypted at rest by Backblaze. Treated as part of the same data perimeter as Fly.io |
We never share your email with marketers. We never sell data. There are no advertising networks involved.
Cookies and tracking
FasterPlate uses one technical cookie that keeps you signed in. That's it. No advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no Google Analytics, no Facebook Pixel, no third-party scripts loaded in your browser.
The signup-funnel counting (PostHog, above) happens server-side. PostHog never sees you on the page directly — it just receives short messages from our server saying things like "user #42 created a recipe". No JavaScript runs in your browser for analytics.
Your rights
You can:
- See your data — everything you've put in is visible inside the app
- Download your data — every recipe can be downloaded any time
- Correct your data — edit your recipes, name, or handle from your account page
- Delete your account — closes the account and deletes everything within 30 days
- Ask questions — email [email protected]
If you live in Europe, Australia, the United Kingdom, or California, you also have additional legal rights under the privacy laws of those regions. The short names of those laws are:
- Europe — the General Data Protection Regulation (often called GDPR)
- Australia — the Australian Privacy Principles
- United Kingdom — the UK General Data Protection Regulation (often called UK GDPR)
- California, USA — the California Consumer Privacy Act (often called CCPA)
Whatever the law is called where you live, you can exercise any right it gives you by emailing [email protected]. You don't need to mention the law by name — just tell us what you want done.
Where data is stored
Servers in Sydney, Australia. Backups go to a separate cloud provider, also in Australia.
How long we keep it
Until you delete your account. Then within 30 days. (Some technical logs may persist for an extra 30 days in our backup tier before they age out.)
Children
FasterPlate isn't designed for children. If you're under 16, please don't sign up. If we find out a child has signed up, we'll close the account and delete the data.
Changes to this policy
If we change this in a significant way, we'll email you.
Contact
[email protected]. A real human responds.