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How Phork It! uses your data

What we store, who can see your recipes, what goes to AI services to build a recipe, and what we never do. A plain summary of our privacy approach.

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  1. Who can see what
  2. How importing uses AI
  3. What we don't do
  4. Your choices

We store your email, your settings, and what you put into Phork It!: recipes, plans, shopping lists and cooking history. They're private to you, except recipes you choose to share with a link. Here's a plain summary; our Privacy Policy has the full details.

Who can see what

  • Your recipes, plan, list and cooks are private to your account.
  • A shared link shows the recipe, its photos and the original creator's credit to anyone with the link. Never your name, your ratings or notes, or your cooking history.
  • Your profile (name, allergies, diet, nutrition goals) is yours only and never appears on a shared page.

How importing uses AI

To build a recipe, Phork It! sends the source's text (a caption, a page or your pasted text), and sometimes a video's audio, to AI services that write up the recipe, estimate nutrition and sort items into aisles. Your email and name are never sent with it.

  • Videos aren't kept. We read the caption and speech, keep the written recipe and its pictures, and delete the video and audio.
  • Photos you upload have their location and camera details removed.
  • Nutrition is worked out from a copy of the USDA food database kept on our own servers.

What we don't do

  • We don't sell your personal information.
  • We don't sign in to TikTok, Instagram or other sites on your behalf, and they receive nothing about you when we read a link.

To opt out of any sale or sharing of your data, email [email protected] with the subject "Do Not Sell or Share".

Your choices

  • Delete your account any time in SettingsAccountDelete account. You have 30 days to undo it; after that your personal data is erased.
  • Get a copy of your data or make any other privacy request by emailing [email protected].
  • Turn off a share link by deleting the recipe, or ask us to turn it off.
Account & settingsHow to delete your account and your dataDelete your Phork It! account from Settings. You have 30 days to change your mind, then your personal data is erased for good. Your recipesHow to share a recipe or a collectionSend anyone a link to a recipe or a whole collection. They can read it in any browser without an account, and save their own copy in Phork It!.

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