Last updated November 11, 2026
Eastland Kitchen is a small, family-run meal-planning app in an early pilot. This page says, in plain language, what we keep, why, who helps us run it, and how you can take your information out.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your email address, and a password if you set one (stored in scrambled form; we can’t read it) | To sign you in |
| The name you enter and your household’s name | So family members know who did what |
| Recipes, family notes, ratings, meal plans and what you’ve cooked | The cookbook and calendar |
| Pantry items, shopping lists, and receipts you scan (store, date, total, line items) | To build lists, skip what you have, and show your grocery spending |
| Your address or ZIP code, favorite stores, and food rules (things to avoid, dislikes) | To pick stores and plan meals that suit your family |
| Photos you add to a recipe or a recipe step | To show them in your cookbook. These are stored at web addresses that are hard to guess but not password-protected, so don’t upload photos you wouldn’t want seen if a link were shared. |
| A notification address for each phone where you turn notifications on | To send prep reminders |
| Feedback you send, error reports when a page crashes, and a monthly count of AI requests | To fix problems and keep costs under control |
Photos you take to scan a pantry, a receipt or a recipe are read once to pull out the text and are not saved by us.
Your phone or browser also keeps a copy of your current shopping list and a few preferences so the list works without signal. A sign-in cookie keeps you signed in. That’s the only cookie.
Everyone who joins your household with your invite code sees everything in it: recipes, plans, pantry, lists, receipts and photos. Only share the code with people you want in your kitchen. Your private calendar link shows your meal plan and shopping list to anyone who has the link; you can replace it in Settings.
Every household can browse a shared list of community recipes. When you cook, rate, add or swap away one of those dishes, that counts toward the dish’s community score as an anonymous tally: other households see totals such as “cooked by 3 households”, never who cooked what. Your own family recipes are never shared unless you choose “Yes, share it” on a recipe. A shared recipe is reviewed, its steps are reworded, and it goes out without your family name or your own photos.
| Company | What they do for us |
|---|---|
| Supabase | Stores the database, sign-in details and recipe photos (United States) |
| Vercel | Hosts the website and runs the daily reminder job |
| Anthropic (Claude) | Does the AI work: planning a week, building a list, reading photos you scan, writing and adjusting recipes. The relevant recipes, pantry items, store preferences and photos are sent for that request. Under Anthropic’s terms for business customers, this content is not used to train its models by default. |
| Wikimedia Commons | When you add a recipe, its title is used to look for a freely licensed photo of the dish |
| Apple, Google or Mozilla | Deliver notifications to your phone or browser, if you turn them on |
We don’t share your information with anyone else unless the law requires it.
Until you delete it. Deleting your account removes your sign-in and your ratings and notification settings right away. If you’re the last person in your household, the household and everything in it (recipes, plans, pantry, lists, receipts, photos) is deleted too. If others remain, the shared kitchen stays for them. Feedback you sent is kept without your name attached. Our providers’ routine backups may take a short while to clear.
Accounts are for adults. Eastland Kitchen isn’t directed at children under 13 and we don’t knowingly collect their information.
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we’ll say so in the app before it takes effect.