Privacy Policy

We collect what you give us and a small amount of usage data. We don't collect your contacts.

Account

Name, email address and password, stored as a secure hash. If you sign in with Google, your Google account ID and the email address Google shares with us.Why: To sign you in

Sign-in and security records

Sessions, password resets, sign-up checks and abuse limitsWhy: To keep your account safe

Household

Household name, members and the email addresses you inviteWhy: So members can plan together

Planning data

Dinners and dinner photos, ratings, notes, Plans, On Hand items, Shop lists and finished shopping tripsWhy: To run MealPlanned

Recipe imports

Text taken from the links, files and photos you import, while you review itWhy: To turn a recipe into a saved dinner

AI usage

How many Spark suggestions and photo imports you and your Household used in the past 24 hoursWhy: To apply usage limits

Billing status

Trial and Premium status, linked to your Stripe recordWhy: To manage your plan

Email preferences and delivery

Whether you've opted in to updates, and whether our emails were deliveredWhy: To respect your choice and keep email working

Usage and error data

Pages you visit, features you use and errors you run into, linked to your account and HouseholdWhy: To fix problems and improve MealPlanned

We use your data to run and improve MealPlanned. That means running planning features, managing your plan and billing, preventing abuse, keeping the service reliable, fixing problems and sending account email plus any updates you opted in to.

Sharing your Shop list with Instacart is optional and happens only when you select the Shop on Instacart button. Other MealPlanned shopping tools remain available if you do not use it.

We don't sell personal data. We do not send your saved dinners, Plans or Household profile to advertising platforms. The optional Instacart transfer described below happens only when you choose it. Card details go straight to Stripe and never reach our servers.

A few providers handle parts of the service for us. We share only what each one needs to provide its service. Email support@mealplanned.io for the current list of providers.

Payments: Stripe

Card and billing details, sent straight to Stripe, plus your email address and plan

Sign in with Google: Google

If you use it, Google confirms your account and shares your email address and Google account ID with us. Google's sign-in script loads on the log in and sign-up pages.

Grocery handoff: Instacart

See "Shop on Instacart" below

Referral reporting: Impact

See "Shop on Instacart" below

Spark and photo import: OpenAI

See "AI features" below

Bot protection: Cloudflare Turnstile

Browser signals on sign-up and password reset pages, and on sign-in, email verification and Household invite pages when an extra check is needed

Weather in Plan: US National Weather Service

Rounded location, sent from your browser, only if you turn it on

Ingredient matching: USDA FoodData Central

Ingredient names from your dinners, sent from our servers to match each one to a food. Nothing that identifies you or your Household.

Barcode lookup: Open Food Facts

The barcode you scan in On Hand, sent from our servers to find the product name. Nothing else.

Hosting, database and file storage: cloud hosting providers

All data needed to run MealPlanned, including dinner photos

Email delivery: email service provider

Your name, email address, email preferences and delivery status

Product analytics: analytics provider

Account and Household identifiers, plan status, the pages you visit and the features you use, with email addresses and names removed

Error monitoring: error monitoring provider

Error details after automatic redaction, with your account identifier

On some public marketing pages, an error may also send a short recording of the clicks that led to it. Recordings hide text, form entries and images, but they can show where you clicked. We never record while you're signed in.

Spark. When you ask for suggestions, we send OpenAI your On Hand items and staples, your Household size, the cook time and effort you pick and a list of your Household's dinner names. The list lets Spark skip dinners you already have.

Photo import. We send the photo you choose after removing details your camera stored in it, such as where and when it was taken. Review the extracted text before you save it.

Each request carries a code made from your account ID, not the ID itself, so OpenAI can spot misuse from one account. We never send your name or email address.

Recipe imports. Imported text is held for 7 days while you review it. If you ask the founder for help with an import, it's held for up to 14 days from when you started it. You can withdraw the founder's access at any time, and the text is still removed when those 14 days end. Only import content you have the right to store.

Dinner photos. Photos you add to a dinner have location and camera details removed before we store them, and they're shown only to members of your Household.

Local weather. If you turn on weather in Plan, your browser asks for your location. Your browser then sends rounded coordinates straight to the US National Weather Service for a short forecast. We don't store your coordinates or send them to analytics.

Shop on Instacart. If you choose Shop on Instacart in a Shop list, MealPlanned sends the ready-to-buy item names, any safe quantities or units, and a link back to MealPlanned to Instacart to create a hosted shopping list. We do not send your MealPlanned email address, Household ID or On Hand items through this feature. Instacart handles product matching, store selection, cart and checkout under its own privacy policy. MealPlanned keeps the resulting link with your Shop list so your Household can reopen the same page. The link expires after 14 days, and MealPlanned removes it when you finish your trip or send a different list. The hosted page does not send a checkout confirmation back to MealPlanned, and purchases do not automatically update your Shop list or On Hand.

Impact referral reporting. If you follow the optional Instacart link, Impact may record the referral and provide MealPlanned reports about attributed clicks, qualifying purchases, sale amounts, products when supplied and commissions. We use those reports to administer the referral program. We do not use them to automatically update your Shop list or On Hand.

We keep your data while your account is open and remove it on the schedule below.

Account and planning data

Until you delete your account. Dinners you remove are archived, so you can restore them until then.

Household data you added

Stays with your Household after you leave or delete your account, until its last member deletes theirs

Sign-in sessions

Up to 7 days after you last use MealPlanned

Recipe import text

7 days, or up to 14 days with founder help

Spark and photo import counts

24 hours

Instacart links

Until you finish your trip or send a different list. Links expire after 14 days.

Email delivery records

1 year

Usage and error data

Kept by our analytics and error monitoring providers under their retention settings

Server logs

30 days

Unsubscribe records

Kept so we don't email you after you opt out

Billing records

As long as tax and accounting rules require

Billing event records from Stripe

180 days

Plan change history

Kept with our billing records, including after you delete your account

Account deletion follow-up

Up to 45 days after you delete your account. It holds your email address and the IDs our payment, email, analytics and error monitoring providers use, so we can finish the provider steps described below.

Deleting your account. Go to More, then Account and security. Your account is removed from MealPlanned as soon as you confirm. We then delete your customer record at Stripe and your profile with our analytics provider, and unsubscribe you with our email provider. Our providers may keep other copies for a limited time under their own retention rules. Email support@mealplanned.io and we'll ask them to delete yours. Dinners, Plans and anything else you added stay available to the other members of your Household. If you're the last member, the Household's data is deleted too. If you pay for your Household's Premium, end the plan before you delete your account.

Every MealPlanned user can ask us to:

• Show you the data we hold about you, including which providers have received it
• Correct anything that's wrong
• Send you a copy of your data in a usable format
• Delete your data
• Stop using your data for analytics or email updates

Email support@mealplanned.io from your account email. It's free. We'll reply within 30 days. If we need more time, we'll tell you why and finish within another 30 days. If we turn down a request, we'll explain why, and you can reply to ask us to reconsider. We'll answer within 60 days.

You can turn off email updates from any email or in your settings, and download your dinners as a CSV file with Export dinners in Rotation. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, our analytics stop collecting from that browser. You can turn off local weather in your browser at any time.

If you're in California or another US state with privacy laws. You have the rights above. We don't sell or share personal data for targeted advertising, and we won't treat you differently for using your rights.

MealPlanned accounts are for adults 18 and older. Your Household can plan dinners for kids, but please don't create an account for anyone under 18 or invite them to your Household. If you think someone under 18 has an account or has given us personal data, email us and we'll delete it.

We use cookies and similar browser storage to keep you signed in, protect forms from abuse and remember choices like your theme. Our analytics provider also uses them to count visits and feature use. We don't use advertising cookies.

MealPlanned also keeps some data in your browser so it works on a weak connection, such as a short-lived copy of your Plan and Shop list and Shop changes that haven't been sent yet.

MealPlanned is offered in the United States. We and our providers store and process your data in the United States.

Data is encrypted in transit and passwords are stored as secure hashes. No system is perfectly secure, so tell us right away if you think your account has been misused.

When we update this policy, we change the date at the top. For changes that affect how your data is used, we'll tell you by email or with a notice in MealPlanned before they take effect.

MealPlanned LLC, Indiana
support@mealplanned.io