Privacy Policy

From Google, when you sign in: your name, email address and profile picture address. We use them to sign you in, check your email against the family list, and show who added a recipe. We never see your Google password, and we don't read your Gmail, Drive, calendar or contacts.

If you ask for access: your Google email, the name you give, and the short note you write are kept so the site owner can approve or deny your request. They are used for nothing else. If you are not approved, the request can be deleted on request.

What you add: recipes, photos and scans, stories and notes, events and menus, meal plans, saved shopping lists, favorites and your color theme.

Technical: a few small cookies keep you signed in and remember your theme and time zone. We use no advertising, analytics or tracking cookies. Our hosting companies also keep standard server records (such as IP address and browser type) for security and troubleshooting.

• Recipes, photos, stories and favorites are visible to everyone on the family list, along with who added them. Photos are stored privately: only signed-in family members can view them. The person who added a recipe, or an admin, can edit or delete it.
• Events are visible to the whole family or only to the people the creator chose. An invited-only event is hidden from everyone else, including admins.
• Your meal plans, saved shopping lists and “My dishes” lists are private to you.
• Admins can add and remove people and can see the family list of names and emails.

Because Jason Bielss runs the site's database, they can technically reach everything stored in it, including private lists. They don't browse it except to keep the site working.

These companies help us run the site and handle your information only to provide their service:

• Google signs you in (privacy policy).
• Supabase stores the database, sign-in sessions and uploaded photos (privacy policy).
• Vercel hosts the website (privacy policy).
• Resend sends the site owner an email when someone asks for access, containing the name, email and note from that request (privacy policy).
• GoDaddy provides the domain name (privacy policy).
• Anthropic provides the AI features (privacy policy).

AI features (reading a recipe from a photo, suggesting a menu, building shopping lists and meal plans) send the photo or the recipe and event details involved to Anthropic when someone uses them. Anything you type into a note or preference box is included if it is part of the request. Under Anthropic's commercial terms, information sent through its API is not used to train its models.

We use information from Google only to sign you in and run FamilyTable, and we don't sell it or use it for advertising. Our use of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

We keep your information until you or an admin delete it. You can ask us at any time to delete your profile and personal information (meal plans, saved lists, favorites, uploaded photos) or a recipe you added. Removing someone from the family list ends their access right away; their recipes stay unless they ask for them to be removed. Copies may remain in our providers' backups for a short time.

FamilyTable is a personal, non-commercial site run by Jason Bielss. Questions, or want your information removed? Contact them at jason.bielss@gmail.com. If we change how the site handles information, we'll update this page and the date at the top.