Privacy Policy — Recipe Catcher

Last updated: September 11, 2026

Recipe Catcher is designed to protect your privacy. In short: it collects nothing, sends nothing, and has no accounts, ads, or trackers. Everything happens locally in your browser, on your device.

Information we collect

None. Recipe Catcher does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any personal information or usage data. There are no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no user accounts.

How the extension works with page content

Recipe Catcher includes a small helper that loads on the pages you visit. On each page it checks, locally, whether that page's markup contains structured recipe data — that check is what lets it offer the "Catch this recipe?" prompt. When — and only when — you then click Catch this recipe, it reads that single page in full to extract the ingredients and instructions.

Both the check and the extraction happen entirely on your device. No page content and no recipe text is ever sent to us or to any third party.

Information stored on your device

The extension uses your browser's local extension storage to keep:

• your preferences (measurement units and light/dark theme), and
• the recipe you just captured, stored momentarily only to hand it to the clean reader tab, then removed.

This data stays on your device, is accessible only to the extension, and is removed when you uninstall the extension. It is never uploaded anywhere.

Permissions and why they are used

• Website access + scripting — so the helper can load on the pages you visit, check locally whether a page holds a recipe, and extract that recipe when you click "Catch this recipe." Recipes live on an unbounded set of sites, so the extension cannot list them in advance. It never modifies the page and never sends anything anywhere.
• Storage — to remember your unit/theme preferences and pass a captured recipe to the reader tab, all locally.

Third parties

Recipe Catcher does not use any third-party services, SDKs, servers, or networks. It makes no network requests of its own.

Children's privacy

Because the extension collects no data at all, it collects no data from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this page with a new "Last updated" date.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Contact: recipecatcher.support@gmail.com