Privacy Policy
Last updated 2 October 2026
Close to Home helps families keep their recipes — in the words and voices of the people who cook them. This page explains what we collect, why, and the choices you have. In short: your recipes are private unless you choose to share them, we don't sell your data, and you can delete everything at any time.
What we collect
- Your account: your name and email address from Google or Apple when you sign in. With Apple's "Hide My Email", we receive a private relay address instead.
- What you add: voice recordings, photos of recipes and dishes, typed notes, and the recipe cards made from them, including who a recipe was "told by".
- Family sharing: who you have invited and who has joined your vault. A name or contact you type when inviting someone is kept only for your own list; we don't message anyone.
We do not use advertising trackers or sell personal data.
How we use it
- To turn recordings, photos and notes into recipe cards: recordings are transcribed and text is structured by AI services that process it on our behalf.
- To show your recipes to you, and to the family members you choose to share them with.
- To keep the service secure and working.
Services that process data for us
- Sarvam AI — speech-to-text for voice recordings.
- Google Gemini — reading recipe photos and arranging text into recipe cards.
- Railway — hosting for our servers, database and stored files.
- Google and Apple — sign-in.
These providers receive only what is needed for their task.
Who can see your recipes
Recipes are private by default. People you invite can see only the recipes and groups you mark as shared, and they cannot change them. You can stop sharing, or remove someone, at any time.
Keeping and deleting data
We keep your recipes for as long as you have an account. You can delete a recipe at any time, or delete your whole account from Settings in the app — this permanently removes your vault, recordings, photos and recipes. To ask about your data, email closetohome.feedback@gmail.com.
Children
Close to Home is not directed at children under 13.
Changes
If we change this policy in a meaningful way we will update the date above and let you know in the app.