Privacy

Identity

Firebase Authentication handles sign-in identity (for example email/password or Google). DishDelightful maps verified Firebase users to internal account records.

Account-owned data

The DishDelightful API (FastAPI) and PostgreSQL store account-owned data such as generated recipes, weekly plans, preferences, usage, and entitlement state. Personal cookbook documents and embeddings are private to the authenticated account that uploaded them.

AI processing

When you generate recipes, plans, embeddings, or grounded results, request content needed for those features is processed by configured AI providers (for example OpenAI) through the DishDelightful backend.

Payments

Payment details are collected on Stripe-hosted Checkout and Customer Portal pages. DishDelightful does not directly store card numbers. Premium may be billed monthly or annually; subscription status is synchronized to your account after Stripe confirms events. Cancellation and refund questions can go through Contact — see also the beta support/refund outline in project operations docs.

Product analytics

When enabled, DishDelightful sends privacy-safe product funnel events to PostHog (for example sign-in, generation started/completed, pricing viewed, checkout started). Events use an opaque hashed account identifier — not your email, display name, or Firebase token. We do not send recipe text, ingredients, allergies, preferences, cookbook document contents, filenames, prompts, model responses, or payment card data. Session replay and advertising pixels are disabled. Analytics never blocks cooking workflows if the provider is unavailable.

Local development keeps analytics off by default. Staging and production use separate PostHog projects when configured.

Closed-beta feedback uses your email client (mailto) with category and safe metadata only. Do not paste recipe text, prompts, or document contents into support messages.

Data deletion

Self-serve account deletion is not fully productized yet. Data deletion requests are currently support-assisted. Contact us via the Contact page.

AI and allergy limitations

Nutrition notes are estimates. Allergy guidance supplements — and never replaces — checking product labels. DishDelightful does not guarantee allergen-free food or medical advice.