Privacy Policy

1. Our Commitment to Privacy

Adaptive Kitchen is operated by Kitchen Assist LLC, doing business as Adaptive Kitchen. This policy applies to adaptivecooking.com and app.adaptivecooking.com. For privacy questions, contact support@adaptivecooking.com.

Adaptive Kitchen is designed to help people organize recipes, plan meals, manage pantry and shopping tasks, and use accessibility-minded cooking tools. We aim to collect and use only the information reasonably needed to operate, improve, and support those services.

2. Information We May Collect

The information collected depends on which parts of Adaptive Kitchen you use.

• Optional phone and notification information: If you provide a mobile number or request text alerts, we may collect that number, your notification choices, the consent disclosure you accepted and when you accepted it, opt-out requests, and messaging delivery or error records. Providing a phone number alone does not authorize text alerts.
• Account information: Information used to create and maintain an account, such as an email address and authentication-related account data.
• Recipe and kitchen content: Recipes you save or import, recipe source links, notes, meal-planning information, pantry and shopping information, and other content you choose to store in the service.
• Preferences and profile settings: Settings you choose that help tailor the Adaptive Kitchen experience, including cooking, accessibility, dietary, household, or equipment preferences where those features are available.
• Content you submit: Information you intentionally provide through support forms, recipe import tools, uploads, feedback, or other interactive features.
• Technical and usage information: Limited device, browser, diagnostic, security, error, and feature-usage information that may be generated when you use the website or app.

3. How We Use Information

Adaptive Kitchen may use information to:

• Provide and maintain your account and saved content.
• Operate Recipe Box, Meal Planner, Pantry & Shopping, Kitchen Connections, and other app features.
• Process recipe imports and user-requested recipe transformations.
• Personalize the experience based on settings and preferences you choose to provide.
• Respond to support requests and feedback.
• Provide communications you request, including optional SMS alerts when available and enabled, and maintain consent and opt-out records.
• Protect the service from misuse, security threats, fraud, or technical failures.
• Diagnose errors, improve reliability, and understand how features are functioning.

4. AI & Automated Processing

Some Adaptive Kitchen features use artificial intelligence or other automated services. When you choose to use an AI-powered feature, relevant recipe text, instructions, preferences, or other information needed to perform that request may be sent to service providers that help process the request.

For example, AI-assisted features may help reorganize recipe information, generate adaptive preparation suggestions, suggest alternatives, or create supporting content. The exact information processed depends on the feature being used.

Chef conversations, drafts & personalized help

Adaptive Kitchen stores Chef conversation text, recent messages, conversation summaries, and recipe drafts to support continued discussions and review. When you ask for personalized help, relevant saved preferences and limited recipe, pantry, meal-planning, or shopping information may be included in the request sent to AI providers, including OpenAI. The context used depends on the feature, your settings, and the question you ask.

Microphone input & spoken responses

Speak controls use your browser’s speech-recognition feature when supported and permitted. Depending on your browser, audio may be processed by its speech-service provider. Recognized words are handled as text in the feature where you submit them; submitted Chef messages may become part of your saved conversation. Spoken replies use Google’s voice-generation service, which receives the text to be read. You can control automatic spoken replies through the available voice settings and use text instead of microphone input.

Receipt text, screenshots & photos

When you choose receipt or inventory-list processing, the text or images you provide are processed through Base44’s extraction and AI services to identify items for your review. Receipt images are uploaded to private storage and may be made available to extraction services through temporary access links. A temporary link’s expiration does not establish when the underlying file is deleted; uploaded material remains subject to the retention practices described below.

Receipts can contain names, addresses, loyalty identifiers, and payment details. Where practical, crop or redact information that is not needed to identify the purchased items. Review extracted items, quantities, and categories before confirming changes to your pantry or shopping records.

5. Cookies & Browser Storage

Adaptive Kitchen may use cookies, local storage, session storage, or similar browser technologies to keep you signed in, preserve settings, support security, remember interface preferences, and maintain certain in-progress actions.

We do not describe these technologies as advertising trackers unless they are actually used for advertising. If our use of analytics, advertising, or tracking technologies materially changes, this policy should be updated accordingly.

6. Service Providers & Integrations

Adaptive Kitchen may rely on third-party service providers to operate parts of the website or app, such as hosting, authentication, email and SMS delivery, payment processing, support forms, analytics or diagnostics, recipe and nutrition data, search services, image generation, and AI processing.

Those providers may process limited information on our behalf as needed to perform their services. Their handling of information may also be governed by their own privacy terms and policies.

Kitchen Connections & Sharing

Recipe Journal entries, personal notes, and saved Chef notes are private by default. Where a private recipe-sharing flow lets you select notes, only the selected note text is copied into that share for the intended connection. Selecting notes does not give the recipient access to your Journal or Chef conversation history. Ordinary public recipe links do not include your private Journal entries.

When you share a recipe, journal note, message, photo, or event contribution, its intended recipients can view the information you choose to share. Your chosen display name and profile image may identify you in connection requests, shared recipes, and related social features. If you enable member discovery, other members may be able to find your discoverable profile.

A public recipe link can be viewed by anyone who receives that link, including someone to whom a recipient forwards it. Public recipe sharing is intended to show the recipe and sharing attribution, without disclosing your private pantry, shopping list, or full meal calendar.

Helper access is a separate permission you control. The information available to a helper depends on the permissions you grant. You can change or revoke access using available controls. Revoking access cannot erase copies another person has already saved, downloaded, or captured.

Mobile Information & Optional Text Alerts

Optional Adaptive Kitchen SMS alerts are being prepared for availability. When available, these alerts will cover Kitchen Connections event invitations and reminders, shared recipe notifications, and new message notifications, according to the choices you enable. We will require a separate affirmative opt-in before enrolling your number. Creating an account, buying a subscription, joining a circle, or receiving a connection invitation does not by itself provide SMS consent.

SMS opt-in data and consent will not be sold or shared for third-party marketing. We may provide the mobile number and the information necessary to deliver and support your requested messages to messaging service providers, telecommunications carriers, and vendors acting on our behalf. This limited operational processing is separate from promotional or marketing sharing.

Message frequency varies with your activity and notification choices. Message and data rates may apply. Once enrolled, reply STOP to unsubscribe or HELP for assistance. You may also contact support@adaptivecooking.com. We may retain limited consent and opt-out records to document your choices and prevent unwanted messages. SMS consent is not a condition of purchase.

Text messages may appear on your device’s lock screen or be accessible to others who use your phone. Consider that visibility when choosing notifications. Read the SMS terms for further details.

7. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. Data transmitted through the website and app is intended to use secure HTTPS connections where supported.

No online service can guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for protecting your account credentials and for using a secure device and network when accessing your account.

8. Data Retention

Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, maintain your account, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent abuse, or maintain appropriate business and security records.

Retention periods can vary depending on the type of information and the reason it is stored.

9. Your Choices & Data Requests

Depending on the feature and applicable law, you may be able to update or remove certain information directly within Adaptive Kitchen. You may also contact us to request help with account information, corrections, or account deletion.

Some information may need to be retained where required or permitted for security, legal, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, backup, or recordkeeping purposes.

10. Third-Party Websites & Recipe Sources

Adaptive Kitchen may contain links to recipe websites, retailers, equipment providers, or other third-party services. Visiting or interacting with those services is subject to their own privacy practices. Adaptive Kitchen is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites or services it does not control.

11. Children’s Privacy

Adaptive Kitchen is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children in circumstances where parental consent is legally required. If you believe a child has provided personal information improperly, please contact us so we can review the situation.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when Adaptive Kitchen features, service providers, legal requirements, or data practices change. When we make material updates, we will revise the “Last Updated” date shown at the top of this page.