Your data
What we keep, for how long, and who else sees it.
Last updated 9 September 2026
How long things are kept
RecipeMirror has no automatic deletion. Nothing here expires on a timer except a shopping-list share link. What you make is kept until you remove it or delete your account, and we would rather say that plainly than write “only as long as necessary” and leave you to guess what that means.
| What | How long | Note |
|---|---|---|
| A recording you uploaded or made | Until you delete it | Unless you chose "delete after reading" when you brought it in, in which case our copy goes as soon as the guide exists. There is no automatic expiry. |
| A photograph of a recipe page | Not kept at all | Read within the request and dropped. No file is written, so there is nothing to delete later. |
| Somebody else's video you linked to | Never held | RecipeMirror reads a video where it lives. It does not download or re-host one. |
| Guides, corrections, cooking history, shopping lists | Until you delete your account | These are the product. Nothing prunes them and nothing should. |
| A share link for a shopping list | 30 days, or until you turn it off | The one thing in RecipeMirror that expires on its own. A shopping list is a thing for this week. |
| Records of AI requests (model, timing, cost) | Kept | Operational data about the system rather than about you. No recipe content, no transcript. |
| Contact form messages | Until answered and cleared by hand | No automatic deletion. Ask and we will remove yours. |
Who else processes it
These are every third party RecipeMirror sends data to. Sending a recording to a model to be read is a transfer, and it is named as one here rather than described as “processing”.
| Who | What they do | What they see |
|---|---|---|
| Google (Gemini) | Reads videos, recordings and photographed pages, and answers questions about food | The media you asked RecipeMirror to read, and the text of the prompt |
| Supabase | Database, sign-in and file storage | Your email address, everything you make, and any recording we hold |
| Vercel | Hosts the website and app | Ordinary web logs — IP address, page, browser |
| Railway | Runs the API | Ordinary server logs, and anything passing through a request |
| PostHog (EU) | Product analytics, only after you accept them | Named events. No recipe content, no email address. Nothing until you opt in |
| Resend | Delivers sign-in links and replies | Your email address and the text of the email |
| Zoho Mail | Hosts our mailboxes | Anything you email us |
Storage limits
There is no per-account storage cap today. A single upload is limited to 500 MB; nothing limits the total. If that changes you will be told before it applies to anything you have already made.
What we are not doing yet
Automatic deletion of old data is not built. Neither is a storage cap. Both are honest gaps rather than decisions, and this page will change when they exist rather than describing them in advance.
To remove everything, see delete your data. Anything else about your data: privacy@recipemirror.com. The full picture is in the privacy policy.