FoodIsHard

Privacy policy

Last updated 10 November 2026

FoodIsHard is a free, personal, non-commercial project. Each copy is run privately by an individual (the host) for people they invite. This policy explains what a copy of FoodIsHard stores and why. If you were invited, the host is the person who invited you, or who invited your household, and they're who to contact about your data.

What is stored

• About you: your name and email address (so you can sign in), the name of your household, who invited you and when.
• About your household: meal plans, shopping lists, prices you enter, your settings (such as portion sizes, any allergies you choose to record and, only if you turn on baby mode, your baby's name and date of birth) and recipe feedback.
• Never stored: passwords (there aren't any) or payment details.

Why

Only to run the app for you: to let you sign in, keep your household's plans and lists in sync between your devices, and show you the right recipes. Your data isn't sold, used for advertising, or shared with other households.

Who else is involved

• Cloudflare hosts the online version, stores its data (in the EU by default) and sends sign-in codes. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
• Google, only if you choose "Sign in with Google": Google confirms your name and email address to the sign-in service. FoodIsHard doesn't receive or ask for access to anything else in your Google account. See Google's privacy policy.
• The host can technically see the data stored in their copy, because it's in their account.
• Once a week the app downloads the UK food price index from the Office for National Statistics. That request contains no personal data.

The Home Assistant version stores everything on the owner's own Home Assistant device and doesn't send it anywhere.

How long it's kept

• Shopping lists: deleted automatically after 8 weeks.
• Meal plans: deleted automatically after a year.
• Your name, email and household details: until you're removed from the app.

Your choices

• Download a copy of your household's data at any time from Settings → Your data.
• Ask the host to correct or delete your data, or to remove you. Deleting a household deletes all of its data.
• Members of a household can remove each other, and anyone can change their own display name.

Children

FoodIsHard is for adults. Baby mode lets parents plan baby-friendly portions; any baby details are entered by the parents and are optional.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top will change too.