Only Recipes — Privacy Policy

Effective: April 25, 2026

Only Recipes is a Chrome extension that strips recipe pages down to ingredients and steps. This policy describes — exhaustively — what data the extension touches and what it does with that data.

The short version

Only Recipes runs entirely on your device. It collects no personal data, makes no network requests of its own, sends nothing to any server, and uses no analytics or tracking.

What the extension reads

When you visit a web page, Only Recipes inspects two things in that page's HTML:

• Schema.org Recipe metadata embedded as JSON-LD (<script type="application/ld+json">) or microdata (itemtype="https://schema.org/Recipe").
• The page's URL, used as a key to remember your check-state and preferences for that recipe.

Pages without recipe metadata are ignored entirely — the extension takes no action and stores nothing.

What the extension stores

All data lives in chrome.storage.local on your computer. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. Stored data includes:

• Recipes you have explicitly saved with the heart button (title, source URL, image URL, save timestamp).
• Per-recipe state: which ingredients/steps you have checked off, your serving-size adjustment, and your selected unit system.
• Your global preferences: auto-show toggle and default unit system.

You can clear all of this at any time by removing the extension or by using Chrome's "Clear browsing data" with the Site settings option.

What the extension does not do

• No remote requests. The extension never calls a server we control.
• No analytics or telemetry. Not Google Analytics, not error tracking, not anything.
• No advertising. No ads are shown and no ad-targeting data is collected.
• No third-party SDKs or trackers.
• No selling, sharing, or transferring of any data to anyone.

Permissions explained

• storage — to save recipes and preferences locally on your device.
• Host access (<all_urls>) — required for the extension to detect recipe metadata on whatever recipe site you happen to visit. The content script only reads the schema.org markup described above; it never sends page contents anywhere.

Children

The extension is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect any data about anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this URL and the effective date above will be updated. Material changes will be noted in the extension's release notes on the Chrome Web Store.

Contact

Questions about this policy or the extension can be sent to edward@dawnwardpr.com.