Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 10, 2026

Fond (“we”, “us”, “our”) operates the website fond.kitchen and the Fond application. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect, why, and how we handle it.

What we collect

Waitlist & account

When you join our waitlist or create an account, we collect your email address and account identifiers. Account authentication and user management are handled with Clerk. Depending on how you sign in, account data may include your Clerk user ID, email address, name, profile image, authentication tokens, and session information needed to keep you signed in.

Usage analytics

We use PostHog to understand how people use Fond. On the website this may include pages visited, button clicks, device type, and similar usage information. In the mobile app this may include product events such as app opens, screen views, onboarding steps, paywall events, import outcomes, meal plan actions, shopping list actions, August usage counts, device family, app version, OS version, locale, authentication state, and subscription status.

Mobile analytics are designed not to include recipe titles, ingredients, instructions, chat text, imported URLs, email addresses, phone numbers, or user-entered notes. Session replay is disabled for the v1 mobile app.

Recipe & meal data

When you use the Fond app, your recipes, recipe imports, photos or screenshots you select for import, meal plans, shopping lists, pantry settings, recipe notes, preferences, August messages, and related app content are stored to provide the service. This data belongs to you. You can export or delete it at any time. See Delete your Fond account for the account deletion request path and retention notes.

AI processing

Some Fond features use AI to parse recipes, extract recipe structure, enrich recipe metadata, resolve ingredients, detect timers, and answer August cooking questions. To provide those features, relevant inputs such as recipe text, selected images, imported URLs, pantry or planning context, and August messages may be processed by the Fond backend and by AI service providers, including OpenRouter and model providers routed through OpenRouter. OpenRouter says it does not use inputs or outputs for model training, but model provider practices can differ. Avoid sending sensitive personal information in recipes, images, or August messages.

Purchases and subscriptions

If you subscribe in the app, purchases are processed by Apple or Google Play and entitlement status is managed with RevenueCat. Fond receives subscription and entitlement information such as product identifiers, purchase status, platform, app user ID, and restore status. Fond does not receive or store your full payment card details.

Diagnostics and security

We use Sentry to collect crash reports, handled errors, stack traces, device and OS details, app version, build number, and related technical context so we can diagnose bugs and protect the service. We may also process IP address, request metadata, logs, and security events through our backend and infrastructure providers.

Cookies

We use a minimal set of cookies:

  • Authentication cookie — keeps you signed in
  • Theme preference — remembers light/dark mode (stored in localStorage)
  • PostHog analytics — helps us understand product usage
  • Mobile local storage — stores app settings, authentication state, and preferences on your device where needed

We do not use advertising cookies or third-party tracking pixels.

How we use your data

  • To provide and improve the Fond service
  • To send waitlist updates and product announcements
  • To fix bugs and understand usage patterns
  • To authenticate users and sync app data across devices
  • To process purchases, restore subscriptions, and manage entitlements
  • To provide AI-assisted recipe import, recipe enrichment, and August responses
  • To investigate abuse, security issues, support requests, and legal obligations

We do not sell your data, use it for advertising, or share it with data brokers. We do not train our own AI models on your personal recipes or August messages.

Data storage & security

Data is stored on encrypted servers and transmitted over HTTPS. Access to production systems is restricted to the founding team and trusted service providers that help us operate Fond. Service providers may process data in the United States, the European Union, or other locations where they operate, subject to their security and data processing terms.

Your rights

You can at any time:

  • Access your data by exporting from the app
  • Delete your account and all associated data through the app or by following the account deletion request path
  • Manage subscriptions through the App Store or Google Play account where you subscribed
  • Unsubscribe from emails via the link in every message
  • Request a copy of your data by emailing us

After a verified account deletion request, we delete or de-identify account data within 30 days unless we need to retain limited records for legal, security, fraud prevention, billing, tax, accounting, dispute resolution, or compliance reasons. Backups and logs may persist for a limited period before automatic rotation.

Third-party services

  • Clerk — authentication and user management
  • RevenueCat — subscription entitlement management
  • Apple App Store and Google Play — app distribution, in-app purchases, subscriptions, and store account management
  • PostHog — product analytics
  • Sentry — crash and error diagnostics
  • OpenRouter and model providers — AI routing and generation for August, recipe import, and recipe enrichment
  • Cloudflare — hosting and CDN
  • Resend — transactional email delivery

Children

Fond is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the product evolves. Significant changes will be communicated via email to registered users. The “last updated” date at the top reflects the most recent revision.

Contact

Questions about your privacy? Email us at hello@fond.kitchen.