Privacy Policy

Where your recipes live

Your saved recipes, your cooking progress, and your preferences are stored on the device you are using. Without an account they never leave it, and Sift works completely that way.

If you sign in, your profile is kept on our servers, and recipe syncing, when it is enabled for your account, keeps a copy there so recipes can reach your other devices. Whatever is stored is readable only by your account. We do not read it, and deleting your account deletes it.

What leaves your device

Two things, and only when you ask for them:

• Saving a recipe. The address of the page you are saving is sent to our extraction service so the ingredients and steps can be read out of it. The page address is used for that request and is not kept afterwards.
• Searching. Your search words are sent to our search provider to get results back. They are not tied to your account.
• Syncing, if it is enabled for your account. When recipe syncing is on, your recipes are sent to our servers so they can reach your other devices. Otherwise they never leave the device.
• Signing in. Your email address is sent to our email provider so we can send you a sign-in link.

Your account

If you create an account, we hold your email address and the name you give us. We use it to identify your account and nothing else. Signed in, we also hold the recipes you have synced.

You can delete your account at any time from your profile. That removes your email, your profile, and any synced recipes from our servers. Recipes on your device are kept unless you ask for those to go too, because they are your work, not part of your account.

What we do not do

No advertising identifiers. No selling or sharing of your information. No tracking you across other apps or websites. No analytics that identify you.

Recipes belong to their authors

Sift keeps a link to the original recipe on every card and shows the site it came from. Saved copies are for your own use.

Getting in touch

Questions about any of this can go to the contact address on the App Store listing.