Privacy Policy
FoodFlip Privacy Policy
Effective date: April 2, 2026
What FoodFlip does
FoodFlip is a Chrome extension that helps you swap ingredients on recipe pages to fit your diet, pantry, or preferences. The shipped extension activates on the active tab after you open the extension, scans the visible recipe content, and lets you compare or apply substitution suggestions on that page.
What FoodFlip reads
After you open FoodFlip on a tab, the extension reads recipe-page text such as ingredient lines, recipe instructions, and nearby structural cues needed to identify ingredient roles and update instruction text.
FoodFlip does not inject itself into every page by default. It becomes active on a page after user invocation through the extension popup.
How FoodFlip processes recipe content
In the shipped v1 runtime, recipe analysis is handled locally in your browser. FoodFlip does not send scanned recipe-page content to a remote FoodFlip backend service as part of normal operation.
The codebase contains dormant parser and API scaffolding for an experimental path, but that path is not active in the shipped runtime.
What FoodFlip stores
FoodFlip does not currently create a FoodFlip account, sync profile, or persist saved substitution preferences in the free browser extension. The live runtime keeps only the in-memory page and popup state needed to support scanning, recents, review, reopen, and jump actions while you are actively using the extension.
FoodFlip does not currently sync extension state across devices.
Shopping links
FoodFlip can show optional shopping links in the popup and on applied ingredient rows for the current substitution. These links open only when you click them. The current free build uses plain Amazon search links and does not require those links to use the extension.
What FoodFlip does not do
- It does not sell your personal information.
- It does not sync recipe content to a FoodFlip account.
- It does not require sign-in to use core functionality.
- It does not collect recipe browsing data on pages where you do not invoke it.
Contact
For privacy or support questions, contact support@food-flip.com.