Dinner Hand
Privacy policy
Last updated 14 November 2026
- We keep what you put into Dinner Hand (your household’s plan, recipes, shopping list and family notes) so the app can work and your household can share it.
- When you use the AI features, dish names and your family notes are sent to Anthropic’s Claude to work out ingredients and ideas. Nothing else is shared, and nothing is sold.
- No adverts, no tracking, no analytics, and no cookies on this website.
- You can delete your account and data from the app at any time.
Who we are
Dinner Hand is run by Benjamin Kinnard, an individual based in Scotland, UK, who is the controller of your personal data. Contact: hello@dinnerhand.com.
What we collect
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your account: email address, password (stored scrambled by Google Firebase, never seen by us) and the name you give. | To sign you in and show who did what (“added by Sam”). |
| Your household: its name, who’s a member, and the invite code while one is active. | So the people you cook for can share one plan. |
| Family details you add: first names, life stage (for example adult, child or toddler), whether they live with you or visit, and notes such as likes, dislikes or foods they avoid. | To suggest dinners and quantities that suit them. |
| Your dinners: plans, agendas, recipes, links, notes, ratings, calorie estimates, shopping lists and what you’ve bought. | This is the app: planning, the shopping list and remembering what works. |
| On your device only: your sign-in session and your light or dark setting. | So you stay signed in and the app looks how you chose. |
Please don’t put medical details in family notes. If someone has an allergy, a short note such as “no nuts” is enough for the app to work with, and you should always check ingredients yourself.
We don’t collect your location, contacts, photos or payment details, and we don’t use analytics or advertising tools.
The AI features
Working out ingredients, suggesting something new and filling in recipe details use Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic. When one of these runs, we send Anthropic the dish names involved and your household’s family list (first names, life stages and notes), and for suggestions, your saved recipes and nearby dinners. We don’t send your email address or account details.
Anthropic processes this on our behalf to produce the answer. Under its commercial terms it does not use this data to train its models, and keeps it only for a limited time for safety and abuse monitoring. See Anthropic’s privacy policy.
Who else handles your data
- Google (Firebase): stores your account and household data and runs the app’s server code. Your household data is kept in London (europe-west2). Sign-in details are handled by Firebase Authentication, which may process them outside the UK.
- Anthropic: the AI features, as above. Anthropic is based in the United States.
- Expo: delivers app updates to the Android app. It sees your device’s request (such as its IP address), not your household data.
Where data leaves the UK, it’s protected by the safeguards these providers offer under UK data protection law, such as the UK International Data Transfer Addendum or the UK–US data bridge.
Our lawful basis
We use your data to provide the service you signed up for (contract), and to keep it secure and working (our legitimate interests). We don’t use it for marketing.
How long we keep it
For as long as you have an account. When you delete your account, your sign-in and your own details are deleted straight away. If you’re the last person in your household, the whole household is deleted too; otherwise the shared plan stays with the people still in it. Backups roll over and are gone within 8 days.
Your rights
You can ask to see, correct, download or delete your data, or object to how we use it. Most of this you can do in the app; for anything else, email hello@dinnerhand.com and we’ll reply within a month. If you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Children
Accounts are for adults. Parents and carers can add their children to the family list (first name, life stage and food notes) to plan dinners for them; children don’t use the app themselves.
This website
dinnerhand.com sets no cookies and uses no analytics. Our host, Google Firebase Hosting, keeps standard server logs (such as IP addresses) for security.
Changes
If we change how we use your data, we’ll update this page and its date, and tell you in the app if the change matters.