Three documents, written to be read: the Disclaimer (what this tool is and is not), the Terms of Service (the agreement between us), and the Privacy Policy (exactly what we collect, who touches it, and how long we keep it). Every statement here was checked against the running product on the effective date.
1 · Disclaimer
Plate Planner helps you plan meals. It does not give medical, nutritional, or health advice.
Recipes are written by software. Dish names, descriptions, ingredient lists, cooking steps, and dish images are generated by large language models and an image model. They can be wrong, incomplete, or unsuitable for you. Treat every recipe as a suggestion to check, not an instruction to follow.
Nutrition figures are calculations or estimates, never measurements. A figure marked ✓ was calculated from the ingredient lines we could match to our bundled reference dataset (derived from USDA food data); a figure marked ~ is the model’s own estimate. A ✓ means most of the dish was matched, not all of it — an unmatched ingredient is left out of the total. Both kinds are approximations, not measurements. Actual values depend on the brands, sizes, and cooking methods you use.
Allergy warnings are best-effort, never a guarantee. If you or someone at your table has an allergy, the planner is told to avoid it and the app flags any ingredient line it recognises as a match. It can miss an allergen, a hidden ingredient, or cross-contamination, and product labels vary. If you have a food allergy, read every ingredient and every label yourself before buying, cooking, or eating anything.
Diets are rules the planner follows, with the same limits. Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, and dairy-free are treated as rules and flagged when a dish breaks them. Other diets and health profiles (for example low-carb, GLP-1, kidney-friendly) shape what is generated but are not checked line by line. Nutrient limits (such as a sodium limit) are off until you turn them on.
Preference filters are not safety devices. Health profiles, diets, nutrient limits, and “foods to avoid” steer what is generated; a generated recipe can still contain something you asked to avoid. The final ingredient check is always yours.
Not medical or nutritional advice. Plate Planner is not a doctor, dietitian, or nutritionist, and using it creates no professional relationship. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before changing your diet — especially if you are pregnant or nursing, managing a medical condition (such as diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease, or gout), taking a GLP-1 or other medication, or eating for a child.
Not for emergencies. The Service must never be used in a medical emergency. If you may be having one — including a severe allergic reaction — call your local emergency number immediately.
No promised results. We make no promise that using Plate Planner will produce any particular health, weight, or nutrition outcome.
By using Plate Planner, you accept that all content is provided for general informational purposes only, “as is,” and that you use it at your own risk.
2 · Terms of Service
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and Plate Planner (“we,” “us”), a service operated from California, United States, by its founder. By using plateplanner.ai or any related app or feature (the “Service”), you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.
2.1 Who may use the Service
You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract. The Service is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.
2.2 What Plate Planner is — and is not
The Service helps you plan meals: it writes a week of recipes around the people at your table, their allergies, diets, and health needs, and your own targets; it estimates nutrition; it builds a shopping list; it walks you through cooking. It is an informational and organisational tool only. It does not provide medical, nutritional, dietary, or health advice and is no substitute for a qualified professional.
2.3 Generated and estimated content
Recipes, descriptions, cooking steps, and dish images are produced by automated systems (see §3.3 for who runs them). Nutrition values — calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat, fiber, sodium, and on kidney-focused plans potassium and phosphorus — are calculated from our USDA-derived reference dataset where ingredients match (marked ✓) or estimated by the model (marked ~). Both are approximations, as the Disclaimer explains. Dish images are generated once per dish name and then reused for every account that plans that dish.
2.4 Your account
You can sign up with an email address and password, with an email sign-in link, or with Google. You are responsible for keeping your login secure and for activity under it; tell us at support@plateplanner.ai if you suspect unauthorised use. You can delete your account at any time from the user menu.
You can use most of the Service without an account. Your plans and settings then live only in your browser’s storage on that device: clearing browser data or losing the device deletes them, and we cannot recover them. An account exists to keep your plans and sync them between your devices.
2.5 Acceptable use
You agree not to:
use the Service for any unlawful, harmful, or fraudulent purpose;
rely on the Service for medical, clinical, or emergency decisions;
break, overload, probe, scrape, or automate the Service, or interfere with the limits that keep it free for everyone;
submit anything you do not have the right to share, or anything unlawful, abusive, or infringing;
enter information about another person (for example a household member’s allergies or health needs) without their permission.
2.6 Who owns what
Content the Service generates belongs to Plate Planner, to the extent such content can be owned: recipes, meal plans, descriptions, and dish images. You receive a free, non-exclusive, personal licence to use it — cook it, save it, print it, share it with friends — for personal, non-commercial purposes.
What you bring stays yours (or its original author’s). Notes, preferences, the people at your table, and recipes you type in or import from elsewhere are not claimed by us; importing something never transfers its ownership. You grant us a licence to store and process it in order to run the Service for you and, if you deliberately share it, to show it as §2.7 describes.
Health information is personal information. Your allergies, diets, health needs, and targets are handled as the Privacy Policy describes — never sold, never used for advertising. Nutrition values are facts; we claim no ownership of facts.
2.7 Community, sharing, and public links
Community sharing is off until you turn it on. With it on, a recipe you save or rate can appear in Discover and on a public recipe page, and the dishes you mark as cooked count toward anonymous popularity totals. What is shown is the recipe (name, ingredients, steps, image) and aggregate ratings — never your name, email, or health settings. A dish appears in popularity lists only once enough separate accounts have cooked it, so no one is identifiable. Recipes you import from elsewhere are never pooled.
What the planner writes is kept. Every recipe the planner generates is stored anonymously, with nothing linking it to you, so it can be served again instead of being written twice. These recipes never appear in Discover, search, or on a public page unless someone saves, rates, or shares them.
Public links. If you create a share link to a week plan or a recipe, anyone with that link can view it. Share links thoughtfully; email us to have one removed.
Licence and moderation. For content you deliberately share publicly, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, display, and distribute it as part of the Service. We may moderate, edit for safety, or remove community content at our discretion. Because community recipes are stored without your identity, they may remain in the library after you delete your account; email support@plateplanner.ai with the link to have a specific item removed, including for copyright reasons.
2.8 Intellectual property
The Service — its design, code, name, and content, including generated recipes and images (§2.6) — belongs to Plate Planner and is protected by law. You may use the Service for personal, non-commercial meal planning and share its content as §2.6 allows. You may not copy, resell, or redistribute the Service or its content beyond that.
2.9 Third-party services
The Service runs on providers we do not control (hosting, accounts and storage, email, bot protection, and text and image generation — named in §3.3). We are not responsible for their acts, outages, or content, and their terms may also apply to you.
2.10 Retailer links, affiliate commissions, donations, and paid plans
Buttons that send your grocery list to a retailer open third-party sites we do not control; check prices, ingredients, and availability there. Some of those links may be affiliate links, meaning Plate Planner may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Commissions never influence what the planner suggests. Donations (for example via Ko-fi) are voluntary gifts, not payment for goods or services, and are non-refundable. If we offer a paid plan, its price, terms, and cancellation will be shown before you pay, and payment will be processed by Stripe; we never see or store your card number.
2.11 No warranties
The Service and all content are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied — including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that any recipe, nutrition figure, allergy flag, or other content is accurate, complete, safe, or suitable for you, or that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free.
2.12 Assumption of risk
Cooking, dietary changes, and reliance on nutrition information carry inherent risks. You knowingly and voluntarily assume all risk arising from your use of the Service, including any allergic reaction, illness, injury, or health outcome.
2.13 Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Plate Planner and anyone associated with it will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss arising from your use of (or inability to use) the Service — including any harm related to recipes, nutrition estimates, allergens, food safety, or health decisions — even if we were advised such damages were possible. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of fifty US dollars (US$50) or the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
2.14 Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Plate Planner from claims, losses, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your use of the Service, your content, or your violation of these Terms or of any law or third-party right.
2.15 Suspension and termination
We may suspend or end your access at any time, including for violating these Terms or to protect the Service or other users. You may stop using the Service at any time and delete your account from the user menu. Sections that by their nature should survive (disclaimers, warranty exclusions, liability limits, indemnity, and governing law) survive termination.
2.16 Changes to the Service or these Terms
We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service, and we may update these Terms. When we make material changes we will update the effective date above and, where appropriate, give notice in the app. Continuing to use the Service after a change means you accept the updated Terms.
2.17 Governing law and disputes
Talk to us first — most problems are fixable in one email. Before filing any claim, you agree to email support@plateplanner.ai with a description of the dispute and give us 30 days to resolve it informally. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court instead.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. You agree that the state and federal courts located in California have exclusive jurisdiction and consent to venue there, unless your local consumer-protection law gives you rights that cannot be waived.
2.18 Miscellaneous
If any part of these Terms is unenforceable, the rest still applies. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. We are not liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control. If you send us feedback or ideas, thank you — we may use them freely, without obligation. You may not transfer these Terms; we may assign them as part of a business transfer, in which case they continue to bind the successor.
2.19 Coaches and clients
Plate Planner for Coaches lets a personal trainer or coach (“coach”) see and help shape the plans of people who choose to link their account to the coach’s (“clients”). A coach sees nothing until you say yes. A link starts with an invitation to your email address; before you accept, the consent screen names the coach and lists exactly what they would see — the week you planned, what you cooked, and your table (the people you cook for, allergies, diets, health needs, and targets) — and nothing beyond that list is ever shared. You can leave at any time from Your table, and a coach can remove you from their roster; either way the coach’s access ends at once and everything you planned stays yours.
A coach can send you a week or a single dish, set targets, and leave you notes. Nothing a coach sends changes your plan or your targets until you accept it in the app, and your food allergies are yours alone to set. Coaches pay for the seats on their roster; clients never pay. If a coach stops paying, the coach loses their view of you — you keep the whole app and everything in it. What a coach sends also reaches you as an email from the coach’s name through our address (a few a day at most), and you can write back to your coach from Your table; a coach receives an email when a client accepts, adds what they sent, or writes back, and a weekly summary of their roster they can turn off. Leaving the link ends all of it. If you choose to, you can also share your weigh-ins with your coach — numbers you type at Your table, never a measurement we take — and you can stop sharing them at any time; an invitation alone never includes them.
Coaches must be at least 18, may use the coach view only for people who have consented through the app, must keep what they see confidential, and must not use it to diagnose, treat, or give medical advice. The coach view is not a medical record and is not intended for clinical use. Coaches are responsible for the accuracy of what they send and for their own professional obligations to their clients.
2.20 Contact
Questions about these Terms: support@plateplanner.ai.
3 · Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains what Plate Planner (“we,” “us”) collects, why, who processes it, and how long it is kept. Plate Planner is deliberately lean: no advertising, no third-party analytics or tracking, and we do not sell your personal information.
3.1 Information we collect, and why
Account information. If you sign up, your email address and the authentication details needed to sign you in. If you sign in with Google, we receive your name and email from Google — never your Google password.
Your meal-planning data. Your plans, saved recipes, plan history, the items in your kitchen, your shopping cart, your preferences (cuisine, cooking style, diets), your targets, and the dishes you mark as cooked. With an account this is stored under your account so it syncs between your devices; without one it stays in your browser.
Health-related settings you choose to enter. Allergies, diets, health profiles (for example heart-healthy, diabetes-friendly, GLP-1, kidney-friendly, pregnancy-aware), and any nutrient limit you turn on. These are stored under your account and used only to shape what the Service generates for you. They are included in the prompts sent to the text-generation providers in §3.3 so the recipes respect them; those prompts never include your name or email.
The people at your table. If you add people (a name, their allergies, diets, and health needs), that information is stored under your account and used only to shape your plans and warn you at the table. Use first names or nicknames if you prefer, and only add details you have the person’s permission to share.
Ratings, saves, and cooked dishes as community signals. With community sharing on (it is off by default), a saved or rated recipe is stored in the shared library without your identity, your star rating contributes to an aggregate, and a dish you cook counts toward anonymous popularity totals that are shown only once enough separate accounts have cooked it.
Every recipe the planner writes. Generated recipes are stored in the shared library with nothing linking them to you, so they can be served again (§2.7). The text may reflect settings you chose (a cuisine, a diet), but never who chose them.
A taste profile built from what you do. Your ratings, saves, and imports teach the Service what you like, so later suggestions lean that way. It shapes only what is generated for you, and you can reset it in the app.
Cooking reminders, if you turn them on. We store, under your account, what your browser needs to receive a reminder — a notification address issued by your browser vendor, the keys that encrypt the message, and your time zone. A scheduled job checks whether you have already logged cooking that day and skips you if you have. Turning reminders off drops these details.
Voice control stays in your browser. Cook Mode’s voice commands use your browser’s built-in speech service, which converts speech to text on your device or via your browser vendor. We never receive or store audio.
Error reports when something breaks. If the app hits an error, we record the error message, where in the app it came from, its technical stack trace, the page address, and your browser’s user-agent string. These reports are not linked to your account and are deleted after 30 days. We do not store your IP address with these reports — it is used only momentarily to rate-limit the endpoint against floods.
Feedback you send us. If you use the feedback form, we store and email ourselves what you wrote, the tags and score you chose, the email address you optionally give so we can reply, and a few technical facts that help us reproduce the problem (the app build, the screen you were on, your theme, whether you were signed in, your browser’s user-agent string, counts of your meals, kitchen items, and cart items, and any recent error messages).
Someone else’s email, if you send them a plan. When you email a plan, you give us the recipient’s address (and optionally your name and a short note) purely to deliver that one message. We do not store their address, add them to any list, or ever email them again — it passes through our email provider and that is the end of it.
Operational counters that hold your network address briefly. To keep the Service free and fair, requests that cost us money (recipe generation, dish images, imports, emails) are counted per network address. Those counters live for at most a day and hold no other information. The names of dishes generated on the Service are also recorded for seven days, with no link to any account, so that only real dishes are ever sent for image generation.
Hosting logs. Like every website, our hosting provider automatically processes basic technical information (network address, browser type, pages requested) to deliver and secure the site, under its own retention policy.
Beyond the settings described above, please do not enter medical records, diagnoses, or anything else you wish to keep private. The Service only needs food-level facts to do its job.
3.2 Cookies and browser storage
One first-party cookie for the front door. After you enter the app once, a cookie (pp_seen, kept for a year) sends you straight back into the app instead of the introduction page. It contains no personal information.
One first-party security cookie. After you pass our bot-protection check (Cloudflare Turnstile), we set a signed cookie (pp_human) for two hours, tied to your network address, so we do not have to check again. It marks your browser as human; it does not identify you.
Browser storage. Your current plan, settings, and small conveniences (a remembered theme, a dismissed notice, where you had scrolled) are kept in your browser’s local and session storage so the app works smoothly. This stays on your device.
No advertising or analytics cookies, and no third-party trackers of any kind.
3.3 The providers that run the Service
We use a small number of providers, each processing data only to perform its function for us:
Vercel — hosting and delivery of the site and its server functions.
Supabase — accounts, the database that holds your account data, and file storage; hosted in the United States.
Cloudflare — bot protection (Turnstile), dish-image generation (Workers AI, the FLUX image model), and storage of generated dish images (R2).
Text-generation providers — the recipes, descriptions, and nutrition estimates are written by large language models reached through Groq, Google (the Gemini API), and OpenRouter, which routes requests to model hosts. Prompts contain the dish context and the dietary, allergy, and health settings needed for the result to respect them; they never contain your name or email.
Resend — email delivery (sign-in emails, plans you email to someone, and feedback you send us).
Your browser’s push service (for example Google, Apple, or Mozilla) — carries cooking reminders to your device if you turn them on; the message is encrypted with the keys your browser gave us.
Stripe — payment processing, only if you buy a paid plan when one is offered. We never see or store your card number.
Ko-fi — an external site for voluntary donations, under its own terms.
These providers have their own privacy practices; we share only what is needed for them to perform their function.
3.4 How we share information
With your coach, only if you link one, and only what the consent screen lists (see §2.19): the week you planned, what you cooked, and your table. A coach never sees your saved recipes, other households, error reports, or your account details beyond the email address they invited. A coach’s notes and targets for you are kept with the link and end with it.
We share information only: with the providers above; to comply with law or a valid legal request; to protect the rights, safety, and security of users, the public, or Plate Planner; or in connection with a business transfer (such as a merger or sale), in which case we will honour this Policy. We do not sell your data. Content you deliberately share into the community library or through a public link is visible to others as §2.7 of the Terms describes, always without your name, email, or health settings.
3.5 How long we keep it
Account data (plans, settings, health-related settings, the people at your table, cooked dishes, reminders, taste profile, ratings): for as long as your account exists. Deleting your account deletes it.
Error reports: 30 days, then deleted automatically.
Feedback: kept until we have acted on it; email us to have yours deleted.
Operational counters: at most a day; recorded dish names, seven days.
Community recipes and public links: stored without your identity, so they may remain after you delete your account. Email us with the link to have a specific item removed.
Emailed-plan recipients: never stored by us; they exist only in our email provider’s delivery logs, under its retention policy.
3.6 Your choices and rights
view and edit your plans, settings, and the people at your table in the app;
download a copy of your account data any time (“Download my data” in the user menu);
delete your account and its data (“Delete my account” in the user menu, no email required);
turn community sharing on or off in the user menu (it is off until you turn it on);
turn cooking reminders off at any time, which drops the notification details we stored;
reset your taste profile so suggestions start from scratch;
clear browser storage by clearing your browser data;
email support@plateplanner.ai to access, correct, or delete your personal information, or to remove a shared recipe or plan.
Depending on where you live (for example, California under the CCPA/CPRA, or the EU and UK under the GDPR), you may have additional rights to access, delete, correct, port, or limit the use of your personal information, and not to be discriminated against for exercising them. To make a request, email support@plateplanner.ai; we will verify it is you and respond within the time the law allows. We do not sell or “share” personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising, and we do not use it for profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects.
3.7 Security
Your account data is protected by authentication and row-level access controls so that only you can read or change it; server keys are never shipped to the browser; cost-bearing features sit behind bot protection and rate limits; and the site enforces HTTPS and a strict content-security policy. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security — if we learn of a breach affecting you, we will tell you.
3.8 Children’s privacy
The Service is for adults (18+) and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we will delete it.
3.9 International users
We operate from the United States and process information there. If you use the Service from elsewhere, your information is transferred to and handled in the United States under U.S. law, which may differ from your local law.
3.10 Changes to this Policy
We may update this Policy. We will change the effective date above and, for material changes, give reasonable notice in the app. Continuing to use the Service means you accept the updated Policy.
3.11 Contact
Privacy questions or requests: support@plateplanner.ai.
Plate Planner started at one kitchen table and exists to help people eat a little better and stress a little less. These documents protect that so we can keep offering it; they are not here to trick anyone. If anything is unclear, ask.