Privacy policy: Recipe Converter

The extension reads the recipe on the tab where you open it and converts it in your browser. It has no account and no servers of ours, sends nothing to us, shows no ads and sells no data. Recipes you save stay in your browser.

Recipe Converter ("we", "us") is a Chrome extension, published by CWS Tools as part of the Kitchen family by Tab & Tap (tabandtap.com). It converts the measurements of a recipe between US units and metric units and scales it to the number of servings you choose. It has no account and no servers of ours. We don't show ads, don't sell or share data, and don't track the pages you visit.

What the extension reads, and when

The recipe on the current tab, when you click the extension's toolbar button, press its shortcut (Alt+Shift+K) or open its side panel on that tab. It reads the structured recipe data the page publishes for search engines (schema.org Recipe: title, servings, ingredients, steps and, when the site gives them, its nutrition facts) to build the recipe card.
Only if you turn on the setting that shows the extension's button on recipe pages automatically (off by default; Chrome asks you for permission first): a small script inside the extension checks each page you open for recipe markup. On a page without a recipe it does nothing more. On a page with one, it shows a small button and, when you use it, reads the recipe as above. Turning the setting off stops this and gives the permission back.
The values you type into the popup's quick converter (ingredient, amount and unit) and the calories you enter for a recipe.

It reads nothing else on the page, and nothing on other tabs.

What the extension keeps, and where

Your settings (for example US or metric units, theme, where the card opens and whether the automatic button is on), in Chrome's sync storage, so they follow your Chrome profile if you use Chrome sync, like any synced Chrome setting.
My recipes, only for the recipes you save: the recipe as read from the page, its web address, the servings and units you chose and the calories you typed. They are kept in Chrome's local storage on this computer: not synced and not uploaded. You can export them to a file on your computer, import such a file, and delete any of them in My recipes.
For a moment while you print, the recipe being printed, in Chrome's session storage (cleared when you close the browser).

Removing the extension deletes everything it keeps.

What leaves your computer

The extension sends nothing to us or to anyone else: no analytics, no error reports, no servers. Its code, fonts, ingredient weight table and QR-code generator are all inside it.

"Open on your phone" shows a QR code for a link to our site, tabandtap.com, that contains the converted recipe (title, servings, ingredients and steps, and the address of the original recipe) inside the link itself, after the # sign. Nothing is sent when the code is shown. When you open the link on your phone, the phone loads the page from tabandtap.com, but the part after # stays on the phone: browsers do not send it to the web server, and the page shows the recipe on the phone. Nothing is stored on a server. Anyone you give the link to can read the recipe in it.
"Print" opens the converted recipe in a page of the extension, inside your browser.
Links such as the recipe's original page open in a new tab, as any link does.

What reaches us

Nothing. The extension has no analytics, no feedback form and no servers, and it sends nothing to us. If you write to us, we receive what you write and your email address, and use them only to answer you.

Permissions

activeTab: to read the recipe on the tab where you clicked the button or pressed the shortcut.
scripting: to place the recipe card, which is part of the extension, on that tab, and, only if you turn on the automatic button, to register the small script that looks for recipe markup.
storage: to keep your settings, My recipes and, for a moment, the recipe you print.
sidePanel: to open the recipe card in Chrome's side panel when you choose that.
Optional access to websites (http and https): asked only when you turn on the automatic button, and used only to find recipe pages and show the button on them. Without it, the extension has no access to any website until you click its button there.

What we don't do

No ads, no analytics or tracking, no selling or sharing of data, and no code loaded from elsewhere: everything the extension runs is inside it. We don't use data for anything other than converting and keeping the recipes you open and save, and not to determine creditworthiness or for lending. Our use of information follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

Children

Recipe Converter is not directed at children under 13, and it collects no personal information from anyone.

Your rights

Removing the extension deletes what it keeps, and you can delete saved recipes in My recipes at any time. We hold no data about you. Where data protection laws give you rights over your information, write to us and we'll answer your request.

Changes

When this policy changes, the date above changes with it, and important changes are announced in the extension.

Contact

support@tabandtap.com

Ingredient weights come from USDA FoodData Central. Recipe Converter is an independent tool and is not affiliated with the USDA or with any recipe website.

Links to the Kitchen app

The card, the popup and some pages show a link to the companion iPhone app "Kitchen" (https://tabandtap.com/kitchen/). It is an ordinary link: nothing is loaded or sent unless you click it, and then your browser opens that page like any other website. The address carries tags that say which link you clicked (this extension and where: card, popup, share sheet, My recipes, options or welcome page). Once the app is on the App Store, the link opens its App Store page instead.