Privacy Policy

Farro is a cooking app that helps you plan meals, generate recipes, and guide you through cooking them. This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect when you use Farro, how we use it, and the choices you have. “We”, “us”, and “Farro” refer to the operator of www.getfarro.com.

Account information.When you create an account, we collect your email address. If you sign in with Google, we also receive your Google account’s basic profile information (your name and email address). We do not receive your Google password.

Content you create. When you use Farro, we store the recipes you generate, your cook history, your dietary preferences and allergies, your profile notes, and the messages you send to the in-app cooking assistant.

Usage information. We log basic events about how you use the app — for example, when you create a recipe, open cook mode, or complete a cook. We also collect standard request information such as IP address, browser type, and timestamps for security and debugging.

Cookies and similar technologies.Farro uses cookies (and similar browser storage) to keep you signed in and to measure how the app is performing. Some of these are essential to the service; others are used for analytics and advertising (see “Third-party services” below).

• To provide the service — generating recipes, saving your cook history, personalizing suggestions to your dietary preferences.
• To improve Farro — analyzing usage patterns to understand which features work and which don’t.
• To communicate with you about your account or important changes to the service.
• To detect abuse, fraud, and security incidents.
• To comply with legal obligations.

Farro’s recipe generation and in-app cooking assistant are powered by large language models provided by OpenAI. When you ask Farro to generate a recipe, suggest dishes, or answer a cooking question, the relevant information from your prompt — including ingredient lists, dietary preferences, and the content of your conversation with the assistant — is sent to OpenAI’s API to produce a response.

We do not knowingly send your account email or other directly identifying information to OpenAI. OpenAI handles this data according to its own API data usage policies. As of this writing, OpenAI does not use API inputs or outputs to train its models by default.

We use the following third-party services to operate Farro. Each has its own privacy policy describing how it handles the data we share with it.

• Supabase — account authentication and database hosting. (Privacy policy)
• Vercel — frontend hosting, including basic performance and traffic analytics. (Privacy policy)
• Railway — backend API hosting. (Privacy policy)
• OpenAI — language model provider for recipe generation and the cooking assistant. (Privacy policy)
• PostHog — product analytics. (Privacy policy)
• Meta (Facebook) Pixel — advertising attribution. We use the Meta Pixel to measure the performance of our advertising. The pixel may set cookies and collect information about your visit, such as your IP address and browser. (Privacy policy)
• Google — sign-in (when you choose to sign in with Google). (Privacy policy)

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only with the third-party services listed above, only to the extent necessary to operate Farro. We may also disclose information when required by law, to enforce our Terms of Service, or to protect the safety of our users.

We retain your account information and the content you create for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we will delete your account information and content within 30 days, except where we are required to keep it for legal or security reasons (for example, fraud prevention or financial record-keeping).

Analytics events and server logs are retained for up to 12 months in aggregate form.

You can request a copy of the personal information we hold about you, request that we correct or delete it, or ask us to stop using it for specific purposes. To make a request, email us at ryanvolpi@gmail.com. We will respond within a reasonable time and, where applicable, within the timeframes required by law.

California residents: the California Consumer Privacy Act gives you specific rights, including the right to know what personal information we collect, the right to delete it, and the right to opt out of its sale. We do not sell personal information. To exercise any of these rights, email us at the address above.

Residents of the EEA, UK, or Switzerland: if applicable law gives you data-protection rights (access, rectification, erasure, portability, restriction, objection), you can exercise them by emailing us at the address above. Farro is currently directed primarily at users in the United States.

Farro is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us and we will delete it.

Farro is operated from the United States, and the third-party services we use are primarily based in the United States. If you access Farro from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to and processed in the United States.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Effective” date at the top of the page and, for material changes, notify you in the app or by email.

Questions about this Privacy Policy? Email ryanvolpi@gmail.com.