Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 5, 2026

This privacy policy for bolo, a weekly meal-planning app, covers what we collect, why, and who we share it with.

What we collect

Account info you give us directly: name, email address, and password (stored hashed, never in plain text). Content you create in the app: saved recipes, meal plans, shopping lists, photos you upload, and notes on what you cooked. Basic technical data needed to run the service — IP address and request logs, used for rate limiting and abuse prevention.

How we use it

To run the core product: store your recipes and plans, generate shopping lists, send you transactional email (password resets, email verification), and score meals for nutrition signals. We do not sell your data or use it for advertising.

AI processing

Recipe text, ingredient lists, and photos you submit may be sent to Anthropic (Claude) for parsing, nutrition scoring, and AI-assisted editing. When you import a recipe from a social video (TikTok/Instagram/YouTube), the video/caption/transcript is processed via Apify and, for image generation, fal.ai or OpenAI. These providers process the data to return a result to bolo; they do not use it to train their own models under our agreements with them.

Other service providers

We use Vercel to host the app and store uploaded images, Neon for our database, and Resend to deliver transactional email. These providers act as data processors on our behalf and do not have independent rights to use your data.

Data retention & deletion

Your data is retained as long as your account is active. You can delete your account at any time from Settings, which removes your recipes, plans, and personal data from our primary database. Backups may retain data for a limited period after deletion.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Contact the bolo team through your account settings.