Privacy

Josephine exists to preserve your family’s recipes — the handwriting, the stories, the voices. That only works if you trust us with them, so here is the whole arrangement in plain words.

What we keep

Your account (name, email), your family cookbook (recipes, the photos of original cards, stories, and recordings your family adds), and the technical minimum to run the service (when your account was created, which family you belong to). Photos of recipe cards are read by a machine once, to make them searchable and cookable — the text it produces belongs to your cookbook, same as the photo.

Who can see it

Your family — the people in your cookbook — and no one else. Everything is private by default. A recipe is visible outside your family only if a member explicitly creates a share link for it. We don’t sell data, we don’t show ads, and we don’t use your family’s recipes to train anything.

Where it lives

On infrastructure we rent from Vercel and Neon (United States), with media stored privately and served only to signed-in members of your family. Recipe-card photos are processed by Anthropic’s Claude to produce the cookable text; Anthropic does not use this data to train models.

Deleting things

You can remove recipes, stories, and media, or delete your account entirely — email us and it’s done. Preserved originals are never deleted casually by design; deleting your family’s cookbook removes them permanently.

Questions

Write to hello@getjosephine.com.

Last updated July 15, 2026.