Your kitchen, your data. Here's the deal.

Sugo is a recipe and kitchen app. You can import recipes from a link, photo, screenshot, or document; organize them into cookbooks; track what's in your pantry; build meal plans and shopping lists; cook hands-free with Cook Mode; and share cookbooks with other people you invite. Some features use AI to read recipes, suggest substitutions, and answer cooking questions.

You sign in with an email address. You're responsible for keeping that account secure and for anything done with it. If you create a household, the people you invite into it can see and edit the recipes, pantry, plans, and lists you share with that household.

You can delete your account from inside the app at any time: open Settings → Account → Delete account. This removes your recipes, pantry, plans, shopping lists, cookbooks, notes, and profile from the active app within 30 days. Encrypted backups roll off within 90 days. If you'd rather have us do it for you, email hello@sugo.kitchen and we'll handle it on the same timeline.

Sugo is intended for people 13 and older. We don't knowingly create accounts for, or collect information from, children under 13. If you believe a child has signed up, email hello@sugo.kitchen and we'll remove the account.

Account data — your email, sign-in identifiers, and any profile details you add (name, avatar, household).

Content you put in — recipes you import or write, photos and screenshots you upload, pantry items, meal plans, shopping-list items, cookbooks, notes, ratings, and messages to support.

Imports — when you import from a URL, we fetch that page; when you upload a photo, screenshot, or document, we process the image or file to extract the recipe.

Diagnostic data — app version, device type, language, crash reports, and basic usage events so we can fix bugs and improve the product. We do not sell this.

We use what you put in to run the features you're using: parse imported recipes, match ingredients against your pantry, suggest substitutions, build shopping lists, drive Cook Mode, render shared cookbooks for the people you invite, and respond to support requests.

AI-assisted features (recipe extraction from links/photos, the cooking assistant, substitution suggestions, dish-gap and ingredient lookups) send the relevant content to AI providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic, under contracts that require them to process the content on Sugo's behalf and not use it to train their public models. We don't hand your recipes or photos to any other third party for training.

We don't sell your data and we don't share it with advertisers.

Running Sugo involves a small set of third parties acting on our behalf: cloud hosting and database storage, authentication, file and image storage, push notifications, app distribution (Apple and Google), email delivery, product analytics and session diagnostics (PostHog), error and performance monitoring, and AI providers for the features described above. They receive only what they need to do their job.

PostHog is used for first-party product analytics and crash diagnostics only. We don't share Sugo data with advertising networks or data brokers, and we don't use cross-app tracking identifiers (so iOS App Tracking Transparency doesn't apply).

You choose what to share. Cookbook sharing, household membership, and any public share links you create are visible to the people you invite or anyone with the link. If you make something public, treat it as public.

Importing a recipe from a link, photo, or screenshot into your own private collection is fine — that's what Sugo is for. When you make something public or share it outside your household, you're responsible for whether you have the right to share that content (especially other people's photos and original written instructions). Credit the source where it makes sense.

Sugo parses recipes and offers suggestions, but it can be wrong. Always check ingredients, allergens, cooking temperatures, and timing for yourself before serving food, especially for people with allergies, dietary restrictions, pregnancy, infants, or medical conditions. Sugo is a tool, not a chef or a doctor.

Don't use Sugo to redistribute or publicly republish other people's copyrighted content, harass other users, scrape the service, attempt to break it, or work around access limits. We may pause or close accounts that do.

Sugo has a free plan plus optional paid subscriptions (Sugo+ and Famiglia), billed monthly or yearly. On mobile, subscriptions are purchased through Apple's App Store or Google Play and auto-renew unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; you can manage or cancel them anytime in your store account settings. Prices, billing terms, and any free-trial conditions are always shown before you're charged, and refunds for store purchases are handled by Apple or Google under their policies.

You can export, correct, or delete your data at any time — deletion lives in Settings → Account; for export or correction, email hello@sugo.kitchen and we'll respond within 30 days. If you're in a jurisdiction with specific data-protection rights (EU/UK GDPR, California CPRA, and similar), those rights apply to your Sugo data and we'll honor them.

Sugo's servers and some service providers are located in the United States. By using Sugo from outside the US, you understand that your data will be transferred to and processed in the US under the safeguards the service providers maintain (standard contractual clauses where applicable).

If we change anything material on this page, we'll update the effective date above and, where it matters, tell you in the app or by email. Continuing to use Sugo after a change means you're okay with the update.

Questions, deletion requests, or anything else: hello@sugo.kitchen.