Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 2, 2026 · Jen Built It LLC
This policy covers the Recipe Column Cards Chrome extension and this website, recipecolumncards.com. The short version: the free extension has no accounts and no tracking, and the only page content that ever leaves your computer is the recipe you're printing.
What the extension collects
- Nothing about you. The free extension has no account, no sign-up, and no analytics. I don't know who you are or what you print.
- Recipe text, when you print. When you click Print the card, the title, ingredients, and steps of that one recipe are sent to my card-building service so it can lay out the grid. That service runs on Cloudflare and uses an AI model (Anthropic's Claude) to match ingredients to steps, so the recipe text goes to Anthropic too. The recipe text is the only page content sent. Finished grids are cached so repeat prints of the same recipe don't need a new AI call.
- Your IP address, for a daily limit. When a recipe needs a new AI build, the card-building service counts it against your IP address for that day, so no one can run up huge AI costs. It stores your IP address, the date, and the count. Nothing else about you is attached to it.
- A print counter and a card count, stored locally. The free tier's 3-prints-a-month counter and the running count of cards you've built (it sets The Card's rank) live in your browser's extension storage on your device. They never leave your machine.
- The recipe you're printing, for a moment. Between clicking Print the card and the card opening, the recipe sits in the extension's session storage, which Chrome clears when you close the browser. The card page removes it as soon as it opens.
- Your license key, if you activate Pro. Your license key, your plan, whether Pro is on, and when the key was last checked are also kept in the extension's local storage on your device, so Pro keeps working without asking for the key again.
These storage items are all needed for the extension to work. The extension sets no cookies.
What this website collects
The site is hosted on Cloudflare and sets no cookies. Its fonts are hosted on this site, not loaded from Google or anyone else. The one outside script is Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views in a privacy-friendly way. It uses no cookies or local storage and doesn't build a profile of you. When you use the license or billing pages, or the extension checks your license key, the site counts requests from your IP address to stop abuse, and keeps that count with your IP address.
If you buy Pro
- Payment goes through Stripe. Stripe processes your payment details under its own privacy policy. I never see your card number.
- What I store. One license record: the email you used at checkout, your license key, your Stripe customer and subscription IDs, your plan, the subscription status and renewal date Stripe reports (so a canceled subscription stops unlocking Pro), any affiliate code you used, and when the extension last checked the key. There's still no account and no password.
- One email. Your license key is emailed to you once after checkout, sent through Resend to the address from your Stripe checkout. No newsletter, no marketing follows from it.
- License checks. When you activate or use a license key, the extension sends that key (nothing else) to my license service to confirm it's active.
- Affiliate credit. If you bought with an affiliate's discount code, the sale (your checkout email, the amount, and the code) is recorded on the Jen Built It affiliate platform, which I run, so the person who referred you gets paid. Sales without a code aren't recorded there.
- Deletion. Cancel any time in Stripe's billing portal or by emailing me. Canceling doesn't delete the license record. To have it deleted, email privacy@jenbuiltit.com and it's gone.
How long things are kept
- License records stay until you ask me to delete them, even after a subscription ends. Nothing deletes them automatically.
- Cached grids stay with no set end date. A cached grid holds the short step labels the AI wrote for a recipe, not your name, email, or IP address.
- Daily AI-build counts and rate-limit counts tied to an IP address hold only the IP address, a time window, and a count. A daily cleanup deletes them once they're more than 2 days old.
- Stripe and the affiliate platform keep their own payment and sale records.
- On your device, the extension's storage stays until you remove the extension.
What I never do
- No selling or sharing of personal information, to anyone, ever.
- No ads and no ad tracking. The only analytics is Cloudflare's cookie-free page-view count on this website.
- No reading of pages you visit. The extension only runs when you click it, on the page you clicked it on.
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
Jen Built It LLC does not sell or share personal information as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act, and never has. Since there's no sale or sharing, there's nothing to opt out of, but if you have questions about your data, email privacy@jenbuiltit.com.
Do Not Track
Some browsers can send a "Do Not Track" signal. Recipe Column Cards doesn't use advertising or tracking tools that follow you across other websites, so it works the same whether or not your browser sends that signal. I don't let any third party collect information about your activity on Recipe Column Cards to track you across other sites over time.
Children
Recipe Column Cards isn't meant for anyone under 18, and I don't knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe a child has bought a license, email privacy@jenbuiltit.com and I'll delete it.
Your rights
You can ask what data I hold about you, ask for a copy, or ask for deletion at any time: privacy@jenbuiltit.com. For the free extension the answer will usually be "nothing", since no account exists.
Contact
Jen Built It LLC
10800 S Lloyd Drive, Worth, IL 60482, USA
privacy@jenbuiltit.com