Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 14, 2026

Scoop Recipe is a Chrome extension that turns recipes you find online into a grocery list. It is free to use with no account, and everything works locally on your device. An optional Family plan lets you sign in to sync your recipes across your devices and share them with your household. This policy explains what data Scoop handles in each case. It covers the Scoop browser extension and the Scoop web app at scoop.recipes; for Serenity Software's general privacy policy, see our main privacy policy.

What Scoop reads

When you click the Scoop icon on a recipe page, Scoop reads the contents of that page to extract recipe data (title, ingredients, servings, source URL). This happens locally in your browser. The page contents are not sent to our server during normal use. The only exception is the user-initiated problem-report flow described below.

What Scoop stores on your device

Scoop uses chrome.storage.local to save, on your device only:

• The recipes you have added to your cart and the cookbook you save, including their title, ingredients, source URL, and any scaling or skip choices
• Your preferences and a flag indicating you have completed the welcome tour

Without an account, this data never leaves your device unless you explicitly confirm a problem report, and the extension developer cannot otherwise read it. You can clear it any time by removing Scoop from Chrome (chrome://extensions → Remove) or using the in-extension controls.

If you create a Scoop account (the Family plan)

Signing in is entirely optional and only needed to sync across devices or share with a household. When you do:

• Signing in. You enter your email address and we send a one-time sign-in link. We store your email address to identify your account and send these links.
• What syncs. The recipes you save, your shopping lists, and your meal plans are stored on our server so they appear on your other devices. We also store your household's name and its members, and a random device identifier used to reconcile changes across devices.
• Where it's stored. On our own server (the backend at scoop.recipes), in a database we operate. It is not sent to any advertising or analytics service.
• Households. If you create or join a household, everyone in it shares the household's synced cookbook, lists, and meal plans — other members can see content shared into the household. A household owner can invite and remove members.

Only data you save while signed in is synced. Anything you keep on the free, single-device tier stays local.

Payments

The Family plan is a paid subscription processed by Stripe. Your card details go directly to Stripe and are never seen or stored by Scoop. We store only your subscription status (for example, trialing, active, or canceled) and the identifiers Stripe gives us to manage your subscription.

Email

We use Resend to deliver account emails — your sign-in links, household invitations, and trial reminders. Resend processes the recipient's email address for the sole purpose of delivering these messages.

What Scoop sends to grocery services

When you click "Shop" inside Scoop, the extension opens your chosen grocery service (e.g. Walmart) and uses your active session on that site to search for the ingredients on your list. Scoop interacts with the grocery service the same way you would — by typing into search boxes and clicking buttons — and never places an order on your behalf. Every selection is yours to confirm. The only data sent to those services is the ingredient strings on your list (e.g. "1 cup butter").

Reporting problems

The "Report a problem" button first shows what will be sent and asks for your confirmation. If you choose to send, Scoop stores the page URL, extension and browser versions, which parsers ran, parser error messages, and the raw and normalized ingredient rows. You may add an optional note. Reports are anonymous: no account, email, household, authentication token, or IP address is stored with them. We use reports only to aggregate failures by recipe host and improve Scoop's parsers. If the report server is unavailable, Scoop opens a pre-filled email that you can review and choose whether to send.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell your data or share it for advertising, and we do not use analytics or tracking. We rely on a small set of service providers strictly to operate the service:

• Stripe — to process Family-plan payments.
• Resend — to deliver account emails.
• Our hosting — the server that runs the Scoop backend, operated by Serenity Software.

That is the complete list. We may disclose data if required by law.

Keeping and deleting your data

• Local data: remove Scoop from Chrome, or use the in-extension controls, to clear everything stored on your device.
• Account data: you can leave a household at any time, and a household owner can remove members. To delete your account and the data synced to our server, email us at scoop@serenity.software and we will remove it.
• Problem reports: we retain anonymous parser reports only as long as they remain useful for diagnosing and prioritizing parser fixes.

We keep synced data only while your account is active or as needed to provide the service.

What Scoop does not do

• Scoop does not sell your data or share it for advertising.
• Scoop does not use analytics, telemetry, advertising identifiers, or tracking pixels.
• Scoop does not require an account to use it on a single device.
• Scoop does not run code from a remote server. All extension code is shipped in the published package and reviewed by Google.

Children

Scoop is a general-audience cooking tool and is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Permissions

Scoop requests activeTab and scripting (to read the recipe on your current tab and run the parser and guided-shopping helper), storage (to save your cart and cookbook locally), sidePanel (to show the guided-shopping checklist), and alarms (to schedule periodic background sync for signed-in users). It requests access to scoop.recipes to sync your data when you are signed in or to submit a problem report you explicitly confirm, and optional access to specific grocery sites only when you choose one for guided shopping.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date above will change and the new version will be posted at the same URL.

Contact

Questions about this policy or how Scoop handles data: scoop@serenity.software