DishBinder

    DishBinder Cookie Policy

    Effective date: 2026-11-04

    This policy explains the cookies and similar browser storage that the DishBinder website (www.dishbinder.com) uses, made by Duskfield Studios LLC. In short: we use only what the site needs to sign you in, keep it secure, remember your settings and keep work you haven’t saved yet. We use no advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking and no analytics cookies, and nothing is stored on your device to count visits. Our Privacy Policy covers everything else we collect and why.

    1. What cookies and browser storage are

    A cookie is a small text file a website saves in your browser and reads back later. “Local storage” and “session storage” do a similar job but are never sent to a server on their own; session storage is cleared when you close the tab. The law treats them alike, so this policy lists both.

    2. Cookies we set

    • kroger_oauth — only when you connect your Kroger account. It holds a random value that proves the answer coming back from Kroger belongs to the sign-in you started, which protects you from a forged sign-in. It is set on api.dishbinder.com, can’t be read by scripts, lasts at most 10 minutes and is deleted as soon as Kroger sends you back. Strictly necessary.

    We set no other cookies. Signing in to DishBinder itself uses local storage, not a cookie (below).

    3. Browser storage we use

    All of it stays in your browser and is used only by DishBinder.

    • Signing in (strictly necessary): your sign-in token, your account id and your household id, so you stay signed in.
    • One free trial per person (strictly necessary): a random id we create for this browser. It isn’t an advertising id or a fingerprint, and our server keeps only a scrambled (hashed) copy.
    • Your settings: light or dark theme, text size, which sections of Settings and Home you folded away, how your recipes are shown, whether food search looks in your pantry only, whether the pantry hides household items, the landing page’s animation speed, and that you said you’re signed in to Walmart.
    • Things you dismissed or finished: banners, tips and the welcome guide, so they don’t show again.
    • Unfinished steps (session storage): a recipe you chose to save before signing up, or a page you sent to DishBinder with the “Save to DishBinder” button, until it’s saved.
    • Work you haven’t saved yet (local storage, deleted when you sign out): a Chef chat question you typed but didn’t send, a recipe you were writing or editing, your last AI meal plan, and what Undo needs after you copy a meal plan.
    • Fixing problems: the last 50 errors the site hit, kept only in your browser so you can send them to us from Settings → About; and a note that stops the site reloading itself over and over after an update.
    • Age check: if the age check at sign-up (or the one-time check for an older account) doesn’t pass, a note that it didn’t, for 24 hours, so the check can’t simply be retried on this browser.

    To count taps on the App Store and Google Play links, the page notes in its own memory which website sent you (for example, a search engine). Nothing is saved in your browser for this; it’s gone when you close or reload the page.

    4. Other companies

    • Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views without cookies, without storing anything on your device and without following you to other sites. It sees the page address (without its query string, so searches you type aren’t included), the site that sent you, page timing and your browser type.
    • Google and Apple sign-in: the “Sign in with Google” and “Sign in with Apple” buttons load only on the sign-in and sign-up pages. When you use them, Google or Apple may use their own cookies, under the Google and Apple policies.
    • Stripe: paying on the web takes you to Stripe’s own checkout page, where Stripe’s cookie policy applies. No Stripe code runs on DishBinder’s pages.
    • Sentry receives a report when the site hits an error. It sets no cookies, and we strip cookies, query strings and email addresses from those reports.
    • Walmart and Kroger: “Send to Walmart” and signing in to Kroger take you to the store’s own site, where its cookie policy applies. These links go straight to the store and carry no affiliate tracking.

    5. The phone apps

    The DishBinder apps for iPhone, iPad and Android don’t use cookies. They keep your sign-in in the iOS Keychain or Android Keystore and your settings on the device.

    6. Your choices

    Everything stored in your browser above is needed for the site to work, to keep your unsaved work, or to remember a choice you made, and the visit counting stores nothing on your device, so we don’t show a cookie banner. You can still block or clear cookies and site data in your browser’s settings; clearing DishBinder’s data signs you out and resets your settings on that browser. Your recipes, log and account are kept on our servers and come back when you sign in again.

    If we ever add cookies that aren’t needed for the site to work (for example, for advertising), we will update this policy first and ask for your consent where the law requires it.

    7. Changes

    When what we store changes, we update this page and its effective date.

    8. Contact

    Duskfield Studios LLC, 2108 N St Ste N, Sacramento, CA 95816 · support@duskfieldstudios.com

    See also: Privacy Policy · Terms of Service · Subscription Terms · Refund Policy

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