Privacy Policy

Effective October 24, 2026

MealCovered is run by Ecommerce Signal (David Limon), San Antonio, Texas. This page explains, in plain words, what we collect, why, and the choices you have. Questions? Email davidl.satx@gmail.com.

The short version

We collect what the app needs to plan your family's meals, and nothing more on purpose.
We don't sell your data, and there are no ads.
Cookies are used only to keep you signed in and to protect your account.

What we collect

Account: your first name, email address, and password. Your password is stored only as a secure hash, never in plain text.
Household: your household's name, the names of the people you add, and whether a profile is a child's.
Food preferences: foods each person dislikes and any allergies you enter.
What you do in the app: ratings, thumbs up or down, feedback, food you mark as tossed, your pantry, meal plans, and shopping lists.
What you add: recipes, uploaded photos, reviews, and tips.
Basic technical data: IP address, browser details, and simple logs of requests and sign-in attempts, used to keep the service secure and working.

Why we use it

To run MealCovered: sign you in, share plans and lists within your household, and show recipes.
To personalize the planner, so suggestions fit what your family likes and avoid dislikes and allergies.
To keep things safe: stop break-in attempts and abuse, and handle reports about reviews.
To fix problems and make the app better.
To contact you about your account or important changes.

Who can see your information

Your household: people in your household can see its plans, lists, pantry, and member profiles.
Other people on MealCovered: only what you choose to share, such as recipes set to "Everyone on MealCovered," and reviews and tips you post, shown with your first name.
Service providers that help us run the app (below), only to do that work for us.
The law: if required by law, or to protect people's safety or our rights.
If MealCovered or Ecommerce Signal is ever sold or merged, your information may move to the new owner under this policy.

Service providers we use

Interserver hosts our server (a VPS) and stores the app's data.
Stripe would handle payments if paid billing is turned on later. Billing is off today. Stripe would receive payment details directly; we wouldn't store full card numbers.
TheMealDB and TheCocktailDB provide recipe data and images. Recipe images may load from their servers, which then see your IP address and browser details like any website would.
Walmart and other stores: if you send a list to Walmart.com or open a product link from another store (like H-E-B or Target), you go to that store's site, and its own privacy policy applies there. To show product photos and prices, our server may look up the public product page you saved; it sends nothing about you.
Voice search: when you tap the microphone, your phone or browser's built-in speech service (Apple or Google) turns your voice into words. We only get and save the words it understood, like a typed search. We never receive or keep the audio.

Cookies

We use one sign-in cookie to keep you signed in and to protect forms from forgery. We don't use advertising cookies. We don't use third-party analytics.

How long we keep it

We keep your account information while your account is open.
Security logs and sign-in attempt records are kept only for a short time.
When you ask us to delete your account, we delete or anonymize your personal information within 30 days, except where we need to keep something for legal or security reasons. Backup copies are cleared over time.

Your choices

You can view and change your household, family members, food preferences, and recipes in the app.
To get a copy of your data, correct it, or delete your account, email davidl.satx@gmail.com from the email on your account. Self-serve account deletion isn't available yet.

Children

MealCovered is for adults to create accounts. Children under 13 can't have their own account. A parent or guardian can add a child's profile (such as a first name, dislikes, and allergies) to their household, and that parent manages it and can change or delete it at any time. If you think a child under 13 has created an account, email us and we'll delete it.

Security

We use encrypted connections (HTTPS), hashed passwords, protection against forged forms, and limits on repeated sign-in attempts. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a strong password you don't use anywhere else. If we learn of a breach affecting your information, we'll tell you as the law requires.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. We'll change the effective date above, and for important changes we'll give notice in the app or by email.

Contact

Ecommerce Signal (David Limon), San Antonio, Texas
davidl.satx@gmail.com

Recipe owners can ask us to remove a recipe: email davidl.satx@gmail.com with the link to it and we'll take it down.