Privacy Policy — Recipe Distiller
LAST UPDATED: 2026-07-05
Recipe Distiller is a free browser extension. This policy covers the extension itself and describes what data it collects: none.
Data collection
Recipe Distiller does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any user data. It has no server. Specifically, it does not:
- Collect personal information, browsing history, or page content
- Send any data to the developer or to any third-party service
- Use analytics, telemetry, or tracking of any kind
- Set cookies or use third-party services
- Require an account
Data handled locally
To do its job, Recipe Distiller reads the content of the one page you activate it on — specifically the page's published recipe data (schema.org markup) — to build the clean recipe card. All of that processing happens locally in your browser; nothing is sent to the developer, sold, or shared, and it is discarded when you close the card. The extension cannot read any page until you click its toolbar button on that page. The same data type ("website content") is declared on the extension's Chrome Web Store privacy disclosure.
The recipe card can show the recipe's photo, but only by re-using an image the page has already loaded — opening the card makes no new network requests of its own.
Local storage
Recipe Distiller stores nothing — it does not use the browser's extension storage at all. Scaling choices live only inside the open card and reset when you close it. There are no settings, no saved data, and nothing left behind at uninstall.
Permissions
Recipe Distiller requests only two permissions, the minimum for its
single purpose: activeTab (access the current page only when
you click the toolbar button) and scripting (show the recipe
card on that page after that click). It requests access to no websites —
it cannot run anywhere until you click its button there.
The hub website
Everything above describes the extension, which ships zero telemetry — always. This website (yonasol.com) uses Google Analytics to count page visits. That is standard site analytics, disclosed here, and is never extension behavior.
Changes
If a future version ever changes any of the above, this policy will be updated before that version ships, and the extension's store listing data disclosures will be updated to match.
Contact
Questions: briansnipes@gmail.com
More about this extension:
yonasol.com/ext/recipe-distiller