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Privacy Policy
Last updated 14 September 2026
The short version. We collect the little we need to sign you in, take a payment and remember which cooks you have unlocked. We do not sell your data, and we never show a cook's phone number to anyone who has not paid for it.
What we collect
When you sign in
Your name, email address and profile picture from your Google account. We do not receive or store your Google password.
When you give it
Your phone number, so a cook can call you back. It is not shown publicly.
When you pay
Which cook you unlocked, when, how much you paid and the payment reference. Card and UPI details are handled by Razorpay and never reach our servers.
Automatically
Basic traffic analytics through Vercel: pages visited, rough location by country, device type. This is aggregated and is not used to identify you.
Why we hold it
- To sign you in and keep you signed in.
- To remember unlocks, so a cook you paid for stays available on any device.
- To take payments and answer questions about them.
- To understand which parts of the site are used, in aggregate.
What we never do
- We do not sell customer data or cook data to anyone.
- We do not release a cook's phone number without a paid unlock on your account.
- We do not send marketing to cooks on behalf of third parties.
Cook information
Cooks are listed with their consent. Until a customer pays, the public directory shows only a first initial, the locality, and their experience and ratings. A cook's full name and phone number are released only to an account that has paid to unlock that cook. Cooks can ask to be removed at any time.
Who else sees it
- Google, for sign-in.
- Razorpay, to process payments.
- Vercel and Neon, who host the site and the database.
They process it to provide those services, not for their own purposes.
How long we keep it
Account and unlock records are kept while your account exists, because an unlock is meant to last. Payment records are kept as long as tax and accounting rules require. Ask us to delete your account and we will, apart from records we are legally obliged to keep.
Your choices
Write to try.catch.aditya@gmail.com to see what we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted.
Cookies
One cookie keeps you signed in. Analytics are cookieless. We do not run advertising trackers.
Contact
try.catch.aditya@gmail.com, or see the contact page.