Privacy

Pantry Hand is run by Pantry Hand LLC, part of Media Yard LLC, PO Box 73, Pennsauken, NJ 08110, United States. This page covers pantryhand.com, the Pantry Hand assistant tools and the Alexa skill.

The short version: there are no accounts, no ads and no analytics. What you type to find a recipe stays in your browser. We don't sell or share personal information, because we don't collect any to begin with. The one thing we keep is an email you send us.

What you type on the site

The ingredients you enter are matched against the recipes inside your browser. They are kept in your browser tab (in "session storage") so a recipe page can tick what you already have, and they are deleted when you close the tab. They are never sent to us.

If you use My pantry, your list is saved in your browser's "local storage" on that device, so it is still there next time you visit. It stays until you clear it on the pantry page or clear your browser's site data. It is never sent to us, and it doesn't follow you to other browsers or devices.

To decide which grocery stores to show, your browser looks at your device's time zone to guess whether you are in the United States. That guess also stays on your device.

Cookies and tracking

Pantry Hand sets no cookies and runs no analytics, advertising or tracking scripts. The site's security policy blocks the page from contacting any other server, which is how that promise is enforced, not just stated.

Assistants, Siri and Alexa

If you use Pantry Hand through Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok or another assistant, the assistant sends us the ingredients and recipe it needs. We use them only to answer that request and don't log or keep them. The assistant's own company handles your conversation under its own privacy terms.

A Siri shortcut only opens our page with your ingredients in its address. Apple turns your voice into words on its side; what reaches us is an ordinary page visit, which our host logs like any other.

With the Alexa skill, Amazon turns what you say into words and passes us the ingredients; we answer and keep nothing. If you allow it in the Alexa app, the skill adds missing items to your Alexa shopping list, which belongs to your Amazon account, not to us. You can turn that permission off in the Alexa app at any time.

Store links

Store links are affiliate links. When you follow one, you leave Pantry Hand, and the store (currently Amazon, including Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market) can record that you came from us, usually with a cookie on its own site, so it can pay us a commission. What happens there is covered by that store's privacy policy. We receive only the store's totals of what was bought through our links, not who bought it.

Emails

If you write to support@pantryhand.com, we keep your message and email address so we can reply, and use them for nothing else. The mail is forwarded through Cloudflare to an inbox hosted by Google. Ask us and we'll delete your messages.

Hosting

The site is served by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare handles your IP address and basic request details to deliver pages and block attacks, under its own privacy policy. We have turned off request logging for the Pantry Hand service, so we don't keep a record of your visits.

Children

Pantry Hand isn't aimed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from them.

Your rights and changes

Because we keep no account or profile, there is usually nothing to access or delete. For emails you've sent, or any privacy question, write to support@pantryhand.com or to Media Yard LLC, PO Box 73, Pennsauken, NJ 08110, United States. If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. The rest of the terms are on the terms, allergies and food safety page.