Second Cart Privacy Policy
Effective August 29, 2026
Second Cart is a shared grocery list, pantry, and meal-planning app built for households. This page explains what information Second Cart collects, how it's used, and who it's shared with. We wrote it in plain language on purpose.
The short version
- We don't sell your data, and we don't use advertising or tracking software of any kind.
- Everything you add — lists, pantry items, recipes, receipts — is visible only to the members of your own household, never to other households.
- A few features (photo scanning, AI meal suggestions) send content you choose to share to a processing partner to do their job. We explain exactly which ones below.
- You can ask us to delete your account and all associated data at any time.
Information you provide
When you create an account and use Second Cart, we store:
- Account info: your email address, used to sign in.
- Profile info: the display name and avatar (an emoji, or a photo you upload) your household members see.
- Household content: shopping lists and items, pantry inventory, saved recipes, meal plans, and weekly budgets — shared with the other members of your household only.
- Purchase and spending history: prices you enter or that come from a scanned receipt, used to build your price memory and weekly spend summaries.
- Food preferences (optional): dietary patterns, allergies, dislikes, and cooking goals you choose to enter, used to steer AI meal suggestions for your household.
- Notification settings: if you turn on push notifications, we store a device token so we can send them.
Photos and AI-assisted features
Second Cart can read a recipe, a pantry shelf, or a receipt from a photo, screenshot, or PDF you choose, and can suggest meals using AI. When you use one of these features:
- The photo or text you provide is sent to OpenRouter, a third-party AI processing service, solely to extract the information you asked for (ingredients, steps, prices, or a recipe idea). It is not used to train models or retained by us beyond what's needed to complete the request.
- A barcode you scan is sent, as just the barcode number, to Open Food Facts, an open product database, to look up the product name. No personal information is included in that request.
- An avatar photo you choose to upload is stored securely in our file storage and shown only to your household.
Nothing is scanned or sent automatically — these features only run when you tap the scan or AI button yourself.
Who we share information with
We don't sell or rent your information to anyone. It's shared only with:
- Supabase, our database, authentication, and file storage provider, which hosts all app data securely on our behalf.
- OpenRouter, only for the AI photo-reading and meal-suggestion features described above.
- Open Food Facts, only for barcode lookups.
- Apple, to deliver push notifications you've opted into.
- The other members of your own household, for the content described above. Second Cart does not show your data to members of a different household.
What we don't do
- We don't use advertising networks, analytics trackers, or any software development kit designed to track you across other apps or websites.
- We don't sell your data to data brokers or anyone else.
- We don't access your device's location, contacts, or photo library except when you explicitly choose to pick or take a photo for a feature you initiated.
How long we keep your information
We keep your account and household data for as long as your account exists, so your lists, pantry, and history stay available across your devices. If you leave a household, your personal profile goes with you, but content you added while a member (like list items already checked off) stays with that household's history, the same way it would if a roommate moved out after a shared grocery run.
Your choices and rights
- You can edit or remove most content directly in the app — list items, pantry entries, recipes, and your own profile.
- You can leave a household, or delete a household you created if you're its only member, from Settings.
- To delete your account and all associated personal data entirely, email us at support@secondcart.app from the email address on your account, and we'll confirm once it's done.
Children's privacy
Second Cart is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect information from children under 13.
Changes to this policy
If we make a material change to this policy, we'll update the effective date above and, where required, let you know in the app.
Contact us
Questions about this policy or your data? Reach us any time at support@secondcart.app.