How we look after your recipes

What we collect

Only what it takes to make your book and get it to your door.

• What you upload. Photos and scans of your recipe cards, and any PDFs you send us.
• What you tell us about your book. Your name and email, the title for the cover, a dedication if you write one, the cover you choose, and any notes you leave us.
• Your order and shipping details. Handled by Stripe when you check out. We see your name, email, and the address the book ships to. We never see your full card number.
• Rough traffic numbers. How many people visited a page. This is measured without cookies and cannot identify you.

There is no account to make, no password to remember, and no tracking pixel following you around the internet after you leave.

Where your uploads actually live

Your photos go into private storage that only your order can reach, through a link we send only to you. There is no shared folder and no directory anyone can browse. Another customer holding their own link cannot see your order, and someone without a link cannot see anything at all.

If you would rather mail us the originals, we scan them and mail every card back to you, tracked and insured.

Who else touches it

We are one small business, so a few well-known companies do specific jobs for us. Each one sees only the piece it needs.

• Stripe takes the payment. Your card details go to them, not to us.
• Cloudflare hosts the website and stores your uploaded photos.
• Lulu prints and ships your book. They get the finished print files and your shipping address.
• Google Workspace carries our email, so anything you email us sits in our inbox.

That is the whole list. We do not hand your recipes, your photos, or your email address to advertisers, data brokers, or anybody else, and we never will.

How long we keep it

We keep your uploads and your choices while we build your book, and for 90 days after it reaches you. That window exists so we can reprint quickly if something arrives damaged, or add a copy for a relative without asking you to photograph everything a second time.

After 90 days we delete the uploads. We keep the basic order record, what you bought and when, because we have to for our taxes.

Ask us to delete sooner and we will. Ask us to hold on longer and we will do that too.

We will not show your family to anyone

We would love to show finished books to people considering one, and sometimes we ask a customer if we may. Asking is the whole point. We will never publish a photo, a recipe, a dedication, or a family name from your book without asking you first and getting a yes. If you say no, that is the end of it, and it changes nothing about your order.

What you can ask us for

Email hello@butterandink.com and we will do any of this, no explanation needed from you.

• A copy of everything we hold about you.
• A correction to anything wrong.
• Deletion of your uploads and your details.
• A fresh upload link if you lost yours.

We answer within five business days, usually the same day.

Children

Butter & Ink is meant for adults ordering books, and we do not knowingly collect anything from a child under 13. Recipe cards written by children are very welcome in your book. That is different, and it is often the best page in it.

If this ever changes

We will update this page and change the date at the bottom. If a change actually affects what happens to your recipes, we will email you about it rather than quietly editing this page and hoping you notice.

Questions

Write to hello@butterandink.com. A person reads it.