Privacy Policy
Last updated: 11 September 2026
Sously is a hands-free cooking companion, built and operated by Loadcircle Ltd. This policy explains what the app and website handle and why. The short version: your recipes live on your device, and we run the app with no accounts, no ads, and no trackers.
1. Data we handle
- Your recipes and settings — everything you save, import, or cook (recipes, steps, timers, theme and voice preferences) is stored locally on your device. It is never uploaded to us and we have no access to it.
- Recipe links you paste — when you import a recipe by URL, the link is sent to our parsing service, which fetches that page and returns the structured recipe (title, ingredients, steps). Links and page contents are processed transiently and are not stored on our servers. If you add a recipe manually, nothing leaves your device.
- No accounts, no login — nothing to sign up for, no profiles, no personal dossiers.
- Voice narration — read-aloud narration is generated on your device by your operating system's built-in text-to-speech. No audio is recorded or transmitted.
- Purchases — the optional Sously Pro upgrade is billed through Google Play inside the Android app, or through Stripe if you buy it on this website (see section 2).
2. Purchases (Sously Pro)
Sously Pro can be bought in two places, and each one is handled by a different processor. Inside the Android app, payment is taken by Google Play Billing. Payment card details are handled entirely by Google and never reach us or our servers. To recognise your Pro entitlement on your device we use RevenueCat, a subscription-infrastructure provider, which processes purchase tokens and a random app-specific identifier. RevenueCat's own privacy policy governs its processing.
On this website, payment is taken by Stripe. Your card details are entered on Stripe's own checkout and go to Stripe directly; they are never seen or stored by us. Stripe shares your email address and a customer identifier with us so that we can send your receipt and open the billing portal where you manage or cancel the subscription, and it processes your payment details under its own privacy policy.
In both cases we receive no name, address, or card number.
3. What we never do
We do not sell your data, run advertising or advertising identifiers, embed analytics or tracking SDKs, build cross-app profiles, or require personal information to use the product.
4. Data deletion
Because your recipes and settings are stored on your device, deleting the app removes them completely. There is nothing further to request from us. Purchase records stay with the processor you bought through — your Google Play subscriptions for an in-app purchase, or Stripe for a purchase made on this website, where the billing-portal link we sent you manages or cancels the subscription. If you would like the Stripe customer record we hold for you deleted, write to us at the address in section 6 and we will remove it.
5. Children
Sously is a general-audience product and is not directed at children under 13. You must be at least 18 years old to purchase Sously Pro. We knowingly collect no personal data from anyone, including children.
6. Contact
Questions: francis@loadcircle.co.uk