Where this stands right now: Sautero is in an early, invite-only trial. This page describes how we actually handle things today, in plain language. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer yet — treat it as an honest description of current practice, not a polished legal contract. A lawyer review of this exact page is planned before any public launch (see /security/ in the project for the internal draft package). If anything here matters to you, ask directly using the feedback button in the app, or reply to any Sautero email.
Sautero is a kitchen management tool (recipes, prep checklists, ingredient pricing, staff scheduling and time tracking) being tested with a small number of invited kitchens before any public or paid launch. Your kitchen's data is only visible to people you've invited into your kitchen's team — it is not shared with other kitchens using Sautero.
Your email address, used only to send you a one-time sign-in code. We don't ask for or store a password.
Recipes, ingredient prices, prep checklist entries, order lists, and anything else you or your team type into Sautero, stored so your kitchen can see and use it.
If your kitchen uses the Working Time feature, it records check-in/check-out times, breaks, and any notes a team member adds to a day. This is genuine employee attendance data. Under Swiss data protection law (nDSG) and similar rules elsewhere, this kind of data deserves extra care:
We log logins and which parts of the app get opened (not what you do inside them) so we can tell whether the trial is actually being used, and we log JavaScript errors (technical details only — page, browser, error message) so bugs can be fixed. Both are visible only to the Sautero team, never sold or shared.
Features like Chef's Assistant or photo-scanning a recipe send the relevant text or image to Anthropic's Claude API to generate a response. That request goes through Sautero's own server — your Anthropic API key (if you've set one) is never exposed to other users or stored in the app you can see in your browser.
Anything you save while your account is set to "Personal" (Settings → Account Type) is private to you at the database level — nobody else on your team can read it, not even your kitchen admin, unless you separately choose to reveal it (e.g. the opt-in "show my personal recipes in Company mode" toggle, or connecting with another chef and turning on recipe sharing). Ingredients work the same way ("My Ingredients" vs. the shared kitchen catalog).
Anything you submit through Settings → Send Feedback, together with your name/email, so we can act on it or follow up. Read only by Sautero's Head Admin.
By default, your logged Working Time hours are only ever shown to your kitchen admin as an anonymous team total — never with your name attached. If you separately opt in (Settings → Share My Hours with Admin, off by default, revocable anytime), your admin can then see your name next to your hours in Kitchen Reports. Recipe and Check List counts shown in that report are kitchen-wide totals, not tied to individuals.
Only people who've joined your kitchen's team (via an invite link, QR code, or team join code you control). The Sautero team (currently a single founder) can access data to fix bugs, run migrations, or provide support — never to read your recipes or attendance data for any other reason.
Whether you're in the EU (GDPR) or Switzerland (the revised Federal Act on Data Protection, in force since September 2023), you have the right to:
Sautero relies on: your consent for optional features (AI, hours-sharing); performance of the contract between you/your kitchen and Sautero for core features; and legitimate interest for basic security/error logging. We act as the data controller for account data, and Supabase/Anthropic act as our data processors — bound to only use your data to provide their service to us, never for their own purposes.
Sautero runs on Supabase (a hosted Postgres database provider) with servers in the EU. Nothing is stored on individual devices beyond what your browser needs to display the page.
Because this is an early trial, this page and the product itself will change as Sautero moves toward a real launch — including a proper legal review of these terms before any public release. If something material changes for you specifically (like new AI data handling), we'll tell you directly, not just quietly update this page.
Questions or requests
Use the feedback button in the app, or reply to any Sautero email.