The journal

Privacy policy

Updated November 4, 2026.

What this page is

Loaf and Psalm is a journal from an improving homemaker: recipes, sourdough, the care of a house, and essays. You do not make an account to read it. We do not sell personal information. We do not keep a list of readers.

What stays on your device

My Shelf, a note you write on a saved page, and the meals you place on The Table are stored in this browser, on this device. They are not sent to us. A different phone or computer will not have them.

To remove them, clear this site’s data in your browser settings. A private window will not keep them after you close it.

What we do not collect

The journal does not ask for your name, email, or address. Search is only the words in that visit’s address bar. We do not run our own analytics, and we do not use your shelf or your meal plan to study you.

The service that delivers the pages may keep ordinary server logs, such as the address of the device that requested a page, so the site can run and stay secure. We do not use those logs to build a profile of you.

Advertising

These pages do not show third-party ads today. If advertising is added, Google and its partners may use cookies to serve ads and to measure them. That can include ads based on your visits to this journal and to other sites.

Those cookies would be set by Google, not by this journal. You can turn off personalized ads in Google’s Ads Settings. How Google uses information from sites that use its services is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Children

The journal is written for adults keeping a home. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of this page will change with it. The version on this page is the current one.