Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how Recipe Share App (“we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses information about you, including information related to the use of affiliate links on our website.

2. Information Collection

We collect information you provide directly to us when you create an account, manage your user profile, submit or modify recipes, or communicate with us. This information includes:

Email address
Username
Name

We also collect information about your interactions with our site, such as creating or modifying recipes, adding comments, and managing grocery and pantry lists. If you choose to browse our site without logging in, we will not track your activity.

In addition to the tracking technologies described above, we may use cookies or other tracking technologies provided by affiliate networks to track the performance of affiliate links. These technologies help us understand the effectiveness of our affiliate marketing efforts and ensure proper commission attribution.

Tracking and Cookies

Tracking is only enabled when you create an account or log in. We do not track or collect personal information from users who browse our site without logging in. When you create an account, we may collect:

• Information on how you interact with our site and services (e.g., pages viewed, clicks, time spent on pages). • IP addresses and device information to enhance your experience and maintain security.

3. Use of Information

The information we collect is used to:

Provide, maintain, and improve our services.
Understand and enhance your experience using our website.
Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you.
Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services.
Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect the rights and property of Recipe Share App and others.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your information for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, based on the following legal grounds:

Consent: By creating an account, you consent to the tracking and use of your data as described in this Privacy Policy. You may withdraw consent at any time, but this will disable your account.
Contractual Necessity: We process personal information to perform our contractual obligations to you, including account registration, fulfilling the services as requested by you, and administrative notifications.
Legal Obligation: We may be legally required to collect and use your personal information to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
Legitimate Interests: We process personal information to track the effectiveness of affiliate links, which is part of our legitimate interest in managing and improving our business.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use tracking technologies to collect information about your use of our site to help us improve our service and your experience. These technologies help us:

Understand how you use our site and services.
Improve and personalize your experience on our site.
Monitor and analyze the effectiveness of our marketing.

If you choose not to log in, we do not use any cookies or tracking technologies beyond what is strictly necessary for the basic functioning of the site.

Cookie Consent

By creating an account, you agree to our use of cookies and tracking technologies. You can browse the site without logging in to avoid tracking.

6. Affiliate Disclosure

Some of the links on our site are affiliate links. This means that if you click on the link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission. The use of affiliate links helps support the maintenance and development of our service. We only recommend products or services that we believe will add value to our users. Your use of affiliate links is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions.

7. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not share your personal information with third parties, except as necessary for providing our services. These third parties include our database providers (such as Neon) and authentication services (such as Clerk). These service providers are obligated by contract to protect your information and only use your information in accordance with our instructions. We may also disclose your information to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal processes, including requests from law enforcement or other government agencies.

We may share information with third-party affiliate networks as necessary to track the performance of affiliate links and attribute commissions. These third parties are required to protect your data in accordance with our instructions and applicable laws.

8. Data Security and Breach Notification

We take the security of your data seriously and use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Our third-party service providers, including Clerk for authentication and Neon for database management, are carefully chosen and provided with only the necessary information to perform their specific services. They are also obligated to protect your data in accordance with our policies and applicable laws.

In the unlikely event of a data breach, we will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are legally required to do so. If the breach is likely to result in a high risk to your rights and freedoms, we will ensure that you are notified without undue delay. We will also provide you with information regarding the nature of the breach, the likely consequences of the breach, and the measures we are taking or propose to take to address the breach.

9. User Rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal data, subject to possible legal restrictions:

Access to your data: You can request access to your personal information.
Data correction: You can edit some of your personal data through your account. You can also ask us to change, update, or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate.
Data deletion: You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data.
Data transfer: You can ask us for a copy of your personal data in an electronic format and the right to transmit those data to another party.
Consent withdrawal: If you have given your consent to the use of your data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, though this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent was withdrawn.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@recipeshare.app with your request. We will respond to your request within one month, but please provide us with ample time to address your request accurately.

10. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

11. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to—and maintained on—computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

12. Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time, including changes related to our use of affiliate links. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

13. Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at contact@recipeshare.app.