Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 7, 2025

At v.recipes, we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our services. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using our services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all the terms of this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the "Last Updated" date of this Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates.

1. Collection of Your Information

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect includes:

1.1 Personal Data

Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, and telephone number, that you voluntarily give to us when you register with our services or when you choose to participate in various activities related to our services. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind, however your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of our services.

1.2 AI Chat Interaction Data

When you use our AI Chat service, we collect and process the conversations you have with our AI model. This includes your questions, requests, and any URLs or content you share with the AI for browsing or summarization purposes. This data is used to provide the service, improve the AI's responses, and ensure compliance with our Acceptable Use Policy.

1.3 Derivative Data

Information our servers automatically collect when you access our services, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing our services.

1.4 Financial Data

Financial information, such as data related to your payment method (e.g., valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services. We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we collect. Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment processor and you are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions.

1.5 Data From Social Networks

User information from social networking sites, such as name, your social network username, location, gender, birth date, email address, profile picture, and public data for contacts, if you connect your account to such social networks.

2. Use of Your Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via our services to:

3. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

3.1 By Law or to Protect Rights

If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.

3.2 Third-Party Service Providers

We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, customer service, and marketing assistance.

3.3 Marketing Communications

With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.

3.4 Interactions with Other Users

If you interact with other users of our services, those users may see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activity.

3.5 Online Postings

When you post comments, contributions or other content to our services, your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside our services in perpetuity.

3.6 Business Transfers

We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

4. Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

5. Policy for Children

We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 13, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

6. Controls for Do-Not-Track Features

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online.

7. Options Regarding Your Information

You may at any time review or change the information in your account or terminate your account by:

Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Service and/or comply with legal requirements.

8. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

[email protected]