Privacy
Policy.

Who we are

Recipe Room is currently operated from the United Kingdom by the person or legal entity responsible for making Recipe Room available. If Recipe Room is operated through a registered company in the future, that company is expected to be registered in the United Kingdom and this Privacy Policy will be updated with the relevant legal operator details.

For now, privacy questions, data requests, deletion requests, or concerns can be sent to privacy@reciperoom.io.

Information we collect

We collect information you provide directly, information created through your use of Recipe Room, and limited technical information needed to operate the service.

Account and profile information

• Email address, username, first name, surname, password credentials handled by our authentication provider, and account identifiers.
• Profile information such as avatar, cover photo, bio, location, Instagram handle, and public profile settings.
• Account settings, preferences, theme settings, and other settings connected to your personal or photography experience.

Content and community activity

• Photos, posts, recipe names, descriptions, sample images, camera settings, film simulation settings, tags, comments, collections, and other content you upload or create.
• Photo and recipe metadata, which may include camera model, lens, film simulation, exposure settings, timestamps, location information, captions, tags, and other EXIF or file metadata if included in the image or provided by you.
• Community activity such as follows, favorites, saves, reposts, hides, show-fewer signals, mutes, blocks, reports, and interactions with other users or content.
• Report and moderation information such as report categories, explanations, supporting evidence, case references, reported accounts or content, warnings, content actions, restrictions, permanent bans, appeals, decisions, reasons, action histories, and related communications.
• Private chat or direct message content and related message metadata if messaging features are available. We do not routinely access private message content, but may review relevant message context for reports, safety, abuse, illegal activity, disputes, or Terms enforcement.

Purchases and sales

• If Recipe Room enables paid recipe sales, we may collect purchase history, sale history, receipt records, order identifiers, recipe access records, refund records, chargeback records, creator payout status, tax or payout status, and related transaction metadata.
• Payment card, bank, wallet, billing, tax, and identity details may be handled by payment processors, payout providers, or app stores. Recipe Room generally does not need or receive full payment card numbers, CVV codes, bank login credentials, or buyer home or billing addresses for normal recipe purchases.
• Where needed to operate paid recipe features, we may receive limited payment, tax, payout, receipt, refund, chargeback, country, currency, eligibility, verification, or compliance information from payment processors, payout providers, app stores, or service providers.

Device, usage, and support information

• Technical information such as IP address, device type, operating system, browser or app version, device identifiers, crash logs, security logs, upload logs, and server activity records.
• Cookie, analytics, SDK, and similar technology information used to keep you signed in, remember preferences, measure performance, understand feature use, prevent abuse, and improve Recipe Room.
• Push notification tokens and notification preferences if you enable notifications for account, community, recipe, purchase, or product updates.
• Marketing, support, feedback, and communication records, including messages, bug reports, feature ideas, survey responses, and suggestions you send to us through official Recipe Room channels.

How we use information

We use information to operate, secure, improve, and support Recipe Room. This includes using information to:

• Create and manage accounts.
• Display profiles, photos, recipes, settings, posts, collections, comments, and community activity.
• Store, process, resize, display, and deliver uploaded photos and recipe content.
• Enable search, discovery, feeds, follows, favorites, saved items, reposts, comments, and notifications.
• Apply personal controls such as hiding content, showing fewer similar posts, muting accounts, and blocking accounts.
• Process purchases, maintain proof of purchase, preserve buyer access to purchased recipes, and support creator sales if paid recipes are available.
• Review account, profile, recipe, purchase, sale, refund, chargeback, payout, support, moderation, report, appeal, and relevant message records where needed to operate Recipe Room, investigate disputes, prevent fraud, protect creators and buyers, respond to safety issues, decide appeals, and enforce our Terms.
• Detect spam, fraud, scraping, copied recipes, abuse, security incidents, and violations of our Terms.
• Respond to support requests, account deletion requests, reports, appeals, and legal obligations.
• Send service messages, authentication emails, report confirmations, enforcement notices, appeal decisions, account notices, and product updates where permitted.
• Send push notifications where you have enabled them.
• Understand and improve app performance, reliability, safety, and user experience.
• Review and act on feedback, feature ideas, bug reports, and support themes so we can decide what to fix, build, improve, or remove.

What is public

Recipe Room is built around public photography and recipe sharing. Your public profile, username, avatar, bio, public photos, public posts, public recipes, recipe settings, comments, follows, favorites, reposts, and public collections may be visible to other users and visitors.

Do not upload content or personal information that you do not want others to see, copy, save, discuss, or associate with your public Recipe Room profile.

How we share information

We may share information in the following ways:

• Public sharing. Public profiles, photos, recipes, settings, comments, and community activity are shared as part of the service.
• Service providers. We may share information with providers that help us run Recipe Room, including hosting, databases, storage, authentication, email, analytics, security, customer support, payment processing, and app store services.
• Purchases and sales. If paid recipes are available, we may share purchase, receipt, tax, refund, and payout information with payment processors, app stores, creators, buyers, and service providers as needed to complete and prove transactions.
• Safety and legal reasons. We may share information to investigate abuse, protect users, enforce our Terms, respond to legal requests, comply with law, or protect the rights, safety, and security of Recipe Room and others.
• Business transfers. If Recipe Room is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
• With your direction or consent. We may share information when you ask us to or when you otherwise consent.

We generally do not disclose a reporter's identity to the reported user. We may disclose information where required by law or where reasonably necessary for safety, fraud prevention, security, or legal proceedings.

We do not sell your personal information. We also do not claim ownership of your personal information.

Ownership of personal information and content

Your personal information remains yours. Recipe Room does not own your personal information. You are responsible for making sure the information and content you provide is accurate, lawful, and yours to provide.

You also keep ownership of photos, recipes, and other content you upload, subject to the license needed for Recipe Room to host, display, distribute, promote, store, process, moderate, and provide the service.

Account deletion and data retention

You may request deletion of your account. When you request deletion, we will delete or disable your account and remove personal information from active systems where reasonably possible, including account details, profile data, personal settings, personal photography settings, unsold private content, and other account-linked information that is not needed for the exceptions below.

There are important exceptions:

• Completed recipe purchases and sales. If a recipe has been sold or purchased, we may retain the sale record, purchase record, receipt, order metadata, recipe title, recipe settings, associated photos, and other recipe materials needed to prove the transaction and preserve buyer access.
• Legal, tax, accounting, and dispute records. We may retain records needed for legal compliance, tax, accounting, refunds, chargebacks, fraud prevention, dispute handling, or enforcement of our Terms.
• Safety and moderation records. We may retain reports, supporting evidence, case references, warnings, content actions, restrictions, permanent bans, appeals, decisions, communications, and limited information about banned, restricted, refused, abusive, fraudulent, or security-related accounts for as long as reasonably needed to protect the platform and other users, handle disputes and appeals, enforce account restrictions, comply with law, and prevent users from evading enforcement through new accounts, devices, login methods, or identities.
• Backups and logs. Information may remain in backups, logs, and disaster recovery systems until overwritten or deleted under our normal retention processes.

Where we retain recipe sale or purchase materials after account deletion, we may remove or reduce personal identifiers where practical, but the recipe content, settings, photos, and transaction proof may remain available or preserved because other users purchased them.

We keep different categories of information for different periods. In general, we keep account and content information while your account is active, transaction and tax records for as long as needed for legal, accounting, refund, chargeback, and dispute purposes, security and moderation records for as long as needed to protect Recipe Room and other users, and backup copies until they are overwritten or deleted under our normal backup processes.

Your choices and rights

• You can update account and profile information in the app where those controls are available.
• You can delete content where deletion tools are available, subject to purchase, sale, legal, and safety retention exceptions.
• You can manage muted and blocked accounts where those controls are available.
• You can request account deletion.
• You can unsubscribe from marketing emails where an unsubscribe option is provided.
• You can usually disable push notifications through your device settings.
• Depending on where you live, including in the UK, EEA, California, or other US states with privacy laws, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, export, restrict, object to, or opt out of certain processing of personal information.
• You can contact us to exercise privacy rights. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request.

Cookies and similar technologies

Recipe Room may use cookies, local storage, analytics SDKs, crash-reporting tools, and similar technologies on our website and app. These technologies help us provide core functionality, remember preferences, measure performance, understand how features are used, detect fraud and abuse, and improve the service.

If we use advertising, cross-app tracking, or similar technologies that require consent or opt-out controls, we will provide those controls where required by law or platform rules.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect information. No online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that information will never be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.

Children

Recipe Room is not intended for children under 13, or under the minimum age required in your country. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child without required consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

For child safety concerns, including suspected child sexual abuse or exploitation, contact our child safety point of contact at safety@reciperoom.io. You do not need an account to do so. See our Safety Standards for more. If you believe a child is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency service first.

International processing

Recipe Room and our service providers may process and store information in countries other than your own. Those countries may have different data protection laws from the laws where you live.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the date above and may provide notice in the app, by email, or by another reasonable method.

Contact

For privacy questions, data requests, deletion requests, or concerns, contact Recipe Room at privacy@reciperoom.io.

For product feedback, email feedback@reciperoom.io or use feedback.reciperoom.io.

If Recipe Room is operated through a registered company in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated with the relevant legal operator details and any required data protection representative or regulator contact details if applicable.