Privacy Policy - Recipe Change

Last updated: October 21, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use our website and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We use your Personal Data to provide and improve the Service. By using the website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation
The words whose initial letters are capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or plural.

Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account: A unique account created for you to access our Service or parts of our Service.
Affiliate: An entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party.
Company: Refers to Recipe Change (“we”, “us”, or “our”).
Cookies: Small files placed on your device by a website, containing details of your browsing history among other uses.
Country: Refers to New Jersey, United States.
Device: Any device that can access the Service (e.g., computer, cell phone, tablet).
Personal Data: Any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
Service: Refers to the Website.
Service Provider: Any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of the Company.
Usage Data: Data collected automatically, generated by the use of the Service.
Website: Recipe Change, accessible from https://www.recipechange.com/.
You: The individual accessing or using the Service, or the company or other legal entity on whose behalf such individual is accessing or using the Service.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Website and store certain information.
Cookies are used to enable core functionality, remember your preferences, analyze traffic, and support advertising, including interest‑based advertising.

Types of Cookies we may use include:

Session Cookies: Necessary to provide you with services and features you request and to maintain the security of the Service.
Persistent Cookies: Help remember your preferences, login information, and cookie consent choices on subsequent visits.
Analytics Cookies: Used to understand how visitors interact with the Website, such as pages visited and time spent on the site.
Advertising Cookies: Used by us and our advertising partners to deliver personalized ads and measure their performance.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept certain cookies, some parts of the Service may not function properly.

Depending on your location, you may be presented with a cookie banner or consent management tool that allows you to accept, reject, or customize your cookie preferences. You can change your consent choices at any time through the cookie settings on our Website or your browser settings.

Advertising and Monumetric

This Site is affiliated with Monumetric (dba Monumetric, LLC) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Monumetric will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes.
To learn more about Monumetric’s data usage, please visit the Monumetric Advertising Privacy Policy here: https://www.monumetric.com/publisher-advertising-privacy/.

Monumetric and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to collect information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, pages visited, time spent on pages, links clicked, and general location information in order to deliver personalized ads, measure performance, and improve ad services.
This information is generally non‑personally identifiable, but may be linked to other information that you or third parties have provided if such information is available.

We do not share your name, email address, or other directly identifying information with advertisers. However, advertisers and other third parties may assume that users who interact with or click on a personalized ad are part of the audience segment to which that ad is targeted (for example, users interested in recipes or cooking content).

You can manage or opt out of interest‑based advertising by visiting:

Google Ads Settings: https://adssettings.google.com/
Network Advertising Initiative opt‑out page: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/
Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

Please note that opting out does not mean you will no longer see ads; it only means that ads may be less tailored to your interests.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data
We may collect the following Personal Data when you use the Service:

Email address
Any information you choose to provide when you contact us (for example, through email or contact forms on the Website)

Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as:

Your Device’s IP address
Browser type and version
The pages of our Service that you visit
The time and date of your visit
The time spent on those pages
Unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data

We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
To manage your Account, if applicable.
For the performance of a contract, such as purchases or other agreements with us.
To contact you by email or other equivalent forms of electronic communication regarding updates, security alerts, or informative communications related to functionalities and products.
To send you news, special offers, and general information about services we offer that are similar to those you have already shown interest in, unless you have opted not to receive such information.
To manage your requests, such as when you contact us for support or inquiries.
For business transfers, such as a merger, acquisition, or asset sale.
For analytics, marketing, performance measurement, and Service improvement.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We may share your Personal Data in the following situations:

With Service Providers: To monitor and analyze the use of our Service, communicate with you, host the Website, or perform services on our behalf.
For business transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
With Affiliates: We may share your information with our Affiliates, in which case we will require those Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
With business partners: To offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
With other users: When you share information in public areas of the Service.
With your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
For legal compliance or law enforcement: If required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.

Retention of Your Personal Data

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, or as required to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period unless it is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that your information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
These rights may include:

The right to access, correct, or update your Personal Data.
The right to request deletion of your Personal Data.
The right to restrict or object to certain processing of your Personal Data.
The right to data portability, where technically feasible.
The right to withdraw consent at any time where we rely on your consent to process your Personal Data.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@recipechange.com.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority if you believe that our processing of your Personal Data violates applicable law.

California Privacy Rights (CCPA)

If you are a resident of California, you may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
These rights may include:

The right to know the categories of Personal Information we collect, use, disclose, or “sell” (as defined by CCPA).
The right to request deletion of your Personal Information, subject to certain exceptions.
The right to opt out of the “sale” or sharing of your Personal Information for advertising purposes.
The right to non‑discrimination for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

To submit a request or to opt out of the sale/sharing of your Personal Information, please contact us at contact@recipechange.com and indicate “California Privacy Request” in your message.
We will verify your request and respond in accordance with applicable law.

Security of Your Personal Data

We use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, but no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
While we strive to use reasonable measures to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Delete or Restrict Your Personal Data

You can request deletion, correction, or restriction of your Personal Data at any time, subject to certain legal obligations.
To make such a request, please contact us at contact@recipechange.com. We may need to retain certain information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes, such as resolving disputes or enforcing our agreements.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service is not directed at children under 13 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from anyone under 13.
If you are a parent or guardian and you believe that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us so that we can take steps to remove such information from our systems.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third‑party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site.
We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third‑party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and/or by sending you an email, where appropriate.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Your continued use of the Website after any changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of those changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or about how your Personal Data is handled, you can contact us at:
Email: contact@recipechange.com