Privacy Policy

When you join our kitchen, we collect only what we need to run the service:

• Account details — your name, email address, and any optional profile information you add (photo, phone number, bio).
• Content you create — recipes you submit, reviews and ratings, favourites, shopping lists and meal plans.
• Payment information — paid memberships are processed by Razorpay, our payment provider. We record your plan and payment status, but we never see or store your card details.
• Security data — sign-in attempts with IP address and browser details, kept to protect your account from unauthorised access.
• Newsletter — your email address, if you subscribe to our weekly digest.

Your information is used solely to run and improve the platform:

• Operating your account, favourites, shopping list, meal planner and membership.
• Reviewing and publishing recipes and reviews you submit.
• Sending transactional emails (verification, password resets) and — only if you subscribed — the weekly recipe newsletter, which includes a one-click unsubscribe link in every issue.
• Keeping the site secure: detecting repeated failed sign-ins, and letting you review your own login activity from your account page.

We never sell your personal information to third parties. That's not our tradition.

Like flour on a baker's apron, a few cookies are part of every digital kitchen. We use them to:

• Keep you signed in (session and "remember me" cookies).
• Protect forms against cross-site request forgery.

Where advertisements are shown, our advertising partners (such as Google AdSense) may set their own cookies subject to their policies — members with an ad-free plan don't see these ads. You can decline cookies in your browser settings, though signing in requires the session cookie. For full details see our Cookie Policy.

• Passwords are stored using strong one-way hashing — we cannot read them.
• Accounts lock automatically after repeated failed sign-in attempts.
• You can sign out of all other devices at any time from your account page.
• Administrative actions on our side are recorded in an audit log.

Your personal recipe box belongs to you. At any time, you may:

• Access and update your profile details from your account page.
• Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Unsubscribe from the newsletter with the link in any issue.
• Request deletion of your account and associated personal data by contacting us — published recipes can be removed or anonymised on request.