This Privacy Policy describes how OM Recipes (the "Site," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and protects information about you when you visit the Site, create an account, or submit content. By using the Site, you agree to the practices described in this Policy. This Policy was last updated on May 11, 2026.

Information we collect

We collect the following categories of information:

• Account information. When you register, we collect your email address and any profile information you choose to provide, such as a display name or links to your other public profiles.
• Content you submit. We collect the recipes, photographs, sample images, image metadata (including camera EXIF data), descriptions, and other materials you upload to the Site.
• Authentication and security information. To protect the Site and your account, we collect information related to sign-in attempts, session activity, the IP address you connect from, and your browser user agent.
• Usage information. With your consent, we collect aggregate analytics about how the Site is used, such as the pages you visit and the actions you take, to help us understand traffic and improve the Site.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we can remove it.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect to:

• operate, maintain, and improve the Site;
• create and manage your account and authenticate you when you sign in;
• display the recipes, images, and profile information you have chosen to publish;
• protect the Site, our users, and the public from fraud, abuse, and security incidents;
• respond to your inquiries, requests, and reports; and
• understand how visitors use the Site, but only where you have granted analytics consent.

Email addresses

We treat your email address as confidential. We do not sell, rent, or trade your email address, and we do not share or disclose it to third parties for their own marketing purposes. Your email address is used only to authenticate you, to send transactional messages directly related to your account (such as sign-in links and security notices), and to respond to you when you contact us. Your email address is not displayed publicly on the Site.

Cookies and analytics

The Site uses a small number of cookies and similar technologies that are strictly necessary to provide core functionality, such as keeping you signed in and remembering your consent preferences. These cookies do not require your consent because the Site cannot function without them.

The Site may also use optional analytics that rely on cookies to measure aggregate traffic and usage patterns. Analytics are only loaded after you grant consent, and you may change your consent preference at any time using the control in the footer. If you decline analytics, no analytics cookies are set and no analytics data is collected from your visit.

How we share information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share information only in the following limited circumstances:

• Public content. Content you choose to publish on the Site, including recipes, sample images, and the public portions of your profile, is visible to other users and members of the public. Do not submit anything to the Site that you do not want to be public.
• Service providers. We rely on a small number of vendors to host the Site, store data, and deliver email on our behalf. These providers are permitted to process your information only as needed to provide their services to us, and they are bound by confidentiality and data-protection obligations. We do not authorize any service provider to use your information for their own purposes.
• Legal and safety. We may disclose information if we have a good-faith belief that doing so is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, to enforce our Terms, to protect the rights, property, or safety of OM Recipes, our users, or the public, or to investigate and prevent fraud, abuse, or security incidents.
• Business transfers. If OM Recipes is involved in a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to standard confidentiality protections.

We will never share or disclose your personal information for any other purpose without your consent.

Data retention

We retain your account information for as long as your account remains active. Content you publish is retained until you remove it or close your account, subject to the license described in our Terms and Conditions and to limited backups maintained for security and disaster-recovery purposes. We retain security-related logs for a reasonable period in order to investigate incidents and protect the Site.

Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the information we collect against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. No method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is, however, completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Your rights and controls

Depending on where you live, you may have rights under applicable law to access, correct, export, or delete the personal information we hold about you, and to object to or restrict certain processing. You may:

• review and update your public profile fields at any time from your profile page;
• request a downloadable export of your account data;
• request deletion of your account and the user-owned content associated with it; and
• change your analytics consent preference at any time using the footer control.

To exercise any of these rights, please use the contact form on our about page. We will respond within the time required by applicable law.

International users

The Site is operated for an international audience. If you access the Site from outside the country in which our service providers operate, you understand that your information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in countries that may have different data-protection laws than your own. Where required by law, we rely on appropriate safeguards for international transfers.

Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. The most current version will always be posted on this page, and the "last updated" date at the top will reflect the most recent revision. If a change is material, we will use reasonable efforts to notify you.

Contact

Questions or requests relating to this Policy should be sent through the contact form on our about page.