Privacy Policy · Around the Table

Welcome to Around the Table. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you use our website and services.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information you provide directly to us when using our platform:

Account Information: When you register, we collect your email address, username, and a securely hashed password.
Profile Data: Information you choose to add to your profile, such as a biography.
User-Generated Content: Recipes you create, ingredients in your pantry, reviews, comments, and images you upload.
Technical Data: We automatically collect certain information such as IP addresses (to prevent abuse and manage security), browser types, and usage patterns.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

To provide, maintain, and improve our services.
To authenticate your identity and secure your account.
To personalize your experience, such as converting units based on your preferences.
To communicate with you, including sending password reset or email verification links.
To monitor and prevent spam, fraud, and abuse.

3. Cookies and Tracking

We use cookies to maintain your session securely. Specifically, we use an HTTP-only, secure cookie to keep you logged in.

We may also use cookies, local storage, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies for advertising, abuse prevention, security, ad measurement, and consent management. Where required by law, we ask for your consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies.

4. Advertising and Consent

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on Around the Table. Third-party vendors, including Google, may place or read cookies, or use web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to Around the Table and/or other sites on the Internet.

Depending on your location and consent choices, Google may show personalized ads, non-personalized ads, or limited ads. Non-personalized ads are based on contextual information rather than your past behavior, but may still use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and fraud prevention.

You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may also manage your advertising consent choices through the consent message shown on our website.

5. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell your personal information. We may share your data only in the following circumstances: with trusted service providers (such as email delivery, image hosting services like Cloudinary, security services like Cloudflare Turnstile, or advertising partners like Google AdSense) who assist us in operating our platform, or when required by law to comply with legal obligations.

We use Cloudflare Turnstile to help distinguish legitimate visitors from automated traffic and protect sensitive forms such as login and signup. For details about the security signals processed by Turnstile, see Cloudflare's Turnstile Privacy Addendum.

6. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Passwords are cryptographically hashed using industry-standard algorithms before being stored.

7. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data. You can manage most of your data directly through your account settings. To request full account deletion, please contact us.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at privacy@aroundthetable.app.