Privacy Policy

This is the privacy notice of EverydayChef (everydaychef.io). In this document, "we", "our", or "us" refer to EverydayChef.

This privacy notice aims to inform you about how we collect and handle any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us. It covers both information that could identify you ("personal information") and information that could not.

We are extremely concerned to protect your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all users of our website are quite rightly concerned to know that their data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party. Our policy is both specific and strict. It complies with New Zealand law. If you think our policy falls short of your expectations or that we are failing to abide by our policy, do please tell us.

Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any personally identifiable information collected at our website.

Personal Information

This includes basic identification and contact information, such as your name and contact details, and also includes all information given to us in the course of your use of our service. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of this information.

This information is used:

• to provide you with the services which you request;
• for verifying your identity for security purposes;
• information which does not identify any individual may be used in a general way by us, for example relating to demographics or usage of a particular page or service.

Your Domain Name and Email Address

This information is recognised by our servers and the pages that you visit are recorded. We shall not under any circumstances divulge your email address to any person who is not an employee or contractor of ours and who does not need to know, either generally or specifically.

This information is used:

• to correspond with you or deal with you as you expect;
• in a collective way not referable to any particular individual, for the purpose of quality control and improvement of our website;
• to send you news about the services to which you have signed up.

Information You Post on Our Website

Information you send to us, such as recipes you create or messages you submit through our contact form, is stored on our servers. We use this information to provide and improve our service. When you use our Chef AI feature, your messages are sent to third-party AI providers for processing and are subject to their respective privacy policies.

Website Usage Information

We may use software embedded in our website to collect information about pages you view and how you have reached them, what you do when you visit a page, the length of time you remain on the page, and how we perform in providing content to you. We do not associate such information with an identifiable person.

Third-Party Services

EverydayChef uses the following third-party services:

• Vercel (hosting)
• Umami Analytics (privacy-focused usage analytics)
• Supabase (authentication and data storage)
• Third-party AI/LLM providers including OpenAI (AI cooking assistant). When you use our Chef AI feature, your messages are sent to third-party AI services for processing. These providers have their own privacy policies, including OpenAI's Privacy Policy.

These services have their own privacy policies and handle data according to their respective terms.

Information We Obtain from Third Parties

Although we do not disclose your personal information to any third party (except as set out in this notice), we do receive data which is indirectly made up from your personal information, from software services such as analytics providers. No such information is identifiable to you.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer's hard drive through your web browser when you visit any website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.

We use cookies in the following ways:

• to allow essential parts of our website to operate for you;
• to operate our content management system;
• to collect information about how visitors use our website via Umami Analytics, which is privacy-focused and does not track individuals or use invasive cookies;
• to maintain your session if you are logged in to your account.

Although your browser software enables you to disable cookies, we recommend that you allow the use of cookies in order to take advantage of the features of our website that rely on their use. If you prevent their use, you will not be able to use all the functionality of our website.

Sending a Message to Us

When you send a message via our contact form, we collect the data you have given to us in that message in order to respond to your inquiry. We record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our service. We do not keep any personally identifiable information associated with your message beyond what is necessary to respond.

Complaining

When we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given to us. We use that information to resolve your complaint. If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and if we do, what that information is.

Use of the Website by Children

We do not market to children. If you are under 18, you may use our website only with consent from a parent or guardian.

Disclosure to Government and Their Agencies

We are subject to the law like everyone else. We may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.

Data Retention

We retain your account data until you request deletion. Usage analytics are retained in aggregate form to improve the service. You can request deletion of your personal data at any time by contacting us.

Your Rights

At any time you may review or update the personally identifiable information that we hold about you. You have the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you;
• correct inaccurate or incomplete data;
• request deletion of your personal data;
• opt out of non-essential data collection.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. To better safeguard your information, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your information.

Removal of Your Information

If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information from our website, you may contact us. To better safeguard your information, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your information.

Data Processing

Our website is hosted internationally via Vercel. Accordingly, data obtained within New Zealand may be processed outside New Zealand and data obtained in any other country may be processed within or outside that country.

Compliance with the Law

This privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply with the law of every jurisdiction in which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your country, we would like to hear from you, but ultimately it is your choice as to whether you wish to use our website.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page. Your continued use of EverydayChef after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us.