Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2, 2026

GOPLATED LLC (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) owns and operates Recipency (the “Website”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information when you visit the Website, interact with our recipes and other content, submit a comment, contact us, or use any related feature or service.

By using Recipency, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please discontinue your use of the Website.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our Website, business practices, service providers, or legal obligations change.

Any changes will become effective when the revised Privacy Policy is published on this page. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page identifies the most recent revision. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

Information We May Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with Recipency.

Information You Provide Voluntarily

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including:

  • Your name and email address when you contact us.
  • The subject and contents of messages submitted through our contact form.
  • Your display name, email address, website, comment, or recipe rating when you leave a comment.
  • Your email address when you voluntarily subscribe to a newsletter or email update, if that feature is available.
  • Information submitted when participating in a survey, promotion, contest, or giveaway, if offered.
  • Any other information you choose to provide directly to us.

You are not required to provide personal information. However, refusing to provide certain information may prevent us from responding to a request or providing a particular Website feature.

Information Collected Automatically

When you access Recipency, our hosting provider, security services, analytics tools, consent-management tools, and other Website technologies may automatically collect technical information, including:

  • Your Internet Protocol address.
  • Your browser type and browser version.
  • Your device type and operating system.
  • The date and time of your visit.
  • The pages, recipes, and links you view or interact with.
  • The amount of time spent on particular pages.
  • The website, social platform, or search engine that referred you to Recipency.
  • General geographic information derived from your IP address.
  • Technical information about errors, Website performance, and security activity.

This information may be used to operate the Website, protect it against misuse, understand how readers use it, diagnose technical problems, and improve Website performance and content.

Comments and Recipe Ratings

When visitors leave comments or recipe ratings, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser information to assist with spam detection, Website security, and moderation.

Approved comments, display names, ratings, and any other information intentionally submitted for public display may be visible to other visitors.

Please do not include private, confidential, medical, financial, or otherwise sensitive information in a public comment.

Contact Forms

When you contact us, we may collect your name, email address, the subject of your request, and the contents of your message.

We use this information to respond to your inquiry, provide recipe assistance, investigate a reported concern, maintain appropriate business records, and protect the Website against spam or misuse.

How We Use Your Information

We may use information collected through Recipency to:

  • Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Website.
  • Provide access to recipes and other Website content.
  • Respond to questions, messages, recipe concerns, or substitution requests.
  • Display, manage, and moderate comments and recipe ratings.
  • Detect spam, fraud, malicious activity, and security threats.
  • Understand how readers use the Website.
  • Improve navigation, recipes, content, accessibility, and Website performance.
  • Send newsletters or updates that you voluntarily requested.
  • Measure the effectiveness of Website content, communications, or advertisements.
  • Administer promotions, surveys, contests, or giveaways, if offered.
  • Comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, and legal processes.
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
  • Complete a merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing, or sale of business assets if one occurs.

Legal Bases for Processing

Where European Union or United Kingdom data protection law applies, we may process personal information under one or more of the following legal bases:

  • Consent: when you voluntarily subscribe, accept optional cookies, or otherwise give permission for a specific use.
  • Performance of a contract: when processing is necessary to provide something you requested.
  • Legitimate interests: when processing is reasonably necessary to operate, improve, secure, and understand the Website, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights.
  • Legal obligations: when processing is required to comply with applicable law, regulation, or legal process.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Recipency may use cookies, pixels, local storage, web beacons, and similar technologies to operate the Website, remember preferences, measure Website performance, and understand how the Website is used.

A cookie is a small text file placed on your browser or device. Session cookies are generally removed after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may remain until they expire or are deleted.

Types of Cookies

  • Strictly necessary cookies: support essential Website functions, security, preferences, and consent management.
  • Performance and analytics cookies: help us understand visits, page usage, traffic sources, and Website performance.
  • Functional cookies: remember certain choices and improve Website features.
  • Advertising cookies: may be used to measure advertising or provide advertisements relevant to readers if advertising is enabled.
  • Affiliate tracking cookies: may record that a visitor followed an affiliate link so that a qualifying transaction can be attributed.

Where required by law, optional cookies will be used only after you provide consent through the Website’s cookie banner or privacy settings.

You may also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect the availability or functionality of some Website features.

Analytics

Recipency may use analytics services to understand Website traffic, identify popular recipes, diagnose technical problems, and improve the Website.

Analytics providers may process information such as your IP address, device type, browser, approximate location, referral source, pages viewed, and interactions with the Website.

Where required by law, nonessential analytics technologies will be activated only after appropriate consent has been obtained.

Advertising

Recipency may display advertisements provided directly by us or through third-party advertising partners.

Advertising partners may use cookies, pixels, device identifiers, or similar technologies to measure advertisements, limit repeated advertisements, prevent fraud, and, where permitted, provide interest-based advertising.

If a specific third-party advertising provider is activated on Recipency, this Privacy Policy and the Website’s consent-management settings may be updated to identify that provider and provide additional information about its data practices.

Affiliate Links

Recipency may occasionally include affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and make a qualifying purchase, GOPLATED LLC may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.

Affiliate networks or merchants may use cookies or similar technologies to record referrals and attribute qualifying transactions.

The presence of an affiliate link does not change our commitment to providing useful and independent recipe content.

Embedded Content and Social Media

Articles on Recipency may contain embedded videos, images, social media posts, recipe tools, or other content provided by third-party websites.

Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly. The third party may collect information, use cookies, include additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.

Social sharing services may also collect information when you use their buttons or visit their platforms. Their processing of information is governed by their own privacy policies.

Disclosure of Your Information

Service Providers

We may disclose information to contractors and service providers that assist us with:

  • Website hosting and content delivery.
  • Website security and spam prevention.
  • Analytics and Website performance.
  • Email delivery and newsletter management.
  • Advertising and affiliate tracking.
  • Technical support and Website maintenance.
  • Data storage and backups.
  • Legal, accounting, and professional services.

These providers may process information only as necessary to provide their services, subject to their contractual and legal obligations.

Legal Requirements and Protection of Rights

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

  • Comply with applicable law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or legal process.
  • Respond to a lawful request from a government authority.
  • Investigate a suspected violation of our policies.
  • Prevent fraud, abuse, security threats, or illegal activity.
  • Protect the rights, property, and safety of GOPLATED LLC, our readers, or others.

Business Transfers

Information may be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction. A successor may continue to process information in accordance with the privacy policy applicable at that time.

Third-Party Websites

Recipency may link to websites, advertisements, products, services, or applications operated by third parties.

We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third-party websites. You should review the privacy policy of any external website before providing personal information.

Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including to:

  • Respond to inquiries.
  • Maintain comments and recipe ratings.
  • Provide requested communications.
  • Protect Website security.
  • Maintain business, accounting, and tax records.
  • Resolve disputes.
  • Comply with legal obligations.

Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the information, the reason it was collected, and applicable legal requirements.

Security of Your Information

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no Website, storage system, or method of transmission over the Internet is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

Sensitive Personal Information

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through Recipency, including government identification numbers, financial account details, passwords, medical records, precise location information, political opinions, religious beliefs, or other highly sensitive data.

Children’s Privacy

Recipency is a general-audience food Website and is not directed to children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information through the Website, please contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete the information.

International Data Transfers

GOPLATED LLC is based in the United States. Information collected through Recipency may be processed or stored in the United States or in other countries where our service providers operate.

Where required by applicable law, we will rely on appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Request information about the personal information we process.
  • Request access to a copy of your personal information.
  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
  • Request deletion of certain personal information.
  • Request restriction of certain processing.
  • Object to certain processing.
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
  • Request data portability where applicable.
  • Opt out of marketing emails.
  • Opt out of certain targeted advertising, sales, sharing, or profiling where applicable.
  • Appeal the denial of a privacy request where applicable law provides that right.
  • Submit a complaint to an appropriate data protection authority.

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions. We may need to verify your identity before processing a request.

Email Communications

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the email. We may still send administrative or transactional communications when necessary.

European Union and United Kingdom Rights

Residents of the European Economic Area and United Kingdom may have rights under the GDPR or UK GDPR, including rights of access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, and withdrawal of consent.

You may also have the right to submit a complaint to the data protection authority responsible for your country or region.

California Privacy Rights

Where the California Consumer Privacy Act and related California privacy laws apply to GOPLATED LLC, California residents may have rights to:

  • Know the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected.
  • Know the sources and purposes of collection.
  • Know the categories of third parties to which information is disclosed.
  • Request access, correction, or deletion.
  • Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information.
  • Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information.
  • Receive equal service without unlawful discrimination for exercising privacy rights.

Recipency does not exchange personal information for money. Certain advertising, analytics, or affiliate activities may nevertheless be defined as a “sale” or “sharing” under some privacy laws. Where required, Recipency will provide an appropriate opt-out method.

Montana and Other U.S. State Privacy Rights

Where applicable, residents of Montana and other U.S. states with comprehensive consumer privacy laws may have rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of their personal information and to opt out of certain targeted advertising, sales, or qualifying profiling.

The exact rights, eligibility requirements, and legal exceptions depend on the applicable state law.

Exercising Your Rights

To submit a privacy request, visit our Contact page.

Please provide enough information for us to understand your request and reasonably verify your identity. We will use information submitted with a privacy request only to verify and respond to that request.

Where permitted, an authorized agent may submit a request on your behalf. We may require proof of the agent’s authority and direct verification from you.

We will respond within the period required by applicable law. If additional time is legally permitted and reasonably necessary, we will notify you.

Contact Us

Recipency is owned and operated by:

GOPLATED LLC
Montana, United States

For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, please use our Contact page.