Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-11-09

RecipeVolt (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the website at recipevolt.com (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect, why we collect it, and what rights you have over it.

We’ve tried to write this in plain language rather than lawyer-speak. If anything is unclear, email us at [email protected] and we’ll clarify.

Last updated: November 9, 2026

Summary

Here’s the short version:

  • We don’t require accounts. You can use the entire site without signing up or providing any personal information.
  • We save your preferences in your browser, not on our servers. Your saved recipes, shopping list, theme preference, and last-viewed recipe are stored in your browser’s localStorage. They never leave your device and we can’t see them.
  • We serve ads through third-party advertising networks, including Google AdSense. These networks and their partners may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
  • We don’t sell your data. We don’t have a business model that involves selling personal information to anyone.
  • You have rights. Under GDPR (EU), CCPA (California), and similar laws, you have the right to know what data exists about you, to request its deletion, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of your data.

Information we collect

Information you provide directly

We don’t collect any information you provide directly through forms, because we don’t have forms that submit data to our servers. Our contact page uses a mailto link. When you click it, your email client opens with our address pre-filled, but the message travels from your email client to ours directly. We don’t run a form backend, and we don’t log submissions.

If you email us, we receive your email address, name (if you sign the message), and whatever content you include. We use this only to respond to your inquiry. We don’t add you to a mailing list, and we don’t share it with anyone.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the Site, standard web server logs are collected by our hosting provider (Cloudflare). These logs may include:

  • Your IP address
  • The date and time of your visit
  • The pages you visited
  • The referring page (if you arrived from another site)
  • Your browser type and version
  • Your operating system
  • Your device type

These logs are retained for a limited time by Cloudflare for security and abuse-prevention purposes. We don’t analyze them for marketing and we don’t combine them with any other data.

Cookies and similar technologies

RecipeVolt uses the following types of cookies and browser storage:

1. Local storage (not cookies, but similar in purpose)

We store the following in your browser’s localStorage:

  • rv-saved: recipes you’ve saved to your personal cookbook
  • rv-list: items on your shopping list
  • rv-last: the last recipe you viewed (for the resume feature on the homepage)
  • rv-theme: your light/dark theme preference
  • rv-anchor-dismissed: whether you’ve dismissed the mobile sticky ad for this session

All of these are stored only in your browser. They are never transmitted to our servers, and we cannot read them. You can clear them at any time by clearing your browser’s site data for recipevolt.com.

2. Advertising cookies

We display advertisements on RecipeVolt through third-party advertising networks and partners, including Google AdSense and other advertising networks we may engage from time to time. Our current advertising partners may change over time — this policy covers any advertising network we engage, and each network’s own privacy policy governs its data practices in addition to this one.

These networks and their partners may use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads, measure ad performance, and personalize advertising based on your visits to this and other websites. This is standard advertising technology.

  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • You may opt out of personalized advertising by adjusting your Google Ads Settings.
  • You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative or the Digital Advertising Alliance.

For more information about how Google uses data from sites that use its services, see Google’s Privacy and Terms.

3. Cloudflare cookies

Cloudflare, our hosting and CDN provider, may set cookies for security and performance purposes (for example, bot detection and DDoS mitigation). These cookies do not track you for advertising and are strictly functional.

We do not currently use the following for our own tracking:

  • Google Analytics
  • Facebook Pixel or TikTok Pixel
  • Heatmap or session-recording tools

Our advertising partners may use their own tracking and analytics technologies — see the advertising section above for details.

If any of these are added for our own use in the future, this policy will be updated first.

How we use your information

We use the limited information we collect for:

  1. Serving the Site. Cloudflare logs help keep the site online and secure.
  2. Serving ads. Our advertising partners serve ads that keep this site free for readers.
  3. Responding to your emails. If you email us, we use your email address to reply.
  4. Improving content. Aggregate reports from our advertising partners (for example, which pages get the most views) help us decide which recipes to develop next. This is aggregate data, not personal data.

We do not use your information for:

  • Selling to advertisers or data brokers
  • Building user profiles for marketing purposes
  • Retargeting you with our own ads
  • Any purpose unrelated to running this website

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you have specific legal rights over your personal data.

If you’re in the EU, UK, or Switzerland (GDPR)

You have the right to:

  • Access your personal data
  • Correct inaccurate data
  • Delete your data (right to be forgotten)
  • Restrict processing of your data
  • Object to processing of your data
  • Data portability (receive your data in a machine-readable format)
  • Withdraw consent at any time
  • Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority

Because we don’t store personal data on our servers, most of these rights are automatically satisfied: your data is under your control in your own browser. For ad-related data, use the Google Ads Settings link above.

If you’re in California (CCPA/CPRA)

You have the right to:

  • Know what categories of personal information we collect and how we use it
  • Delete your personal information
  • Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information
  • Non-discrimination for exercising your rights
  • Correct inaccurate personal information

We do not sell your personal information. We don’t share it with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising outside the standard advertising agreements described in this policy.

Exercising your rights

To exercise any of these rights, email us at [email protected]. We’ll respond within 30 days (or 45 days for complex requests, with notice). If your request involves ad-related data, we may direct you to the relevant advertising partner’s opt-out tools, since that partner is the data controller for that data.

Children’s privacy

RecipeVolt is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have inadvertently collected such information, please email us at [email protected] and we’ll take steps to delete it.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided personal information to RecipeVolt, contact us and we’ll investigate.

RecipeVolt links to external sites: restaurants, ingredient suppliers, other recipe blogs, YouTube videos. We’re not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. When you click an external link, you leave RecipeVolt and the destination site’s privacy policy applies.

Data security

Because we don’t store personal data on our servers, there’s very little data for us to secure. The site is served over HTTPS (enforced), and Cloudflare provides standard DDoS protection, bot mitigation, and edge security. If you find a security issue with RecipeVolt, please email us at [email protected]. We appreciate responsible disclosure.

Data retention

We retain email correspondence for as long as needed to resolve the inquiry, then delete it. We don’t retain any other data.

International data transfers

RecipeVolt is hosted on Cloudflare’s global network. Your connection to the site may route through servers outside your country of residence. By using the site, you acknowledge that your visit is subject to Cloudflare’s data handling practices in addition to this policy.

Ad data processed by our advertising partners may be transferred outside your region in accordance with their data processing terms.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we’ll update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page. Material changes will be noted at the top of the policy for 30 days. Continued use of the Site after changes constitutes acceptance of the new policy.

If you have a specific concern about how your data is being handled, email us.

Contact

For privacy-related questions or to exercise your data rights:

Email: [email protected]

We respond to privacy inquiries within 30 days.