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Privacy Policy
Effective Date: [Insert Date]
Website: https://app.speakrecipe.com
Speak Recipe is a web-based app that helps users turn spoken or typed cooking instructions into organized written recipes. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected, how it may be used, and what users should understand before using the app.
By using Speak Recipe, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
Who We Are
Speak Recipe is operated through the website:
The purpose of the app is to help users create, organize, save, print, and share recipes and cookbooks based on the information they choose to enter.
Information You Choose to Provide
When you use Speak Recipe, you may choose to provide recipe-related information, including:
- spoken cooking instructions
- typed recipe notes
- ingredients
- measurements
- recipe titles
- cookbook names
- edited recipe content
- saved recipes or cookbooks
You are responsible for the information you choose to enter, speak, save, print, or share through the app.
Please do not enter sensitive personal information, private information, financial information, medical information, passwords, account numbers, or anything you would not want processed as part of your recipe content.
Microphone and Voice Input
Speak Recipe may allow you to use your device’s built-in microphone to speak recipe instructions.
Microphone access is controlled by your device, browser, or operating system. You may be asked to allow microphone access before using voice features.
Speak Recipe does not intentionally turn on your microphone without your permission. You can turn off microphone access at any time through your browser or device settings.
Depending on your device, browser, and settings, your spoken words may be converted into text by your device, browser, operating system, or speech-to-text service. Speak Recipe uses the resulting text to help create and organize your recipe.
Use of AI Recipe Formatting
Speak Recipe may send the recipe text you provide to an AI service, such as Anthropic’s Claude API, to help organize your spoken or typed cooking instructions into a clearer recipe format.
This may include formatting recipe titles, ingredients, measurements, steps, notes, and cookbook-style content.
The AI service is used only to help process and format the recipe information you choose to provide. Speak Recipe does not use AI formatting to make decisions about you.
Because recipe text may be sent to a third-party AI service for processing, you should not include personal, private, or sensitive information in your recipe content.
Saved Recipes and Cookbooks
If Speak Recipe includes saving features, the app may store the recipe content you choose to save so that you can access, edit, print, or share it later.
Saved content may include recipe titles, ingredients, instructions, notes, cookbook names, and related recipe information.
You are responsible for reviewing any recipe content before relying on it, printing it, sharing it, or using it for cooking. AI-formatted content may contain mistakes, missing details, or incorrect measurements.
Accounts and Login Information
If Speak Recipe allows users to create accounts or log in, we may collect and store basic account information needed to provide access to the app. This may include your name, email address, username, password-related information, membership status, or login activity.
Passwords should never be shared with us directly. If the website uses a login system, password handling is managed through the website or membership platform.
Payments and Memberships
If Speak Recipe offers paid access, subscriptions, memberships, or purchases, payment processing may be handled by third-party services such as Stripe, SureCart, or another payment provider.
Speak Recipe does not intentionally store full credit card numbers on this website. Payment information is processed by the payment provider according to that provider’s own privacy policy and security practices.
Cookies
Speak Recipe and the website may use cookies or similar technologies to help the site function properly.
Cookies may be used for things such as:
- logging in
- remembering user preferences
- maintaining membership access
- improving website performance
- security
- payment or checkout functionality
- analytics, if enabled
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Some parts of the website may not work correctly if cookies are disabled.
Comments
Comments are not a core feature of Speak Recipe.
If comments are enabled on the website, we may collect the information shown in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.
Visitor comments may also be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Media Uploads
If the website allows image or media uploads, you should avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data, such as EXIF GPS data.
Visitors or users who can access uploaded images may be able to download and extract location data from those images.
Embedded Content From Other Websites
Pages on this website may include embedded content, such as videos, images, forms, checkout tools, or other content from third-party websites.
Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited those websites directly. Those websites may collect information about you, use cookies, track your interaction with the embedded content, or apply their own privacy policies.
Website Security and Maintenance
We make reasonable efforts to keep the website updated and maintained in accordance with common website security and maintenance best practices.
This may include keeping WordPress, plugins, themes, security tools, and related services updated when practical.
However, no website, app, hosting service, internet transmission, AI service, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. By using Speak Recipe, you understand that you are responsible for the information you choose to submit.
How We Use Information
Information collected through Speak Recipe may be used to:
- provide the app’s recipe formatting features
- allow users to save, edit, print, or share recipes
- manage accounts, memberships, or subscriptions
- process payments
- improve website functionality
- maintain website security
- troubleshoot errors
- prevent spam, abuse, or unauthorized access
- comply with legal or administrative obligations
Who We Share Information With
We may share limited information with third-party services when needed to operate the website and app.
These services may include:
- website hosting providers
- AI formatting services
- speech-to-text services
- payment processors
- membership or login tools
- email delivery services
- spam detection services
- security tools
- analytics tools, if enabled
We do not sell users’ recipe content.
How Long Information Is Retained
We may retain information for as long as needed to provide the website and app, maintain user accounts, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, or operate the service.
If users can save recipes or cookbooks, saved recipe content may remain stored until the user deletes it, requests deletion, or the account or service is otherwise closed.
Some information may remain in backups, logs, payment records, security records, or administrative records for a limited time as part of normal website operations.
User Responsibility
You are responsible for the information you choose to enter, speak, save, upload, print, or share through Speak Recipe.
Do not use Speak Recipe to store or process information that is confidential, highly sensitive, private, legally restricted, or personally identifying unless you are comfortable with that information being processed through the website and related third-party services.
You are also responsible for reviewing recipe results for accuracy before using them. Speak Recipe may help organize recipe content, but it does not guarantee that measurements, ingredients, timing, food safety instructions, allergen information, or cooking directions are complete or correct.
Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information associated with your account or use of the website.
If you have an account on this website, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You may also request that we delete personal data we hold about you, except for information we are required or permitted to keep for legal, administrative, security, payment, or operational purposes.
Children’s Privacy
Speak Recipe is not intended for children under 13. Users under 13 should not use the app or provide information through the website.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the website, app features, third-party services, legal requirements, or business practices.
The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.
Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to request access to or deletion of your information, you can contact us at:
hello@speakrecipe.com
