Forktionary

Forktionary Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 29, 2025

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Forktionary LLC (“Forktionary,” "we," "us," or "our") operates the Forktionary.com website, a recipe search and discovery service (collectively referred to as “Services”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information about you when you use our Services.

When you use our website, create an account, or otherwise interact with our business (collectively referred to as “Services”), we may collect information about you (“Information”), including information considered “personal information” or “personal data” under applicable privacy laws.

This Privacy Policy is not for Services or experiences directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you would like more information about our policy, please contact us at info@forktionary.com.

2. What Information Do We Collect?

We collect Information when you interact with our Services. In general, the Information we collect is either (a) provided by you, (b) collected by us when you use our Services, or (c) given to us by third parties. Where required by law, we get your consent to collect this Information. This Information includes:

  • Account and Contact Information: Name, email address, username, password, age, or birth date, if you choose to create an account.
  • Payment, Purchase and Account Information: If we offer premium services, we may collect credit, debit or other payment card information and Information about your subscription, account, purchases, or discounts.
  • Location Information: Coarse location (i.e., Information derived from device information associated with your IP address, or city/country).
  • Device and Other Technical Information: Information about your hardware, operating system, browser type, browser settings, your mobile carrier or Internet Service Provider, and unique identifiers associated with your device, including IP address.
  • Photos, Videos, or Audio Information: Images or recordings from your device that you optionally submit to us, for example, if you upload a photo of a recipe you made.
  • Usage and Viewing Information: Recipes, ingredients, and articles that you view, save, or search for (including title, cuisine, keywords), lists you compile, and searches you conduct. We may also collect recordings of your interactions with our Services, which may include mouse clicks, mouse movements, keystrokes, and page scrolling. When you use our Service, you consent to the recording of your interactions with us.
  • Social Media Information: If you choose to link a social media account, we may collect Information about your social media engagement.
  • Other Information You Provide: Information you provide when you use our Services, participate in our surveys or promotions, or when you interact with us, such as through customer service communications, comments, or posts.

3. What Are Our Sources of Information?

In addition to the Information we collect from you directly, Forktionary may receive Information about you from a variety of sources, including other individuals and third-party businesses. For instance, we may receive Information about you from the following sources:

  • Friends and Other People. We may receive Information from people you know, such as when a friend shares a recipe with you.
  • Companies You Direct to Disclose Information. We receive the Information you ask other companies to provide to us, such as your social media provider if you choose to log in via their service.
  • Linked Sites and Tools. We may receive Information from websites and tools offered by companies that are not affiliated with us, but that are linked to or integrated in our Services or provide links to our Services, such as social media sites, services, plug-ins, and applications. Your interactions with these are covered by their own privacy policies.
  • Publicly Available Sources. In limited cases, we may get Information from publicly available sources.
  • Forktionary Technology and Service Providers. We may receive Information from our service providers and other technology partners we work with, such as companies that assist us with account validation, analytics, fraud prevention, or otherwise help us run our Services.
  • Forktionary Advertising and Marketing Partners. We work with advertising and marketing partners, such as advertisers, app developers, publishers, and data providers that enable us to purchase or deliver ads as well as personalize, target, and measure the performance of those ads or campaigns.
  • Joint Venture, Promotional, or Strategic Partners. When we partner with other companies for promotions, we may receive Information from them.

We may combine this Information with Information we collect directly from you.

4. How Do We Use the Information We Collect?

Forktionary uses your Information to provide you with our Services. We use Information only as permitted or required by law and as described in this privacy policy or otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

Provide Forktionary Services

We use your Information to provide our wide range of Services that you request, view, or otherwise engage with. This might include customizing and personalizing the Services for you. For example:

  • Recipe Search and Discovery: We use Information to provide and personalize our Services, such as showing you relevant recipe search results, recommending recipes or content we think you’ll enjoy, managing your account, or allowing you to save favorite recipes.

Improve our Services

We may analyze your information (and create aggregated data derived from your Information) to develop, maintain, analyze, optimize, improve, measure, and report on our Services and Services features and how they are used.

Communications

We may send you communications, including by email, about purchases, your account, new features, surveys, changes to policies, customer service inquiries, or to request feedback. We may record your comments, text, or voice communications for purposes of making features available, improving our services, and addressing potential abuses of the terms of use that apply to our Services.

Advertising and Marketing

We promote our brand and offerings by publishing advertising on our own Services and by placing ads on third parties’ services. We also provide advertising services for third party advertisers. We may use your Information to model, segment, target, offer, market, and advertise our Services, including providing discounts or offerings from our business partners, and select third parties. We may also use your Information to provide and improve our advertising services, including how we target and measure our publishing of ads for third party advertisers. For more information and options to control this, please see the "How Can You Control Your Information?" section.

Operate our Business

We also use Information to support our internal business functions, including finance, accounting, and audit.

Safety, Security, Fraud Prevention

We may use your Information to enhance the safety and security of our Services. We may also use it to verify your identity, monitor, investigate, and prevent fraud, and halt other unauthorized or illegal activity.

Comply with Law and our Terms of Use

We may use your Information to comply with applicable law, such as to satisfy a tax obligation or government request. We may also use it to enforce or defend our rights, investigate, or report potential violations of our Terms of Use.

With Your Consent

We may use your Information with your consent for other purposes described at the point of collection.

Deriving aggregated data

We may analyze your Information to create aggregated data that we use in connection with any of the other uses of Information set out in this section.

Retention

We only keep Information for as long as we need it to fulfil the purpose we are using it for, as permitted by law.

5. Who Do We Disclose Your Information To?

Forktionary may disclose Information to:

  • Service Providers: Forktionary hires vendors and other companies to perform services for us such as creation, maintenance, hosting, delivery, and marketing of our Services. This may include processing payments, email and order fulfillment, customer service, or conducting research and analytics, including recording of mouse movements or clicks, keyboard strokes/touches, page scrolls, typed text or other interactions during a user session.
  • Business Partners and Third Parties: We may disclose Information to business partners and third parties (e.g., other companies, social media networks, research organizations, and publishers) for their own purposes, including marketing products or services to you, or showing you relevant advertising. When required, we will ask for your consent or provide opportunities to opt-out.
  • Sponsors, Co-promotions, and Branded Programs: We may offer content or programs (e.g., competitions, sweepstakes, or promotions) that are sponsored by or co-branded with third parties that may collect or obtain Information from participants.
  • Advertising and Marketing Companies: Forktionary may disclose Information with advertisers, ad agencies, ad networks and platforms and other companies to provide advertising to you based on your interests.
  • Legal and Law enforcement Purposes: Forktionary may disclose Information in response to legal process, for example in response to a court order or a subpoena, or in response to a law enforcement agency's request. We may disclose Information to third parties for fraud prevention, to investigate or prevent illegal activities or violations of the terms of use of our Services, to protect the rights and safety of others, or as otherwise required by law.
  • Change of Control: Forktionary may transfer Information in the event of an actual or potential business transaction, such as if one or more of our business units or assets are acquired by, sold to, or merged with another company or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or a business reorganization.
  • Others: We may disclose Information at your direction or when you provide us with your consent to do so, for example, when we disclose information to a third party to link an account you have with us to the third party’s account.

6. Cookies and Other Identifiers

A cookie or other tracking technology is a small piece of script or code that is stored on your browser or device to help websites and apps remember you and collect information about your use of the Service. Forktionary uses cookies, web beacons, SDKs, pixels and other tracking technologies (collectively referred to as “cookies”) to make your experience on our Services better. These technologies help recognize your browser or device, maintain your preferences, and provide certain features (like saving your login session or preferences). Forktionary and third parties may use these technologies to collect information over time from apps, websites, and other digital products. We and third-party advertising companies may use this Information to help serve advertising tailored to your interests, both on and off the Forktionary Services. These technologies also help measure advertisements across our Services, marketing emails and other third-party websites, apps, devices, and services.

Our Services may also use third-party vendors, including Google, to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet. For more information on how Google uses data, please visit How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps.

We may also work with third parties that collect data about your use of the Services and other sites or apps over time for non-advertising purposes. For example, Forktionary uses Google Analytics and other third-party services to improve the performance of the Services and for other analytics purposes. These third parties are responsible for their cookies and identifiers, and may use them for their own purposes with your consent. On some Services, Forktionary also uses Nielsen to allow users to contribute to market research.

Please see the "How Can You Control Your Information?" section for more information about your choices with respect to Information collected via cookies.

7. How Can You Control Your Information?

There are a number of tools and options you can use to help control how your Information is collected, used, and disclosed.

Individual Rights

Depending on the country where you are based, you may request the following:

  • Right to access and rectification: you can request Information we hold and the correction of any errors of your Information.
  • Right to erasure/deletion: the right, in certain circumstances, to ask for your Information to be deleted. In specific cases, we may not be able to delete some types of Information, in particular, where we have a legal obligation to keep that Information (e.g., for regulatory reporting purposes), or where you want us to continue to provide you with a Service and the processing of the Information is necessary for the provision of that Service.
  • Right to restriction of processing: the right, in certain circumstances, to restrict further processing of your Information.
  • Right to portability: the right in some cases to receive your Information in a digital format or to have it transmitted directly to another controller (where technically feasible).
  • Right to object: The right to object (on grounds relating to your particular situation) to the processing of your Information on the basis of our legitimate interests, including for direct marketing purposes.
  • Right to withdraw consent: you can withdraw your consent at any time in respect of any processing of Information which is based upon a consent.
  • Right to lodge a complaint before the supervisory authority for data protection in your country, if you consider that your rights under the applicable privacy legislation have been infringed.

To exercise any of these rights that apply where you live, please submit a request by contacting us at info@forktionary.com. Residents of some US states have specific rights relating to access, deletion, and correction requests. Please see the US State Supplement section for more information.

Marketing Communications

If you would like to stop receiving email or text marketing communications from us, follow the “unsubscribe” instructions provided in the relevant email or respond “STOP” to the relevant text. In certain Services, you may also be able to opt out via the settings when you log into your account.

Forktionary Targeted Advertising

To opt-out of Forktionary’s use and sharing of Information for targeted advertising purposes, please use the cookie settings tool or privacy controls on our Services. Please note that if you opt out, Forktionary will continue to collect and use data for other purposes, including research, analytics, and internal operations. You may continue to receive advertising on our Services based on your activities there.

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Third-Party Targeted Advertising

You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting Google's Ad Settings. You can also opt out of many third-party ad networks by visiting the following industry opt-out pages:

Browser and Device Settings

You may have more options depending on your mobile device, operating system, or browser. Please review the support materials and/or the privacy settings for the respective devices and systems to learn more about these features and how they apply to targeted advertisements. Blocking cookies may also prevent you from accessing some of our content or Service features.

Cookies

See "Cookies and Other Identifiers" for more choices about managing other technical and usage information.

Please note some of the rights detailed above are not absolute, might not all be available in your country, and may not be applicable in certain scenarios. If you have any particular questions about your data protection rights, feel free to reach out to us by email at info@forktionary.com.

8. How Do We Protect Your Information?

Forktionary has implemented administrative, technical and physical safeguards to help protect your Information. Unfortunately, no security measures are perfect, and we cannot assure you that Information will never be accessed or used in an unauthorized way.

9. US State Supplement

Some US states require us to inform their residents about additional privacy information and rights. If you are a resident of one of these states, please contact us at info@forktionary.com for more information regarding your specific rights.

10. International Transfers

Forktionary operates its Services from the United States. Our use of your Information may require your Information to be transferred to countries outside the country where you are located, including the United States, where the level of legal protection for your Information may be different.

Whenever we transfer your Information outside of a country or region, such as the European Economic Area, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place in compliance with applicable law. Usually, this includes using contractual mechanisms (such as standard contractual clauses), but sometimes we may use other legal mechanisms. For further information about the mechanisms we use to protect your Information when it is transferred outside of your country or region, please contact us at info@forktionary.com.

11. Changes to This Policy

From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy and post the updated Policy here. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this Policy so that you always know our current privacy practices.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy you can contact us at: info@forktionary.com.