ForkitLater.com

1. What Information Do We Collect?

Information You Provide to Us

• Account Information: When you register for an account, we collect personal information you provide to us such as your email address and password (stored in a hashed format). You may optionally provide a display name or profile picture.
• Recipe Data: We collect information related to the recipes you save, which may include URLs from third-party platforms (like TikTok, YouTube, Instagram), video files you upload, and details extracted or manually entered such as titles, ingredients, instructions, your personal notes, and tags.
• Communications: If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

Information Automatically Collected

• Log and Usage Data: Like most websites and online services, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Services ("Log Data"). This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics. This also includes data about your interactions with the Services (e.g., features used).
• Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to access or store information. Specifically, we use cookies for authentication, session management, and to remember your preferences. Our backend service providers may also use cookies for their services. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

Information Collected from Third Parties

• Third-Party Services: If you provide a URL from a third-party platform (e.g., TikTok, YouTube), we may use their oEmbed APIs or other public metadata services to fetch publicly available information about the content, such as title, thumbnail URL, and embeddable HTML code. The collection and use of this data are governed by the privacy policies of those third-party platforms.

2. How Do We Use Your Information?

We use personal information collected via our Services for a variety of business purposes described below:

• To provide, operate, and maintain our Services: This includes creating and managing your account, enabling you to save, organize, and access your recipes, and processing video content you provide.
• To improve, personalize, and expand our Services: We analyze usage to understand how our Services are used, to develop new products, services, features, and functionality, and to enhance user experience. This includes using content (like video descriptions or uploaded videos) to improve the AI-powered recipe extraction features.
• To communicate with you: We may use your personal information to send you service-related communications, such as account verification, password resets, changes to our terms or policies, and responses to your inquiries.
• For security and fraud prevention: To protect our Services, users, and the public interest.
• For compliance with legal obligations: We may process your information where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.

3. How Do We Share Your Information?

We do not sell your personal information. We may share your information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include:
  • Cloud service providers: For services such as authentication, database storage, file storage, and backend functions.
  • Artificial intelligence service providers: For AI-powered features like recipe detail extraction.
  These service providers are contractually obligated to protect your data and can only use it for the specific purposes for which we provide it to them.
• For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena.
• To Protect Rights and Property: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized information that does not directly identify you for research, analytics, or other purposes.

4. Data Storage and Security

Your information is stored on servers operated by our trusted third-party service providers, who adhere to high security standards. We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information, including HTTPS for data in transit and appropriate security rules for data at rest.

However, please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

5. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. Typically, your recipe data and account information are retained as long as your account is active.

You can delete your account and associated data through the Services or by contacting us. Upon deletion, your data will be removed from our active databases, subject to our backup policies and any legal retention requirements.

6. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:

• Access and Update: You can review and change the information in your account (such as email or display name) by logging into your account settings (if available) or contacting us.
• Data Portability: You may request a copy of your personal information in a machine-readable format.
• Deletion: You can request the deletion of your account and your personal data. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes, to complete transactions, or when required by law.
• Cookies: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features of our Services.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at privacy@forkitlater.com.

7. Children's Privacy

Our Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions like the European Economic Area). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under these ages. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the relevant age without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the relevant age, please contact us.

8. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. Our service providers operate globally, which means your data may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where they or their subprocessors maintain facilities. We rely on our service providers' established data transfer mechanisms for such transfers.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Last Updated" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

10. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at privacy@forkitlater.com.