Table of contents
- 1.Scope and Responsibility
- 2.Your Rights and Choices
- 3.Personal Data We Collect
- 4.Purposes for Using Personal Data
- 5.Legal Bases and Sensitive Information
- 6.Disclosure of Personal Data
- 7.Artificial Intelligence
- 8.Website Storage and Analytics
- 9.iOS Application Permissions and Diagnostics
- 10.Retention, Deletion, and Security
- 11.International Processing
- 12.Children and Household Information
- 13.Changes to This Policy
- 14.Contact Information
IMPORTANT — PERSONAL DATA AND YOUR CHOICES.
THIS POLICY DESCRIBES THE PERSONAL DATA TASTEZE COLLECTS, THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH IT IS USED, THE PERSONS TO WHOM IT MAY BE DISCLOSED, AND YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES. PLEASE REVIEW IT BEFORE PROVIDING PERSONAL DATA OR USING THE SERVICES.
This Policy is a notice of our data practices. It does not request blanket consent to personal-data processing. Consent prompts are presented in both the Tasteze web application and the iOS application. A choice you record in one is recognized in the other. The scope of each choice, including its limitations across platforms, is described below.
1. Scope and Responsibility
This Privacy Policy (Policy) describes how DND Media Group LLC, doing business as Tasteze (Tasteze, we, us, or our), handles personal data in connection with our websites, mobile applications, recipe and meal-management services, household features, and creator and publishing services (collectively, the Services).
Personal data means information that identifies you, relates to you, or can reasonably be linked to you. It includes account information and information about your use of the Services. DND Media Group LLC is responsible for the processing described in this Policy and acts as the controller where that term applies under data-protection law.
This Policy applies to Tasteze's handling of personal data. Independent websites, stores, and services you choose to use have their own privacy notices. This does not remove Tasteze's responsibility for service providers processing information on our behalf.
Tasteze does not sell, rent, or trade personal data and does not use it for behavioral advertising. Our use of service providers to deliver the Services is described below.
2. Your Rights and Choices
Tasteze provides access, correction, account deletion, and export options regardless of where you reside. Additional rights may apply under the law of your jurisdiction. Contact privacy@tasteze.app to exercise a right or request assistance. We may ask for information necessary to verify your identity before acting.
(a) Access and portability. You may request access to your personal data and a copy of your saved library. Library exports are provided in a structured, machine-readable format within 30 days of a verified request. Applicable law may give you additional rights to receive or transfer personal data.
(b) Correction. You may edit information you submitted through the available account and content controls. Contact us to request correction of personal data that you cannot change directly.
(c) Account deletion. On the web, use Settings → Profile & Preferences → Account → Danger Zone → Delete Account. In the iOS application, use Settings → User → Personal Information → Account Management. Confirm the request by entering your account email address. An active subscription, past purchase, or outstanding balance does not prevent account deletion. You do not need to contact support to use these controls. The effect of deletion on shared information, transaction records, and retained copies is stated under Retention and Deletion.
(d) Objection and restriction. You may contact us to object to the use of your personal data for analytics or another specified purpose, or to request restriction of processing. Where processing is necessary to provide a feature, stopping that processing may make the feature unavailable. We will explain any processing that must continue under applicable law and any limits applicable to your request.
(e) AI permission across your account. Tasteze presents a permission request for consumer features that share information with AI providers. Your recorded choice applies to the same processing on the web and in the iOS application. If you have already answered in either application, the other recognizes that choice. You can change it in Settings → Privacy & Data in either application. Read Artificial Intelligence for the scope and effect of your choice. Partner Program AI processing is governed separately by the Partner Addendum. Optional iOS diagnostics have a separate control, described under iOS Application Permissions and Diagnostics.
(f) Other web choices. AI permission does not authorize web analytics or every other use of personal data described in this Policy. To request that web analytics or another specified use of your data be stopped, contact privacy@tasteze.app.
(g) Withdrawal of consent. Where processing relies on your consent, you may withdraw that consent using the applicable control or by contacting us. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal. Cancellation of a subscription is a separate action and does not, by itself, withdraw a privacy consent.
(h) Complaints and review. You may raise a concern with us and, where applicable, lodge a complaint with a competent data-protection authority. If we decline a request, you may ask us to review the decision at the contact address above. We will provide any further appeal information required by applicable law. You will not be penalized for exercising a privacy right.
We respond to data-rights requests within 30 days, subject to verification and any shorter period required by applicable law. A request involving another person's data or records that must be retained by law may require limits on the information we disclose or erase; we will explain the applicable basis for any such limit.
3. Personal Data We Collect
The information we collect depends on the Services you use and the information you provide.
(a) Account and contact information. Your email address, sign-in information, display name, optional profile image, household membership, subscription status, and communications with Tasteze. If you use Apple or Google sign-in, we receive the information those services provide for your chosen sign-in method.
(b) Recipes and household content. Recipes, ingredients, instructions, images, documents, nutrition information you edit, meal plans, shopping lists, pantry items, cookbooks, notes, ratings, and cooking progress. We also receive web addresses and material you submit for import and content shared with you through household features.
(c) Dietary and health-related information. Dietary preferences, allergens, nutrition goals, and life-stage information you choose to provide, including pregnancy or lactation status. Some of this information may reveal health conditions or other sensitive characteristics. It remains sensitive information even when entered as a food preference. Access to a device's health application is not required for us to receive information you enter directly.
(d) Activity and usage information. Search queries, saved and prepared recipes, responses to suggestions, feature usage, AI request and generation history, and feedback. On the web, we collect device and browser information, app version, session activity, and product-usage events. We use IP addresses to detect abuse and truncate them afterward. The iOS application's performance information is described separately below.
(e) Purchases. Subscription entitlements and records associated with purchases, payments, and partner transactions. Apple or Stripe handles payment-card information. Tasteze does not receive your full payment-card number.
(f) Partners and publications. Partner-application responses, voice interview transcripts, editorial and visual preferences, publication drafts and history, author details, and information necessary to connect a custom domain. Content you choose to publish is available to the public as described below.
(g) Choices, reports, and blocks. Where you are asked to make a privacy or agreement choice, we record your response and its date with your account, including earlier responses needed to document your choices. When you report a recipe note, we receive your reason, the author's identity, and a copy of the reported note. We retain the reported version so that it can be reviewed if the original changes or is deleted. We also keep your block list so that blocked authors' notes can be hidden from you. Reports and block lists are not disclosed to the reported or blocked person, and we do not notify that person of your identity.
4. Purposes for Using Personal Data
We use personal data for the following purposes:
- Providing the Services. Create and maintain accounts; save and organize recipes; prepare meal plans and shopping lists; manage pantry information; support cooking features; and share information within a household.
- Personalization. Use your preferences, saved content, and activity to tailor suggestions and results for you. Personalization uses your own information; it does not combine your personal profile with other users' profiles.
- AI features and content review. Import, generate, classify, adapt, and review content, including recipe notes, through the processing described under Artificial Intelligence.
- Payments and publishing. Administer subscription access, process transactions, maintain transaction records, and deliver the publishing services you use.
- Communications. Respond to inquiries and send account, security, subscription, household, publication, and policy notices. Optional summaries and marketing communications are sent only if you have separately opted in to receive them.
- Support, security, and improvement. Investigate reported problems, prevent fraud and abuse, review reported content, assess service use, improve results, and identify reliability and performance problems. AI-assisted support investigations are described below.
- Legal obligations. Maintain records required by law, respond to lawful requests, and address legal claims and obligations relating to the Services.
We do not use personal data for behavioral advertising or permit external AI providers to train their models on the information we submit on your behalf.
5. Legal Bases and Sensitive Information
Where applicable data-protection law requires a legal basis, the basis depends on the purpose and circumstances of the processing:
- Performance of a contract. Processing necessary to provide the Services you request, maintain your account, administer your subscription, or respond to steps you ask us to take before entering an agreement. This includes AI processing objectively necessary to provide the content creation and publishing services you request under the Partner Addendum; acceptance of that Addendum does not make unrelated processing necessary to perform the contract.
- Legitimate interests. Processing necessary to protect accounts, prevent fraud and abuse, investigate service problems, and maintain and improve the Services, where those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests. This basis does not replace consent where applicable law requires consent.
- Legal obligations. Processing necessary to comply with applicable accounting, tax, disclosure, and other legal requirements.
- Consent. Processing for a specified purpose where we request your consent and you provide it, including permission for consumer features to share information with AI providers recorded through the web or iOS application. An unanswered request, silence, or general use of the Services is not treated as affirmative consent.
Health-related information may require an additional legal condition for processing. Where explicit consent is required, acceptance of the Terms or general use of the Services does not replace that consent. A contractual or legitimate-interest basis alone does not remove a requirement applicable to sensitive information.
Contact privacy@tasteze.app for information about the basis applicable to a particular use of your data or to request that the use be stopped. The Your Rights and Choices section describes how to make a request.
7. Artificial Intelligence
Tasteze uses artificial intelligence to help you import, create and customize recipes, generate images and narration, organize food information, and prepare publications. AI also assists with recipe-note review and support investigations. These features use information relevant to the task, as described below. Tasteze provides the same covered AI processing for consumer features through its web and iOS applications, subject to your account-level choice. Partner Program processing is described separately below.
(a) Information processed. Tasteze uses AI providers to perform the following activities. Information supplied for a request depends on the feature involved:
- Recipe import and creation: Recipe text, photographs, documents, and material retrieved from a web address you submit. Jina AI receives the complete submitted address, including any information contained in that address, to retrieve the source.
- Personalized guidance: Relevant food preferences, pantry contents, meal plans, allergens, nutrition goals, and any pregnancy or lactation status you have provided. These uses include recipe generation and analysis, taste matching, suggestions, and shopping assistance.
- Content review: A recipe note and the recipe title, to assess whether the note contains offensive, harmful, or unrelated material before publication. This review does not rewrite the note.
- Organization and imagery: Product and pantry-item names and brands for categorization; list and meal-plan contents for requested cover images; and cookbook titles, descriptions, chapter plans, recipe titles, and author names for publication artwork and introductory material.
- Partner content: Recipes, publication instructions, and editorial preferences used to prepare partner stories, images, narration, and other publication material.
(b) Support investigations. When you submit a support request, Tasteze may initiate an AI-assisted investigation. The provider receives the request and information relevant to the reported problem, which may include recent recipes, plans, pantry items, shopping lists, household information, or subscription information. This processing is initiated by Tasteze and is subject to your account's AI permission. You may submit a support request without granting that permission; the request can be reviewed without an AI-assisted investigation.
We limit information submitted to a provider to the feature or investigation involved. We do not add your account email address, password, or payment details as AI request information. Material you submit, such as a document, image, web address, or support message, may itself contain personal information; relevant submitted material may be included in processing.
(c) Consumer permission and withdrawal. For consumer features, Tasteze presents a separate request identifying its AI providers, the categories of information shared, and the purposes described above. Selecting Allow AI processing on the web, or the corresponding control in iOS, records your affirmative permission. Where relevant to the feature you use, this permission includes sharing the allergies, health and nutrition goals, and pregnancy or breastfeeding status you have provided. Accepting the Terms does not itself grant this permission.
The choice is associated with your account. Permission granted in iOS is recognized on the web, and permission granted on the web is recognized in iOS, for the same processing. You are not asked to give duplicate permission merely because you change applications. You may change or withdraw your choice in Settings → Privacy & Data in either application. A change applies to new AI requests from both applications. While this choice is being introduced, an account without a recorded decision retains access to these features. An unanswered request is not recorded as acceptance or refusal. Selecting Do not allow, or withdrawing permission, disables the covered processing for new requests.
If you decline or withdraw permission, features requiring the covered AI processing are unavailable. You may still view saved content and manage your account. Withdrawal stops new requests and new AI-assisted support investigations; work already submitted may finish. It does not erase existing content or records, affect processing already carried out, cancel a subscription, or change a separate diagnostics or analytics choice. To request deletion or discuss work already submitted, contact privacy@tasteze.app.
Partner Program processing. AI processing necessary to create partner recipes, editorial voices, stories, collections, images, narration, cookbooks, and Quartly issues is part of the services provided under the Partner Addendum. It uses relevant partner profile and author information, interview responses, editorial preferences, submitted content, and publication instructions. This required processing is covered by the partner agreement and is not enabled or disabled by the consumer AI choice. To stop receiving these services, end your participation in the Partner Program. Where applicable law requires separate consent for particular personal-data processing, that requirement and the right to withdraw consent remain in effect. The partner agreement does not authorize unrelated uses of personal data. A partner's use of consumer features remains subject to the consumer permission described above.
(d) Processing on your device. In the iOS application, the home-screen greeting and a suggested cookbook name based on your description are produced on your device without sending that information to an external AI provider.
(e) Provider use and retention. Our arrangements with Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Google exclude training their models on customer inputs and outputs submitted through Tasteze. Jina AI does not train on the information we submit. A provider may retain information for abuse prevention or legal compliance under the terms applicable to our account. Those periods differ by provider. Contact privacy@tasteze.app for the retention period applicable to a particular request. Exclusion from model training does not mean that every provider deletes an input immediately after responding.
(f) Tasteze records. Tasteze retains AI request and generation history, associated usage information, and your feedback to investigate problems and improve its features. Those records are used within the Services, retained while your account remains active, and removed with your account, subject to the retention provisions below.
8. Website Storage and Analytics
The web application stores information on your browser or device to maintain sign-in, remember preferences, and make saved content available when connectivity is limited. Browser controls allow you to remove or restrict stored website information. Doing so may sign you out or prevent a feature from operating as expected.
We use PostHog to understand use of the web application and improve the Services. The activity described under Personal Data We Collect may be included in this analysis. We do not use this information for cross-site advertising or behavioral ad targeting. The AI permission described above is separate from web product analytics and the optional iOS diagnostics setting. To request that web product analytics be stopped for your account, contact privacy@tasteze.app.
9. iOS Application Permissions and Diagnostics
(a) Camera and selected photos. The iOS application requests camera permission when you scan a product barcode or photograph a recipe. When you select a photo, Tasteze receives only the selected image and does not obtain access to your entire photo library. You control camera access through your device settings.
(b) Shared links. When you use Save to Tasteze from another application, Tasteze receives the link you choose to share for recipe import. It does not receive unrelated content from the application you shared from.
(c) Other permissions. The iOS application does not request access to your location, contacts, microphone, health records, motion information, calendar, or Bluetooth, or permission to send push notifications. It does not collect an advertising identifier or use third-party advertising or analytics services.
(d) Performance diagnostics. If enabled, the application sends Tasteze reports about launch and screen-loading performance, scrolling responsiveness, and the frequency of crashes or interruptions. Reports include app and operating-system versions and whether the device is an iPhone or iPad. They do not include recipes, photos, searches, web addresses, written content, or an account or device identifier in the retained report. Your signed-in account authorizes submission, but its identity is not included in the report we retain. We use these reports to maintain reliability and assess whether updates improve performance, not to build a profile of your interests.
(e) Diagnostic controls. Disable Share Diagnostics in Settings → Privacy & Data to stop collection and remove reports awaiting submission on that device. The preference is associated with your account and applies to your other signed-in devices when they next receive the updated preference. Disabling diagnostics does not reduce access to the application's features. Retained reports and their associated daily summaries are deleted after 90 days.
(f) Separate actions. The AI choice is described under Artificial Intelligence. Account deletion is described under Your Rights and Choices. App Store subscription cancellation is managed through Apple and is separate from either privacy choice.
10. Retention, Deletion, and Security
(a) Active accounts. We retain account information and saved content while your account remains active. Canceling a paid subscription changes your access to the Free subscription; it does not delete your account or saved content.
(b) Account deletion. When you confirm account deletion, your account is removed immediately, together with your profile and the recipes, meal plans, shopping lists, pantry items, notes, ratings, blocks, preferences, cooking history, and AI request history held under it. Pantry items you added to a shared household are deleted with them. A household you created is transferred to its longest-standing remaining member, or deleted if no member remains; what transfers is the household itself, not the content you contributed to it. Content you previously published may still exist in copies held independently by other persons or search engines.
(c) Transaction records. Records required for tax or accounting purposes are retained after account deletion. Our account-deletion process removes your account association and personal contact details from retained transaction records. This does not delete records held independently by Apple, Stripe, or another party to a transaction. Applicable law may require retention of particular information notwithstanding a deletion request; any such retention must be limited to its required purpose and duration.
(c-1) Program and submission records. If you applied to the Partner Program, the application you submitted is retained after account deletion, including the name and email address you entered on it and the responses you wrote. Records of recipe imports you requested are also retained. A cookbook you published that has been purchased is delisted rather than deleted, so that the people who bought it keep access. These records are no longer linked to a Tasteze account. To ask that a partner application be deleted, contact privacy@tasteze.app.
(d) Backups and separate retention periods. Protected backup copies may remain until removed through the hosting provider's retention cycle. We do not use backups to restore a deleted account. iOS performance reports and their daily summaries are retained for 90 days and are not connected to an account in their retained form; account deletion therefore does not identify or remove an individual report. AI-provider retention is addressed under Artificial Intelligence.
(e) Security. We use administrative and technical safeguards designed to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, alteration, and disclosure. These include protected transmission and storage, access restrictions, and additional authentication for administrative access. No service can guarantee absolute security. Report a suspected security issue to security@tasteze.app.
11. International Processing
Tasteze is operated by a company based in the United States. Account information and uploaded files are principally stored in the United States. The providers identified in this Policy may process information in the United States or in other countries where they provide their services. Those countries may have data-protection laws different from those of your country of residence.
International processing remains subject to applicable restrictions on transfers of personal data. Use of the Services does not, by itself, constitute consent to a transfer for which separate consent is required. For information about the destination and safeguards applicable to a particular transfer, or to request a copy of applicable safeguards, contact privacy@tasteze.app.
12. Children and Household Information
Tasteze accounts are not intended for children under 13, or under 16 in the European Union or United Kingdom. We do not knowingly permit persons below those ages to hold accounts. A person above the applicable minimum age who has not reached the age of majority may use the Services only with the parent or legal guardian involvement required by the Terms. A household invitation does not remove these requirements.
A household member may provide information about persons for whom meals are prepared, including dietary preferences or allergens. The person providing that information must have authority to do so and must obtain any permission required by applicable law. Providing information about a child does not create an account for that child.
If you believe we have collected a child's personal data without required authorization, contact privacy@tasteze.app. We will investigate within 30 days, or sooner where required by law, and take the action required by applicable law, including deletion where appropriate.
13. Changes to This Policy
We will identify the effective date of each revision at the beginning of this Policy. We will notify active account holders by email at least 30 days before a revised Policy takes effect, unless applicable law requires an earlier effective date. Previous versions are available in the Privacy Policy history.
Notice of a change does not replace consent where consent is required by law. The applicable consent must cover the processing concerned; continued use alone does not supply a separate consent required for that processing.
14. Contact Information
Direct privacy questions, requests, and complaints to:
DND Media Group LLC — Privacy
19301 Lonesome Pine Drive
Land O Lakes, FL 34638, USA
Email: privacy@tasteze.app
Telephone: +1 (813) 358-8801
European Union inquiries. Appointment of an EU representative is pending. Until appointment is completed, direct inquiries to the privacy contact above. Appointment details are maintained at EU Representative.