Privacy Policy

Effective Date: December 1, 2025 | Last Updated: December 1, 2025

1. Definitions

"Personal data" means any information by which a natural person can be identified, directly or indirectly.

"Data controller" means the natural or legal person which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the data processing and is responsible for processing such data in a manner consistent with the applicable legislation.

"Data processor" means the natural or legal person which processes personal data on behalf of a data controller.

DailyPrep ("we," "our," or "us") is the data controller of your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our meal planning application.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide

We collect information that you provide directly to us, including:

  • Account information (name, email address, password)
  • Profile information and preferences
  • Meal plans, recipes, and ingredient data you create
  • Payment information (processed securely through Stripe)
  • Communications with our support team
  • Contact information such as phone number and billing address when making purchases

2.2 Automatically Collected Information

When you use DailyPrep, we automatically collect certain information:

  • Device information (device type, operating system, browser type, hardware model)
  • Usage data (pages visited, features used, time spent, number of meal plans created, recipes accessed)
  • Log information (IP address, access times, error logs)
  • Cookies and similar tracking technologies
  • Language and time zone settings
  • Network connection information

2.3 Log Information

We also collect log information when you use our website and application:

  • Details about how you've used our services
  • Device information, such as your web browser type, operating system and language
  • Access times
  • Pages viewed
  • IP address
  • Identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser
  • Pages you visited before or after navigating to our website

3. How We Use Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • Develop, operate, improve, deliver, maintain, and protect our products and services
  • Send you communications, including by email (e.g., support responses, service updates, promotional offers)
  • Process data regarding opening e-mails, bounce rate, clicks, subscription, and usage segments
  • Segment our clients according to previously used services and country
  • Process contact form submissions and messages based on our legitimate interest to connect and communicate with potential customers
  • Process data about our contacts on social networks and about likes, comments, profile information, and similar communications
  • Monitor and analyze trends and usage
  • Personalize our services
  • Enhance the safety and security of our products and services
  • Verify your identity and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity
  • Use information we've collected from cookies and other technology to enhance our services and your experience
  • Enforce our Terms of Service and other usage policies and comply with legal requirements
  • Perform daily business activities, such as planning, controlling, auditing, organizing business processes

4. Cookies

Cookies are small text files that we place on your device (e.g., computer or mobile device) when you visit our website. We will ask your consent to set cookies, e.g., to remember your preferences or personalize content that is more relevant to you. However, we won't ask your consent for cookies that are strictly necessary for specific functionalities of our services, i.e., without which you wouldn't be able to undertake certain activities.

4.1 Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information. Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website.

4.2 Managing Cookies

When you first visit our website, you will see our Cookie Declaration/Banner where you can accept all the cookies or manage your cookie settings. You can withdraw your consent at any time.

Information about procedure on how to enable, disable or remove cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider's website via your help screen. You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject cookies. However, if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the functionality of DailyPrep.

4.3 Third-Party Cookies

We use third-party cookies to optimize marketing performance and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising on other websites and social networks.

5. Pixel Tags/Web Beacons

A pixel tag (also known as a web beacon) is a piece of code embedded in our services that collects information about engagement on our services. The use of a pixel tag allows us to record, for example, that a user has visited a particular web page or clicked on a particular advertisement. We may also include web beacons in e-mails to understand whether messages have been opened, acted on, or forwarded.

6. Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share your information only in the following circumstances:

6.1 Service Providers

We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing (Stripe), hosting, analytics, customer support, and email services. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes we specify.

6.2 Analytics Partners

We may share portions of our log file data, including IP addresses, for analytics purposes with third parties such as web analytics partners. If your IP address is shared, it may be used to estimate general location and other technographics such as connection speed and type of device used.

6.3 Legal Requirements

We may disclose your information if required by law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of DailyPrep, our users, or others.

6.4 Business Transfers

If DailyPrep is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or sale of all or some portion of our business to another company, we may share your information with that company before and after the transaction closes. We will notify you of any such change in ownership.

6.5 With Your Consent

We may share your information with third parties when you have given us explicit consent to do so.

7. Payment Information

DailyPrep uses Stripe, a third-party payment processor, to handle all payment transactions. We do not store your credit card information on our servers. Stripe collects and processes your payment information in accordance with their privacy policy and industry security standards. We only receive confirmation of successful transactions and basic billing information necessary to manage your subscription.

8. Marketing

When you subscribe to our newsletter or purchase our products, we process data such as name, email address, and country for marketing purposes. We send our newsletter using third-party email services. You can opt-out of receiving marketing emails from us by following the unsubscribe instructions in those emails or by updating your communication preferences in your account settings.

9. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include encryption, secure servers, access controls, and regular security assessments. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we do not accept liability for unauthorized disclosure.

10. Data Retention

We store your basic account information and User Content while your account is active. We will keep your profile information for several months after account deletion as a deactivated account. There may be legal requirements to store your data for a longer period, and we may need to suspend deletion practices if we receive valid legal process asking us to preserve content, if we receive reports of abuse or other terms of service violations, or if your account or content is flagged by our automated systems.

In any case, you can object to direct marketing activities, and you may unsubscribe from our newsletter by clicking the link in our email or responding to us with your request. In such case, we will stop with marketing activities and store your data in an unsubscribed list for three years from the day of unsubscribing, based on our legitimate interest to prove compliance steps we need to take.

Finally, we may also retain certain information in backup for a limited period or as required by law and for security reasons.

11. Your Rights and Choices

11.1 Access, Correction, and Portability

You can access and update your account information at any time through your account settings in the application. Because your privacy is important to us, we may ask you to verify your identity before we let you access or update your personal information. We may also reject your request to access or update your personal information for several reasons, including if the request risks the privacy of other users or is unlawful.

11.2 Account Deletion

You can delete your account at any time through your account settings. This will permanently delete your personal information and user content, subject to our data retention policies. You can request us to confirm whether personal data concerning you is being processed, as well as request clarification of the purposes for which the personal data are processed, the categories of personal data being processed, and the recipients to whom the personal data have been disclosed.

11.3 Marketing Communications

You can opt-out of receiving marketing emails from us by following the unsubscribe instructions in those emails or by updating your communication preferences in your account settings.

11.4 Your Right to Object

You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data. With many types of personal data, we have provided you with the ability to simply delete it if you do not want us processing it anymore. For example, you always have the right to object to our legitimate interest for performing direct marketing activities and you always have the right to withdraw your consent.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint to supervisory data protection authority if you believe we have violated your privacy rights.

12. Bases for Processing Personal Data

12.1 Contract

We process your personal data because you've entered into an agreement with us. For example, when you subscribe to our service and accept our terms of service, we need to use some of your personal data to collect payment and provide the service.

12.2 Legitimate Interest

We use your information because we have a legitimate interest in doing so. For example, we need to use your personal data to provide and improve our services, including protecting your account, communicating with you, and providing customer support.

12.3 Consent

In some cases, we will ask for consent to use your personal data for specific purposes, for example we ask for consent for sending our newsletter. If we ask for consent, we will make sure you can revoke your consent in our services or through your device permissions.

12.4 Legal Obligation

We may be required to use your personal data to comply with the law, like when we respond to valid legal process or need to take action to protect our users.

13. International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your country of residence. We are based in jurisdictions that provide adequate data protection. We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data, or we will use standard contract clauses and additional technical and organizational measures to protect your data. By using DailyPrep, you consent to the transfer of your information to these countries.

14. Children's Privacy

DailyPrep is not intended for children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data and your country requires consent from a parent or a guardian, we may require your parent's or guardian's consent before we collect and use such data. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18 without consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

15. California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including the right to know what personal information we collect, the right to delete personal information, and the right to opt-out of the sale of personal information (we do not sell personal information).

The categories of personal information that we have collected include: identifiers (name, email, IP address), personal information categories (phone number, billing address), commercial information (purchases, engagement), internet activity (interactions with our services), and inferences (preferences, interests).

Non-Discrimination: California residents have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising their privacy rights.

16. Third-Party Services

DailyPrep may contain links to third-party websites or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party services you access. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their Privacy Policy.

17. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. We inform registered customers about the new version of Privacy Policy if the changes are substantial and are not only connected with the grammar, style, corrections, etc. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information.

18. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us through the contact information provided in your account settings or through the application's support features.

By using DailyPrep, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described herein.

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