Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how iubenda s.r.l. ("we", "us", or "the Owner") processes Personal Data when you use the service at tagrecipes.com ("this Website" or "the Service").

Owner and Data Controller

iubenda s.r.l. Via San Raffaele, 1 - 20121 Milan (Italy) Milan Chamber of Commerce EU VAT No: IT07347120961 UK VAT No: GB 370904694 SC: 12,795.78 Eur (fully paid up) Legal Representative: Manuel Heilmann

Company subject to the direction and coordination of team.blue NV.

Data Protection Officer: dpo@iubenda.com Owner contact email: info@iubenda.com

Types of Data collected

Among the types of Personal Data that this Website collects, by itself or through third parties, there are:

Identifiers from Google sign-in: Google account unique identifier (sub), email address, name, profile picture URL, email-verification status.
OAuth credentials for Google Tag Manager: access tokens and refresh tokens, scoped to the Google Tag Manager permissions you explicitly grant during sign-in. These are stored encrypted at rest.
Content you provide: recipes you submit (including their title, description, vendors list, container JSON, screenshots), gallery templates you upload, and any text you enter into the Service's input fields.
Account activity: the recipes and templates you add to your workspace, your submission history, status of submissions (pending review, published, rejected), and timestamps of these actions.
Technical Data automatically collected on every request: IP address, user-agent string, request URL, HTTP method, HTTP status code, request and response timestamps. Used for operational logging, abuse prevention, and rate limiting.
Session Data: an encrypted session cookie issued by the authentication layer to identify you between requests once signed in.

Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this Website is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Website to provide its services. Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.

Any use of cookies — or of other tracking tools — by this Website serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published, or shared through this Website (for example, if you submit a recipe whose configuration includes identifiers belonging to other parties).

Mode and place of processing the Data

Methods of processing

The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorised access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorised destruction of the Data.

The Data processing is carried out using computers and IT-enabled tools, following organisational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge involved with the operation of this Website (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or to external parties such as technical service providers, hosting providers, IT companies, and communications agencies appointed, when necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner.

OAuth refresh and access tokens granted by Users via Google sign-in are stored encrypted at rest using a libsodium symmetric secretbox cipher. Plaintext tokens are not persisted to disk or logged.

Place of processing

The Data is processed at the Owner's operating offices and at the locations of the parties involved in the processing.

This Website's application servers and Postgres database are hosted on infrastructure operated by Hostinger in France (European Union). Recipe screenshots and other binary uploads are stored on Cloudflare R2 with EU-region buckets. Google authentication and Google Tag Manager API calls are processed by Google LLC; transfers of Data to Google in the United States are governed by the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.

Depending on the User's location, Data transfers may involve transferring the User's Data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred Data, Users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data.

Retention time

Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.

Account Data (Google identifiers, name, email, image): retained for as long as your account exists. Upon account deletion, the row is deleted from the production database; backups roll off according to the host's retention schedule (typically within 30 days).
OAuth tokens (Google Tag Manager): held for the duration of the linked Google grant. You can revoke access at any time via myaccount.google.com/permissions; the revocation will be detected on next API call and the encrypted tokens will be marked invalid.
Submitted recipes / gallery templates: retained for the lifetime of the Service unless you delete them via the dashboard, or unless they are removed by moderation under the Terms and Conditions.
Operational request logs (IP, user-agent, URL): retained for 30 days for security and abuse prevention, then deleted.
Session cookies: lifetime of the session; deleted on sign-out or expiry.

Personal Data may be retained for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to fulfil a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted.

The purposes of processing

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following:

Registration and authentication — verifying that the person signing in controls the Google account they claim to control; creating and maintaining your User account.
Access to third-party accounts — calling Google Tag Manager APIs on your behalf when you explicitly initiate an action that requires it (currently behind a feature flag; not enabled in production by default).
Hosting and backend infrastructure — running the application servers and database that the Service depends on.
Storage of user-generated content — accepting and serving screenshots and other binary uploads you choose to include with your submissions.
Building and running this Website — operational measurement (counts of requests, error rates) needed to keep the Service available.
Spam and bots protection — rate-limiting and request-pattern detection to prevent abuse.

Further detailed information about the purposes of processing and the specific Personal Data used for each purpose can be found in the section "Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data".

Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

Registration and authentication

Sign in with Google (Google LLC)

Google sign-in is an authentication service provided by Google LLC ("Google") that uses the OAuth 2.0 protocol. The Service requests, and may receive from Google after you grant permission:

Your Google account unique identifier (sub)
Your verified email address
Your name and profile picture URL
Your verification status

When you grant Google Tag Manager scopes (only during the install flow, currently behind a feature flag), the Service additionally receives an access token + refresh token bound to those scopes. Tokens are stored encrypted; the Service uses them only when you explicitly trigger an action that needs them.

This Website's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We do not transfer Google user data to third parties except as needed to provide or improve the Service, comply with applicable law, or as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets with notice to you. We do not use Google user data to serve advertisements. We do not allow humans to read Google user data unless we have your explicit consent, it is necessary for security purposes (such as investigating abuse), to comply with applicable law, or for internal operations where the data has been aggregated and anonymised.

Personal Data processed: Google account ID, email, name, profile picture URL, email-verification status; OAuth access and refresh tokens (encrypted, only for Tag Manager scopes you grant).

Place of processing: Ireland (EU). Transfers to Google LLC in the United States are governed by the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.

You may revoke this Website's access to your Google account at any time via myaccount.google.com/permissions or by deleting your account on this Website.

Hosting and backend infrastructure

Hostinger

Hostinger provides VPS hosting, used to run this Website's application servers and Postgres database.

Personal Data processed: any Personal Data stored or processed by the Service as part of its normal operation, as described elsewhere in this document.

Place of processing: France (European Union).

Cloudflare R2

Cloudflare R2 is an S3-compatible object storage service used to store user-uploaded binary assets (e.g. recipe screenshots) and to serve them to other Users browsing the marketplace.

Personal Data processed: binary files you upload as part of a recipe submission. Filenames and access URLs are recorded in the Service's database.

Place of processing: EU-region buckets.

Spam and bots protection

Rate limiting (operated by the Owner)

Spam and abuse prevention is performed in-application by the Owner. No third-party CAPTCHA or anti-bot service is used at this time.

Personal Data processed: IP address, user-agent, request path, request timestamp, authenticated user ID (when present).

Place of processing: the Owner's hosting infrastructure (France, EU).

Cookie Policy

This Website uses Trackers. To learn more, Users may consult the Cookie Policy.

Further information for Users in the European Union

This section applies to all Users in the European Union, according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and, for such Users, supersedes any other possibly divergent or conflicting information contained in the privacy policy.

Legal basis of processing

The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:

Consent. Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes.
Contract. Provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
Legal obligation. Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject.
Vital interest. Processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the User or of another natural person.
Public interest. Processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner.
Legitimate interest. Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.

In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

For this Website:

Data	Legal basis (GDPR Art. 6)
Google account identifiers, email, name, image	Contract (Art. 6(1)(b)) — needed to provide an account
OAuth tokens for Google Tag Manager	Contract — needed to perform actions you initiate
Submitted recipes / gallery templates / screenshots	Contract — needed to operate the marketplace
IP addresses, user-agent, request logs	Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) — abuse prevention and operational security
Session cookies	Contract — needed to keep you signed in

Further information about retention time

Unless specified otherwise within this document, Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for and may be retained for longer due to applicable legal obligation or based on the User's consent.

Therefore:

Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner's legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfil such purposes.
Personal Data retained for security purposes (operational logs) shall be retained for 30 days unless a legal obligation requires otherwise.

The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right of access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

The rights of Users based on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by the Owner. In particular, Users have the right to do the following, to the extent permitted by law:

Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data.
Object to processing of their Data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent.
Access their Data. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Owner, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing.
Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it.
Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Owner.
Receive their Data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance.
Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.

Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis for Data transfers abroad including to any international organization governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the Owner to safeguard their Data.

Details about the right to object to processing

Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.

Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time, free of charge and without providing any justification. Where the User objects to processing for direct marketing purposes, the Personal Data will no longer be processed for such purposes. To learn whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.

How to exercise these rights

Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. Requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as early as possible and always within one month, providing Users with the information required by law. Any rectification or erasure of Personal Data or restriction of processing will be communicated by the Owner to each recipient, if any, to whom the Personal Data has been disclosed unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. At the Users' request, the Owner will inform them about those recipients.

Further information for Users in the United States (California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and other privacy laws)

Where applicable under their respective State laws (CCPA/CPRA in California, VCDPA in Virginia, CPA in Colorado, CTDPA in Connecticut, UCPA in Utah, and analogous laws), Users have rights regarding the processing of their Personal Information that may include:

The right to know what Personal Information is collected and processed.
The right to access such Personal Information.
The right to correct inaccuracies.
The right to request deletion.
The right to opt out of sale or sharing of Personal Information.
The right to non-discrimination for exercising these rights.

This Website does not sell Personal Information and does not share Personal Information for cross-context behavioural advertising. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from minors under 16 without parental consent.

To exercise these rights, contact the Owner at the contact details listed in this document. You may also designate an authorised agent to make a request on your behalf, subject to verification of your identity and the agent's authority.

Additional information about Data collection and processing

Legal action

The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Owner in court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Website or the related Services.

The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal Personal Data upon request of public authorities.

Additional information about User's Personal Data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Website may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.

System logs and maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, this Website and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this Website (system logs) or use other Personal Data (such as the IP address) for this purpose.

Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by notifying its Users on this page and possibly within this Website and/or — as far as technically and legally feasible — sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.

Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the User's consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required.

Definitions and legal references

Personal Data (or Data) — Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Usage Data — Information collected automatically through this Website (or third-party services employed in this Website), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilised by the Users who use this Website, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilised to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilised by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.

User — The individual using this Website who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.

Data Subject — The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.

Data Processor (or Processor) — The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.

Data Controller (or Owner) — The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Website. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this Website.

This Website (or this Application) — The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.

Service — The service provided by this Website as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this Website/Application.

European Union (or EU) — Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Cookie — Cookies are Trackers consisting of small sets of data stored in the User's browser.

Tracker — Tracker indicates any technology — e.g. Cookies, unique identifiers, web beacons, embedded scripts, e-tags and fingerprinting — that enables the tracking of Users, for example by accessing or storing information on the User's device.

Legal information

This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).

This privacy policy relates solely to this Website, if not stated otherwise within this document.

Latest update: 2026-05-25