Privacy Policy

1. Your Content Belongs to You

Ponics' Pantry allows users to create, save, import, edit, organize, and share recipe and kitchen-related content.

This may include:

• Recipes
• Recipe versions
• Ingredients
• Directions and preparation notes
• Private substitutions
• Cook mode activity
• Kitchen mode activity
• Grocery and shopping lists
• Recipe photos or other uploaded images
• Comments, notes, memories, or other text you add to the Service
• Shared-space content, if you choose to use shared features

This content is yours. Ponics' Pantry does not claim ownership of your private recipe content, notes, substitutions, comments, shopping lists, photos, or memories.

You control what you create, edit, save, delete, and share, subject to the functionality available in the Service.

2. Private Content and Sharing

User-created content is private by default unless you choose to share it through a feature of the Service.

If you use shared spaces, invitations, public sharing links, collaboration features, or similar features, the content you choose to share may become visible to other users or recipients according to the settings and permissions of those features.

For example, if you add a recipe, note, comment, photo, memory, or shopping list to a shared space, that content may be visible to other members of that shared space.

You are responsible for deciding what content you share and with whom you share it.

3. Encryption and Content Protection

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect user information and private content.

This includes using encrypted connections, such as HTTPS, to protect information transmitted between your device and the Service. We also use storage, access control, and security practices designed to protect stored account data and user content.

Ponics' Pantry is designed so that private user content is not browsed, sold, mined for advertising, or exposed to other users unless the user chooses to share it or unless access is necessary for limited operational reasons described in this Privacy Policy.

No online service can guarantee perfect security. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for using a strong, unique password.

4. Information We Collect

We collect information that you provide directly, information created through your use of the Service, and limited technical information needed to operate, secure, and improve the Service.

Account Information

When you create or use an account, we may collect:

• Name
• Email address
• Username or display name
• Password or authentication credentials, handled through our authentication provider
• Profile information, such as an avatar or profile photo
• Account settings and preferences

Recipe and Kitchen Content

We may collect and store the recipe and kitchen content you create, upload, save, import, edit, or share through the Service, including:

• Recipes
• Recipe versions
• Ingredients
• Directions and preparation notes
• Private substitutions
• Cook mode activity
• Kitchen mode activity
• Grocery and shopping lists
• Recipe photos or other uploaded images
• Family, group, or shared-space content
• Comments, notes, memories, or other text you add to the Service

This content is stored so that the Service can provide the features you choose to use.

Shared Spaces and Collaboration Information

If you use shared or collaborative features, we may collect:

• Shared space names and membership information
• Invitations and invite status
• Content shared with or by other users
• Messages, comments, or other collaborative activity, if those features are enabled
• Activity associated with shared recipes, kitchen workflows, or meal planning

Device, Usage, and Log Information

We may collect technical and usage information, including:

• Device type
• Browser type
• Operating system
• App version
• IP address
• General location inferred from IP address
• Pages or screens viewed
• Features used
• Dates and times of access
• Error logs and diagnostic information
• Performance and security logs

Communications

If you contact us for support, feedback, or business inquiries, we may collect:

• Your name
• Email address
• Message content
• Support history
• Any files or screenshots you choose to provide

5. How We Use Information

We use information to provide, maintain, secure, and improve Ponics' Pantry.

This includes using information to:

• Create and manage user accounts
• Authenticate users
• Save and display recipes, shopping lists, kitchen workflows, and related content
• Enable shared spaces and collaboration
• Provide customer support
• Improve app performance and reliability
• Troubleshoot bugs and technical issues
• Protect against fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, and security threats
• Develop and maintain features
• Communicate with users about the Service
• Comply with legal obligations

We do not sell your personal information.

We do not sell your recipes, notes, substitutions, comments, shopping lists, photos, memories, or other private content.

We do not use private user content for advertising.

6. Limited Access to Private Content

Ponics' Pantry does not browse, review, or access private user content as a routine business practice.

Private user content may be accessed only in limited circumstances, such as:

• When necessary to provide the Service
• When necessary to maintain, secure, debug, or troubleshoot the Service
• When you ask us for support and access is needed to help resolve your request
• When needed to investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or violations of our terms or policies
• When required by law, regulation, legal process, or a valid government request

Where practical, we limit access to the information reasonably necessary for the purpose.

7. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information or private content. We may share limited information only as needed to operate the Service, comply with law, protect our rights and users, or provide features you choose to use.

Service Providers

We may share information with trusted service providers who help us operate Ponics' Pantry, such as providers for:

• Hosting
• Database and file storage
• Authentication
• Email delivery
• Analytics
• Error logging
• Security monitoring
• Customer support

These providers may process information on our behalf only as needed to provide their services to us.

Other Users

If you choose to use shared spaces, collaboration features, public sharing, or invitation-based features, information you share may be visible to other users according to the settings and permissions of those features.

For example, recipes, notes, shopping lists, memories, images, comments, profile information, or other content may be visible to people in a shared space or to people with access to a shared link.

Legal and Safety Reasons

We may disclose information if we believe it is reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or government request
• Enforce our terms or policies
• Protect the rights, property, or safety of Ponics' Pantry, our users, or others
• Detect, prevent, or address fraud, abuse, security issues, or technical problems

Business Transfers

If Ponics' Pantry is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to reasonable confidentiality protections.

8. Photos, Images, and Uploaded Content

If you upload photos, avatars, recipe images, or other files, we store and process those files to provide the features you requested.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have the right to upload and share any content you add to Ponics' Pantry.

Uploaded content remains private unless you choose to share it through a shared space, public link, invitation, collaboration feature, or similar feature.

9. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website and app may use cookies, local storage, session storage, and similar technologies to:

• Keep you signed in
• Remember preferences
• Maintain security
• Improve performance
• Understand how the Service is used
• Diagnose technical issues

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Some features may not work properly if cookies or local storage are disabled.

10. Analytics and Diagnostics

We may use analytics and diagnostic tools to understand how Ponics' Pantry is used, improve performance, detect errors, and maintain security.

Analytics and diagnostic information may include device information, usage events, crash reports, error logs, and general location information inferred from IP address.

Analytics and diagnostics are used to improve and secure the Service. They are not used to sell your private content or target advertising based on your private recipes, notes, substitutions, comments, shopping lists, photos, or memories.

11. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Features

Ponics' Pantry may include features that use automated processing or artificial intelligence to assist with recipe formatting, recipe interpretation, kitchen workflows, grocery planning, search, recommendations, or similar functionality.

When you choose to use these features, the content you provide may be processed to generate the requested result.

We do not use private user content for advertising. We do not sell private user content. We do not use private user content to train artificial intelligence models unless we clearly disclose that use and obtain any consent required by applicable law.

Do not submit sensitive personal information, confidential information, or information you do not have the right to use in recipes, notes, prompts, or other content fields.

12. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Service, maintain your account, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent abuse, and maintain backups.

Some information may remain in backups or logs for a limited period after deletion before it is permanently removed according to our normal retention practices.

13. Account Deletion and Data Requests

You may request deletion of your account and associated personal information.

If Ponics' Pantry supports account creation in the mobile app, you may initiate account deletion from within the app. The in-app account deletion flow will either delete your account directly or allow you to submit an account deletion request from inside the app.

You may also request account deletion or make another privacy request by contacting us at:

brian@wolfingerforensics.com

If you delete your account, we will delete or de-identify personal information associated with your account unless we are required or permitted to retain certain information for legal, security, fraud prevention, backup, accounting, dispute resolution, or legitimate business purposes.

Deletion of an account may result in the loss of recipes, recipe versions, shopping lists, notes, photos, shared-space access, account preferences, comments, private substitutions, memories, and other content associated with your account.

Some content that you shared with others may remain visible if it was copied, exported, shared, or incorporated into collaborative spaces, unless deletion is required by applicable law or supported by the relevant feature.

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain deletion, access, correction, or data portability requests.

14. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:

• Access personal information we maintain about you
• Correct inaccurate information
• Delete personal information
• Object to or restrict certain processing
• Request a copy of your information
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

To exercise these rights, contact us at:

brian@wolfingerforensics.com

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

15. Children's Privacy

Ponics' Pantry is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.

If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us at:

brian@wolfingerforensics.com

16. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

This includes practices intended to protect account information, private recipes, comments, substitutions, shopping lists, uploaded images, and other private user content.

No system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for using a strong, unique password.

17. International Users

Ponics' Pantry is operated from the United States. If you access the Service from outside the United States, your information may be processed and stored in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.

By using the Service, you understand that your information may be transferred to and processed in jurisdictions that may have different data protection laws than your location.

18. Third-Party Links and Services

The Service may contain links to third-party websites, services, or content. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties.

Your use of third-party services is governed by their own terms and privacy policies.

19. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

If we make material changes, we will take reasonable steps to notify users, such as by posting an updated policy, updating the "Last Updated" date, or providing notice through the Service.

Your continued use of the Service after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means you accept the updated policy.

20. Contact Us

If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:

Wolfinger Forensics, LLC
103 Gift Circle
North Wales, PA 19454
Email: brian@wolfingerforensics.com
Website: https://www.ponicspantry.com