Privacy Policy

1. Overview & Scope of Information Collected

Food Guide is a content-first culinary discovery website. You do not need to register an account, log in, or submit sensitive personal profiles to browse our recipes, classic food histories, ingredient pairing guides, or the "What Should I Cook Today?" interactive tool.

• Interactive Tool Selections: Preferences chosen inside the "What Should I Cook Today?" tool (such as cooking time, dish type, dietary preference, and serving count) are processed locally inside your web browser session and are not stored on external user profile servers.
• Automated Log & Device Data: When you visit our pages, standard web server logs and measurement tools may collect technical metadata including truncated IP addresses, browser type, operating system, referring/exit pages, date/time stamps, and page interaction events.

2. Google Analytics, Google AdSense & Google Ad Manager Disclosures

To maintain free access to our culinary guides and measure site performance, this website utilizes (or is configured to integrate with) Google services including Google Analytics, Google AdSense, and Google Ad Manager:

• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand aggregate traffic patterns, popular recipes, and page load performance. Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions.
• Google AdSense & Google Ad Manager: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies (such as the Google advertising cookie / DoubleClick DART cookie) to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites on the internet.
• Personalized & Non-Personalized Advertising: Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve personalized ads to users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. Where required by applicable law (such as in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland), we obtain appropriate user consent before activating personalized advertising or non-essential cookies.
• How Google Uses Information: To learn more about how Google collects and processes data when you use partner sites, please visit Google's official disclosure page: "How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services" (https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites).

3. Cookies, Web Beacons & Local Storage

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by your browser. We use cookies and browser localStorage for:

• Essential Preferences: Remembering your selected display language (`localStorage.selectedLang`) and cookie consent choices.
• Analytics & Measurement: Measuring aggregate page views, scroll depth, and Core Web Vitals via Google Analytics.
• Advertising Delivery & Frequency Capping: Allowing Google AdSense and Google Ad Manager to deliver relevant advertisements, prevent repetitive ad display, and detect invalid click activity.

4. Your Choices, Opt-Out Rights & Consent Management

You have full control over how cookies and personalized ads are used:

• Google Ads Settings Opt-Out: You may opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings (https://adssettings.google.com).
• Industry-Wide Ad Opt-Out: You may also opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ (Digital Advertising Alliance) or https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ (European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance).
• Google Analytics Opt-Out: You can prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics by installing the official Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).
• Browser Controls: You can configure your browser settings to block or delete cookies at any time. All recipes and ingredient guides remain accessible even if cookies are disabled.
• GDPR & CCPA/CPRA Rights: Visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, and California have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal data, and the right to opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

5. Data Controller & Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or wish to exercise your statutory privacy rights, please contact us at: