HappyChef

Privacy Policy for HappyChef

Last updated: May 13, 2026

1. Introduction

HappyChef is operated by LDA Prep Labs LLC. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information when you use HappyChef on iOS, Android, the web, or through related support and account services.

By using HappyChef, creating an account, saving recipes, subscribing, sharing content, or contacting support, you acknowledge that your information will be handled as described in this Privacy Policy.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to make a privacy request, contact us at [email protected].

2. What This Policy Covers

This policy applies to HappyChef and related services that let you create an account, sign in, save and import recipes, plan meals, build grocery lists, manage preferences, use guided cooking, use automated planning features, connect with friends, share recipes, manage subscriptions, and contact support.

This policy does not apply to third-party websites, app stores, platforms, stores, payment processors, or services that we do not control, even if you reach them through HappyChef.

3. Information We Collect

3.1 Account and Sign-In Information

We collect information needed to create, identify, secure, and maintain your account. This may include:

• email address
• username
• password credentials or authentication information
• account identifiers
• sign-in provider information if you use a supported sign-in method
• profile details you choose to add
• account settings, preferences, and privacy choices

3.2 Recipe, Meal Planning, Grocery, and Cooking Information

HappyChef is built around recipes, meal planning, grocery lists, and cooking workflows. We may collect and store information you create, upload, import, edit, save, generate, or choose to use in the app, including:

• saved recipes and recipe collections
• imported recipe URLs, recipe text, recipe photos, and recipe images
• recipe edits, ingredient changes, notes, ratings, and favorites
• meal plans, planned meals, meal timing, and cooking preferences
• grocery lists, shopping items, and grocery organization choices
• guided-cooking activity and cooking-step interactions
• dietary preferences, foods to avoid, allergies, dislikes, goals, and household serving preferences
• automated recipe, meal-planning, grocery-list, and guided-cooking inputs and outputs

3.3 Social, Sharing, and Household Information

HappyChef may include friend, sharing, profile, and household features. Depending on the features you use and the settings you choose, we may collect and process:

• username and email information used to help other users find or invite you
• friend requests, connections, invitations, and sharing activity
• privacy and visibility settings
• recipes, profile details, or other content you choose to share or allow to be shared
• household member names, labels, servings, restrictions, or preferences that you choose to enter

Other users may be able to find your account by username or email address when using friend, sharing, or household features. Recipes, profile details, or other content may be visible to other users if you choose to share them or if your privacy/settings choices allow them to be shared.

3.4 Subscription and Purchase Information

If you purchase or try a HappyChef subscription, we may receive information needed to provide subscription access and support billing related features. This may include:

• the store or platform through which the purchase was made
• the product, plan, or subscription selected
• whether a free trial, introductory offer, promotion, or renewal applies
• subscription status, entitlement status, renewal date, expiration date, cancellation state, and restore status
• purchase, transaction, or receipt identifiers needed to validate access

We do not receive your full payment card details from the app store or payment platform used to process your subscription.

3.5 Support, Feedback, and Communications

If you contact us, submit feedback, request support, report a problem, or respond to a message from us, we may collect:

• your contact information
• the content of your message
• attachments, screenshots, or files you choose to send
• account, device, or diagnostic details needed to investigate the issue
• records of our communications with you

3.6 Information Collected Automatically

We may collect technical, usage, diagnostic, and analytics information automatically when you use HappyChef. This may include:

• device type, operating system, app version, browser, language, time zone, and similar technical information
• general region or country inferred from app store, device, network, or service-provider data
• screens viewed, features used, buttons tapped, session activity, and interaction events
• crash reports, error logs, performance data, and diagnostic information
• notification tokens, delivery status, and notification preferences if notifications are enabled
• advertising, attribution, or campaign measurement information if those features are enabled and permitted by your device settings and applicable law

HappyChef does not intentionally collect precise device location for current core app features.

4. How We Use Information

We use information to operate, maintain, secure, and improve HappyChef, including to:

• create, authenticate, and manage accounts
• save, sync, organize, import, edit, and display recipes
• generate, update, and personalize meal plans and grocery lists
• support guided cooking and related cooking workflows
• apply dietary preferences, foods to avoid, household servings, and planning goals
• enable friend, sharing, invitation, profile, privacy, and household features
• process subscription status, entitlement access, free trial status, purchase validation, renewal status, restore purchases, and cancellation-related support
• send service messages, support replies, account notices, security notices, and product communications
• send push notifications or reminders if you allow them
• respond to support requests, bug reports, feedback, and account requests
• analyze app performance, usage, reliability, conversion, and feature quality
• measure marketing, attribution, or advertising performance where those features are enabled and allowed
• improve recipe import, parsing, meal planning, grocery organization, guided cooking, automated suggestions, and overall product quality
• detect, prevent, and investigate fraud, abuse, security issues, service misuse, and technical problems
• comply with legal obligations, enforce terms, and protect our rights, users, and services

5. Automated Features and Product Improvement

HappyChef may use automated systems to help import recipes, read recipe content, organize ingredients, generate meal plans, create grocery lists, suggest cooking steps, personalize recommendations, and improve app quality.

We may use recipe URLs, recipe text, recipe photos, recipe edits, dietary preferences, meal planning inputs, grocery-list activity, guided-cooking interactions, support messages, diagnostics, and similar information to provide these features and improve how they work over time.

Automated outputs may be incomplete, inaccurate, outdated, or unsuitable for your preferences, household, ingredients, equipment, allergies, dietary restrictions, health needs, or situation. You are responsible for reviewing recipes, ingredients, labels, instructions, substitutions, grocery items, cooking steps, and meal plans before relying on them.

6. How We Share Information

We share information only as reasonably needed to operate HappyChef, provide requested features, support subscriptions, comply with law, protect users and the service, or support business operations.

6.1 Service Providers

We may share information with service providers that perform services for us, such as:

• hosting, database, storage, infrastructure, and security providers
• account authentication and sign-in providers
• subscription, purchase validation, and entitlement providers
• analytics, diagnostics, crash reporting, and performance providers
• push notification and messaging providers
• email, support, feedback, and customer communication providers
• recipe import, image handling, automation, and product-quality tools
• advertising, attribution, or campaign measurement providers if those features are enabled

These providers are expected to use information only to provide services to us or as otherwise permitted by law.

6.2 Friends, Sharing, and Household Features

If you use friend, sharing, profile, recipe-sharing, or household features, information may be shared with other users according to your actions and settings. This may include your username, email address for account lookup or invitations, profile information, shared recipes, meal-planning content, grocery content, dietary preferences, household preferences, and other content you choose to share or allow to be shared.

6.3 Legal, Safety, and Business Transfers

We may disclose information if we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to comply with law, regulation, legal process, or a valid government request; protect the rights, safety, property, users, or security of HappyChef or others; investigate fraud, abuse, or violations of our terms; or support a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction.

6.4 Advertising, Attribution, and Analytics

If advertising, attribution, campaign measurement, or similar tools are enabled, we may process app usage, device, advertising-related, or campaign-related identifiers to measure performance, understand campaigns, limit fraud, improve the service, or show ads where permitted by law and your device settings.

6.5 Sale of Personal Information

We do not sell personal information for money. Some privacy laws define "sale," "sharing," or "targeted advertising" broadly. If any current or future advertising, analytics, or attribution activity is considered a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising under applicable law, we will handle it as required by that law and any choices available through the app, website, or your device settings.

7. Third-Party Recipe Sources and Links

HappyChef may let you import recipes from third-party websites or save content from outside sources. When you import a recipe, we may process the URL, page content, image content, recipe text, metadata, and related information needed to create, organize, store, improve, and display the recipe in HappyChef.

Third-party websites, platforms, recipes, products, links, stores, and services have their own terms and privacy practices. We do not control and are not responsible for those third-party services.

8. Data Retention

We keep information for as long as reasonably needed to provide HappyChef, maintain your account, operate subscriptions, support recipe and meal-planning features, preserve security, debug issues, improve the service, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, enforce agreements, and maintain business records.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, how it is used, whether your account remains active, whether the information is part of shared or household content, whether it is needed for legal or security reasons, and whether it exists in backups, logs, analytics, or support records.

When information is no longer reasonably needed, we may delete, de-identify, aggregate, or otherwise limit it according to our business, legal, security, and technical needs.

9. Account Deletion and Your Choices

You may use our account deletion request page or contact us at [email protected] to request access to, correction of, export of, or deletion of personal information associated with your HappyChef account. We may ask you to verify your identity before acting on a request. If you use Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email, verification may require the Apple private relay email address associated with your HappyChef account or your HappyChef username.

Deleting your HappyChef account does not automatically cancel a subscription billed through an app store or payment platform. If you have an active subscription and do not want future renewal charges, you should also cancel the subscription through the store or platform that billed you.

If you delete your account, we will delete, de-identify, or restrict personal information associated with your account, or anonymize your account so it is no longer reasonably linked to you, within 30 days after verification where feasible. We may retain limited information where needed for legitimate business, legal, tax, accounting, security, fraud-prevention, backup, dispute-resolution, service-quality, or recordkeeping purposes.

Some content may remain available if it is part of shared, social, or household features, if another user has access to it through their own account or settings, if it has been de-identified or aggregated, or if retention is otherwise allowed or required by law.

You can also control some information and privacy choices directly in the app, including profile details, sharing settings, recipe visibility, notification permissions, and device-level permissions.

10. Notifications and Device Settings

If you allow notifications, we may send account, meal-planning, grocery, recipe, reminder, service, or promotional notifications. You can control notification permissions through your device settings and, where available, in-app settings.

Your device may provide settings related to analytics, advertising identifiers, tracking permissions, notifications, and other permissions. The availability and effect of those settings depend on your device, operating system, app store, and applicable law.

11. Children

HappyChef is not directed to children under 13 to create their own accounts, or under any higher minimum age required by applicable law where the user lives.

A parent, guardian, household organizer, or other authorized user may enter household information, preferences, dietary notes, servings, or similar planning details for people in their household. If you add information about another person, including a child or household member, you represent that you have the right to do so.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate permission, contact us at [email protected].

12. International Processing

HappyChef may be operated, supported, and processed in the United States and other locations where we or our service providers operate. Privacy and data protection laws may differ from those in your location. By using HappyChef, you understand that your information may be processed in these locations subject to applicable law.

13. Security

We use reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures designed to protect information. These measures may include access controls, authentication controls, encryption, monitoring, backups, logging, and security reviews.

No method of transmission, processing, or storage is perfectly secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

14. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, objection, withdrawal of consent, or other privacy choices. You may also have rights related to certain advertising, analytics, or targeted advertising activities.

To make a privacy request, contact us at [email protected]. We will respond as required by applicable law. We may need to verify your identity and may decline a request where allowed by law.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights provided by applicable law.

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, services, technology, legal requirements, or business operations. If we make changes, we will post the updated Privacy Policy and update the "Last updated" date. If required by law, we will provide additional notice.

Your continued use of HappyChef after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.

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