Privacy Policy

1. About EatYay & Our Principles

EatYay ("we," "us," or "our") publishes nutrition facts, culinary guides, food comparison data, and recipes sourced from official USDA FoodData Central releases and verified corporate nutrition disclosures. We are committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors and maintaining complete transparency regarding data handling.

2. Information We Do Not Collect

We do not require user account registration, passwords, credit card numbers, or personal profiles to browse EatYay, search our food database, read recipe guides, or use our interactive nutrition calculators. We do not directly collect personal identifying information unless you voluntarily choose to contact us via email.

3. Technical Information & Web Analytics

Like most modern websites, EatYay automatically collects standard, non-personally identifiable technical telemetry to monitor server health, understand content performance, and optimize site speed:

• Usage Data: Pages visited, time spent on pages, referring websites, and general navigation flow.
• Device & Browser Diagnostics: Operating system, browser type, screen resolution, and approximate geographic region (country or metropolitan area derived from IP address, never precise GPS location).
• Google Analytics 4 (GA4): We use Google Analytics with IP anonymization enabled to analyze site traffic trends. Google processes this information in accordance with their privacy practices. You can opt out at any time using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

4. Cookies & Local Storage

Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your web browser. EatYay uses cookies and browser local storage strictly for essential functional purposes, such as saving your custom recipe ingredient checklist state across page reloads and recording aggregated analytics sessions.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some interactive features (such as saved cookbook bookmarks) rely on browser storage to function properly.

5. Affiliate Links & Third-Party Services

Some pages on EatYay contain affiliate links (for example, cookware recommendations in our buying guides and recipes). When you click an external affiliate link (such as Amazon.com), the merchant destination may set a cookie on your device to track qualifying purchases in accordance with their own independent privacy policies. For comprehensive details, please review our Affiliate Disclosure.

6. Your Privacy Rights (GDPR, CCPA & CPRA)

Depending on your location, you may have specific statutory privacy rights regarding your data, including:

• The right to request confirmation of whether we process personal data relating to you.
• The right to request access to or deletion of any personal information you have shared with us (such as email communications).
• The right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data (EatYay does not sell personal information).
• The right to non-discrimination for exercising your privacy choices.

7. Children's Privacy (COPPA Compliance)

EatYay is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13.