Privacy Policy

Welcome to PickMeal ("PickMeal," "we," "us," or "our"). This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, and disclosed when you visit and use the PickMeal website at www.pickmeal.site.

By using PickMeal, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

PickMeal is designed to work without requiring users to create an account or provide personal information.

The food preferences you enter into the food picker, such as your selected budget, mood, meal time, and cuisine, are used to filter and generate food suggestions.

PickMeal does not currently require users to provide:

• Your name
• A user account
• A password
• Your home address
• Payment information
• A telephone number

If we introduce features that collect personal information in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated accordingly.

2. Automatically Collected Information

When you visit a website, certain technical information may be processed automatically by your browser, hosting provider, advertising providers, analytics services, or other third-party services.

This information may include:

• IP address
• Browser type
• Device type
• Operating system
• Referring website
• Pages visited
• Approximate usage information
• Date and time of visits
• Interaction with advertisements

PickMeal does not intentionally use this information to personally identify individual visitors.

3. Cookies

PickMeal may use cookies and similar technologies provided by third-party services.

Cookies are small files stored by a website or third-party service on a user's device. They may be used for purposes such as remembering preferences, measuring website usage, providing advertisements, preventing repeated advertisements, and measuring advertising performance.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user's previous visits to PickMeal or other websites.

Users can manage or opt out of personalized advertising through Google's advertising settings.

4. Google AdSense

PickMeal may display advertisements provided by Google AdSense.

Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies in connection with advertising displayed on PickMeal.

These technologies may be used to:

• Display advertisements
• Personalize advertisements where permitted
• Measure advertising performance
• Limit the number of times an advertisement is shown
• Detect and prevent fraudulent or invalid activity

Third-party vendors and advertising networks may also serve advertisements on PickMeal.

Users may manage their advertising preferences through Google's advertising settings.

5. Third-Party Services

PickMeal may use third-party services to operate, maintain, analyze, or monetize the website.

These services may include:

• Google AdSense
• Google Fonts
• GitHub Pages
• Google Sheets or related services used to provide food database information
• Third-party web services used by PickMeal

These third-party services may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies.

PickMeal does not control the privacy practices of third-party services.

6. Google Fonts

PickMeal may use fonts provided by Google Fonts. When your browser loads a font from Google's servers, Google may receive technical information associated with that request.

You can learn more about Google's privacy practices through Google's Privacy Policy.

7. External Links

PickMeal may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.

These websites may have their own privacy policies and terms of use. PickMeal is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites.

8. Food Images and Information

Food names, descriptions, prices, price ranges, cuisines, images, and other food-related information displayed by PickMeal may come from our food database and third-party sources.

Prices may vary depending on the restaurant, location, serving size, promotions, and date.

PickMeal does not guarantee that displayed prices or food information are current or accurate at all times.

9. Children's Privacy

PickMeal is not specifically directed toward children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly request or collect personal information from children under 13 through the PickMeal website.

10. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to maintain the security of the PickMeal website and the information associated with its operation.

However, no website or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

11. Your Choices

You may choose to:

• Disable cookies through your browser settings
• Manage personalized advertising through Google's advertising settings
• Stop using PickMeal at any time
• Avoid providing personal information through external services linked from PickMeal

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to PickMeal, third-party services, applicable requirements, or our practices.

When changes are made, the "Last updated" date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy will be updated.

13. Contact

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or PickMeal's privacy practices, please contact us at:

geoffreyliam23@gmail.com