Privacy Policy

Last updated: January 2026

Introduction

Welcome to BetterEats.io ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience on our website. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website bettereats.io.

Information We Collect

Automatically Collected Information

When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device, including:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system
  • Referring website
  • Pages you visit on our site
  • Time and date of your visit
  • Time spent on pages

Information You Provide

When using our Recipe Audit Tool, you may provide:

  • Email address (for audit submissions)
  • Recipe URLs you submit for analysis
  • Account information if you sign in via social login (Google, GitHub, etc.)

We use Clerk for authentication. When you sign in, we receive basic profile information (name, email, profile picture) from your chosen provider. We do not have access to your passwords.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amounts of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website
  • Process and deliver Recipe Audit results
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website
  • Understand and analyze how you use our website
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Display relevant advertisements
  • Enforce rate limits on our free audit tool

AI-Powered Analysis

Our Recipe Gut-Optimizer tool uses AI (artificial intelligence) to analyze recipes. When you submit a recipe URL:

  • We fetch the publicly available recipe content from the URL you provide
  • The recipe content is sent to a third-party AI service (xAI/Grok) for analysis
  • The AI generates a gut health score and recommendations
  • Results are stored in our database for display and may be publicly visible

By using the Recipe Audit tool, you consent to this processing. We do not store the full recipe content long-term, only the analysis results.

Google AdSense and Advertising

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. Google AdSense uses cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Third-Party Links

Our website contains links to third-party websites (recipe sources). We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these external sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.

Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • The right to access the personal data we hold about you
  • The right to request correction of inaccurate data
  • The right to request deletion of your data
  • The right to opt out of marketing communications
  • The right to withdraw consent

California Privacy Rights (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, you have specific rights regarding your personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):

  • Right to Know: You can request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
  • Right to Delete: You can request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
  • Right to Opt-Out: You can opt-out of the sale of your personal information. Note: We do not sell personal information.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected].

European Privacy Rights (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

  • Right of Access: You can request copies of your personal data.
  • Right to Rectification: You can ask us to correct inaccurate information.
  • Right to Erasure: You can ask us to delete your personal data.
  • Right to Restrict Processing: You can ask us to limit how we use your data.
  • Right to Data Portability: You can request your data in a machine-readable format.
  • Right to Object: You can object to our processing of your personal data.

Our legal basis for processing personal information is your consent (which you can withdraw at any time via our cookie consent tool) and our legitimate interests in operating this website.

Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under 13 years of age (or 16 in the EEA). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy. Analytics data is retained according to Google's data retention policies. You can clear your local storage data at any time through your browser settings.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Contact Us

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

Email: [email protected]

DMCA/Copyright: [email protected]