Privacy Policy

Welcome to Dash Of AI, where our mission is to transform the kitchen into a space of endless discovery and joy, enabling vibrant, healthful, and diverse dining experiences that cater to the unique lifestyles, tastes, and dietary needs of every family. We're dedicated to removing the barriers to culinary exploration, ensuring that every meal is not just nourishment, but an experience that brings people together. In order to achieve our mission, we utilize artificial intelligence to provide recipes that are customized to your personal needs.

This privacy policy aims to inform you about how we collect, use, protect, and share your personal information to provide a better end service. We may change this privacy policy as our service evolves, and if our changes are signficant we will notify you either by email or a notification on our website.

Information Collection

At Dash Of AI, your personal information belongs to you. We aim to limit the information that we store to just what is needed to provide our services, enhance the experience that we provide to you, and better align to our mission statement. We do not share your personal information with third parties unless it is used to provide our services or we have your permission to do so. You may have the right to request access to, correct, amend, delete, restrict, or object to certain uses of your personal information as required by law. You may make a request about your data usage by using our contact form.

We utilize your information in the following ways:

• Providing, maintaining, and improving our products and services
• Answering questions or providing support
• Providing reporting and analytics
• Gathering feedback on or testing new features
• Assisting in personalizing advertisements
• Preventing risk and fraud

We collect information that you provide directly to us and information that is processed as part of our service offerings, including:

• User-Provided Information: When creating a profile on Dash Of AI, you provide us with your username and email address.
• Service-Related Information: To customize your meal plans and grocery lists, we collect details provided by you in the forms used to generate meal plans. As we plan to introduce features like favoriting recipes, adding likes/dislikes, and manual meal plan creation, we will collect and store this information in our database for further personalization of our services.
• Payment Information: For users who subscribe to our paid plans, we utilize Stripe for all payment processing on Stripe hosted webpages. Dash Of AI does not store any billing address or credit card information. Stripe independently verifies the payment success and handles credit card details securely.

Third-Party Sharing

• Stripe Payments: We use Stripe to process payments for our paid plans, requiring the sharing of billing and credit card information.
• OpenAI: For generating customized content, we share anonymized data with OpenAI through our owned API keys. We may in the future select another Large Language Model provider.
• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information regarding your usage of our website in order to understand and improve how users utilize our website.
• Future integrations: We may in the future partner with grocery stores or fulfillment services to improve our offering with grocery delivery or custom promotions.

Data Protection

We are committed to protecting your information through a series of security measures, including encryption and secure server hosting. We ensure that any third-party partners are compliant with data protection laws and uphold the highest standards of privacy.

Behavioural Advertising

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:

• We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
• We share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and your interaction with our ads on other websites with our advertising partners. We collect and share some of this information directly with our advertising partners, and in some cases through the use of cookies or other similar technologies (which you may consent to, depending on your location).

For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

• FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
• GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
• BING - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

Cookie Policy

A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.

We use cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to provide our services. Cookies are used in the following ways:

• To verify login and keep a user logged in
• To maintain a consistent experience across web pages and form submissions
• For third party analytics providers. We use Google analytics to help measure how users interact with our website.

The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as www.allaboutcookies.org.

Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.

For additional details on how we use cookies, please view our cookie policy.

Contact Us

For any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, please contact us by using our contact form.