Privacy Policy for Recipians
Last Updated: 13-09-2026
Effective Date: 13-09-2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Dietium (“Recipians”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects information when you use the Recipians mobile application, website, and related services (collectively, the “Service”).
By using Recipians, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Service.
For questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:
Dietium
Email: privacy@dietium.com
Website: dietium.com
Address: 4, Chhitnawan, Daudpur, Patna Bihar – 801503
1. Information We Collect
We collect information that you provide directly to us, information generated through your use of Recipians, information from connected services that you authorize, and certain information collected automatically from your device.
The information we collect depends on the features you use and the permissions you grant.
1.1 Account and Authentication Information
When you create or access a Recipians account, we may collect:
- Email address
- Name or display name
- Profile photograph
- Username
- Password or authentication credentials where applicable
- Account identifiers
- Information provided through third-party sign-in services, such as Google, Apple, or other supported authentication providers
We use this information to create and maintain your account, authenticate you, secure your account, provide customer support, communicate with you, and prevent fraud or unauthorized access.
When you use a third-party login provider, we may receive information that you authorize that provider to share with us, such as your name, email address, profile image, and account identifier.
We do not receive your third-party account password through these authentication integrations.
2. Health, Fitness, Body, Nutrition and Wellness Information
Recipians provides nutrition, meal planning, wellness, and fitness-related functionality. Depending on the features you use and permissions you grant, we may collect or receive information such as:
- Age or date of birth
- Height
- Weight
- Weight goals
- Body measurements
- BMI and similar calculated metrics
- Calorie information
- Macronutrients and other nutritional information
- Food and dietary intake
- Exercise or activity information
- Steps
- Distance and activity levels
- Hydration or water intake
- Sleep information
- Fitness information
- Health and wellness goals
- Dietary preferences
- Dietary restrictions
- Allergies and food sensitivities
- Information about foods you avoid or prefer
- Other wellness information that you voluntarily provide
- Health and fitness information obtained through connected services such as Google Health Connect, Fitbit, Apple Health, or other supported integrations
Some of this information may be considered health or other sensitive personal data under applicable laws and Google Play policies.
We collect and use this information only to provide features you request, including personalized nutrition and wellness experiences.
For example, we may use health and fitness information to:
- Display your health and wellness information within your account
- Calculate or display nutritional and fitness metrics
- Produce weekly or monthly reports
- Help you understand trends in your activity, food, hydration, sleep, weight, or other tracked information
- Personalize recipes and meal recommendations
- Generate personalized meal plans
- Suggest foods or recipes based on your goals and dietary needs
- Improve the relevance of recommendations
- Provide other features that you specifically request
We do not use your health or fitness information for purposes unrelated to providing and improving the Recipians services described in this Privacy Policy.
Health Connect and other health integrations
If you connect Recipians to Google Health Connect, Apple Health, Fitbit, or another supported health or fitness service, Recipians may request access to specific categories of data that you authorize.
You control these permissions through the applicable operating system or third-party service. You may withdraw access at any time through the settings provided by the relevant service.
Health Connect provides granular permissions allowing users to control which health information applications can access.
Recipians only requests the categories of health information necessary for the features you choose to use.
We do not sell health information.
We do not use health information obtained through Health Connect for advertising purposes or unrelated profiling.
Where applicable, our handling of Health Connect data is intended to comply with Google’s Health Connect requirements, including applicable limitations on use and disclosure.
3. Location Information
Recipians may collect or access device location information when you grant the applicable permission or otherwise provide location information to us.
Depending on the feature and your device settings, this may include:
- Approximate location
- Precise location
- City or region
- Country
- Time zone
- Location derived from your IP address
- Location information associated with content you voluntarily upload or share
We may use location information to:
- Provide location-aware features
- Determine your approximate region
- Improve recommendations relevant to your location
- Help personalize “What to Cook Now” or similar recommendations
- Consider local time when presenting meal or recipe recommendations
- Improve recipe and food discovery
- Support location-relevant shopping, availability, or food-related functionality where offered
- Provide security and fraud-prevention functionality
- Understand general geographic usage patterns
- Provide and improve the Service
We request only the level of location access necessary for the feature you are using.
Recipians does not use device location solely for advertising or analytics.
We do not sell your precise location information.
You may control location permissions through your device settings. If you deny or later revoke location permission, certain location-dependent features may not function properly.
Background location
If Recipians requests access to location while the app is running in the background, we will clearly explain the feature requiring that access before requesting the applicable permission.
For example:
“Recipians collects location data to provide relevant data for “what to cook now suggestions” when the app is closed or not in use.”
Google requires additional disclosure and review requirements for apps that access location in the background.
4. Device, Technical and Usage Information
When you use Recipians, we may automatically collect certain technical and usage information, including:
- Device type
- Device model
- Operating system and version
- App version
- Language and regional settings
- IP address
- Approximate location derived from IP address
- Unique device or installation identifiers
- Network information
- Mobile carrier information where available
- Crash reports
- Diagnostics
- Performance information
- Login and session information
- Date and time of activity
- Features used
- Screens or pages viewed
- Search activity
- Interactions with the application
- Referral information
- Error logs
We use this information to:
- Operate the Service
- Maintain reliability and performance
- Diagnose technical problems
- Prevent fraud and abuse
- Protect account security
- Understand how users interact with the Service
- Improve features
- Develop new functionality
- Analyze aggregate usage trends
5. Your Activity and Interaction Information
Recipians may record information about how you interact with the Service.
This can include:
- Recipes viewed
- Recipes searched
- Recipes liked or saved
- Recipes shared
- Ingredients searched
- Meal plans created
- Meals selected
- Shopping lists created
- Recipes cooked or marked as completed
- Comments posted
- Comments liked
- Community interactions
- People or creators followed
- Content uploaded
- Recommendations interacted with
- Coach conversations
- Features used
- Other interactions with Recipians
We may use this information to:
- Personalize your experience
- Recommend recipes you are more likely to enjoy
- Improve search results
- Recommend relevant meals, ingredients, cuisines, and content
- Remember your preferences
- Improve the Service
- Detect spam, abuse, or fraudulent activity
- Maintain community safety
For example, if you frequently interact with vegetarian or high-protein recipes, Recipians may use those interactions to present more relevant recommendations.
6. Preferences, Dietary Information and Personalization
You may provide information including:
- Favorite foods
- Favorite cuisines
- Ingredients you like or dislike
- Dietary preferences
- Dietary restrictions
- Allergies
- Cooking preferences
- Cooking skill level
- Meal preferences
- Preferred meal times
- Fitness or nutrition goals
- Preferred serving sizes
- Household or family preferences
We may combine this information with information from your activity history and, where authorized, your health and fitness information to personalize your experience.
For example, these inputs may be used to provide:
“What to Cook Now”
or other recipe and meal recommendations tailored to your preferences, goals, current context, local time, and available information.
7. Camera, Photos, Videos and Microphone
Recipians may request access to your device camera, photo library, microphone, or video functionality when you choose to use features that require them.
These permissions may be used for:
- Uploading a profile photo
- Uploading recipe photos
- Uploading other user-generated content
- Capturing images or videos for recipes
- Participating in video calls
- Participating in cooking or recipe-learning sessions
- Other user-initiated communication or content features
Recipians does not access your camera, microphone, or photo library continuously unless a feature you are actively using requires such access and your device permissions allow it.
You can control these permissions through your device settings.
8. User-Generated Content
Recipians allows users to create and share content, including:
- Recipes
- Recipe photographs
- Videos
- Profile photographs
- Comments
- Reviews
- Posts
- Messages
- Shopping lists or shared text
- Other content submitted through the Service
If you submit content to an area of Recipians intended to be visible to other users, that content may be displayed publicly or to the audience specified by the feature.
For example, a recipe or comment posted to a community section may be visible to other users.
Please do not submit private or sensitive information through public posts, comments, recipes, profiles, or other publicly accessible areas.
9. Messages, Chat and Coach Services
Recipians may provide messaging, chat, coaching, customer-support, or other communication features.
When you use these features, we may process:
- Messages
- Chat content
- Attachments
- Images or videos
- Information about the participants
- Date and time of communications
- Delivery and interaction information
We use this information to:
- Deliver messages
- Provide the requested service
- Provide customer support
- Facilitate coach interactions
- Maintain safety and prevent abuse
- Resolve technical issues
- Improve the communication experience
Where communications involve a third-party coach, service provider, or communication platform, the relevant information may also be processed by that provider as necessary to provide the service.
10. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Features
Recipians may use artificial intelligence (“AI”) or machine-learning technologies to provide certain features, including:
- Personalized meal planning
- Recipe recommendations
- Food and nutrition assistance
- Personalized suggestions
- Conversational assistance
- Content generation
- Other AI-powered features
To provide these features, we may send selected information to third-party AI or technology providers acting on our behalf.
Depending on the feature, information sent for processing may include:
- Your recipe preferences
- Dietary preferences
- Food preferences
- Meal-planning information
- Relevant activity information
- Selected nutrition or wellness information
- User-provided instructions
- Other information necessary to generate the requested result
We aim to send only the information necessary for the relevant AI feature.
Where technically and contractually available, we use privacy and contractual safeguards to limit the use of information by third-party AI providers.
11. Third-Party Services and Service Providers
We use third-party service providers to help operate Recipians.
These providers may provide services such as:
- Cloud hosting
- Database infrastructure
- Authentication
- Email delivery
- Push notifications
- Analytics
- Crash reporting
- Customer support
- Payment processing
- Video calling
- Content delivery
- Security and fraud prevention
- AI processing
- Data synchronization
- Health and fitness integrations
These providers may process personal information on our behalf and only to the extent reasonably necessary to provide their services to us, subject to their applicable agreements and privacy practices.
Examples may include providers such as:
- Google Firebase
- Google Sign-In
- Apple Sign-In
- Google Play Services
- Health Connect
- Fitbit
- Hostinger
- Agoda
- RevenueCat
- RazorPay, Stripe
Google’s Data Safety requirements require developers to account for data collection and sharing performed by third-party SDKs and services integrated into an app.
12. Social Login and Connected Accounts
You may be able to create or access your Recipians account through third-party services such as Google or Apple.
When you use such services, we may receive account information permitted by the service and authorized by you.
You can disconnect these services through the relevant third-party account settings where supported.
Our handling of information received from third-party services is governed by this Privacy Policy.
13. Payments and Purchases
If Recipians offers subscriptions, purchases, or paid services, payments may be processed through third-party payment platforms, including Google Play, Apple App Store, or other payment processors.
We generally do not receive or store complete payment card numbers where payment is processed directly through the applicable app store or payment provider.
We may receive information such as:
- Purchase status
- Subscription status
- Transaction identifiers
- Product purchased
- Purchase date
- Renewal or expiration information
This information is used to provide paid features, manage subscriptions, provide support, and prevent fraud.
14. How We Use Your Information
We may use information we collect for the following purposes:
Providing the Service
To create and manage accounts, provide recipes, meal plans, recommendations, health dashboards, community functionality, coaching, communications, and other requested features.
Personalization
To understand your preferences and tailor recipes, meal plans, recommendations, search results, and other content.
Health and wellness features
To provide health, nutrition, activity, hydration, sleep, calorie, body metric, and related features that you choose to use.
Recommendations
To recommend recipes, ingredients, meals, cuisines, meal plans, or other content based on your preferences and activity.
“What to Cook Now”
To combine relevant information such as your preferences, dietary requirements, allergies, past interactions, available information about your location, and local time or meal context to provide relevant cooking recommendations.
Communication
To send:
- Account-related messages
- Security notifications
- Service notifications
- Customer support responses
- Updates about the Service
- Notifications you have requested
- Marketing communications where permitted and where you have provided the necessary consent or where otherwise permitted under applicable law
Safety and security
To detect, investigate, prevent, and respond to:
- Fraud
- Abuse
- Spam
- Unauthorized account access
- Security incidents
- Malicious activity
Analytics and improvement
To understand how the Service is used, identify problems, measure performance, and develop improvements.
Legal compliance
To comply with applicable law, legal processes, court orders, government requests, and enforce our agreements and policies.
15. How We Share Information
We may disclose information in the following circumstances.
Service Providers
We may share information with companies that provide services to us, such as hosting, authentication, analytics, communications, AI processing, video calling, customer support, payment processing, security, and other infrastructure.
With Your Instructions
We may share information when you specifically request or initiate the sharing.
Examples include:
- Sharing a recipe
- Sharing a shopping list
- Sharing a profile
- Sending a message
- Joining a community
- Participating in a video call
- Connecting a third-party health or fitness service
Public or Community Content
Content that you intentionally post publicly may be visible to other users.
Legal Requirements
We may disclose information where reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law
- Respond to lawful legal requests
- Protect our rights
- Protect the safety of users
- Investigate fraud or abuse
- Investigate security incidents
Business Transfers
If Recipians or substantially all of its assets are acquired, merged, reorganized, financed, or transferred, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.
16. We Do Not Sell Your Personal Information
We do not sell your personal information.
We do not sell precise location information.
We do not sell health or fitness information.
We do not sell Health Connect data.
We do not permit health information to be used for advertising or unrelated behavioral targeting.
17. Advertising and Marketing
Recipians may use advertising, promotional communications, or marketing technologies.
If we use advertising or advertising-related technologies, we may process information such as device identifiers, approximate location, usage information, and interaction information as permitted by applicable law and platform policies.
Health data and information obtained from Health Connect will not be used for advertising purposes where prohibited by applicable Google policies.
You may opt out of certain marketing communications by using the unsubscribe mechanism provided in the communication or by changing the relevant account settings.
18. Cookies and Similar Technologies
If you use a Recipians website or web-based service, we may use cookies, pixels, local storage, analytics technologies, and similar technologies to:
- Keep you signed in
- Maintain security
- Remember preferences
- Understand website usage
- Improve performance
- Diagnose errors
- Measure campaigns or communications where applicable
You may control cookies using your browser settings where supported.
19. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Provide the Service
- Maintain your account
- Provide features you request
- Comply with legal obligations
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce agreements
- Maintain security
- Prevent fraud and abuse
- Maintain legitimate business records
The exact retention period depends on the type of information and why it was collected.
For example:
- Account information may be retained while your account remains active.
- Health and fitness information may be retained while needed to provide your requested features.
- User-generated content may remain available until deleted by you or removed under our policies.
- Transaction records may need to be retained for legal, tax, accounting, or fraud-prevention purposes.
- Security logs may be retained for a limited period for security and auditing purposes.
When information is no longer necessary, we may delete it, anonymize it, or securely isolate it in accordance with applicable legal and operational requirements.
20. Account Deletion and Data Deletion
You may request deletion of your Recipians account and associated personal information.
Recipians provides an account deletion mechanism:
In the app: Profile → Settings → Account → Delete Account]
You may also contact us at:
privacy@dietium.com
When your account is deleted, we will delete or anonymize associated personal information within a reasonable period, except where we are required or permitted by law to retain certain information.
Some information may remain temporarily in backups or security records before being deleted in accordance with our retention procedures.
Google Play requires apps that allow account creation to provide users with a way to request account deletion and associated data deletion.
Make sure the in-app deletion flow actually exists before submitting the app.
21. Your Choices and Permissions
Depending on your device, account, and location, you may have control over:
- Location access
- Camera access
- Microphone access
- Photo and video access
- Health Connect permissions
- Notification permissions
- Third-party account connections
- Marketing communications
- Profile information
- Community content
- Certain personalization settings
You can revoke permissions through your device settings or through the applicable third-party service.
Some features may stop functioning if you revoke the information or permission required for those features.
22. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have rights including:
- Right to access personal information
- Right to correct inaccurate information
- Right to request deletion
- Right to withdraw consent
- Right to restrict certain processing
- Right to object to certain processing
- Right to data portability
- Right to opt out of certain marketing
- Right to lodge a complaint with an applicable data protection authority
To exercise applicable rights, contact:
privacy@dietium.com
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.
Your rights vary depending on your jurisdiction and applicable law.
23. Children’s Privacy
Recipians is not intended for children under the minimum age permitted to use the Service under applicable law.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children where prohibited by law.
If we become aware that a child has provided personal information in circumstances where such collection is not permitted, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us improperly, contact us at:
privacy@dietium.com
24. Data Security
We use reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information from:
- Unauthorized access
- Unauthorized disclosure
- Loss
- Misuse
- Alteration
- Destruction
Depending on the type of information, security measures may include:
- Encryption in transit
- Encryption at rest where appropriate
- Authentication controls
- Access controls
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Secure infrastructure
- Secure development practices
- Backup and recovery procedures
However, no method of transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
25. International Data Transfers
Recipians and its service providers may process or store information in countries other than the country where you live.
For example, our service providers may operate infrastructure in countries including the United States, European countries, India, or other jurisdictions.
Where required by applicable law, we take appropriate steps to provide safeguards for international transfers of personal information.
26. Third-Party Links and Services
Recipians may contain links to or integrations with third-party websites, applications, products, or services.
Those third parties operate under their own privacy policies.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party services that we do not control.
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party service before providing information to it.
27. Community and Public Features
Some Recipians features allow users to interact publicly or with other users.
Information that you choose to make publicly available may include:
- Username or display name
- Profile image
- Recipes
- Photos
- Videos
- Comments
- Ratings
- Reviews
- Other content
You should carefully consider what information you publish through community features.
Do not publish information that you do not want other users to see.
28. User Responsibility for Shared Information
If you provide us with information about another person, such as when creating or sharing a recipe, meal plan, shopping list, or other content, you represent that you have the necessary permission to provide that information.
You should not upload another person’s personal information, photographs, health information, or other sensitive information without appropriate authorization.
29. Automated Recommendations and Health Information
Recipians may provide nutrition, food, meal-planning, fitness, and wellness recommendations based on information you provide or authorize us to access.
These recommendations are intended for general informational and wellness purposes.
Recipians is not a medical provider and does not provide medical diagnosis, treatment, or emergency medical advice unless a particular service is expressly identified and legally authorized to do so.
Do not use Recipians as a substitute for professional medical advice.
If you have a medical condition, serious allergy, eating disorder, or other health concern, consult an appropriately qualified healthcare professional before making significant changes to your diet, exercise, medication, or health routine.
30. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in:
- Our services
- Technology
- Legal requirements
- Privacy practices
- Third-party services
When we make material changes, we may provide notice through the Service, by email, or by other reasonable means.
The updated Privacy Policy will be posted at the same URL with a revised “Last Updated” date.
31. Contact Us
For questions, concerns, privacy requests, or account/data deletion requests, contact:
Dietium
Privacy Email: privacy@dietium.com
Website: dietium.com
Address: 4, Chhitnawan, Daudpur, Patna Bihar – 801503