Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how What Should I Eat Now ("we," "us," or "our"), operated by Atlas Programming Solutions, collects, uses, shares, and protects your personal information when you visit our website at whatshouldieatnow.com and use our food recommendation services. By accessing or using our platform, you agree to the practices described in this policy.

Company: Atlas Programming Solutions

Email: support@atlasprogrammingsolutions.com

Address: 7027 W Broward Blvd #804, Plantation, FL 33317-2208, United States

1.1 Information You Provide Directly

When you interact with our platform, you may voluntarily provide information including:

• Food Preferences: Cuisine types, dietary restrictions (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, etc.), spice tolerance levels, and meal timing preferences that you share through our quiz or Quick Pick feature.
• Location Data: ZIP codes, city names, or geographic coordinates that you enter to receive local restaurant recommendations.
• Contact Information: Your name, email address, and message content when you submit our contact form.
• Feedback and Communications: Any suggestions, bug reports, or other correspondence you send to us.

1.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, certain information is collected automatically through cookies and similar technologies:

• Device Information: Browser type and version, operating system, screen resolution, and device type (desktop, mobile, tablet).
• Usage Data: Pages visited, time spent on each page, click patterns, referring URLs, and navigation paths through our site.
• Network Information: IP address, internet service provider, and approximate geographic location derived from your IP address.
• Performance Data: Page load times, error reports, and other diagnostic information that helps us maintain platform reliability.

1.3 Information from Third-Party Sources

We do not purchase or acquire personal information about you from third-party data brokers. However, when you use features that rely on external APIs, those services may process limited data as described in Section 4.

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• Delivering Recommendations: Matching your stated food preferences with relevant restaurants and recipes from our data sources.
• Improving Our Services: Analyzing usage patterns to enhance recommendation accuracy, improve site performance, and develop new features.
• Responding to Inquiries: Processing and replying to messages you send through our contact form.
• Ensuring Security: Detecting and preventing fraudulent activity, spam, and abuse of our platform.
• Legal Compliance: Fulfilling our legal obligations and responding to lawful requests from governmental authorities.
• Displaying Advertising: Serving relevant advertisements through Google AdSense to support our free service (see Section 3 for details).
• Analytics: Understanding how users interact with our platform to make data-driven improvements through Google Analytics (see Section 3 for details).

We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We do not use your data for automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects on you.

Our website uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience and support our services. We provide a cookie consent banner that allows you to manage your preferences.

3.1 Types of Cookies We Use

3.2 Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You can manage your cookie preferences at any time by clicking "Cookie Settings" in our website footer. You can also configure your browser to block or delete cookies, though this may affect certain features of our platform. Most browsers provide instructions for managing cookies in their help documentation.

3.3 Do Not Track Signals

Our website currently does not respond to "Do Not Track" (DNT) browser signals. However, you can use our cookie consent controls to manage tracking on our site.

Our platform integrates with the following third-party services to deliver our food recommendation features. Each service has its own privacy practices:

4.1 Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our site, what pages they view, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our site. We use this information solely to improve our platform. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our site, rather than your name or other identifying information. Google's ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy. You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

4.2 Google AdSense

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our website. Google AdSense may use cookies and web beacons 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 can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or by visiting aboutads.info.

4.3 Google Places API

When you request restaurant recommendations, we send your location information (ZIP code or coordinates) to the Google Places API to retrieve nearby restaurant data including names, addresses, ratings, hours of operation, and contact information. This data is used solely to provide you with accurate, real-time restaurant recommendations. Google's privacy practices for this service are governed by the Google Privacy Policy.

4.4 Spoonacular API

We use the Spoonacular API to provide recipe recommendations based on your dietary preferences, cuisine choices, and other food-related criteria. When you request recipe suggestions, we transmit your stated food preferences (not personal identifying information) to Spoonacular's servers. The data returned includes recipe names, ingredients, nutritional information, and preparation instructions. Spoonacular's privacy practices are governed by their own terms and privacy policy.

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the security of your personal information, including:

• Encryption in Transit: All data transmitted between your browser and our servers is encrypted using SSL/TLS protocols (HTTPS).
• Secure Infrastructure: Our platform is hosted on secure, professionally managed infrastructure with regular security updates and monitoring.
• Access Controls: Access to personal information is restricted to authorized personnel who need it to operate, develop, or improve our services.
• Regular Reviews: We periodically review our data collection, storage, and processing practices to ensure they align with this policy.

While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your data.

Our platform is intended for general audiences and is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to promptly delete that information from our servers.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child under 13 has provided personal information to us, please contact us at support@atlasprogrammingsolutions.com so we can take appropriate action.

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

• Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose what categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which we collected it, the business purpose for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
• Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete any personal information we have collected about you, subject to certain exceptions.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. We will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices, or provide a different level of quality for exercising your rights.
• Right to Opt-Out of Sale: We do not sell your personal information. If this practice ever changes, we will update this policy and provide an opt-out mechanism.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at support@atlasprogrammingsolutions.com. We will respond to verifiable consumer requests within 45 days.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides you with additional rights:

• Right of Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
• Right to Erasure: You can request that we delete your personal data, subject to certain legal obligations.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You can request that we limit how we use your personal data.
• Right to Data Portability: You can request to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
• Right to Object: You can object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes or where we rely on legitimate interests.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your consent for processing, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out prior to withdrawal.

Our legal bases for processing your personal data include: your consent (for cookies and marketing), performance of our service (for recommendation features), and our legitimate interests (for analytics and security).

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at support@atlasprogrammingsolutions.com. We will respond to your request within 30 days. If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including satisfying legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

• Contact Form Submissions: Retained for up to 24 months to ensure we can follow up on your inquiry and improve our customer support.
• Analytics Data: Google Analytics data is retained according to Google's data retention settings, which we have configured to 14 months.
• Cookie Consent Preferences: Stored locally in your browser and retained until you clear your browser data or update your preferences.
• Food Preferences (Quiz Data): Processed in real-time to generate recommendations and not stored persistently on our servers.

When personal information is no longer needed, we will securely delete or anonymize it.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make material changes, we will:

• Update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.
• Post a notice on our website for a reasonable period of time.
• If the changes are significant, provide additional notification such as a banner on our homepage.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about our privacy practices. Your continued use of our platform after any changes indicates your acceptance of the updated policy.

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:

You may also reach us through our contact page. We aim to respond to all privacy-related inquiries within 30 days.