Effective Date: April 20, 2026

This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Cookie Policy, which explains how advertising, analytics, and consent cookies may be used on WhatShouldIEatTonight.app.

WhatShouldIEatTonight.app ("we", "us", "our") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you use the site and how that information helps provide meal suggestions, recipe details, calories estimates, nutrition angles, advertising, and site improvements.

Our goal is to keep the service simple. You can use the meal suggestion tool without creating an account. The app works by processing the preferences you choose, such as diet, mood, time available, and optional ingredients, so it can generate useful dinner ideas and explain why a meal may fit your situation.

Information We Collect

• Usage Data: Pages visited, features used, approximate device type, browser, and general interaction data may be collected automatically through analytics and advertising tools.
• Cookies: Cookies and similar technologies may be used for analytics, advertising, fraud prevention, frequency capping, and measuring ad performance.
• User Input: Preferences you enter, including diet, mood, cooking time, and ingredients, are processed to generate meal suggestions. We do not ask for an account to use the core tool.

You should avoid entering sensitive personal information into ingredient fields, preference fields, or contact messages. Do not submit medical conditions, precise health history, financial information, passwords, private addresses, or anything confidential. Keeping inputs practical and food-related protects your privacy and improves the quality of the results.

How We Use Your Data

• To generate meal ideas, recipes, “Why this meal fits you” explanations, calories estimates, and nutrition angles.
• To keep the site reliable, fix bugs, and understand which features visitors find useful.
• To display and measure advertisements, which help keep the service free.

We may use aggregated, non-identifying information to understand broad patterns, such as whether visitors commonly choose quick dinners, healthy meals, vegan ideas, high-protein options, or low-calorie suggestions. This helps improve prompts, page content, and the overall usefulness of the experience.

Advertising Cookies and Consent

Advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to serve ads, limit repeated ads, measure ad performance, detect invalid traffic, and personalize ads where permitted by law. Depending on your location, you may be shown consent choices by Google or another consent tool before personalized advertising cookies are used.

You can manage or block cookies in your browser. Blocking cookies may affect ad relevance, analytics measurement, and some preferences, but the core meal suggestion pages remain available without creating an account. For more detail, see our Cookie Policy.

Third-Party Services

We may use Google AdSense and Google Analytics. These services may collect data as described in Google's Privacy Policy.

Google and other advertising partners may use cookies, device identifiers, or similar technologies to show ads, measure performance, prevent fraud, and personalize advertising where permitted. These third parties process data under their own privacy policies, and their practices are not controlled by us.

AI-Generated Meal Information

The app may generate recipe steps, calories estimates, nutrition angles, and explanations using artificial intelligence. These outputs are provided for general inspiration only. They may be incomplete, approximate, or unsuitable for your specific dietary needs. Always check ingredients, allergens, cooking temperatures, and portion sizes yourself before preparing a meal.

How to Protect Your Privacy While Using the Tool

For the best balance of privacy and usefulness, keep your inputs focused on food. Instead of writing personal health details, you can use general cooking preferences such as “vegetarian,” “high protein,” “low effort,” “no dairy,” “spicy,” or “use rice and mushrooms.” You can leave optional fields blank if you do not want to provide more detail.

If you contact us, include only the information needed to explain your question or feedback. For example, a bug report usually needs your browser, device type, and what you clicked before the issue happened. It should not include passwords, payment details, private addresses, or sensitive medical information.

Your Choices

You can disable cookies in your browser settings. You may also opt out of personalized advertising at Google Ads Settings. Some site features and ad preferences may work differently if cookies are blocked.

You can choose not to enter optional ingredients or detailed preferences. The app will still work, but suggestions may be more general. If you contact us through the contact page, your email app may send your name, email address, and message directly to us so we can reply.

Contact

Questions? Reach us at our contact page.