Last updated: April 12, 2026
Information We Collect
ChopZen collects minimal information to provide you with the best possible experience:
- Account Information — If you register, we store your email address and username
- Usage Data — We may collect anonymous analytics about page visits and recipe interactions
- Comments — If you leave a comment, we store your name, email, and the comment content
How We Use Your Information
- To provide and maintain our recipe platform
- To improve your experience through analytics
- To respond to your inquiries and support requests
- To send occasional updates about new recipes (if you opt in)
Data Security
We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your information. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Third-Party Services
We may use third-party services for analytics and payment processing. These services have their own privacy policies, and we encourage you to review them.
Your Rights
You have the right to:
- Request access to your personal data
- Request correction or deletion of your data
- Opt out of promotional communications
- Request data export
Contact Us
For any privacy-related questions, please contact us at contact@chopzen.com.
Advertising Cookies and Google AdSense
ChopZen may display advertising through Google AdSense and related advertising partners. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to ChopZen or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads to visitors based on their visit to ChopZen and other sites on the Internet. These cookies may support personalized advertising, frequency capping, ad measurement, and fraud prevention.
Visitors may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Visitors can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting aboutads.info.
If additional third-party advertising networks are used on ChopZen, we will identify them here and provide links to their privacy or opt-out resources when available.
Consent Management
Before non-essential analytics or advertising cookies are enabled, ChopZen asks for your choice through its consent banner. Selecting “Reject non-essential” keeps those cookies and tags disabled. You can clear the chopzen_consent cookie in your browser to make a new choice. Essential cookies used for security, form delivery, and basic site operation do not require this choice.
Analytics, Email, and Reader Control
ChopZen uses limited analytics to understand which recipes and guides are useful. Newsletter signups require an email address, and subscribers may unsubscribe from future emails using the link included in each message.
We do not sell reader email addresses. We also avoid collecting sensitive personal information through recipe pages. If a contact message includes personal information, it is used only to respond to that message and improve the relevant content when appropriate.