Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 2026

What we collect

• Ratings & battle votes: we store the rating/vote value, a timestamp, and a one-way cryptographic hash derived from your IP address and browser user-agent string (combined with a site-wide salt). We use this hash only to prevent duplicate voting and abuse — we cannot reverse it back into your IP address.
• Session cookie: a first-party session cookie is used for basic site functionality (like CSRF protection on forms). It contains no personal information.
• Saved recipes: if you use "Save Recipe," the list of saved recipe slugs is stored only in your browser's local storage — it never reaches our server.
• Server logs & basic analytics: like most websites, our web server keeps standard access logs (IP address, requested URL, timestamp) for security and troubleshooting. We also record aggregate pageview analytics — page path, referrer, a one-way hash of your IP address, and an approximate country/region derived from IP address — to understand traffic and detect abuse. This is first-party analytics we operate ourselves, not a third-party tracker.
• Contact form tickets: if you use the contact form, we store the name, email address, and message you submit so we can reply, plus a one-way hash of your IP address for spam prevention. You'll get a private, unguessable ticket link by email to view replies — we never publish contact details publicly.

Advertising

Ruffles.net may show Google AdSense advertising and/or sponsored placements from our own small site network. When active, Google and other advertising partners may use cookies or similar technology to serve and measure ads; this is governed by Google's own privacy policy, and you can review or adjust ad personalization at myadcenter.google.com. We do not sell your personal data, and advertising is never a prerequisite for using any part of the site.

What we don't do

We don't sell personal data, and we don't require account creation to use the site.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent through our contact form. We don't publish a public support email address.