Privacy Policy

The short version: we run a recipe site. We use Google Analytics to count visits in aggregate, but we don't sell your data, we don't run ad networks, and we don't build profiles. Here's the long version anyway, because some lawyer somewhere needs to feel useful.

1. Who we are

Make Butter Chicken At Home ("the Site", "we", "us") is a small, independently-run cooking site. We publish one recipe — butter chicken — and we publish it well. We are not a marketing platform, we are not an ad-tech business, and we are not interested in becoming one.

2. What we collect

When you visit the Site, our hosting provider automatically logs basic request information to keep the service running and to defend against abuse. This typically includes:

• your IP address (truncated after 30 days);
• the page you requested and the time of the request;
• your browser's user-agent string;
• the referring page, if your browser sent one.

We do not ask you to create an account. We do not collect your name, email, postal address, phone number, payment information, or biometric data. We do not build a profile of you, because we don't have anything to sell you.

3. Stored on your device

To make the recipe useful, the Site saves a few small pieces of information in your browser's localStorage. This data never leaves your device and is never sent to us:

• bc:checked — which ingredients you've ticked off, so the checklist survives a reload.
• bc:steps — which method steps you've marked complete.
• Tweak preferences — your chosen palette, font, and layout, if you've used the Tweaks panel.

You can clear this at any time by using your browser's "clear site data" tool. Doing so will reset the checklist and step tracker to empty.

4. Cookies & analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-SN9WWNVYPC) to understand which pages people visit, how they found the Site, and roughly where in the world they're cooking. This helps us decide what to write next and whether the page is working.

Google Analytics sets a small number of first-party cookies (typically _ga and _ga_*) and reports a hashed identifier, the URL of the page you're on, the page that referred you, your approximate location (derived from your IP, which Google anonymises), your device type, and your browser. We have configured the property with IP anonymisation enabled and do not enable Google Signals, advertising features, or remarketing audiences.

We do not set any other advertising or behavioural-tracking cookies. We do not use Facebook Pixel, TikTok Pixel, or any cross-site identity graph. We do not run remarketing campaigns.

If you'd rather not be counted, you can opt out by installing the official Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, enabling your browser's "Do Not Track" or "Global Privacy Control" signal, or using any standard content blocker — the site will work normally without analytics.

Our hosting provider may also set a single security cookie to mitigate spam and denial-of-service traffic. This cookie does not contain anything that identifies you personally.

5. Third-party services

A few resources on this page are loaded from third-party services because that's how the modern web is held together. Specifically:

• Google Analytics (as described in section 4) collects aggregated usage data.
• Google Fonts serves the typefaces. Your browser fetches the font files directly from Google's servers.
• Unsplash serves the food photography. When an image loads, your browser makes a request to Unsplash for that image.
• YouTube (specifically the privacy-enhanced youtube-nocookie.com domain) serves the embedded video. No tracking cookies are set until you press play.
• unpkg.com serves the open-source JavaScript libraries the site is built with.

These providers may log the request as part of their own normal operation. We have no control over their logs. If this concerns you, a content-blocking browser extension will stop the requests; the site will still mostly work, with system fonts.

6. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request a copy of any personal data we hold about you, to ask us to correct it, or to ask us to delete it. Since the only thing we hold is a short-lived server log keyed to a truncated IP, in practice this means: we probably don't have anything about you specifically, and if we do, we'll delete it on request.

Email hello@makebutterchicken.example and we'll respond within 30 days.

7. Children's privacy

The Site is intended for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with information, please contact us and we will delete it.

8. Changes to this policy

If we change how the Site handles data, we'll update this page and revise the "last updated" date at the top. Material changes will be noted at the top of the page for at least 30 days.

9. Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything else (including the recipe), can be sent to hello@makebutterchicken.example. Real human reads every email. The reply will probably also contain a cooking tip.