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AI Usage & Transparency Policy

AI can be helpful, but it can hallucinate, misunderstand context, and produce unsafe or unsuitable cooking guidance. Always use judgment.

How AI Works in Cookie

Cookie combines proprietary recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, embeddings, a proprietary vector database, and third-party AI models to support home cooking.

AI may help with dynamic recommendations, recipe discovery, mood-based suggestions, occasion-based suggestions, ingredient substitutions, cooking techniques, kitchen questions, step-by-step guidance, recipe scaling, weather-aware suggestions, and future voice-capable cooking guidance.

Cookie's personalization profile is processed primarily locally on your device. Third-party AI providers receive only the minimum context needed for the specific request when their models are used.

Where AI Is Used

Home recommendations

AI and ranking systems may suggest breakfast, lunch, dinner, quick meals, weather-aware meals, and time-aware recipes.

Pantry intelligence

Cookie may suggest recipes from available ingredients, expiry dates, quantity signals, and low inventory information.

Recipe experience

AI may support scaling, substitutions, cooking steps, hands-free cooking, and interactive cooking assistance.

Ask Cookie

Conversational AI may answer cooking questions, explain techniques, suggest recipes, and help adapt meals.

AI Privacy Rules

Cookie never intentionally transmits names, email addresses, account identifiers, authentication credentials, user profile records, dietary preferences, allergies, cuisine preferences, cooking goals, or complete pantry inventories tied to an identifiable user to third-party AI providers as part of a model request.

Whenever technically feasible, Cookie anonymizes requests, removes personally identifiable information, strips identifiers, and minimizes prompts. AI providers are contractually required to process data only to provide AI functionality and related support. Cookie does not knowingly use personally identifiable customer information to train foundation AI models.

Limitations and Possible Inaccuracies

  • AI may hallucinate ingredients, steps, quantities, temperatures, timing, nutrition values, or food safety advice.
  • AI may miss allergies, dietary restrictions, ingredient labels, religious requirements, or local food rules.
  • AI may misunderstand pantry inventory, weather, serving sizes, appliance differences, or household preferences.
  • Nutrition and macro outputs are estimates, not medical or nutrition diagnoses.
  • AI may produce different answers to similar questions.

You are responsible for verifying ingredients, labels, allergens, cooking temperatures, appliance instructions, expiration dates, and food safety.

No Medical, Legal, or Nutrition Diagnosis

Cookie does not provide medical advice, legal advice, nutrition diagnosis, dietetic treatment, weight-loss treatment, or healthcare services. AI responses and recipe information are for general cooking support.

If you have allergies, medical conditions, pregnancy-related needs, nutrition requirements, medication interactions, or other sensitive circumstances, consult a qualified professional and verify all ingredients independently.

AI Safety and User Responsibilities

Do not use Cookie to create dangerous instructions, evade safety systems, generate illegal content, harass others, infringe rights, or make decisions that require professional judgment. Do not enter highly sensitive personal information in AI conversations unless a feature specifically asks for it and you understand why.

Cookie may monitor abuse signals, rate-limit requests, block unsafe prompts, remove content, or suspend accounts to protect users and the service.

Provider Changes

Cookie may change AI providers, models, routing, safety filters, prompt strategies, or proprietary systems over time. We will update this policy when material AI data practices change.