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FAQ
Help, safety, and privacy.
Quick answers about how Vegan Steps works, what data is used, and the rules that keep recipes safer for everyone.
terms
Terms of Service
The baseline rules for using Vegan Steps and keeping the community usable.
Your content
Only upload recipes, text, and images that you created or have permission to use. Vegan Steps may remove content that appears illegal, unsafe, infringing, misleading, or against the community guidelines.
Service changes
Vegan Steps is still evolving, so features may change, break, or be removed. Important legal or privacy changes should be shown clearly before they apply.
privacy
Privacy Policy
What personal data Vegan Steps needs, what is optional, and how long it should be kept.
Core data
Vegan Steps needs your email, username, password hash, session data, recipes, saved recipes, ratings, reports, and moderation records to run the service.
Optional data
Personalised recommendations, analytics, and product emails are optional. You can turn these off and still use the core recipe features.
Retention
Verification and reset codes expire after 30 minutes. Recipe views should be deleted after 90 days unless already deleted by the user. Soft-deleted accounts should be permanently deleted after 30 days where legally appropriate, while moderation records may need to stay longer for safety and accountability.
Deletion choices
Users can delete optional data such as recipe view history and optional preference choices without deleting their account. Account deletion soft-deletes the account first so safety and moderation checks can complete before permanent deletion.
community
Community Guidelines
The human rules: no abuse, no illegal uploads, no dangerous misinformation.
Be honest
Do not knowingly post false allergen, vegan, ingredient, or safety information. Recipe tags are helpful signals, not guarantees.
Be lawful
Do not upload illegal, abusive, hateful, explicit, violent, or copyrighted content you do not have permission to use.
Be useful
Reports should be made in good faith. Spam, harassment, and repeated false reports may lead to account restrictions.
reporting
Reporting / Takedown Policy
How users can flag illegal, unsafe, infringing, or guideline-breaking content.
Reports
Every public recipe should be reportable. Reports should include a reason and enough detail for a moderator to review the recipe fairly.
Takedowns
Vegan Steps may remove recipes, images, comments, or accounts when content appears illegal, unsafe, infringing, or against the rules.
Appeals
Users should be able to ask for a moderation decision to be reviewed, especially when a recipe is rejected or removed.
moderation
Moderator Policy
How moderators should treat reports and submitted recipes consistently.
Review standards
Moderators should review reported and submitted recipes using the same rules, record reasons for decisions, and avoid approving unsafe or infringing content.
Actions
Moderators may approve, reject, ignore, remove, or escalate content. Severe or repeated violations may lead to account restrictions.
allergen safety
Allergen and Food Safety Disclaimer
A clear warning that user-submitted recipes are not allergy or medical advice.
User-submitted information
Vegan Steps recipes, tags, ingredients, and instructions are submitted by users and are not professionally verified unless explicitly stated.
Allergens
Vegan, gluten-free, nut-free, and similar tags are not guarantees. Always check ingredient labels, cross-contamination risks, and professional advice when needed.
Food safety
Users are responsible for safe preparation, storage, cooking temperatures, and checking whether ingredients are suitable for their own circumstances.