Privacy Policy

Last updated: 29 October 2026

This notice explains how Nikos Pavlou handles personal information when you visit nikospavlou.com, use the Mini Apps, or contact me about communities, partnerships, technology, music or other enquiries.

Who is responsible

This website is operated by Nikos Pavlou. For privacy questions or requests, contact info@nikospavlou.com.

Information we collect

If you use the contact form, we collect your name, email address, selected enquiry category, topic and message. The website host may also process basic connection and security logs when serving pages.

If you create a Mini Apps account, we collect your first name, last name, email address, a password hash (not your readable password), the recipes, ingredients and meal-plan information you save, and account security information such as email-verification status. If you choose to receive occasional product or site updates, we also record your choice and when and under which notice version you gave it. The app can be used without an account; in that case, its data is held in that browser tab's session storage.

Chop Chop Audio does not require an account. Audio files you open, their filenames and your edits are processed locally in your browser and are not uploaded to or stored on our server. The editing session is held in memory and discarded when you reload or close the tab. Any edited file you download is saved to your own device. Basic website connection and security logs may still be processed when serving the app's pages and code.

The contact form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to help prevent spam and automated submissions. Turnstile processes technical information about your browser and device, your IP address, and a verification token. It does not access the contents of your message. See Cloudflare's Turnstile Privacy Addendum.

How we use information

We use contact details and messages to read, respond to, and manage your enquiry. We use Turnstile and relevant technical logs to protect the form and website from abuse.

For Weekly Meal Prep, we use account information to create and secure your account, verify your email, recover access when requested, and store and retrieve your saved recipes and meal plans across devices. These activities are necessary to provide the account service you request and to protect it. We send verification and password-recovery emails only for those account purposes.

The Mini Apps operator can access account details and app-use records to administer and support the services. Mailing-list exports are restricted to verified users who have separately opted in to product or site updates.

Product or site-news emails are optional and are sent only if you actively opt in. The checkbox is not preselected, and you can withdraw your choice at any time using the app's Email preferences control or by contacting us. Withdrawing consent does not affect essential account emails.

Our basis for handling enquiries is our legitimate interest in receiving and responding to messages. Where you ask us to take steps before entering a contract, we may process the information for that purpose. We use security information to protect the website and its contact service.

For account features, processing is needed to provide the service you request; optional product/news email is based on your consent. We also process limited security and service-operation information for our legitimate interests in maintaining and protecting the service, taking account of your rights.

The community pricing calculator runs in your browser. Its slider values are not submitted with the contact form or stored by the calculator.

Who receives information

Contact form submissions are delivered to info@nikospavlou.com through our email service, including a CSV attachment containing the submitted details. Cloudflare processes Turnstile verification data, and our website hosting provider may process technical request logs. These services process information to provide or secure their services.

Weekly Meal Prep account records and saved data are stored in the app's database on hosting provided by Hetzner. Account verification and recovery messages are sent through the Mailcow-managed nikospavlou.com email service. These services handle information to host the app, store your data, and deliver the messages you request; we do not sell account information or share it with advertising services.

If you use Weekly Meal Prep's ingredient search, our server forwards the search terms to Open Food Facts and temporarily caches results for up to 15 minutes. Cached files are removed by an hourly cleanup. Your account details and meal plans are not sent. Our server receives your connection information and uses a short-lived hashed IP identifier to limit excessive searches. Barcode lookups and product images still connect directly from your browser to Open Food Facts, which receives the barcode and technical connection information such as your IP address. See Open Food Facts' terms.

We do not use account information for marketing unless you separately opt in to occasional product or site news. We do not sell your personal information.

External services and links

This website loads fonts from Google Fonts. Your browser connects to Google's servers to request the fonts, which exposes technical request information such as your IP address. See Google's Privacy Policy.

Links to ventures and social media profiles take you to separately operated websites. Those websites process information according to their own privacy notices.

International processing

Some service providers may process technical information outside the United Kingdom. Where data protection law requires safeguards for an international transfer, we rely on an applicable adequacy decision or another approved transfer safeguard.

How long we keep information

We keep enquiries and related correspondence only for as long as reasonably needed to respond and manage any follow-up. We may retain relevant records longer where needed to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, or to meet a legal obligation. We then securely delete or anonymise them.

Weekly Meal Prep account information and saved recipes are kept while the account remains open. To request account closure and deletion, contact us at info@nikospavlou.com. We may retain limited records where required by law or reasonably needed to resolve disputes and protect the service. Verification and password-reset links expire; their token values are stored only as hashes and are removed when used or replaced.

Cookies and similar technologies

Mini Apps uses a necessary, secure login cookie to keep you signed in on a device for up to 30 days from login, including after closing the browser. Logging out ends that login immediately. Server-side session data is held separately from saved recipes and account records and is cleaned up after 30 days of inactivity. On a shared device, log out when you finish.

This website does not use analytics or advertising cookies. Cloudflare Turnstile is used for contact-form security and may process technical information or use similar technologies as part of its verification service. We do not use it to track visitors across websites. If we introduce non-essential cookies or similar technologies that require consent, we will explain them and ask before enabling them.

Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to request access to, correction or deletion of your personal information, to restrict or object to its processing, or to receive information you provided in a portable format. To make a request, email info@nikospavlou.com.

You can change your optional product-news preference from Email preferences while signed in. You can also contact us to exercise your rights or withdraw consent. You may complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office if you are unhappy with how your information is handled.

Changes to this notice

We may update this policy when our services or data practices change. The latest version will always be available on this page.