The short version: you can browse every recipe without an account and without being tracked. There are no ads and no third-party analytics.
If you sign up, we store what is needed to run your account and the content you choose to share. Photos you upload have their location and camera metadata removed. You can ask us to delete your data at any time.
What we collect
Browsing without an account: nothing personal. We keep simple totals such as how many times a recipe was viewed or downloaded. Those are counters on the recipe itself — they are not tied to you, your IP address or your device.
If you create an account, we store:
- Your email address, username and display name.
- Your password, stored only as a one-way hash. We cannot read it.
- Optional profile details you add yourself, such as a bio or avatar.
- The content you create: recipes, uploaded files, articles, ratings and NP3 Generator drafts.
If you use the contact form, we receive your name, email address, subject and message. See The contact form.
Photos and files you upload
Sample images you attach to a recipe or article are re-encoded and downscaled before they are stored. This strips embedded metadata, including EXIF camera data and any GPS location written by your camera or phone.
Recipe files (.NP3, .FP1, LUTs, Picture Styles and similar) are stored as you upload them so others can download them.
Published recipes and articles — including their images, files and your username — are public. Drafts are visible only to you and to site administrators.
Creator tools
- Picture Control Editor: runs entirely in your browser. Photos you open for preview are never uploaded. Presets you save are kept in your browser's local storage.
- Lightroom → Nikon and Fujifilm → Nikon: the preset or recipe values are sent to our server to build the .NP3 file and are not stored. Photos used for preview stay in your browser.
- NP3 Generator: requires an account. The reference photo is analysed on our server and saved, downscaled and stripped of metadata, as a private draft alongside the generated .NP3. You can delete a draft at any time, which removes its files.
- Sony Recipe Builder: runs in your browser. Your selected camera model is remembered in local storage.
Cookies and local storage
We do not use advertising or tracking cookies, so there is no cookie banner.
- Sign-in cookies. When you log in, our authentication system sets cookies that keep you signed in and protect forms against cross-site request forgery. They are strictly necessary and are cleared when you log out or they expire.
- Local storage. A few preferences are kept only in your browser: your chosen Sony camera, recipes you marked as verified, and saved Picture Control Editor presets. They never leave your device, and clearing your browser data removes them.
Analytics and advertising
Film Recipe Hub runs no third-party analytics, advertising, social-media pixels or cross-site tracking. Share buttons are plain links — nothing is sent to a social network unless you click one. Fonts are served from our own domain.
The contact form
- Submitting the contact form sends your name, email, subject and message to our inbox as an email, with your address set as reply-to.
- Messages are not saved in our database.
- Your email address is used only to reply to you. There is no mailing list.
- Ask and we will delete the conversation.
How we use your data
Only to run the service: signing you in, showing your content and credit on the pages you publish, answering your messages, and keeping the site secure and free of abuse.
We do not sell or rent personal data, and we do not use it for advertising or profiling.
Who else sees it
- Other visitors see what you choose to publish, together with your username and display name.
- Our hosting provider stores the database and files and keeps standard server logs (such as IP address and request time) for security and reliability.
- Our email provider delivers contact-form messages.
- Authorities, if we are legally required to disclose information.
How long we keep it
Account data is kept while your account exists. Published recipes stay online until you or an administrator remove them. NP3 Generator drafts are kept until you delete them. When an account is deleted, its private data is removed; published content may be removed or anonymised.
Your choices and rights
You can edit your profile and password from your account pages, and delete your own drafts at any time.
To get a copy of your data, correct it, or delete your account and the content attached to it, contact us from the email address on your account. We will respond within 30 days. Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR), you may also have the right to object to processing or to complain to your local data-protection authority.
Security
Passwords are hashed, the site is served over HTTPS, and account and draft areas require sign-in. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a password you do not reuse elsewhere.
Children
Film Recipe Hub is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal data. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will remove it.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top. For significant changes affecting account holders, we will also post a notice on the site.
Contact
Questions about privacy can be sent through the contact page.