Terms of Service

1. Agreement to These Terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of What's Cookin — our web application and the What's Cookin Chrome Extension (together, the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age required in your country) to use the Service.

2. The Service

What's Cookin helps you save recipes from around the web or your own collection, organize a personal recipe library, plan meals, and generate shopping lists. Some features use artificial intelligence to read and structure recipe content (see Section 6). Certain features are free; others require a paid subscription. We may add, change, or remove features over time.

3. Your Account

• Provide accurate account information and keep it up to date.
• You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your credentials secure.
• Notify us promptly at legal@whats-cookin.ai if you suspect unauthorized use of your account.

4. Subscriptions and Billing

• Paid plans are billed as recurring subscriptions through our payment provider, Stripe. We never see or store your full card details.
• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until cancelled, and by subscribing you authorize us (via Stripe) to charge your payment method on a recurring basis until you cancel. You can cancel anytime from your account’s billing portal; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period, and you keep paid features until then.
• We may change subscription prices with reasonable advance notice; changes apply from your next billing period.
• Except where required by law, payments are non-refundable. If you believe you were charged in error, contact us and we’ll review it.

5. Your Content

“Your Content” means the recipes, photos, notes, tags, and other material you save to the Service.

• You own it. You retain all rights to Your Content. You grant us a limited license to host, process, and display it as needed to operate the Service — including showing it to others when you choose to share a recipe or make it public. If you delete a recipe, or make a public or shared recipe private, copies that other users saved to their libraries while it was visible remain in their libraries, with attribution to you (unless you posted anonymously).
• You are responsible for it. That includes content you clip from other websites: only save material you have the right to use, and use clipped recipes for personal, non-commercial purposes. Respect the original creators.
• Publishing is your responsibility. If you make a recipe public, you represent that it is your own work, an adaptation you have the right to share, or material you have permission to publish. You — not we — are responsible for content you choose to make public, and we may remove public content that we believe infringes someone else's rights (see Section 8).
• We display attribution. When a recipe was clipped from another website, its public page shows the source site and credited author, links back to the original, and always shows your profile name as the clipper — someone else's work cannot be published anonymously. When a recipe was adapted from another user's recipe on the Service, its public page shows an “Adapted from” credit naming the original and its author, and it likewise cannot be published anonymously. For your own original recipes you may choose to post anonymously when publishing.
• Sharing is your choice. Recipes are private by default. If you make a recipe public or share it, others will see its content, including any edits you have made to its details or tags. If you grant someone edit access to a recipe, that person can change the recipe's content; it remains your recipe and is shown under your name.

6. AI-Generated and User-Edited Information

The Service uses artificial intelligence to read recipe pages, photos, and pasted text, and to estimate structured details such as ingredients, quantities, dietary tags (for example “Vegetarian” or “Nut-Free”), and nutritional values. This information is generated automatically on a best-effort basis and may be incomplete or incorrect. Recipe owners can also edit these details at any time.

• Dietary tags and nutrition estimates are informational only. They are not medical, nutritional, or dietary advice.
• If you have a food allergy, intolerance, or medical dietary requirement, always read the actual ingredient list and verify it yourself before preparing or eating a dish. Never rely on a tag or estimate alone.
• Details on shared or public recipes may have been edited by the recipe’s owner; the owner is responsible for edits they make.

7. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Use the Service for anything unlawful, harmful, or deceptive.
• Upload content that is infringing, malicious, or abusive.
• Probe, overload, scrape, or disrupt the Service, or access it by automated means outside the features we provide.
• Circumvent usage limits, feature gating, or security measures, or resell the Service.

8. Copyright Complaints

If you believe content on the Service infringes your copyright, email us at legal@whats-cookin.ai. So we can act on it, your notice should include:

• your physical or electronic signature;
• identification of the copyrighted work you believe is infringed;
• identification of the material you believe is infringing and where it appears on the Service (a link to the recipe page is ideal — every public recipe has a “Report this recipe” link that pre-fills this);
• your contact information;
• a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

We review complaints promptly, remove or disable access to material when appropriate, and may notify the user who posted it so they can respond. We may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

9. Chrome Extension

The What's Cookin Chrome Extension is part of the Service and is covered by these Terms, in addition to any terms that apply from the Chrome Web Store. The Extension reads the content of a recipe page only when you actively clip it.

10. Our Intellectual Property

The Service itself — including its software, design, and branding — belongs to us and our licensors. These Terms don’t grant you any rights to it beyond using the Service as intended.

11. Third-Party Services

The Service integrates third parties such as Stripe (payments) and Google (sign-in), and links to external recipe websites. Those services have their own terms and privacy policies, and we are not responsible for them.

You may also connect the Service to an AI assistant of your choosing. Any assistant you connect acts on your behalf and under your instruction: what it does with the recipe information it requests, how long it keeps it, and whether it uses it to train its models are governed by that provider's terms, not ours. We do not review or endorse the assistants you connect, and any app may register under any display name, so check the address shown on the connection screen before approving it. You can revoke a connection at any time in Settings. Recipes created through a connected assistant are subject to Section 6 — treat their dietary and nutrition information as an estimate and check the ingredients yourself if it matters medically.

12. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time, and you may request deletion of your account and its data by contacting us at legal@whats-cookin.ai. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, create risk for other users, or abuse the Service, and we may discontinue the Service with reasonable notice. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends; provisions that by their nature should survive (such as Sections 5, 6, 13, 14, and 15) survive.

13. Disclaimers

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or uninterrupted availability. Your use of the Service is at your own risk.

14. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of data or profits, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose (or, if you use only the free tier, to zero). Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

15. Indemnification

You agree to defend and hold us harmless from claims, damages, and reasonable costs (including legal fees) arising from Your Content, your use of the Service in violation of these Terms, or your infringement of another person’s rights. This does not apply where prohibited by law and does not limit any mandatory consumer rights you have.

16. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms as the Service evolves. For material changes, we will give notice in the app or by email before the changes take effect. Continuing to use the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.

17. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction where the operator of What's Cookin is established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and disputes will be resolved in the courts of that jurisdiction, unless the mandatory consumer-protection law of your country of residence provides otherwise.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms: legal@whats-cookin.ai