Terms of Service

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, you may use the service only with permission from a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these terms.

If you do not agree to these terms, do not create an account or use account-only features.

Provide accurate account information and keep your password secure. You are responsible for activity performed through your account. Contact Actual Recipe promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without permission.

Accounts may have different plans, storage allowances, roles, or feature access. Current allowances are shown in the service and may change as the service develops. Moderator or other limited roles may be granted or withdrawn at the site's discretion. Accounts may be restricted or closed for violations of these terms, risks to the service or its users, or legal requirements.

Free accounts can keep 10 private recipes; paid accounts can store up to 250, subject to any allowance shown on your account. When paid access ends and your collection exceeds the free allowance, the most recently edited recipes are kept by default. You may change which recipes are kept on Account.

Excess recipes receive a 30-day grace period before permanent deletion. During that period they remain accessible for reading, editing, exporting, sharing, and deletion. Editing and changing the kept selection do not restart the deadline. Creating more recipes is blocked while your collection is at or above its allowance. Resubscribing before the deadline cancels scheduled deletion. Deleted recipes, their favorites, and Kitchen shares cannot be restored by resubscribing.

The deadline is shown on Account and affected recipes. We send an initial email notice and a reminder at least seven days before automatic deletion. If notices are delayed, deletion is postponed so you receive at least 30 days after the initial notice and seven days after the reminder. Existing excess collections receive a full grace period when the policy begins. Keep exports of recipes you want to preserve.

When subscriptions are offered, the initial paid plan is $2 USD per month, plus applicable tax, and renews until canceled. Stripe through Link handles checkout, payment details, and subscription management. Cancel through Manage subscription or Link; a scheduled period-end cancellation retains paid access until that date. Failed renewals can end paid access and start the grace period; successful payment recovery before deletion restores access. Applicable payment and refund terms are presented at checkout by Stripe/Link; contact support with questions.

Use the site only for lawful purposes. Do not interfere with its operation, evade access controls or rate limits, probe it for vulnerabilities without permission, introduce malicious code, automate abusive requests, impersonate others, or use the service to violate another person's rights.

Do not submit unlawful, threatening, deceptive, infringing, or harmful material. Do not use private recipe fields to store passwords, financial details, health records, or other highly sensitive information.

You retain your rights in recipes and other content you save privately. You grant Actual Recipe a limited, nonexclusive license to host, store, reproduce, and display private content only as needed to operate, secure, and maintain the private features you choose to use.

Saving a private recipe does not submit it for publication and does not give Actual Recipe permission to publish, promote, sell, or otherwise monetize that private content.

Private recipe features are designed to limit visibility to the account that created the content, but no online system can promise absolute confidentiality or uninterrupted access. Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose, and do not use private recipe fields to store sensitive information.

If you intentionally share a recipe with a Kitchen, current members of that Kitchen may view, favorite, and export it. You remain the author and retain control over editing, unsharing, deleting, and submitting it for publication. Kitchen owners manage membership but do not acquire ownership of members' recipes.

A recipe is submitted for publication only when you intentionally use a publication-submission process and agree to the terms presented with that submission. Merely saving a private recipe is not a publication submission.

Submission creates a saved copy for moderator or admin review. Approved copies are public with your chosen author name. Rejection feedback and past versions remain available for revision and review. Changes to a private original require a new review before they appear publicly; deleting the original, ending a subscription, or closing an account does not automatically remove an approved public copy. Private comments on public recipes are not included in submissions or publication.

You retain ownership of any copyright you hold in submitted material. When you submit material for publication, you grant Actual Recipe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive license to host, store, reproduce, edit, adapt, format, publish, publicly display, distribute, promote, and monetize that material in connection with Actual Recipe and its promotion. This license includes permission to create excerpts, previews, resized images, and other formatting changes needed to present or promote the material.

Because the license is nonexclusive, you may continue to use, publish, license, and monetize your material elsewhere. No payment or revenue share is owed unless Actual Recipe separately agrees to one with you in writing.

You represent that you created the submitted material or otherwise have all rights and permissions needed to submit it and grant this license. Do not submit copied descriptions, photographs, illustrations, or other protected material without permission.

You may ask Actual Recipe to stop publishing your submission. Actual Recipe will make reasonable efforts to remove it from future public display, but removal may not affect copies already shared, promotional material already produced, ordinary backups, legal records, or rights previously granted to service providers as needed to distribute the material.

A submission process may present additional Contributor Terms covering matters such as attribution, editorial review, withdrawal, compensation, or special campaigns. If those Contributor Terms conflict with this section, the Contributor Terms control for that submission.

The site's design, branding, original writing, and software remain protected by applicable intellectual-property laws. These terms do not transfer ownership of them to you.

Recipes are provided for general informational purposes. Ingredients, equipment, temperatures, and cooking conditions vary. Use your judgment and follow authoritative food-safety guidance.

Verify ingredient labels and preparation methods yourself if allergies, intolerances, dietary restrictions, pregnancy, illness, or another health concern applies. Actual Recipe does not provide medical, nutritional, or professional advice and does not guarantee that a recipe is safe or suitable for any person.

The site and its features may be changed, suspended, or discontinued at any time. Availability, accuracy, security, and preservation of submitted content are not guaranteed.

The service may contain links to third-party sites or rely on third-party providers. Actual Recipe is not responsible for third-party content, policies, or services.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Actual Recipe is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Actual Recipe and its operator will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for loss of data, use, or profits arising from use of—or inability to use—the service. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.

These terms may be updated as the service changes. Revisions will be reflected by a new effective date. Continued use after revised terms take effect means you accept the revised terms.

Questions about these terms can be sent to contact@actualrecipe.com.