Terms of Service

Home Cooked helps households collect recipes, preserve family stories, plan meals, build grocery lists, and invite trusted people into shared cookbooks. Please use the service only for lawful personal or household purposes, and do not interfere with the app, other accounts, or the security of the service.

Recipe ideas, imported recipe text, nearby-store suggestions, and other automated features are offered for convenience. They are not dietary, allergy, nutrition, medical, or food-safety advice. Always review ingredients, preparation steps, temperatures, and allergens before cooking or sharing a recipe.

You are responsible for the activity that happens through your account and for keeping access to your email secure. If you invite someone to a cookbook, make sure you intend for them to see the recipes, photos, notes, meal plans, and other content available in that cookbook.

You keep ownership of the recipes, photos, notes, stories, ratings, grocery items, and other content you add. You give Home Cooked the limited permission needed to host, store, display, process, back up, and share that content according to your cookbook settings and invitations.

Only upload or import content that you have the right to use. Recipe facts and ingredient lists may be simple, but photos, headnotes, scans, source articles, and family stories can belong to someone else. You are responsible for the content you add and for respecting others' rights and privacy.

Content contributed to a shared cookbook becomes part of that cookbook. If your account is deleted, recipes and stories you contributed to a cookbook that remains may stay with the cookbook. We may remove the active account link while retaining a historical display name so members can understand the contribution's context.

We may suspend an account to protect the service, its members, or their content. Suspension restricts access but does not by itself change cookbook ownership or delete content.

Deleting an account removes personal account data and private content. A shared cookbook with other members must be transferred to a remaining member before its owner can be deleted; it is not removed merely because its owner leaves. For administrator-initiated deletion, we may send a compact archive of the cookbook content that will be removed to the account email before deletion proceeds. Email delivery and attachment size limits can prevent deletion from continuing.

You can report content you believe is inappropriate, harassing, invasive of privacy, infringing, or spam. Reports are handled privately; the reported person is not told who submitted a report.

We may hide content while reviewing a report, remove only the affected content, restrict uploads, remove a member from a shared cookbook, or restrict account access for repeated or serious misuse. Where appropriate, we may provide a way to request review of a reversible decision.

Home Cooked offers a free plan and an optional Plus subscription. Plus is currently offered at $24.99 per year, with the features and limits shown on the pricing page before you subscribe. Prices may change for future renewals, and any change will be shown or communicated as required by law.

Plus subscriptions renew annually unless you cancel before the next renewal. Checkout and payment processing are handled by Stripe. You can update payment details, view invoices, or cancel through the Billing Portal available in your account settings. Cancellation stops the next renewal; it does not delete your recipes, cookbooks, or other saved content. Unless a refund is issued, access to Plus features continues through the current paid subscription period and will then follow the Free plan limits.

Refunds are described below. Any additional credit, tax, or consumer-cancellation rights are governed by applicable law. For billing help, contact support promptly with the email address on your account.

We want you to be happy with Home Cooked. If you purchase Home Cooked Plus and decide it isn't right for you, contact us at support@tryhomecooked.com within 30 days of your initial purchase for a full refund.

After 30 days, subscription payments are generally non-refundable. We may issue refunds at our discretion in cases such as duplicate charges, billing errors, or other exceptional circumstances.

Canceling your subscription prevents future renewal charges. Unless a refund is issued, you'll continue to have access to Plus features through the end of your current paid subscription period.

This policy does not limit any cancellation or refund rights you have under applicable law.

We work to keep Home Cooked useful and reliable, but the service may be unavailable at times for maintenance, provider outages, security work, or product changes. We may add, remove, or change features as the app evolves, including AI, import, storage, and sharing features.

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Home Cooked and its operators are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost data, lost profits, recipe mistakes, food-preparation issues, or third-party service problems related to your use of the app. Some places do not allow certain limits, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

We may update these Terms as the service changes. When we make material updates, we will revise the date above and provide notice when it is practical. Continuing to use Home Cooked after an update means you accept the revised Terms.

Questions about these Terms can be sent to support@tryhomecooked.com.