Effective Date: August 21, 2026
Welcome to CookCircle.
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the CookCircle website, platform, and related services (collectively, the “Service”).
By creating an account or using CookCircle, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree with these Terms, you may not use the Service.
CookCircle is currently operated as a private, independent project and is provided free of charge. CookCircle currently does not charge subscription fees or display advertising.
Contact: [email protected]
CookCircle is a digital service designed to help users organize recipes, manage household food information, and plan meals.
The Service allows users to:
CookCircle is an organizational tool and does not provide professional nutritional, medical, dietary, allergy, or food safety advice.
CookCircle is currently under development. Features may be changed, added, restricted, or removed over time.
Certain features of CookCircle require an account.
When creating an account, you agree that:
You must not impersonate another person or create an account for fraudulent purposes.
CookCircle may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or that are involved in misuse of the Service.
Users may create, import, store, edit, and organize content through CookCircle.
This may include:
This content is referred to as “User Content”.
You retain ownership of the User Content that you create, subject to any rights belonging to third parties.
CookCircle does not acquire ownership of your User Content merely because you store it in the Service.
You grant CookCircle a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive license to store, process, reproduce, transmit, and display your User Content only as necessary to provide, operate, maintain, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the Service.
This includes providing the sharing functionality that you choose to use within a household.
This license does not transfer ownership of your User Content to CookCircle.
Recipes that are not shared with a household are intended to remain accessible only to the user who created or imported them.
CookCircle will not intentionally make private recipes available to other CookCircle users through the household-sharing functionality.
However, no online service can guarantee that information will never be accessed as a result of a security incident, technical failure, or unauthorized access.
CookCircle allows users to create and participate in households.
A household allows members to share selected information with one another.
This may include:
The creator of a household acts as the household owner.
The household owner may:
Information shared within a household may be visible to all current members of that household.
CookCircle is not responsible for disputes between household members regarding information shared within the household.
Users should only share information with household members that they are comfortable making available to those members.
CookCircle allows household owners to generate invitation links.
Invitation links are temporary and expire after seven (7) days unless otherwise specified by the Service.
Anyone who obtains a valid invitation link during its active period may potentially join the associated household.
Household owners are responsible for sharing invitation links only with people they trust.
CookCircle may introduce additional security measures, limitations, or expiration periods for invitation links.
CookCircle is not responsible for unauthorized household membership resulting from a user sharing an invitation link with an unintended recipient.
CookCircle allows household members to maintain a shared pantry.
Pantry information may include food items, quantities, units, and related information entered by household members.
Pantry information is intended to be shared only with members of the relevant household.
Pantry information is not made publicly available through CookCircle.
CookCircle may provide a shared household calendar and meal-planning functionality.
Information entered into the shared household calendar may be visible to members of the relevant household.
Users are responsible for the information they enter into shared household calendars and meal plans.
CookCircle does not provide guarantees regarding the accuracy or suitability of meal plans or recipes.
CookCircle may allow users to import recipes or recipe information from external sources.
You are responsible for ensuring that you have the necessary rights to use and store imported content.
CookCircle does not claim ownership of third-party content imported by users.
You acknowledge that imported recipes may be subject to copyright or other rights belonging to third parties.
CookCircle does not generally verify whether a user has permission to import particular content.
You must not use CookCircle to store or distribute content in a way that infringes the rights of another person or organization.
If you believe that content stored on CookCircle infringes your rights, please contact CookCircle using the contact information provided in these Terms.
You agree not to:
CookCircle may restrict access to the Service or remove content where reasonably necessary to protect CookCircle, its users, or third parties.
Acceptable Use — Video Import You may only submit video URLs that you have the right to use for this purpose. You agree not to use the video import feature to download or process content in violation of the source platform’s own terms of service, or content to which you do not hold sufficient rights. We reserve the right to disable this feature for your account, or entirely, at any time without notice.
The CookCircle platform, including its software, design, branding, logos, interfaces, and original materials, is owned by or licensed to CookCircle.
You may not:
These Terms do not grant you ownership rights in the CookCircle platform.
User Content remains subject to Section 3.
CookCircle is currently provided as a free, independent project.
CookCircle aims to provide a reliable service but does not guarantee that the Service will always be:
The Service may become temporarily unavailable because of:
CookCircle may modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue parts of the Service at any time.
CookCircle may also permanently discontinue the Service.
Where reasonably possible, CookCircle will attempt to provide advance notice of significant changes or permanent discontinuation.
CookCircle takes reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect user information.
However, no online service can guarantee absolute security.
You acknowledge that:
Information about personal data processing is described in the CookCircle Privacy Policy.
You may delete your CookCircle account using the account deletion functionality provided by the Service.
Deleting your account is intended to remove your account and associated User Content from the active Service, subject to applicable legal or technical retention requirements.
This may include:
Because some information may be shared with other household members, deletion may affect information available to the household.
Some information may remain temporarily in backups or technical systems until those systems are overwritten.
Certain information may also be retained where necessary to comply with legal obligations or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Once an account has been deleted, it may not be possible to recover it or its associated content.
CookCircle is provided on an “as available” and “as is” basis.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, CookCircle makes no warranties regarding:
Users are responsible for independently evaluating:
CookCircle does not provide professional nutritional, medical, dietary, allergy, or food safety advice.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, CookCircle shall not be liable for:
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where such exclusion or limitation is prohibited by applicable law.
Nothing in these Terms affects mandatory rights that cannot legally be excluded or limited.
CookCircle may change, add, remove, or discontinue features of the Service.
This may include changes to:
CookCircle will make reasonable efforts to maintain compatibility with existing data, but cannot guarantee that all historical functionality will remain available indefinitely.
CookCircle may update these Terms from time to time.
Changes may be necessary because of:
The updated Terms will include a new effective date.
Where appropriate, CookCircle may notify users of significant changes through the Service or by other reasonable means.
Where applicable law requires explicit consent to a change, CookCircle will obtain that consent.
Continued use of CookCircle after updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.
These Terms shall be governed by and interpreted according to the laws of Sweden.
Any disputes shall be handled by the competent courts of Sweden, unless mandatory law provides otherwise.
Nothing in these Terms limits mandatory consumer protection rights or other rights that cannot legally be excluded.
Questions or concerns regarding CookCircle or these Terms may be sent to:
Email: [email protected]
CookCircle is currently operated as a private, independent project.
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