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The short version: when you use Tasteze, you and DND Media Group LLC enter into this agreement. You keep ownership of your recipes; we get a narrow licence to display and process them so the features work. We can update these terms with notice. If a disagreement ever comes up, Florida law applies and a Florida court decides it — though we’d hope to settle it over email well before that.
The summary.
Who’s agreeing to what. You (the person using Tasteze) and DND Media Group LLC, a Florida limited liability company (Tasteze, we, us).
What you get. A licence to use the platform — the apps, the APIs, and the partner blog network — at the tier you’ve signed up for, subject to the limits described in /pricing.
What we get. A narrow licence to display, process, and (for partners) publish the content you upload, plus the right to bill you on the subscription you chose.
What stays yours. Your recipes. Always.
If you got our app from the App Store. Article 12 adds terms that Apple requires, and it controls over anything earlier in this document that conflicts with it.
The agreement.
By creating an account, signing in, tapping a button marked as acceptance, or using the platform, you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy. You agree that this agreement may be formed electronically and that your electronic acceptance has the same effect as a handwritten signature.
If you’re using Tasteze on behalf of a household, an organisation, or a business, you’re confirming you have the authority to bind that group to this agreement.
Age. You must be at least 13 years old to hold a Tasteze account (16 in the EU/UK). If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use Tasteze only with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian, who agrees to these Terms on your behalf and remains responsible for your use of the platform. If you’re a household owner inviting a minor, you remain the legal counterparty.
These Terms are a licence, not a sale. The platform is licensed to you, not sold. We reserve every right not expressly granted here.
Changes. We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes — anything that limits your rights or expands your obligations — get at least 30 days’ notice by email and a banner in the app. Non-material changes — clarifications, typos, vendor swaps that don’t affect what you see — take effect when posted. Past versions live at /terms/history. If you don’t agree to a material change, you may stop using the platform and close your account before the change takes effect.
Order of precedence. If these Terms conflict with Article 12 as to the application you obtained from the Apple App Store, Article 12 controls. If these Terms conflict with the Partner Addendum as to partner publishing, the Partner Addendum controls. Nothing in these Terms is intended to establish usage rules for the App Store application that conflict with the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, and to the extent any provision would do so, that provision does not apply to the App Store application.
Your account.
One account per person. You’re responsible for keeping your credentials secure — turning on two-factor authentication in Settings → Security is strongly encouraged. If you spot unauthorised access, email security@tasteze.app and we’ll lock the account while we investigate.
Households let you share recipes, plans, shopping lists, and pantry across up to 12 people on the Chef tier. Each member has their own account; only the owner is billed. Roles (owner, admin, member) determine what each member can change.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that are using the platform in violation of Article 08, with or without notice — the urgency depends on the severity of the issue.
Your licence to use Tasteze.
Subject to these Terms and to your payment of any applicable fees, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to access and use the platform for your own personal, household, and — where your tier permits it — professional culinary purposes.
This licence covers the Tasteze web application, our mobile applications, and our APIs at the rate limits published for your tier. It does not transfer ownership of anything. We and our licensors retain all right, title, and interest in the platform, including the software, the system recipes, the models and prompts we operate, the trademarks, and the design.
Where you obtained our application from the Apple App Store, the licence for that application is the one described in Article 12.2, and Article 12.2 controls as to that application.
Your recipes.
You own the content you upload — recipes you create, recipes you import, photos you take, notes you leave, cookbooks you compile, blog posts you (or our AI on your behalf) publish. Tasteze claims no ownership of any of it.
You’re responsible for ensuring you have the right to upload what you upload. If you import a recipe from someone else’s blog, the underlying ingredients aren’t copyrightable — but the prose, photos, and presentation are. Bring what’s yours, cite what isn’t.
AI-generated content. When you ask the platform to generate or transform a recipe, the output is yours under the same terms as the input. We don’t claim ownership of AI outputs you commission. The underlying model providers retain no licence to your prompts (see Privacy Article 04).
What you give us.
To run the platform, you grant Tasteze a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, display, store, copy, and (for features that require it) modify your content for the limited purpose of providing the service to you and your household.
For partners only: you also grant us the right to publish your blog posts on blog.tasteze.app and on any custom domain you’ve connected. Either party can revoke this publication licence at any time — when you delete a post or your partner status, we remove it from the public internet within 24 hours and from search engine caches as quickly as the search engines permit.
What we don’t take. Rights to use your content in advertising, to sell it to third parties, to train external AI models on it, or to keep it after you delete your account.
Subscriptions & payments.
Tasteze offers three tiers — Free, Home Cook, and Chef — at the prices listed on /pricing. The Free tier has no time limit; you can stay on it indefinitely.
Automatic renewal.
YOUR PAID SUBSCRIPTION RENEWS AUTOMATICALLY. UNLESS YOU CANCEL BEFORE THE END OF THE CURRENT BILLING PERIOD, YOUR SUBSCRIPTION WILL AUTOMATICALLY RENEW FOR A FURTHER PERIOD OF THE SAME LENGTH, AND THE PAYMENT METHOD ON FILE WILL BE CHARGED THE THEN-CURRENT PRICE FOR THAT TIER. MONTHLY PLANS RENEW EVERY MONTH. ANNUAL PLANS RENEW EVERY TWELVE MONTHS.
For any subscription with a term of twelve months or more, we will send you written or electronic notice no less than 30 days and no more than 60 days before the cancellation deadline. That notice will tell you that the subscription will renew automatically unless you cancel, and how to obtain the details of the renewal provision and the cancellation procedure.
How to cancel. You may cancel in the same manner and by the same means you used to subscribe.
- If you subscribed inside our iOS application through the App Store, manage or cancel the subscription in your Apple Account settings, or from Settings → Subscription inside the app. Apple, not Tasteze, administers those subscriptions.
- If you subscribed on the web, cancel from Settings → Subscription, or email billing@tasteze.app.
Cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing period you have already paid for. You retain access until then.
Billing. Payments are processed by RevenueCat, through the Apple App Store or through Stripe, depending on where you signed up. Purchases made through the App Store are also subject to the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, and where those terms give you a right that this article does not, those terms apply.
Price changes. If we change the price of a tier you’re on, we’ll notify you at least 30 days ahead. The new price applies at the start of the next billing period — you can cancel before then to avoid the change.
Refunds. For accounts billed through Stripe, we don’t issue prorated refunds for partial billing periods, but if something went wrong, email billing@tasteze.app within 14 days of a charge and we’ll sort it out.
For purchases made through the App Store, refunds are handled by Apple under Apple’s policies. Nothing in this article limits any refund right you have from Apple, and nothing here requires you to seek a refund from us first.
If you stop paying. Your account drops to the Free tier. Every recipe, plan, cookbook, and pantry item is preserved. You just lose access to premium features, and the limits of /pricing apply.
The partner program.
Tasteze partners — Chef-tier subscribers approved through the partner application — get an additional licence: the right to publish a blog at blog.tasteze.app/[your-slug] and, optionally, on a custom domain you connect. The partner program is governed by these Terms plus the Partner Addendum.
Editorial standards. Partners are responsible for the accuracy and originality of content published on their blog. Tasteze provides AI-assisted drafting, but the partner is the author of record. We may remove content that violates Article 08 or that we reasonably believe infringes third-party rights.
Custom domains. When you connect a custom domain, you grant Tasteze the right to provision SSL certificates and DNS records as necessary to serve your blog. You remain the registrant of the domain itself.
Termination of partner status. Either party can end the partner relationship at any time. On termination, your blog posts go offline within 24 hours; your underlying recipes and account remain unaffected.
What you may not do.
We try not to legislate good behaviour, but a few things are off the table.
- Use the platform for anything illegal, including infringing intellectual property, distributing malware, or violating export controls or sanctions.
- Upload content that’s defamatory, harassing, threatening, or that solicits exploitation of minors.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, modify, or create derivative works of the platform — except where local law expressly permits it, where the licensing terms of an open-source component included in the platform permit it, or, for the App Store application, where the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions permit it.
- Use the API to scrape system recipes, partner blogs, or any other Tasteze content for republication.
- Resell access to your account, or rent out partner blog space to third parties without written consent.
- Share your credentials with people outside your household. This does not restrict any sharing that Apple’s Usage Rules permit — if you obtained the application through the App Store, you may access and use it through Family Sharing or volume purchasing as those rules allow, and nothing in this article limits that.
- Interfere with the platform’s operation — denial-of-service attacks, attempts to bypass rate limits or feature gates, automated account creation.
- Use our AI features to generate content that violates our acceptable use policy (broadly: nothing illegal, no targeted harassment, no instructions for self-harm or illegal activity).
Disclaimers.
THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “WITH ALL FAULTS,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, TASTEZE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE PLATFORM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, SECURE, OR THAT IT WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS.
AI outputs are suggestions, not guarantees. The recipes, nutrition estimates, ingredient classifications, cooking times, temperatures, and chef notes our AI generates may contain errors. They are not professional dietary, medical, or food-safety advice.
Food safety and allergens — read this.
OUR ALLERGEN WARNINGS AND NUTRITION FIGURES COMBINE DECLARED INGREDIENTS WITH AUTOMATED INFERENCE, AND THEY MAY BE INCOMPLETE OR WRONG. TASTEZE IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT ABOUT WHAT IS SAFE FOR YOU TO EAT. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR VERIFYING INGREDIENTS, ALLERGENS, COOKING TEMPERATURES, AND STORAGE TIMES BEFORE PREPARING OR SERVING ANY FOOD. IF YOU OR ANYONE YOU COOK FOR HAS A FOOD ALLERGY, AN INTOLERANCE, OR A MEDICAL DIETARY RESTRICTION, CHECK EVERY INGREDIENT YOURSELF AND CONSULT A QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL. YOU ASSUME THE RISK OF RELYING ON ANY RECIPE, ALLERGEN FLAG, OR NUTRITION ESTIMATE PROVIDED THROUGH THE PLATFORM.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the exclusions above may not apply to you.
Liability.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, TASTEZE AND ITS MEMBERS, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, AND EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE PLATFORM IS CAPPED AT THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TASTEZE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED US DOLLARS.
What these limits do not cover. Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability for:
- fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
- wilful or intentional misconduct;
- any claim under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, Chapter 501, Part II, Florida Statutes;
- death or personal injury, to the extent Florida law does not permit that liability to be limited; or
- any other liability that applicable law does not permit to be excluded or limited.
Some jurisdictions don’t allow these limits. Where that’s true, the limits don’t apply to you and you keep whatever rights local law grants.
Time to bring a claim. We do not shorten any limitation period. The periods set by Florida law apply, and any provision that purported to shorten them would be void under section 95.03, Florida Statutes.
Termination.
You can leave any time. Cancel your subscription as described in Article 06; delete your account from Settings → Profile & Preferences → Account → Danger Zone → Delete Account on the web, or Settings → Personal Information → Delete Account in the iOS app. Deletion is never refused — no subscription, purchase or outstanding balance blocks it — and it is immediate: your account and its contents are removed in a single database transaction when you confirm. Where we are required to keep the accounting record of a completed transaction, we keep the transaction and detach it from you. Backups are never used to restore a deleted account.
We can terminate for material breach of these Terms — usually with notice and an opportunity to fix things, but immediately for serious violations such as fraud, abuse, security threats, or content that puts users at risk.
On termination, your licence under Article 03 ends and you must stop using the platform. Sections that should logically survive termination — ownership, the licence grant for content you’ve already published, the disclaimers in Article 09, the liability limits in Article 10, and Article 13 — survive.
The App Store.
When this article applies. This article applies only if you obtained the Tasteze application from the Apple App Store. If you use Tasteze on the web, or you subscribed through our website, it does not apply to you. In this article, the Licensed Application means the Tasteze application you downloaded from the App Store. Where this article conflicts with anything earlier in these Terms, this article controls as to the Licensed Application.
12.1 — This agreement is with us, not Apple. You and Tasteze acknowledge that these Terms are concluded between you and us only, and not with Apple Inc. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the Licensed Application and its content. These Terms do not provide usage rules for the Licensed Application that conflict with the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
12.2 — Scope of licence. We grant you a non-transferable licence to use the Licensed Application on any Apple-branded products that you own or control, and as permitted by the Usage Rules set out in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions — except that the Licensed Application may also be accessed and used by other accounts associated with you through Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
12.3 — Maintenance and support. We are solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support services for the Licensed Application, as described in these Terms or as required by applicable law. You and we acknowledge that Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services for the Licensed Application.
12.4 — Warranty. We are solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent they are not effectively disclaimed in Article 09. In the event of any failure of the Licensed Application to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the Licensed Application to you. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the Licensed Application, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be our sole responsibility.
12.5 — Product claims. You and we acknowledge that we, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim by you or any third party relating to the Licensed Application or your possession or use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that the Licensed Application fails to conform to an applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation. Nothing in these Terms limits our liability to you beyond what applicable law permits.
12.6 — Intellectual property claims. If a third party claims that the Licensed Application, or your possession and use of it, infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of that claim.
12.7 — Legal compliance. You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” country; and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
12.8 — Third-party terms. You must comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the Licensed Application — for example, the terms of your wireless carrier’s data service agreement.
12.9 — Apple as third-party beneficiary. You and we acknowledge and agree that Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and that upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right, and will be deemed to have accepted the right, to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.
12.10 — Who to contact. Questions, complaints, or claims about the Licensed Application should be directed to us at the name, address, telephone number, and email address at the end of this document.
Governing law.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes go to the state or federal courts located in Florida — both parties consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there.
We’d much rather not litigate. If you have a complaint, write to legal@tasteze.app and we’ll try to resolve it informally first. We ask that you give us 30 days to respond before filing anything, and we’ll extend you the same courtesy.
Legal costs. If either of us has to take action to enforce these Terms, the prevailing party is entitled to recover its reasonable attorney’s fees and costs from the other.
Severability. If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, that provision is modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed if it cannot be, and the rest stays in effect.
No waiver. If we don’t enforce a provision, that isn’t a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Partner Addendum where it applies, and any other documents referenced here, are the entire agreement between you and Tasteze about the platform, and supersede any prior agreement on the same subject.
DND Media Group LLC
19301 Lonesome Pine Drive
Land O Lakes, FL 34638, USA
Telephone · +1 (813) 358-8801
Email · legal@tasteze.app
Questions, complaints, or claims about the Tasteze application should be directed here.