Fair Use Policy
Last updated: 16 October 2026
Effective date: 16 October 2026
This policy explains what “unlimited imports” means on the Premium plan. It is part of our Terms of Service.
We wrote this because “unlimited” is a word a lot of apps use without saying what it covers. We would rather publish our limits than operate hidden ones.
What unlimited means
On Premium, we do not meter your imports. There is no weekly, monthly, or lifetime quota. You will never be charged extra, throttled, or cut off for using ReciDeck heavily as a cook, however many recipes you save, and however often you save them.
The limits below exist to stop automated and commercial-scale abuse. They are set far above what any person cooking at home will reach.
The limits, in full
There is no weekly, monthly, or lifetime quota on Premium. The only limits that apply are short-window rate limits, which exist to stop automated and bulk activity:
5 imports per minute
20 imports per hour
Every import request counts towards these limits, including one that fails, and so does every request for an AI-generated photo. The minute and the hour are clock periods in UTC, so a limit clears when the next minute or hour begins.
There is no daily cap and no limit on how many recipes you can hold. If you reach a rate limit, the import is not started and the app tells you that you have reached the limit for now. You can try again once the minute or the hour has passed. Nothing you have already saved is affected.
The same rate limits apply on the Free plan, alongside its weekly allowance described in the Terms of Service.
Plan allowances, where they apply, are shown in the app.
What isn’t allowed
Unlimited access is for individual, personal, non-commercial cooking use. The following are not permitted on any plan:
Automation. Scripts, bots, scrapers, emulators, or any tool that submits imports without a person initiating each one.
Bulk archiving. Systematically importing a creator’s, publisher’s, or site’s whole catalogue.
Credential sharing. Sharing your login with other people. Your account is for you.
Resale. Reselling, sublicensing, or providing ReciDeck’s import capacity as part of another product or service.
Commercial use. Operating ReciDeck as infrastructure for a business, publication, or content operation.
What happens if something looks wrong
If your account shows a usage pattern consistent with the above, we will contact you first. In most cases this is a misunderstanding or a misconfigured device, and it gets resolved in one email.
Where a genuine problem continues, we may temporarily reduce import speed or concurrency while we look into it. Suspension is a last resort, reserved for deliberate or repeated abuse, and it follows the notice process in §10 of the Terms of Service. If we ever terminate a paid account for a reason that is not your fault, we refund the unused part of your subscription.
Changes
If we change these thresholds in a way that reduces what you can do, we will announce it at least 30 days in advance, in the app or by email.
Questions
Operator
Bruno Dini
Via Vecchia Pesciatina 912B
55100 Lucca (LU), Italy