Terms & Conditions

Effective date: 15 August 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Bruno Dini, an individual developer established at Via Vecchia Pesciatina 912B, 55100 Lucca (LU), Italy ("ReciDeck", "we", "us"), operator of the ReciDeck app and recideck.com.

By creating an account or using ReciDeck you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the service.

1. The service

ReciDeck lets you save, import, organize, cook from, and share recipes.

Recipe extraction from links, photos, and text is automated, including processing by AI models, and produces our best structured reading of the source. See §9 for what that means in practice and where you must apply your own judgment.

2. Your account

You need an account to use ReciDeck. You must provide a working email address, keep your credentials secure, and you are responsible for activity on your account.

Minimum age. You must be at least 16 to create an account. If you are under 16, you may not use ReciDeck. We do not knowingly allow accounts for users below this age, and we will delete any we become aware of.

3. Plans, imports, and fair use

Plans. ReciDeck offers Free and Premium. Current prices are shown in the app before you subscribe.

Free. Free. Up to 25 recipes of your own, 5 recipe imports per week, up to 3 collections, and up to 3 grocery lists. The 8 recipes we include to get you started do not count towards the 25. Typing a recipe in yourself never uses one of your weekly imports, though it does count towards the 25.

Premium. Unlimited recipes, imports, collections, and grocery lists, for personal, non-commercial use, plus the monthly allowance of AI-generated recipe photos described below.

Sharing is on every plan. You can share recipes with other members and receive shares from them on Free and on Premium alike.

What counts as an import. An import is any recipe produced by our automated extraction — from a link, a photo, or pasted text. Recipes you type in yourself are never counted, on any plan, and neither is editing. The Free plan's weekly allowance applies only to automated extraction.

Failed imports are free. If an extraction fails, nothing is deducted from your allowance. An import counts only when you get a recipe out of it.

When the weekly allowance resets. The Free allowance runs on calendar weeks, not a rolling window. It resets every Monday at 00:00 UTC — which is 01:00 or 02:00 Monday morning in Italy, depending on daylight saving. Unused imports do not carry over.

Storage limit on the Free plan. A Free account can hold up to 10 recipes of your own, however they were added — imported, typed in, or received from another user. Once you reach 10, you can keep using, editing, and deleting everything you have, but you cannot add new recipes until you are below the limit or you upgrade.

The 8 included recipes do not count. Every new account starts with 8 recipes we provide. They sit outside the 10, and nothing you do to them changes your allowance: keep them and you can still add 10 of your own; delete them and you can still add 10 of your own, not 18. They are shown in your library totals like any other recipe, and they are yours to edit or remove.

Incoming shares when you are at the limit. Shared recipes are never added to your account automatically — you always choose whether to accept. If someone shares a recipe while your account is full, you still receive the notification, and when you try to accept it we tell you that you have reached your limit. The share stays where it is until you make room or upgrade.

AI-generated recipe photos. Premium includes 10 AI-generated recipe photos per calendar month. The monthly allowance resets at the start of each month and does not carry over.

Additional photos can be bought in packs, as one-off purchases rather than a subscription. Purchased photos are added to your balance and are used only after each month's included allowance has been spent.

Purchased photos do not expire. They remain in your balance if your Premium subscription ends, and you can still use them on the Free plan. They are lost if you delete your account, and unused photos are not refundable.

What "unlimited" means, and what it doesn't. Unlimited means we do not meter your imports and you will never be charged extra or cut off for using ReciDeck heavily as a cook. It does not mean the service will accept automated, bulk, or machine-generated volume. To protect the service for everyone, Premium is subject to our Fair Use Policy, which forms part of these terms and sets out the only limits that apply: short-window rate limits of 5 imports per minute and 20 per hour, and a prohibition on automation, credential sharing, and resale. There is no daily cap and no limit on how many recipes you can hold. The thresholds are published there in full — we do not operate undisclosed limits.

Billing. Paid plans and photo packs are sold and billed through your Apple App Store account (and, when the Android version launches, through Google Play). Renewal, upgrade, cancellation, and refunds are handled by the store under its own terms, which apply alongside these.

Free trials. Where we offer a free trial, it converts into a paid subscription automatically at the end of the trial unless you cancel first. The length of the trial, the price that follows, and the date it starts are shown in the app before you begin, and you can cancel at any time from your App Store account settings.

Plan levels are controlled by our servers and the subscription system; the app cannot change them by itself.

If a paid plan ends (cancellation, non-renewal, or expiry), you keep every recipe, collection, and grocery list you own — nothing is deleted or hidden. Free-plan limits apply to creating new items only: if you own more collections or lists than the Free plan allows, you can keep using them all, and you can create new ones again once you are below the limit. Your import allowance becomes the Free plan's from the next weekly period, and any purchased photos stay in your balance.

4. Right of withdrawal (consumers in the EU)

As a consumer you have 14 days to withdraw from a subscription without giving a reason.

When you subscribe, you ask us to make the service available immediately and you acknowledge that by doing so you lose the right of withdrawal once the service has been fully performed, in accordance with Article 16(m) of Directive 2011/83/EU and Article 59 of the Italian Codice del Consumo. If you withdraw during the 14 days after partial use, you owe an amount proportionate to what you used.

Photo packs are one-off purchases delivered immediately. When you buy one, you ask for immediate delivery and you acknowledge that the right of withdrawal is lost once the photos are added to your balance, on the same basis.

Because purchases are processed by Apple (or Google) as merchant of record, refund requests go through the store. We will assist where we can: support@recideck.com.

5. Your content and our license

Your recipes, photos, lists, and notes are yours. You grant us the license needed to operate the service: to store, process (including AI processing at your request), display, and transmit your content to you and to the people you choose to share it with. This license lasts as long as you keep the content on ReciDeck and ends when you delete it, except for the two documented survivals in §10. We claim no other rights, and we do not use your content to train AI models.

AI-generated images. Photos generated for you inside ReciDeck are yours to keep, use, edit, and share on the same terms as the rest of your content, for your personal, non-commercial cooking use. We claim no ownership in them. Because they are produced by an automated model from a short description, we cannot promise that any image is unique — a similar image may be generated for someone else — and you should not treat a generated photo as a depiction of the finished dish.

6. Sharing

• Accepting a shared recipe creates the recipient's own independent copy — a snapshot at the moment of sharing. From then on the two copies are fully independent; edits on one never affect the other.

• You can cancel a share only while it is pending. Once accepted, the recipient's copy is theirs, including after you delete your account.

• A recipient's copy may reference the sender's stored photo; if the sender later deletes that photo, the copy can lose its image. Text is unaffected.

7. Attribution (the creator model)

Every recipe permanently records who first created it — an external creator for imports, or a ReciDeck user for original recipes. Attribution never changes on edit or share and cannot be removed. Do not misrepresent the origin of content.

8. Imported and third-party content

• When you import from a link, you are asking us to fetch and process a publicly accessible post or page on your behalf, for your personal, non-commercial cooking use. You are responsible for what you import and for ensuring you are entitled to do so.

• Imported recipes keep attribution to their external creator. ReciDeck does not claim ownership of third-party content and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or any linked site.

• Creators: if you believe content in ReciDeck infringes your rights, email legal@recideck.com with the material identified and we will review and, where appropriate, remove it promptly.

9. Automated extraction — limits you should know

Extraction is automated and can be imperfect. We deliberately do not invent quantities or steps the source doesn't state, and the app flags drawbacks (transcribed audio, generated photos, missing amounts) — but you must use your own judgment when cooking.

Always verify ingredients against your allergies and dietary needs, and verify cooking times and temperatures for food safety. Recipes are information, not professional dietary, medical, or food-safety advice.

10. Suspension, termination, and deletion

By you. You can delete your account in the app at any time. This removes your recipes, images, lists, shares, and notifications, and it cannot be undone. Any unused AI photos in your balance are lost and are not refundable.

Cancel your subscription first. Deleting your ReciDeck account does not cancel a subscription purchased through Apple, and does not stop Apple billing you. Cancel it in the Settings app under your Apple Account → Subscriptions before deleting your account. Two things survive by design, as described in the Privacy Policy: recipients' accepted copies, and anonymous cached content extracted from public links.

By us. We may suspend or terminate an account only where you:

• materially breach these terms or the Fair Use Policy;

• use the service unlawfully, or infringe others' rights;

• attempt to circumvent technical limits, authentication, or billing.

Except where the breach is serious, unlawful, or repeated, we will notify you and give you a reasonable opportunity to correct the problem before suspending or terminating. If we terminate a paid account for a reason that is not your fault, we refund the unused portion of your subscription period on a pro-rata basis.

11. Disclaimers and liability

ReciDeck is provided as described in these terms and in the app. Push notifications and realtime sync are best-effort and depend on connectivity and on third-party platforms we do not control.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of or in connection with the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or €50.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded, including liability for death or personal injury, liability for willful misconduct or gross negligence under Article 1229 of the Italian Civil Code, and your mandatory rights as a consumer, including the legal guarantee of conformity for digital content and services.

12. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by Italian law.

If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of your place of residence. For consumers resident in Italy, the competent court is that of your municipality of residence or domicile, in accordance with the Codice del Consumo.

If you are not a consumer, the courts of Lucca, Italy have exclusive jurisdiction.

Before going to court, please write to legal@recideck.com — most problems are faster to fix directly.

13. Changes

We may update these terms. We will announce material changes in the app or by email at least 30 days before they take effect, and you may cancel your subscription before that date if you do not accept them. Continued use after the effective date means acceptance.

14. Contact

support@recideck.com — questions and support

legal@recideck.com — legal and content-removal requests

privacy@recideck.com — data protection requests