Terms

Casserole is a personal project in beta, built and run by Jon Black as an individual — there’s no company behind it yet. These terms are the agreement between you and Jon for using casserole.recipes. When the business side gets set up they’ll be revised, and you’ll be told first.

By creating an account or using Casserole, you agree to them. If you don’t, please don’t use it.

It’s a beta

Casserole is still changing. Features will come, go, and move around, and there may be interruptions. Most of Casserole is free. Premium is an optional paid membership that adds features on top; what it includes may change as features are added or reworked. Nothing you use for free today will start costing money without you being told first and choosing to pay.

Protecting your data is the first priority, and the privacy page sets out how that is done. No online service can promise that data will never be lost, so you can export your whole book from your profile at any time, and keeping your own copy of anything important is recommended.

Paying for something

If you pay for something on Casserole — a Premium membership, or something a cook offers on their profile — the payment is processed by Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe directly; Casserole never sees or stores your card number.

The price is shown on the pricing page and again at checkout, before you pay. A membership renews each month or each year, whichever you chose, until you cancel. You can cancel from your profile at any time, and you keep Premium until the end of the period you have paid for. Cancelling never removes anything from your book.

If the price changes, you’ll be told before it applies, and the new price starts at your next renewal. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries the card for a while; Premium stays on while it does, and ends if the payment doesn’t go through.

Refunds

Monthly payments aren’t refunded. Cancelling stops the next charge, and Premium runs to the end of the month you’ve paid for.

Yearly payments are refunded for the time you don’t use. If you cancel, Premium runs to the end of the current month of your membership year. The months you’ve used, counting the current one, are charged at the monthly price, and the rest of what you paid is refunded to your card. Cancel two weeks into the year, for example, and you pay for one month at the monthly price and get the rest back. Once the months used add up to more than the yearly price, there is nothing left to refund.

Deleting your account ends Premium straight away, and a yearly membership is refunded the same way. If you were charged by mistake — twice, or after you cancelled — write in and it will be put right.

Your account

You need to be at least 13. Keep your sign-in email secure — whoever controls that inbox controls your book. One person per account; if you plan with a partner, they get their own.

Your recipes are yours

Everything you put in Casserole stays yours. Casserole claims no ownership of it.

To run the service, Casserole needs your permission to store your content, process it (including with an AI model — see the privacy page), and show it back to you on your devices. That permission ends when you delete the content or your account.

When you publish a recipe or collection, or share a link to one, you’re also giving permission to show it to anyone who visits, and to let other cooks fork it — make their own copy, credited to you, that they can change. A fork belongs to the cook who made it and stays in their book even if you later unpublish or delete the original. If you don’t want something forked, don’t publish it.

What you bring in

Casserole makes it easy to save recipes from elsewhere — typed, pasted, photographed, or imported from a link. Saving a recipe to your own private book for your own use is on you, and generally fine. Publishing is different. Only publish what’s yours to publish: your own recipes, your own words, your own photos. A list of ingredients isn’t anyone’s property, but someone else’s write-up, headnotes, and photos are. Imported recipes keep their source link so credit travels with them; that credit isn’t a licence.

If something of yours has been published on Casserole without your permission, email hello@casserole.recipes with a link to it and a note on what it is, and it’ll be taken down promptly. Accounts that do this repeatedly get closed.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Publish anything unlawful, hateful, harassing, or sexually explicit, or use recipes and collections to publish content that isn’t one.
• Impersonate someone, or claim a handle in order to hold it or to mislead people.
• Scrape the site, overload it with automated requests, or attempt to access anyone else’s account or data.
• Use a connected assistant or any other tool to do any of the above.

Anything that breaks these can be unpublished or removed, and accounts can be suspended or closed for it. For anything short of clear abuse, you’ll be contacted first.

Cook with judgment

Recipes on Casserole come from the cooks who wrote them. Nobody has tested them or checked them for safety, accuracy, or allergens. Amounts, timings, lists, and anything else Casserole works out for you are generated automatically — partly by an AI model — and may not always be accurate. Check temperatures, check labels, and trust your own sense over a timer.

Calories and macros are estimates. They’re worked out from USDA data and the servings a recipe gives, and may not match what’s on your plate. Nothing here is dietary, nutritional, or medical advice; if you’re managing a health condition or an allergy, rely on your doctor or dietitian rather than these figures.

Connected assistants

If you connect an AI assistant to your book, what it does there it does as you. You’re responsible for what you ask it to do, and its provider’s terms cover its side of things.

Leaving

You can delete your account at any time from your profile; the privacy page explains exactly what is removed and what is retained. Jon can also end or pause the service, or close an account that breaks these terms. If Casserole is ever shut down, you’ll get reasonable notice, and the export on your profile will keep working until the end so you can take your recipes with you.

Warranty and liability

Casserole is provided as is, without warranties of any kind — no promise that it’ll be uninterrupted, error-free, or that your content will never be lost.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Jon isn’t liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of Casserole, and total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of what you’ve paid for Casserole in the past twelve months or US $50. Some places don’t allow limits like these, in which case they apply only as far as the law permits.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, USA, and disputes belong in the courts located there.

If one part of these terms turns out not to be enforceable, the rest still stands.

Changes

If these terms change in a way that matters, signed-in cooks will hear about it by email or in the app before the change takes effect. Carrying on using Casserole after that means you accept the update.

Contact

hello@casserole.recipes — or see help & contact.