Community
Community Guidelines
These rules apply to all recipes, comments, photos, usernames, and activity within AtoCook.
Last updated: May 2026
Welcome
AtoCook is built to help people discover recipes, cook step-by-step, organise ingredients, and safely share cooking ideas.
By submitting recipes or other community content, you agree to follow these guidelines.
Share recipes you own or can share
Only upload recipes, photos, and content you created yourself or have permission to share.
Do not copy recipe text, cookbook content, blog posts, or social media content without authorisation.
Users are responsible for ensuring uploaded content does not violate copyright or intellectual property laws.
Use safe food ingredients
Recipes must use normal food ingredients intended for cooking or consumption.
Do not submit recipes containing dangerous, toxic, industrial, chemical, or non-food ingredients.
Prohibited examples: engine oil, cleaning chemicals, poisons, or harmful substances presented as food.
No dangerous instructions
Do not submit instructions involving dangerous preparation methods, unsafe temperatures, harmful consumption, or activities likely to cause injury.
Content promoting self-harm or intentionally harmful behaviour is prohibited.
Always use proper food safety practices and your own judgement.
No harassment or hate content
AtoCook does not allow abusive, hateful, discriminatory, threatening, sexually explicit, violent, or harassing content.
Do not target, threaten, insult, or harm other users through recipes, comments, or uploaded media.
Do not upload content that exploits, sexualises, harms, or endangers minors in any way.
No spam, scams, or misleading content
Do not upload spam, fake recipes, repetitive content, scams, deceptive titles, or misleading claims.
Do not use AtoCook to promote illegal activity, illegal substances, fraud, or unlawful behaviour.
Do not impersonate other people, brands, restaurants, chefs, or AtoCook staff.
Misleading health, nutrition, or medical claims may be removed.
No stolen recipes or copyright violations
Do not reproduce copyrighted recipe content, images, or text without permission.
If you adapt a recipe, provide proper attribution.
AtoCook will remove content reported as copyright-infringing.
Cultural and traditional recipes
AtoCook welcomes cultural, traditional, and family recipes from communities around the world.
Please share recipes respectfully and provide clear ingredient names and instructions.
Moderation
Recipes may be reviewed before becoming publicly visible.
AtoCook may reject, hide, archive, limit, or remove content that violates these guidelines.
Previously approved content may later be removed if issues are identified or reported.
Reporting
Use the in-app report function or email support.atocook@gmail.com to report content violations.
Report responsibly and do not abuse reporting systems.
Account restrictions
Accounts or content that repeatedly violate community rules may be restricted, suspended, or permanently removed.
Serious violations including dangerous content or repeated abuse may result in immediate action.
Changes to these guidelines
AtoCook may update these Community Guidelines from time to time as the platform evolves.
Updated versions will appear in the app with a revised "Last updated" date.
Contact
If you have questions about community rules or moderation, you can contact AtoCook support.
Support email: support.atocook@gmail.com