Creator Guidelines

1. Who these guidelines are for

These Creator Guidelines apply when you publish recipes, blogs, videos, comments, profile content, or other public content on AtoCook, or when you maintain a public creator profile.

They focus on your responsibilities as a creator. For full community standards, see our Community Guidelines. These guidelines work together with the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Copyright and Ownership Concerns, Health & Nutrition Disclaimer, AI Disclosure, and Content Reporting Policy.

2. Rights to publish

You are responsible for every recipe, photo, video, blog, caption, comment, instruction, link, and claim you publish.

Only upload or publish content that meets one of these conditions:

• content you own;
• content you use with sufficient permission or a valid licence; or
• public-domain material, or material you are allowed to use under an applicable legal exception.

Attribution alone does not establish permission. Do not copy another person’s original writing, photos, videos, captions, thumbnails, music, logos, blog posts, or other creative material without sufficient permission or a valid basis to use it.

Not every recipe idea, ingredient list, or cooking method is necessarily protected by copyright. Protection often depends on the specific creative expression involved. When in doubt, do not upload material you are not entitled to use.

You retain ownership of content you create. The limited permissions you grant AtoCook to operate the service are described in the Terms of Service. These Creator Guidelines do not give AtoCook broader content or promotional rights than those Terms. See also Copyright and Ownership Concerns.

3. Represent yourself honestly

Your username, profile photo, bio, and public profile should honestly represent you or your brand.

Do not impersonate other people, chefs, creators, brands, restaurants, organizations, or AtoCook staff.

Do not mislead users about your identity, qualifications, sponsorships, expertise, or relationship with AtoCook.

4. Publication and moderation

Submitting or requesting publication does not guarantee immediate visibility. Content you choose to publish may become visible to other users through creator profiles, feeds, search, discovery, and related community features. AtoCook may review, restrict, hide, remove, or otherwise act on content before or after it appears publicly.

Approval or publication does not certify accuracy, safety, ownership, or legality. AtoCook moderates community content under its policies, but AtoCook does not author creator-owned material. Creators remain responsible for reviewing content before posting and for the content they upload or publish.

AtoCook is not obligated to publish, promote, recommend, rank, distribute, retain, or make available any specific content, creator, account, or submission.

5. Nutrition information and AI tools

Before publishing a recipe, review ingredient quantities, servings, and any nutrition information available for that recipe.

Where available, you may request an AI-assisted recipe nutrition estimate through AtoCook. Requests are processed through AtoCook’s servers. Review the results before relying on them or saving or publishing them. Estimates may be wrong, incomplete, or unavailable.

An incomplete subtotal leaves out contributions that could not be resolved. Missing nutrient information is not zero. Do not present a partial subtotal as complete. Saving or publishing nutrition information in AtoCook is not independent verification by AtoCook. If you use estimate results or other values as a starting point for manual entry, review those values carefully.

In app versions that require nutrition information before recipe publication, provide calories, protein, carbohydrate, fat and fiber. Do not replace unknown values with zero. If you enter nutrition manually using an incomplete subtotal as a starting point, include the missing ingredients before confirming that the totals cover the whole recipe.

Not every nutrition value shown in AtoCook comes from AI. Content you prepare with AI tools outside AtoCook is different from AtoCook’s recipe nutrition-estimation tool. Outside AI-assisted content must still follow these guidelines, the Terms of Service, and Copyright and Ownership Concerns. See our AI Disclosure and Health & Nutrition Disclaimer.

6. Food safety and preparation

Use ingredients suitable for food use and describe safe preparation. Food-grade additives and unfamiliar cultural or traditional ingredients are not banned simply because they are uncommon or processed.

Do not present toxic or industrial substances as edible, encourage intentional contamination, or give dangerous consumption instructions. Check allergens, cooking times, temperatures, storage guidance, substitutions, and preparation steps to the best of your ability.

AtoCook does not certify ingredients, recipes, or preparation methods as safe for every person or situation. See our Health & Nutrition Disclaimer and Community Guidelines.

7. Health, fitness, and wellness

General cooking, meal planning, responsible nutrition tracking, and lifestyle discussion are welcome. Fitness and meal-prep content should connect to food, meals, groceries, cooking, or food routines. Wellness content must stay food-first and non-medical.

Do not claim that a recipe, food, diet, ingredient, supplement, or meal plan can cure, treat, prevent, or diagnose a disease or medical condition. Do not present content as professional medical advice.

Do not promote or instruct harmful dieting, starvation, purging, extreme calorie restriction, dangerous detox or fasting practices, dangerous supplement use, dangerous challenges, or other behavior likely to cause physical or psychological harm. Body shaming and content that promotes eating disorders are not allowed. Respectful recovery or support discussion that does not give harmful instructions is different from content that promotes or instructs harm.

8. Videos, blogs, and other creator posts

Videos, blogs, and creator posts should provide meaningful value and remain relevant to food, cooking, recipes, culinary education, kitchen skills, meal planning, culture, or related topics.

Uploaded media should accurately represent the content being shared. Misleading, spammy, deceptive, repetitive, unrelated, or engagement-manipulation content may be restricted or removed.

9. Respectful conduct and privacy

Engage respectfully in comments, follows, and creator interactions.

Do not harass, threaten, shame, impersonate, spam, or mislead users. Do not disclose another person’s private information without authorization. Do not use AtoCook to promote scams, exploitation, illegal activity, hateful conduct, or abuse. Creators are expected to help maintain a respectful and safe community around their content. See our Community Guidelines.

10. Commercial and promotional content

Where promotional content is permitted, disclose material connections clearly and prominently alongside the endorsement. Material connections include payments, gifts, commissions, affiliate relationships, and other relevant connections where required by law or platform policy.

For video endorsements, convey the disclosure appropriately in the video itself; a description alone may be insufficient.

Promotional content must be honest, relevant to cooking or food, and consistent with our Community Guidelines. Do not make misleading claims about products, ingredients, brands, health outcomes, or results. AtoCook may restrict promotional content that is deceptive, unsafe, undisclosed, spammy, or inconsistent with platform standards.

11. Followers, engagement, and recommendations

Do not buy, sell, trade, or artificially inflate followers, likes, saves, comments, views, shares, or other engagement. Do not use bots, fake accounts, engagement exchanges, spam, misleading giveaways, or automated manipulation to influence platform systems.

AtoCook does not guarantee follower growth, engagement, visibility, traffic, reach, creator success, monetization opportunities, or audience development. AtoCook is not obligated to promote, rank, recommend, distribute, or feature any creator or content.

12. Reporting and enforcement

Users may report content or activity that may violate AtoCook policies or law. How to report, and the available report reasons, are described in our Content Reporting Policy. After an in-app report, AtoCook confirms receipt with a message that our team will review it.

Enforcement decisions are based on relevant evidence, AtoCook policies, and risk—not on complaint counts alone. Not every report results in removal or account action. Depending on the concern, AtoCook may take proportionate actions such as hiding or removing content, restricting posting or creator features, hiding a creator profile, suspending an account, preserving records, or cooperating with authorities when appropriate or legally required.

These are possible actions based on AtoCook’s moderation and enforcement tools, not promises that any specific action will be taken in every case. Decisions about reports and moderation do not replace legal rights, duties, or remedies that may apply under applicable law. Where permitted by applicable law, action may be taken with or without prior notice when reasonably necessary to protect users, rights holders, legal compliance, public safety, or platform integrity.

13. Reconsideration

If you believe a moderation action was taken in error, contact support.atocook@gmail.com to ask for reconsideration and include details that help AtoCook locate the content or account involved, such as a content link, your username, and a brief explanation.

A reconsideration request does not guarantee that a moderation action will be reversed.

14. Changes to these guidelines

AtoCook may update these Creator Guidelines when practices or features change. When changes are significant, AtoCook will provide appropriate notice. Posting a revised “Last updated” date alone is not used as your agreement to revised guidelines.

Nothing in these guidelines limits rights that cannot be limited under applicable law.

15. Contact

Questions about creator publishing, reports, or moderation: support.atocook@gmail.com. You can also visit our Support page.