Terms of Service

1. Agreement to these Terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of the AtoCook mobile app, the website at atocook.com, and related account, community, and support features (together, “AtoCook”).

By creating an account, accessing, or using AtoCook, you agree to these Terms. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information. If you do not agree, do not use AtoCook.

Nothing in these Terms limits rights that cannot be limited under applicable law, including privacy and consumer-protection rights where they apply.

2. The AtoCook service

AtoCook helps people discover recipes, follow creators, cook with guidance, keep personal cooking records, and publish cooking-related community content where those features are available.

Depending on how you use AtoCook, features may include creator profiles; recipes, blogs, and videos; comments, likes, saves, and follows; in-app notifications; meal plans and recurring weekday meal rules; What you ate (actual intake) and nutrition targets where available; pantry and shopping lists; recipe nutrition estimation tools for creators; reporting and moderation tools; and related website pages.

AtoCook may add, change, limit, suspend, or discontinue features as the service evolves. AtoCook does not guarantee that any particular feature will remain available.

3. Age and capacity

AtoCook is not intended for young children.

You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age required by applicable local law, to use AtoCook. By using AtoCook, you confirm that you meet that age requirement. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you should review these Terms with a parent or guardian.

If AtoCook becomes aware that an account was created or used in violation of applicable age requirements, AtoCook may restrict or remove the account and related information where appropriate.

4. Accounts

You should take reasonable steps to keep your account credentials, devices, and authentication methods secure. You are responsible for activity you carry out, or knowingly authorize, under your account. If you suspect unauthorized access to your account, promptly report it to support.atocook@gmail.com.

You agree not to impersonate others, attempt unauthorized access, interfere with AtoCook’s operation, create fake engagement, spam other users, or abuse community features.

5. Private content and personal cooking records

Some information you create in AtoCook is private to your account. That includes private recipes, drafts, and personal cooking records such as meal plans and recurring weekday rules, What you ate entries (including portions and recorded nutrient totals), nutrition targets where available, pantry items, and shopping lists.

Personal cooking records are tools for your own planning and tracking. They are not community posts and are not shown to other users as published content. How AtoCook handles personal information is described in our Privacy Policy.

6. Community content, submission, and publication

Users may create recipes, blogs, videos, photos, comments, profile content, and similar materials. Content you choose to publish may become visible to other users through creator profiles, feeds, search, discovery, and related community features.

Submitting or requesting publication does not guarantee immediate visibility. AtoCook may review, restrict, hide, remove, or otherwise act on content before or after it appears publicly. Approval or publication does not mean AtoCook has verified nutrition accuracy, food safety, legality, or ownership.

Creators keep ownership of the content they create. AtoCook moderates community content under these Terms and related policies, but AtoCook does not author creator-owned material. Materials that AtoCook itself writes (for example, help or policy pages) remain AtoCook materials; creator recipes, blogs, videos, comments, and similar uploads remain the creator’s content, subject to the license below.

You are responsible for content you upload or publish, and you confirm that you own it or have the rights needed to share it. Do not upload content that infringes others’ rights, is unsafe, abusive, misleading, or otherwise violates our Community Guidelines, Creator Guidelines, or applicable law.

7. Content license

You retain ownership of content you create and upload to AtoCook.

To operate the service, you grant AtoCook two limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free permissions:

(a) Permission to host, store, process, and format your content—including private recipes, drafts, and the processing personal cooking records need to work—so AtoCook can provide that content to you as its owner.

(b) Permission to display published community content to other users, including in in-app discovery and sharing features.

Service providers that help run AtoCook may process content only as needed to operate their services for AtoCook. These permissions do not transfer ownership to AtoCook. AtoCook does not use private recipes, drafts, or personal cooking records for advertising or promotional purposes. These Terms do not grant permission to use your content to train artificial-intelligence models.

If you make published content private, permission (b) ends, subject to necessary technical processing such as caches and propagation delays. Making content private does not end permission (a) while you keep that content in your account.

If you delete content, both permissions end, except that AtoCook may keep limited backup copies and legal or moderation records where needed. AtoCook will not newly distribute or promote withdrawn content. Copies that other users independently saved or shared before withdrawal may remain outside AtoCook’s control; that does not authorize AtoCook to make any new public distribution or promotional use of the withdrawn content.

8. Meal plans, What you ate, pantry, and shopping

Where available, you may create meal plans and recurring weekday meal rules; record What you ate, including portions and recorded nutrient totals; set nutrition targets; and manage pantry items and shopping lists.

These features support your own cooking and shopping. They do not replace professional advice. You can remove items in the app where remove controls are available. More detail on how personal records are handled appears in our Privacy Policy.

9. Recipe nutrition estimation

Where available, a creator may request a nutrition estimate for a recipe. Estimation is a recipe tool and is separate from What you ate. Requests are processed through AtoCook’s servers, and an external estimation provider may be used.

Estimates may be incomplete, unavailable, or approximate. Creators should review results before relying on them or publishing them. Estimation does not guarantee accuracy, completeness, food safety, or suitability. See our AI Disclosure and Health & Nutrition Disclaimer.

10. Food safety and health information

AtoCook provides cooking tools and information only. It does not provide medical, nutritional counseling, or professional food-safety advice.

You are responsible for checking allergens, ingredient safety, storage, cooking temperatures, dietary suitability, and safe preparation before cooking or eating. Use judgment before following recipes, meal plans, or other instructions. See our Health & Nutrition Disclaimer.

11. Reporting, moderation, and copyright

You may report content or activity that may violate AtoCook policies or law. AtoCook may review reports and may remove or restrict content, limit features, or restrict accounts when reasonably necessary. Not every report results in removal. See our Content Reporting page.

If you believe content on AtoCook infringes your intellectual property rights, follow the process in our Copyright and Ownership Concerns policy. Repeated infringement may lead to account restrictions.

Unsafe or prohibited content—including dangerous non-food ingredients, harmful instructions, spam, abuse, scams, hate, harassment, or illegal activity—is not allowed. AtoCook may remove such content and restrict accounts involved in serious or repeated violations.

12. Notifications

AtoCook may show in-app notifications about activity such as comments, follows, moderation actions, and account notices. Delivery timing and reliability are not guaranteed. AtoCook does not currently send push notifications.

13. Account restriction and termination

AtoCook may restrict, suspend, or terminate accounts, content, or access when reasonably necessary to enforce these Terms, protect users, comply with law, prevent abuse, address safety or intellectual-property concerns, or maintain the integrity of the service. Where permitted by applicable law, action may be taken with or without prior notice.

You may stop using AtoCook at any time. Account deletion and related privacy requests are described in the app and on our Delete Account and Privacy Policy pages.

14. Free access and future paid options

AtoCook is free to download, and most features are currently available at no charge. As the app grows, we may introduce subscriptions or other paid options. Any paid options, included features, and applicable limits will be explained before you choose to purchase.

AtoCook does not currently process payments in the app. If paid options are introduced, they may also be subject to app-store or payment-provider rules explained at the time of purchase.

15. Service availability

AtoCook is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis to the extent permitted by applicable law. AtoCook does not guarantee uninterrupted service, error-free operation, permanent storage, or compatibility with every device or network. Features and content availability may change.

This section does not exclude or limit liability or remedies that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

16. Changes to these Terms

AtoCook may update these Terms 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 new terms that require affirmative acceptance.

If you continue to use AtoCook after being asked to accept updated Terms where acceptance is required, you must complete that acceptance to keep using the service.

17. Severability

If a court or authority finds any part of these Terms unenforceable, the remaining parts continue in effect to the extent permitted by law.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms: support.atocook@gmail.com. You can also visit our Support page.