Terms of Service

1. Accounts

To use certain features, you must create an account. You agree to provide accurate and complete information and to keep your account credentials secure. You are responsible for all activity under your account.

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account or use Forked Food Lab. By creating an account, you represent that you meet this age requirement.

2. User Content

You retain ownership of the recipes, images, and other content you create on Forked Food Lab. By submitting content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide license to store, display, and process your content as needed to operate the service.

You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to share any content you upload, including recipes sourced from other publications or websites.

3. AI-Powered Features

Forked Food Lab uses artificial intelligence to extract, generate, and process recipes and related content. When you use AI features, your input (text, images, URLs) is sent to third-party AI providers for processing.

AI-generated content, including recipes, ingredient suggestions, images, and price estimates, is provided as-is and for informational purposes only. We do not guarantee the accuracy, safety, or suitability of AI-generated content.

You are responsible for reviewing and verifying any AI-generated content before use, particularly recipes involving allergens, dietary restrictions, or food safety considerations.

4. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Use the service for any unlawful purpose
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to other accounts or systems
• Use automated tools (scrapers, crawlers, bots) in a manner that degrades site performance or negatively impacts the experience for other users
• Upload malicious content, spam, or content that infringes on others' rights
• Interfere with or disrupt the service or its infrastructure
• Abuse AI features (e.g., generating harmful content, circumventing rate limits)

5. Paid Features

Forked Food Lab may introduce paid features or subscription plans in the future. If and when paid features are offered, additional terms governing pricing, billing, and cancellation will be provided at that time.

6. Termination

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account at our discretion if you violate these terms or engage in behavior that is harmful to the service or other users. You may deactivate your account at any time through your profile settings.

7. Disclaimers

Forked Food Lab is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure. Recipe content, nutritional information, cost estimates, and AI-generated content may contain inaccuracies.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Forked Food Lab and its operators shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the service, including but not limited to damages resulting from recipes, nutritional information, AI-generated content, or cost estimates.

9. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Service from time to time. Changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date. Your continued use of the service after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

10. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms of Service, please reach out to us through the contact information provided on the site.