These terms are the agreement between you and Nathan O’Dowd for the Zuppi app. They are written to be read, not to be survived. Please do read section 6 on accuracy and food safety, and section 7 if you subscribe.
1. This agreement
Zuppi (the “app”) is published by Nathan O’Dowd, a sole trader based in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom (“we”, “us”). By downloading or using the app you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, do not use the app; you can delete it and, within the App Store’s refund window, ask Apple for a refund.
Our Privacy Policy forms part of this agreement.
2. Who may use Zuppi
You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of digital consent in your country, which is 16 in some places, you may use Zuppi only with the permission of a parent or guardian, who accepts these terms on your behalf. If you are using Zuppi on behalf of an organisation, you confirm you are authorised to accept these terms for it.
3. Your licence to use Zuppi
We grant you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use Zuppi on any Apple-branded device that you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service. That licence is for your own use, and it does not let you:
- redistribute, resell, rent, sublicense or make the app available over a network for use by more than one device at a time, except as the App Store rules allow through Family Sharing;
- reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the app, except to the extent the law expressly permits it despite this restriction;
- remove or obscure any notice of ownership; or
- use the app to build a competing product by systematically extracting its behaviour.
All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
4. Your recipes are yours
Everything you save, write or import in Zuppi belongs to you. We claim no ownership of it and we take no licence over it. We could not use it if we wanted to: it stays on your device and in your own iCloud, and we never receive it. You can export it at any time, and export is never locked behind a subscription, including if your subscription lapses.
5. Importing from other services
Zuppi can read a recipe out of a link you give it, from services such as Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest and recipe websites. Zuppi is a tool that acts on your instruction, on your device. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any of those services, and their names and marks belong to their respective owners.
Some things follow from that, and we would rather say them plainly than bury them:
- Those services have their own terms, and some of them restrict automated access to their pages. By asking Zuppi to import a link, you confirm that doing so is permitted for you, and you take responsibility for that choice. A platform may block, rate-limit or change its pages at any time, which can make an import stop working. That is outside our control and is not a defect in the app.
- A recipe’s list of ingredients and basic method is generally not protected by copyright, but the surrounding creative expression, photographs, video and written narrative usually are. Importing a recipe for your own private cooking is ordinarily fine. Republishing a creator’s work, or sharing imported content publicly, may not be. That is your call and your responsibility.
- Zuppi preserves the source link and the creator’s handle where the page publishes one, so that credit is not lost. Please leave that attribution in place.
- We do not review, endorse or verify third-party content, and we are not responsible for it.
6. Accuracy, allergens and food safety
Read this part. Zuppi reads recipes automatically from posts, pages, images and audio. Automatic reading gets things wrong. A quantity can be misread, a unit can be mistaken, a step can be dropped, and a temperature can be converted incorrectly.
Zuppi shows you a confidence level and the original text each line came from, and it asks you to confirm anything it is unsure about. Please check any imported recipe before you cook it, and check it especially carefully where it matters most:
- Allergens and intolerances. Never rely on Zuppi to tell you whether something is safe for an allergy. An ingredient list that a machine read from a video caption is not an allergen declaration.
- Cooking temperatures and times, particularly for meat, poultry, eggs, fish, rice and preserving, where undercooking carries a real risk of illness.
- Dietary and medical needs, including where a recipe is described as suitable for a particular diet.
Zuppi is not a source of nutritional, dietary or medical advice, and nothing in it should be treated as such. If you have a food allergy or a medical condition affecting your diet, rely on the original source and on professional advice, not on an automated reading.
7. Zuppi Plus subscriptions
Zuppi is free to use. Zuppi Plus is an optional auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly and yearly, sold and billed by Apple through your Apple Account.
- The price and the billing period are shown in the app before you buy and are confirmed by Apple at purchase.
- Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase.
- The subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends.
- You can manage or cancel it in Settings, your name, Subscriptions. Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
- Where a free trial is offered, any unused part of it is forfeited if you buy a subscription during the trial.
- Refunds are handled by Apple, not by us, under the App Store terms. Ask at reportaproblem.apple.com. Consumers in the UK, the EEA and other jurisdictions with statutory cancellation rights keep those rights in full.
What Plus buys is convenience, not access to your own data. The free tier has unlimited saves, unlimited on-device imports and no adverts, and it always will. If your subscription ends, no recipe is deleted and nothing is locked; the paid conveniences simply stop.
Cloud assist on the Plus tier is subject to fair per-install daily limits so that the service stays available to everyone. Reaching a limit never fails an import: the on-device result stands.
8. Acceptable use
Do not use Zuppi to break the law, to infringe anyone’s rights, to attack or overload our extraction service or any third-party service, to circumvent the device attestation or rate limits that protect it, or to attempt to gain access to systems or data that are not yours.
9. Availability and changes
We aim to keep Zuppi working well, but we do not promise uninterrupted availability. Features that depend on other companies, such as reading a particular platform’s pages, or Apple Intelligence on your device, may change or stop working for reasons outside our control.
We may add, change or remove features. If we remove something significant that you rely on, we will say so in the app. If we withdraw a paid feature during a period you have already paid for, you may cancel and seek a pro rata refund through Apple.
We may update these terms. If a change is material we will notify you in the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use Zuppi after that constitutes acceptance. If you do not accept a change, stop using the app; your data remains exportable.
10. Our intellectual property
The Zuppi name, the Zuppi mark and logo, the app’s design, its interface and its code are owned by us and protected by intellectual property law. Nothing in these terms transfers any of that to you.
11. Warranties
We provide Zuppi with reasonable care and skill. Beyond that, and to the fullest extent the law allows, the app is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be error free, that imports will always succeed, or that an extracted recipe will be correct.
If you are a consumer, nothing here affects your statutory rights. In the United Kingdom those rights arise under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and in the EEA under the Digital Content Directive and your national law. Those rights cannot be excluded, and they sit alongside anything Apple provides.
12. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, loss of profit, loss of data, or loss arising from your reliance on an automatically extracted recipe where you have not checked it as section 6 asks.
Where liability cannot be excluded, our total liability to you is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for Zuppi in the twelve months before the claim, or ten pounds sterling.
Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded. If you are a consumer, this section applies only to the extent your local law allows.
13. Ending this agreement
You may end this agreement at any time by deleting the app. We may suspend or end your licence if you materially breach these terms, in particular section 8, and where the breach is capable of being fixed we will ask you to fix it first unless the breach is serious enough that we cannot reasonably wait. Sections 4, 6, 10, 11, 12 and 15 survive the end of this agreement.
14. Terms required by Apple
The App Store requires the following, and they apply to your use of Zuppi on Apple platforms.
- This agreement is with us, not Apple. Zuppi and its content are our responsibility, not Apple’s.
- Scope of licence. The licence granted in section 3 is limited to a non-transferable licence to use Zuppi on Apple-branded products that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
- Maintenance and support are our responsibility alone. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for Zuppi.
- Warranty. If Zuppi fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to Zuppi, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty are our responsibility.
- Product claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to Zuppi or your possession and use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that Zuppi fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation.
- Intellectual property claims. If a third party claims that Zuppi infringes its intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
- Legal compliance. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo or designated as a terrorist supporting country, and that you are not on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
- Third-party beneficiary. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, on your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you.
- Contact. Questions, complaints and claims about Zuppi should be sent to Nathan O’Dowd at hello@zuppi.recipes.
15. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the law of Scotland, and the Scottish courts have jurisdiction.
If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, and you may bring proceedings in your own local courts. Consumers in the EEA may also use the European Commission’s online dispute resolution platform, and consumers anywhere may contact us first at hello@zuppi.recipes, which is usually faster than any of the above.
16. General
If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest continues in force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours if we sell or transfer the app, and we will not do so in a way that reduces your rights. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us about Zuppi.
17. Contact
Nathan O’Dowd, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Email: hello@zuppi.recipes. A postal address is available on request.
These terms are written in English. Where they are translated, the English version governs in the event of a conflict.