Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of these terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of the PracticeChef website at practicechef.com, the PracticeChef app, purchases made in the app, and related services (together, the “Service”), operated by Brendan Smiley, a sole proprietor based in Alberta, Canada (“we”, “us”, or “our”). By using the website or the app, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the Service.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you’re under 18, you confirm that a parent or legal guardian permits your use. The Service isn’t directed to children under 13.

3. The app can change

You understand and agree that:

• Features may be added, changed, or removed at any time, and the app may occasionally be unavailable or have bugs.
• Data loss can happen. Because your data lives on your device, you’re responsible for your own backups (for example, via your device’s iCloud backup). To the extent permitted by law, we’re not responsible for lost cooking data.

4. Your licence to use the app

We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app for your own, non-commercial cooking. This licence ends if you stop using the app or if these Terms end.

Exported cookbooks. You may print the cookbooks you export from the app, keep them, share them, and give copies away (for example, as a family cookbook or a gift). You may not sell exported cookbooks or copies of them, or otherwise use them commercially.

5. Your content

You keep full ownership of the recipes, notes, reflections, and photos you create or import into the app, and of the cookbook PDFs you export from it (“Your Content”). In the current version, Your Content stays on your device. We don’t host it, and we claim no license or rights over it.

You’re responsible for having the right to use any recipe or material you import, and for having the right to print and share it when it appears in a cookbook you export. For example, a recipe copied from a website or another cookbook may be protected by its author’s copyright. You’re also responsible for keeping your own copies.

6. Feedback

If you send us feedback, ideas, or suggestions about the Service, you agree we may use them freely, for any purpose, without compensation or obligation to you. You’re not required to send feedback, and you shouldn’t send anything you consider confidential.

7. Acceptable use

When using the Service, you agree not to:

• Use it for any unlawful, fraudulent, or abusive purpose.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, disrupt, or overload the Service or its systems.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or tamper with the app except where the law expressly permits it.
• Copy, resell, or redistribute the app or our content (such as the technique modules), or use them to build a competing product. This doesn’t limit what you may do with Your Content, including exported cookbooks as described in Section 4.
• Scrape or harvest data from the website, the app, or any other part of the Service, or submit false information to our forms.

We may suspend or end your access if you break these rules.

8. Our intellectual property

The Service, including the app software, the technique modules and educational content, text, graphics, animations, design, the PracticeChef name, and logos (everything except Your Content), is owned by or licensed to Brendan Smiley and protected by intellectual property laws. Our technique content is original work; you may use it within the app for your own learning, but you may not copy, republish, or redistribute it without our written permission.

The cookbook layout templates and designs in the app are ours. A cookbook you export with them is yours to print, keep, share, and give away under Section 4. The fonts used in the app and in exported cookbooks are licensed from their authors under their own open licences, listed under Acknowledgements in the app.

9. Third-party services

The Service relies on third parties, including Apple (the App Store, which distributes the app and processes payments), RevenueCat (which processes and validates in-app purchases for us), and Cloudflare (website hosting). Your use of those services is also governed by their terms. In particular, when you download the app or make a purchase, you also accept Apple’s terms; these Terms govern only your relationship with PracticeChef, not with Apple.

10. Purchases

The app is currently free to download and use, and the only paid feature today is exporting cookbooks as PDFs. The terms below apply to that purchase. Any other paid feature or plan we offer later will have its terms shown before you buy it.

• What you buy. The Cookbook Export Pack is a one-time, consumable purchase that adds 3 cookbook exports to the app. It is not a subscription and does not renew. The price is shown in the app before you buy, as set in the App Store for your region.
• What an export is. Each export is one “edition” of a cookbook. Sharing an edition you already exported again is free. Exporting changed content (for example, after editing a recipe, a cook-log note, or the layout) uses one export.
• Payment and refunds. Apple processes all payments. All purchases are final, and we don’t issue refunds ourselves. Refund requests go to Apple (at reportaproblem.apple.com) and are decided under Apple’s policies. Nothing in these Terms limits any rights you have under applicable consumer protection law.
• Purchases stay on your device. Exports are tied to the device you bought them on. They don’t transfer between devices or Apple accounts, and they can’t be restored. Your remaining exports and your exported PDFs are lost if you delete the app or lose the device, unless they are covered by your own iCloud device backup.
• Check before you print. The app shows you a free preview of every cookbook. You’re responsible for reviewing your PDF before you print it. To the extent permitted by law, we’re not responsible for print-shop costs, print quality, or errors in your recipes or notes.
• Other terms. Exports have no cash value, can’t be transferred or exchanged, and unused exports don’t expire.
• Changes to pricing. We may change prices, add new paid features or services, change which features are free or paid, or offer other ways to pay (such as subscriptions or other plans), for the app or any other part of the Service. We may also change or discontinue the export feature and its layouts. Any change applies going forward only: purchases you’ve already made keep their remaining exports, and you’ll see the price and terms of anything new before you pay for it.

11. Cooking, food safety, and assumption of risk

PracticeChef teaches cooking, and cooking carries real-world risks. The technique modules and other content are provided for general educational and informational purposes only. They are not professional food-safety, nutritional, medical, or allergen advice, and they are not a substitute for your own judgment.

You are solely responsible for cooking safely, including:

• Handling and storing food safely and cooking it to safe internal temperatures. Undercooked meat, poultry, seafood, eggs, and other foods can cause serious foodborne illness.
• Checking ingredients for allergens and any dietary restrictions that apply to you or to anyone you cook for.
• Using knives, heat, hot oil, open flame, appliances, and other equipment safely, and supervising anyone who needs it.
• Any and all other risks associated with cooking and food preparation. The examples above are not exhaustive.

By using the app, you accept these risks and agree that, to the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any injury, illness, allergic reaction, property damage, or other harm resulting from cooking, food handling, or otherwise following or relying on the content. Times, temperatures, and techniques are guidance only: verify doneness and safety yourself, and follow trusted local food-safety guidelines.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the service 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, and non-infringement. We don’t warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that any data will be preserved.

13. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Brendan Smiley will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising from your use of the service.

In no event will our total liability for all claims relating to the service exceed the greater of CAD $100 or the total amount you paid us, if any, in the 12 months before the claim.

Some jurisdictions don’t allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you; in that case our liability is limited to the smallest extent permitted by law.

14. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Brendan Smiley from any claims, damages, losses, or expenses arising from your use of the Service, Your Content, or your violation of these Terms or applicable law.

15. Suspension and termination

You can stop using the Service at any time by deleting the app. We may suspend or end your access to the website or any part of the Service, or stop offering the app, at any time, with or without notice, including if you violate these Terms. Sections that by their nature should survive (such as intellectual property, assumption of risk, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and indemnification) continue to apply after termination.

16. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. You agree that any dispute relating to these Terms or the Service will be handled in the courts located in Alberta, Canada, and you consent to their jurisdiction, except where the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim in your local courts.

17. Language

These Terms are written in English, and the English version governs.

18. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we’ll update the “last updated” date on this page and, where appropriate, give notice. Continuing to use the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.

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