Terms of Service

Effective date: June 13, 2026 · Last updated: June 13, 2026

1. Acceptance of these terms

Welcome to The Fickle Fork. These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and The Fickle Fork ("we," "us," or "our") covering your use of the website at https://theficklefork.com and any related features (the "Service"). By using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

2. What The Fickle Fork is

The Fickle Fork is a comfort-food recipe tool. You can paste a recipe you already have or describe a dish you are craving, choose a diet goal and optional preferences, and the Service generates a healthier, comfort-first version using AI. It is intended for everyday cooking inspiration.

3. Not medical or professional advice

The Fickle Fork does not provide medical, nutritional, dietetic, allergy-safety, or healthcare advice, and nothing in the Service is a substitute for guidance from a qualified professional. Recipes, swaps, "diet goal" labels (such as GLP-1 Friendly, Keto, Diabetic Friendly, or High Protein), and any estimated nutrition information are general suggestions only, are not personalized to your health, and are not a treatment plan. Always consult a physician, registered dietitian, or other qualified professional before making decisions about your diet, especially if you have a medical condition, food allergy, are pregnant or nursing, or take medication.

4. Your responsibility for ingredients and safety

You are solely responsible for the food you prepare and eat. You must independently check all ingredients and product labels, verify allergens and the risk of cross-contamination, confirm that a recipe is appropriate for you and anyone you cook for, and follow safe food-handling, cooking, and storage practices. Diet-goal and preference labels are best-effort and may not catch every ingredient or allergen. When in doubt, do not rely on the Service — seek professional guidance.

5. AI-generated content may contain errors

Recipes and related content are produced by automated AI systems and may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuitable for your needs. They may misstate ingredients, quantities, techniques, or nutritional impact. We do not guarantee that any recipe is accurate, safe, allergen-free, or fit for any particular purpose. Use your own judgment and verify before cooking.

6. Your inputs — keep it non-sensitive

You are responsible for the content you enter, such as recipe text, cravings, goals, restrictions, and feedback. Please do not enter sensitive personal information, including medical, health, diagnostic, financial account, or government-identifier information. Do not submit content that is unlawful, infringing, or that you do not have the right to share.

7. Paid access and subscriptions

The Service offers a limited number of free recipe transformations and a paid subscription, The Fickle Fork Founding Member, for continued access. Paid plan pricing, billing cadence, and included features are shown before purchase and at checkout. Paid features, limits, and pricing may change over time. Your access continues for the period you have paid for, subject to these Terms and the Refund & Cancellation Policy.

Paid and lifetime access is subject to fair-use limits, including monthly and daily generation or transformation limits, to protect service quality, prevent abuse, and maintain reasonable access for all users. Current plan limits are shown on our pricing page. We may adjust fair-use limits as needed to protect the service.

8. Payments are handled by Paddle

Purchases, billing, subscription management, and refunds may be processed by our payment provider, Paddle, acting as the merchant of record. When you buy a subscription, your transaction is completed through Paddle and is also subject to Paddle's terms. The Fickle Fork does not store your full payment card details.

9. Refunds and cancellation

Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time, and our refund practices are described in the Refund & Cancellation Policy, which is part of these Terms.

10. Acceptable use

You agree not to misuse the Service. You will not attempt to break, overload, scrape, reverse-engineer, or circumvent usage limits or access controls; will not use the Service for unlawful purposes; will not resell or redistribute generated content as your own automated service; and will not interfere with other users' access.

11. Intellectual property

The Fickle Fork name, branding, design, text, and software are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by applicable law. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service for your own cooking. You may not copy or reuse our branding or site content except as allowed by law.

12. User-submitted recipe content

You keep ownership of the recipe text and inputs you submit. By submitting them, you grant us a limited license to process that content in order to operate and improve the Service (for example, to generate a transformed recipe). You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to submit any recipe you paste in.

13. Beta / early access

The Service is offered as an early-access product. Features, limits, and availability may change, pause, or be discontinued, and the Service may contain bugs or be temporarily unavailable. We provide the Service "as is" and "as available."

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, The Fickle Fork and its operators will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any health, dietary, allergic, or food-safety outcomes arising from your use of the Service or any recipe. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the amount you paid us in the three months before the claim. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of these may not apply to you.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the "Last updated" date above. Continued use of the Service after changes means you accept the updated Terms.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Contact us at support@theficklefork.com.

Privacy Policy

Effective date: June 13, 2026 · Last updated: June 13, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains what information The Fickle Fork ("we," "us," or "our") handles when you use https://theficklefork.com (the "Service"), and how we use it. We aim to keep data collection minimal.

1. Information we handle

Depending on how you use the Service, this may include: recipe prompts and pasted recipes; your selected diet goals and preferences; restrictions and allergies you type in; feedback you submit; recipes you save; access and payment-related information needed to confirm a subscription; and the contents of any support emails you send us.

2. Information stored in your browser

The Service uses your browser's local storage (localStorage) on your own device to remember things like your free-generation count, your saved recipes (your "Recipe Box"), your access/unlock state, and feedback you've given. This information lives in your browser. If you clear your browser data, it is removed.

3. Technical and rate-limiting data

To keep the Service running and prevent abuse, we process basic technical information such as an anonymous device identifier and request/rate-limiting data. This helps us enforce free limits and protect the Service from spam and overload.

4. AI processing of your prompts

To generate a recipe, the inputs you submit (such as your craving, pasted recipe, goal, and restrictions) are sent to our AI/API provider to produce a result. Please avoid including sensitive personal, medical, or financial information in these inputs.

5. Payment processing

Payments, billing, subscription management, and refunds may be processed by Paddle, acting as merchant of record. When you make a purchase, the information needed to complete it is handled by Paddle under its own privacy terms. The Fickle Fork does not store your full payment card details.

6. How we use information

We use information to provide and operate the Service (generate and improve recipes), to remember your saved recipes and access state, to enforce free limits and prevent abuse, to process and confirm subscriptions, to respond to support requests, and to maintain the security and reliability of the Service.

7. How information is shared

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only with service providers who help us run the Service (for example, our hosting, AI/API, and payment providers), when required for legal or safety reasons, or in connection with a business transfer such as a merger or acquisition. Service providers are expected to handle information consistent with this Policy.

8. Children

The Service is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided information, please contact us so we can remove it.

9. Data retention

Recipes and settings stored in your browser remain until you delete them or clear your browser data. Technical and rate-limiting data is kept only as long as needed for those purposes. Payment records are retained by our payment provider as required for billing, tax, and legal compliance.

10. Security

We take reasonable measures to protect information, and we limit what we collect. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. Your choices

You can clear your saved recipes and other locally stored data by deleting your browser data for this site. You can stop using the Service at any time, and you can manage or cancel a subscription as described in the Refund & Cancellation Policy. For questions about your information, contact us using the details below.

12. Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy? Contact us at support@theficklefork.com.

Refund & Cancellation Policy

Effective date: June 13, 2026 · Last updated: June 13, 2026

1. Digital product

The Fickle Fork is a digital subscription service. There are no physical goods and therefore no physical returns.

2. Cancel anytime

You can cancel your subscription at any time. Cancelling stops future renewals so you will not be billed again, and you keep access for the remainder of the period you have already paid for.

3. Refunds

Because access to digital content is provided immediately, payments are generally non-refundable once paid access has been provided, except where a refund is required by law or in cases such as a duplicate charge, a billing error, an accidental purchase reported to us promptly, or a major technical problem that prevents access and that we are unable to resolve. We review these requests in good faith.

4. How to request a refund or manage billing

Refunds and subscription management may be handled through the receipt or billing links provided by our payment provider, Paddle, or by contacting us at support@theficklefork.com. Please include the email used at checkout and your receipt or order details so we can help quickly.

5. Effect of a refund

If a refund is issued, your paid access may be cancelled or limited at that time.

6. Free recipe transformations

Free recipe transformations are provided at no charge, have no cash value, and are not refundable or exchangeable.

7. Contact

Questions about refunds or cancellation? Contact us at support@theficklefork.com.