1. Acceptance of Terms
By accessing or using RecipeMakerFree (the "Service", "we", "our", or "us"), available at recipemakerfree.com, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, please discontinue using the site.
2. Description of the Service
RecipeMakerFree is a web-based reader and culinary utility designed to assist home cooks. Our features include:
- Recipe Cleaner / Reader: Retrieving publicly accessible Schema.org structured metadata to display recipes without advertisements, layout shifts, or non-culinary bloat.
- Recipe Maker: A client-assisted pantry discovery tool that suggests dishes based on user-selected ingredients.
- Ingredient Scaler & Converter: Automatic fractional ingredient calculation and conversion between Imperial and Metric units.
- Distraction-Free Cook Mode: An interactive, step-by-step reading view featuring Screen Wake Lock.
- Local Cookbook: Browser-based storage for saving favorite recipes directly to your device.
3. Intellectual Property & Recipe Copyright
We take intellectual property and culinary copyright seriously:
- Third-Party Content: Recipes, ingredient lists, instructional methods, and food photography remain the intellectual property and copyright of their respective authors, bloggers, chefs, and publishing publications.
- Fair Utility Use: RecipeMakerFree acts strictly as an accessible reader utility (comparable to Safari Reader Mode or an RSS reader) designed to format publicly indexed web content for personal readability and cooking convenience.
- Mandatory Source Attribution: RecipeMakerFree always retains and clearly displays original author names and direct hyperlinks back to the original source web page.
- Platform Ownership: The RecipeMakerFree software, design system, custom scripts, logos, and UI code are owned by RecipeMakerFree and protected by intellectual property laws.
4. Acceptable and Prohibited Use
You agree to use RecipeMakerFree only for lawful, personal, non-commercial purposes:
- Permitted: Extracting, scaling, converting, printing, and saving recipes for your household meal preparation and personal culinary reference.
- Prohibited: You may not use automated bots, scrapers, or scripts to flood our extraction endpoints, conduct denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, or attempt to bypass system rate limits.
- Prohibited: You may not republish, mass redistribute, or monetize recipe collections extracted from third-party authors through our utility without their explicit consent.
5. Outbound Links and Third-Party Sites
Our Service fetches data from external websites upon user request and links directly to third-party domains. We do not endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for the accuracy, uptime, privacy practices, or content of external third-party food sites.
6. Kitchen & Dietary Disclaimers
The cooking times, temperatures, serving multipliers, and metric conversions provided by our calculators are mathematical estimations intended for culinary guidance:
- Food Safety: Always ensure meats, poultry, seafood, and eggs reach recommended internal temperatures according to food safety authorities (e.g., USDA / WHO).
- Allergen Warning: Our "Pure Veg" and dietary filters identify ingredients based on standard terminology. You are solely responsible for verifying ingredients for severe food allergies or medical dietary requirements.
7. Disclaimer of Warranties & Limitation of Liability
RecipeMakerFree is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, RecipeMakerFree shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages resulting from your use of, or inability to use, the Service.
8. Modifications to Terms
We reserve the right to revise or update these Terms at any time. When modifications occur, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this document. Continued use of the Service following posted changes constitutes agreement to the updated Terms.
9. Contact & Inquiries
For questions concerning these Terms, copyright notices, or attribution inquiries, please visit our Contact Page or email us: