These terms apply to your use of Chefilo: a platform to create, manage and share recipes. By creating an account or using the service you accept them.
The service
Chefilo lets home cooks and professional kitchens create, view, scale and share recipes (also building blocks such as sauces, purées and stocks), cook along in kitchen mode and keep a shopping list. The service is provided as it is, free of charge or as described on the site. We may change or stop features.
Your account
Keep your login details secret and give correct information. You are responsible for what happens with your account. Do not misuse the service: no unlawful, offensive or misleading content, no attempts to break into the service or to overload it.
Recipes and other content
What you add stays yours, but you allow us to store it and show it to the members you choose as part of the service: by default every member (public), only you (private), or only the members you share it with. Members who can see a recipe can read it, put it on their shopping list, mark it as a favorite and, with Basil, make their own variant of it; so only share with people you trust, and keep secret recipes private. A recipe you make private again is hidden from others at once, but we cannot undo what they already wrote down or saved themselves. You promise that you may share it (for example photos and texts that are not someone else’s) and you are responsible for it. This also applies to recipes you scan from a cookbook or magazine: these are often protected by copyright, so only publish them when you are allowed to. If you make a variant of another member’s recipe with Basil, write it in your own words and feel free to name the original author in the title or steps. Photos are checked automatically for sexual content before they are stored and refused if it is found. We may remove content that breaks these terms.
Recipes, ingredients and nutrition
Recipes are written by members and can contain mistakes. Nutrition values (calories, protein, carbohydrates and fat) are rough estimates calculated from ingredient names and amounts with a general food table; real values depend on brands, sizes and preparation. They are not medical or dietary advice. Do not rely on them if you follow a diet or have diabetes or another medical condition: ask your doctor or dietitian and always check the packaging of the products you use.
Allergens and diets
Recipes show which allergens they contain and which diets they fit, and you can enter your own allergies and diets. These labels are derived automatically from the ingredient names with a list of keywords, and the author of a recipe can change them. They are an indication, not a guarantee: an ingredient can contain an allergen that is not in its name (for example in stock, sauces or ready-made products), brands differ in composition, and traces or cross-contamination cannot be seen. A recipe without a warning is therefore not guaranteed to be safe. If you have an allergy or a medical diet, always check the labels of the products you use yourself and ask your doctor or dietitian when in doubt. Authors who change labels do so to the best of their knowledge; they are not liable for mistakes in them.
Basil, the AI assistant
Premium members and administrators can use Basil, an AI assistant that searches recipes, answers questions, reads recipes from photos and makes variants without certain allergens or for certain diets. Basil writes text automatically with a language model and can be wrong: it may get ingredients, amounts, steps or substitutes wrong, or miss an allergen. Basil never saves anything itself, so always check a suggestion before you save it or cook it. Answers from Basil are not medical, dietary or allergy advice. A daily limit applies; we may change, limit or stop Basil.
Supermarket price comparison
The price comparison on the shopping list shows indicative prices of Albert Heijn, Jumbo, Lidl, PLUS, ALDI, Dirk, Hoogvliet, DekaMarkt, Vomar, SPAR, Poiesz and Ekoplaza. These prices come from public, unofficial sources (the open price list of checkjebon.nl, collected from the supermarkets’ websites), not from the supermarkets themselves. Products are matched automatically on name (or, if you let Basil help, chosen by Basil, an AI that can make mistakes), so a product, package size or price may differ from what you find in the shop; promotions and bonus prices are not included and prices may be out of date. Check the price in the shop or on the supermarket’s own website before you rely on it. The supermarket names, and the product names and prices in the comparison, belong to the supermarkets and other rights holders. They are shown only to let you compare prices, only as plain text names (no logos or images), and may not be copied, resold or reused outside Chefilo. Chefilo is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by any of these supermarkets, and the comparison is not an offer from them. Are you a rights holder and do you object to your data being shown? Send us an e-mail at the address below: we will switch off the comparison for your supermarket quickly.
Availability
We do our best to keep the service running and your data safe, but we cannot promise that it is always available or free of errors. Keep a copy of recipes that matter to you; you can download your data on your profile page.
Liability
As far as the law allows, we are not liable for damage resulting from your use of the service or from information in it, including recipes, nutrition estimates, allergen and diet labels and answers or suggestions from Basil, or from the service being unavailable. This does not limit liability for intent or gross negligence, or any liability that cannot be limited by law, including your rights as a consumer.
Copyright
The design, texts and software of Chefilo are protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Members keep the rights to their own content.
Changes
We may change these terms. The date at the top shows when they were last updated. If you keep using the service after a change, you accept the new terms. Important changes are announced on the site.
Applicable law
Dutch law applies. Disputes go to the competent court in the Netherlands, without affecting mandatory consumer rights.
Contact
Questions about these terms? Send an e-mail to info@chefilo.com