Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

Sagely is operated by Marc Grigoruk, a sole trader based in Victoria, Australia ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using Sagely ("the Service"), you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. The Service

Sagely is a recipe management application that lets you import, create, organize, and cook recipes. It includes AI-powered features for recipe assistance, meal planning, shopping lists, and voice interaction.

3. Accounts

• You must provide accurate information when creating an account
• You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account
• You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service
• One person per account, do not share login credentials

4. Your Content

Content you create. You own the recipes, photos, notes, and other content you write or make yourself. By using the Service, you grant us a limited licence to store, display, and process that content solely to provide the Service to you.

Content you import. Recipes you import from websites, social media, photos, or PDFs remain the property of whoever wrote them. Sagely lets you keep a copy for your own personal, non-commercial use, which is what the Service is for, and keeps the source link with every imported recipe. By importing, you confirm that you are entitled to keep a personal copy.

Sharing publicly. When you share a recipe by public link, or publish it to Discover (a public, searchable feed shown with your author name), it can be seen by anyone, and you give other users permission to view it and save a copy. You confirm that you have the right to share anything you make public, and you are responsible for it: if you publish content you do not have the right to share, any claim that results is your responsibility, not ours. You can stop sharing at any time; copies other users have already saved stay with them.

5. Copyright Complaints

If you believe content on Sagely infringes your copyright, email hello@sagely.kitchen with: a link to the content; a description of the work you say is infringed; your name, address, email address, and phone number; a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement, under penalty of perjury where that applies, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorised to act for the owner; and your physical or electronic signature. Our designated agent for these notices is Marc Grigoruk at that address.

We will remove or disable access to the content promptly and tell the account holder, who may send us a counter-notice with the same identifying details and a statement that they believe in good faith the content was removed by mistake. If we receive a valid counter-notice we may restore the content after ten business days unless the complainant tells us they have started court proceedings. Accounts that repeatedly infringe copyright are terminated.

6. AI Features

Sagely uses AI models from third-party providers (named in our Privacy Policy) to assist with recipe creation, suggestions, and chat. AI-generated content may contain errors: always verify nutritional information, cooking times, and allergen details before cooking, and follow official food-safety guidance for safe cooking temperatures, storage, and preserving.

AI features are provided "as is" and may change or be updated without notice.

7. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Use the Service for any illegal purpose
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service or other accounts
• Abuse AI features (e.g., using them for non-recipe purposes at scale)
• Upload malicious content or files
• Scrape or bulk-download content from the Service

AI-powered features (such as Ask the Chef, voice assistance, recipe imports and adaptations, Smart Week and image generation) are provided under a fair-use allowance sized for genuine household cooking. We may temporarily limit AI usage that substantially exceeds normal household use, to keep the Service fast and sustainable for everyone. Recipe storage and your data are not subject to these allowances.

8. Pricing & Payments

Sagely offers a paid subscription ("Premium") that unlocks the full set of features. Premium costs A$6.99/month (AUD), billed through our payment processor, Stripe.

Auto-renewal. A Premium subscription is an auto-renewing subscription: it renews automatically at the end of each billing period and your payment method is charged the then-current price until you cancel. We’ll always show the price and billing period before you subscribe.

Free trial. New subscriptions start with a 7-day free trial. A valid payment method is required to begin the trial, which you enter at checkout via Stripe. You won’t be charged during the trial, and you can cancel any time before it ends from Settings, cancel before day 7 and you pay nothing. If you don’t cancel, your trial automatically converts to a paid Premium subscription and your payment method is charged A$6.99/month (AUD) via Stripe, renewing monthly until you cancel. On iOS you can instead subscribe through the App Store, in which case Apple handles billing and renewal under its own terms and shows you its own price in your local currency before you subscribe (section 9).

Price changes. If we change the subscription price, we’ll give you advance notice, and any change applies only to billing periods after the notice. Prices are shown in AUD and may exclude taxes, which are added where required.

9. Subscriptions bought in the iOS app

If you subscribe in the Sagely iOS app, you buy Sagely Premium Monthly from Apple through the App Store. Your licence to use the app is governed by Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement, the Terms of Use (EULA), and these Terms apply as well.

Price. Apple charges the price the App Store shows you before you subscribe, in your currency.

Free trial. New subscribers get a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when the trial ends, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before then.

Renewal. The subscription renews automatically every month unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Apple charges each renewal to your Apple ID within the 24 hours before the period ends.

Manage or cancel. Manage or cancel the subscription in your Apple ID settings: on your iPhone or iPad, open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions. Deleting your Sagely account does not cancel an App Store subscription.

Refunds. Apple handles billing and refunds for App Store purchases. Request a refund from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com; App Store refunds are Apple’s decision, not ours.

10. Cancellation & Refunds

Free trial, cancel before it ends. Your 7-day free trial requires a payment method up front and automatically converts to a paid subscription when it ends. To avoid being charged, cancel before your trial ends. Open Settings, which launches the Stripe billing portal, and cancel there. If you subscribed through the App Store on iOS, cancel in your Apple ID subscription settings instead. Cancelling during the trial stops it immediately with no charge.

Cancel anytime. You can cancel your subscription at any time from Settings, which opens the Stripe billing portal (for App Store subscriptions, use your Apple ID subscription settings). Cancellation stops future renewals; your Premium access continues until the end of the billing period you’ve already paid for, after which your account reverts to the free tier. We do not delete your recipes or data when you cancel.

Refunds. The 7-day free trial is how you try Premium: cancel before it ends and you pay nothing. Once a renewal has been billed we don’t refund that period, but cancelling stops every future charge. For subscriptions purchased through the App Store, billing and refunds are handled by Apple: request a refund from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com (App Store refunds are Apple’s decision, not ours). If we ever bill you in error, tell us and we’ll fix it.

Your consumer rights. If you are in Australia, nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any consumer guarantee, right, or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where we are permitted to limit a remedy, our liability is limited to re-supplying the Service or refunding the amount you paid for the affected period. If you live elsewhere, the same applies to any consumer protection under the laws of your own country that cannot be excluded by agreement.

11. Termination

You may delete your account at any time in Settings: under Account, at the top of the page, tap Delete account. This permanently erases your account and the data linked to you, as described in our Privacy Policy. Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription bought through the App Store; cancel that in your Apple ID settings. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.

12. Disclaimers

Sagely is a tool to help you manage allergens; it is not a substitute for your own judgement. Sagely uses AI to detect allergens and steer recipes and personalised versions away from them as a best-effort convenience feature, not a safety guarantee: it can fail to detect an allergen, and recipes or products may contain hidden, derivative, or cross-contaminated ingredients. Sagely does not provide medical advice and must not be relied on to manage a severe, anaphylactic, or life-threatening allergy. You decide what you and anyone you cook for eats, and you are ultimately responsible for that choice: you must read the full ingredient list of every recipe and the packaging of every product, and confirm a dish is safe before anyone eats it. Sagely and its operators cannot be held responsible for any allergic reaction, illness, or other harm arising from reliance on this feature. The Service is provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Sagely and its operators shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Service. This does not limit any right you have under section 10.

14. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia, and you agree to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria. If you live outside Australia, nothing in these Terms takes away any consumer protection you have under the laws of your own country that cannot be excluded by agreement.

15. Changes to Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. Continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email us at hello@sagely.kitchen or visit our support page.