Terms of Service

Who this is between

These terms are an agreement between you and Addison Fuller, who makes and runs Granny. “We” and “us” below mean him. Using Granny means you accept them.

What Granny is

Granny is an iPhone app for finding, keeping and cooking recipes, with an AI companion who helps you do it. The app is early, it is being worked on constantly, and things will change.

Your account

You need an account to use Granny. Keep your sign-in details to yourself — what happens under your account is your responsibility. You must be at least 18 years old. Give us a real email address, because it’s how you get back in if you’re locked out.

About Granny’s cooking advice

This part matters more than the rest, so it’s in plain words.

Granny’s recipes, answers and guidance are generated by an AI — confident, often right, and not infallible. Granny is not a doctor, a dietitian, or a food safety inspector, and nothing Granny tells you is professional advice.

If you have a food allergy or a medical condition, check every ingredient yourself. Granny works from what you’ve said, and can be wrong about what a dish contains, what a substitution does, or whether something is safe for you. An allergy is not a thing to take an AI’s word on.

Use your own judgment on cooking temperatures, times and the handling of raw ingredients. If a recipe tells you something that contradicts what you know about food safety, trust yourself and tell us.

What you write and cook

What you make in Granny is yours. Your recipes, your notes, your photos — you own them, and you always will.

To run the app, we need your permission to store what you make and show it where the app is meant to show it — in your cookbook, and to other people using Granny where the app displays recipes and profiles. That permission lasts as long as you keep the content on Granny, and ends when you delete it. We do not need, and will not take, permission to use your recipes or photos in advertising or to sell them on.

Recipes Granny writes with you are yours to cook, share, print and post wherever you like.

One thing we should say plainly, because it only ever matters in a bad situation: if what you post lands us in a legal claim — someone says a photo was theirs, or that something you wrote harmed them — the cost of that is yours, not ours. We’d tell you about it, and we’d work it out with you rather than at you. This isn’t aimed at anyone cooking in good faith, which is everyone. It exists so that a small operation isn’t ended by one person’s bad behavior.

What we ask of you

Don’t use Granny to:

• Post someone else’s writing or photos as your own. Recipes travel and always have — that’s fine and it’s the point — but a person’s words and pictures belong to them.
• Post anything hateful, harassing, threatening, or sexual, or anything aimed at a particular person to hurt them.
• Post something deliberately unsafe to cook or eat.
• Break into, overload, scrape or work around any part of the service.
• Impersonate someone else.

There is zero tolerance for any of this. If you post something abusive, hateful or aimed at hurting someone, we will take it down and we may close your account without warning.

If someone posts something that shouldn’t be there, write to us and we’ll deal with it.

What we can do

We can remove content that breaks these terms, and we can suspend or close an account that keeps doing it. Where it’s reasonable to, we’ll tell you why first. We can also change, pause or stop parts of Granny — the app is early, and some of what’s here today will work differently later.

Premium

Granny is free to use. Without paying anything you have your cookbook, Cook Mode for a single recipe, Kitchens, Granny’s library, and three new conversations with Granny a month.

Premium gives you unlimited conversations, plus Menus, the shopping list, and Cook Mode for several recipes at once. Your first 14 days of Premium are on us, then it’s $29.99 a year or $3.99 a month. A subscription renews — yearly or monthly, whichever you chose — until you cancel it.

The first 14 days are ours to give, not an offer from Apple. We grant them once per Granny account, when the account is created. There is nothing to buy and nothing to cancel, and they end on their own; nothing is taken away when they do.

You buy Premium through Apple, inside the app, and nowhere else. Apple takes the payment, renews it, and handles cancellation and refunds under Apple’s own policy. That leaves two things we cannot do for you: cancel your subscription, or refund it. To cancel, open Settings on your iPhone, tap your name at the top, tap Subscriptions, and tap Granny. Cancel at least 24 hours before a renewal and you won’t be charged. For a refund, ask Apple; Apple decides.

When Premium ends — when your first 14 days are over, when you cancel a subscription, or when a payment doesn’t go through — nothing is taken away. Everything you made stays where it is. You’re on the free version of Granny, with three new conversations a month.

Deleting your Granny account does not cancel your subscription. Apple holds it, not us, so it keeps renewing until you cancel it with Apple. Cancel first, then delete. If you delete while a subscription is still running, we send you one email saying so, with the renewal date and where to cancel.

Ending it

You can delete your account whenever you like, from Settings under Account. The Privacy Policy explains exactly what that removes and what it doesn’t. Deleting your account does not cancel a Premium subscription — Apple holds that, and “Premium” above says how to cancel it.

The legal part

Granny is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind. We can’t promise Granny will always be available, always be right, or never lose anything — though we work hard at all three.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses arising from your use of Granny, and our total liability to you is limited to the greater of what you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or US$100. Nothing here limits liability for anything that can’t lawfully be limited — including death or personal injury caused by negligence, or fraud.

Changes to these terms

We’ll update the date at the top when these terms change. If a change materially affects you, we’ll tell you in the app rather than quietly editing this page.

The rest of the legal housekeeping

Three short things that every agreement needs and nobody enjoys reading.

If one part doesn’t hold, the rest still does. If a court decides some piece of this is unenforceable, that piece comes out and everything else stands.

This is the whole of it. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us about Granny — nothing said elsewhere adds to them. And if we don’t enforce something straight away, that isn’t us giving it up; we can still enforce it later.

This agreement can move with Granny. Granny is run by one person today. If it later becomes a company, or if someone else takes over running it, this agreement goes with it — the new operator steps into our shoes and the terms stay the same. You can’t hand your side of it to someone else, because your account is yours.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws rules.

Getting in touch

Write to hello@granny.recipes. A real person reads it.