Terms & Conditions

§ 1 Scope, Contracting Party

These Terms and Conditions govern the use of RecipeChamber (rezeptkammer.de), a digital cookbook with an optional credit system for AI-assisted recipe imports. The operator and contracting party is:

Mario Tigges – CreaTig
Teigelbrand 17
44269 Dortmund
E-Mail: info@creatig.de
(further details see Legal Notice)

By registering a user account, the user accepts these Terms and Conditions in the version valid at the time of registration. Any deviating terms of the user shall not apply unless the operator expressly agrees to them in writing.

§ 2 Description of Services

RecipeChamber enables users to manage their own recipes: importing from links, photos, or text via automated, AI-assisted recognition, organization into categories, nutrition estimation, selectively sharing individual recipes with other users or via a public link, and shared “chambers” (see § 6).

Basic use – registration, management, viewing, and manually creating your own recipes – is free of charge. Automated AI-based recipe import is subject to a fee once the free starting credit has been used up (see § 4).

§ 3 Registration and User Account

Registration is open to individuals who have reached the age of 18, or to minors with the consent of their legal representative. Truthful information must be provided upon registration, in particular a valid email address actually used by the registrant, which is required for account confirmation and password recovery.

Login credentials must be kept confidential. The user is obliged to inform the operator without delay as soon as unauthorized access to their account is suspected. Each user may only maintain one account.

§ 4 Balance (“Prisen”) and Prices

Every newly registered account receives 10 free starting “Prisen” (pinches). One pinch corresponds to 8 cents and is used up for every successful, automated AI-based recipe import. Failed imports (e.g. because no usable recipe data could be recognized) are free up to 5 times per hour; beyond that, a pinch is charged for those as well.

Once the balance is used up, it can be topped up in increments between 50 and 1000 pinches (see § 5). Pinches are non-transferable, cannot be exchanged for cash, and do not expire merely through the passage of time. Outside the statutory right of withdrawal (§ 10), balance top-ups are final; a refund or payout of already-purchased pinches is excluded. All prices are final prices; pursuant to § 19 UStG (German small-business regulation), no VAT is shown.

§ 5 Payment Processing

Payments are processed exclusively via the payment service providers PayPal (PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., Luxembourg) and Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd., Ireland – credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay). Payment data (e.g. card number) is processed exclusively by the respective payment service provider; the operator only receives confirmation of the payment and its amount. The credit balance is topped up automatically after successful payment confirmation.

§ 6 Shared Chambers

Users can create shared “chambers” (shared recipe collections) and invite other users by email address. Recipes that are copied into a chamber or newly imported there are independent copies – changes to them do not affect any existing private original, and vice versa. Every active member of a chamber may edit and delete all recipes it contains.

If an email address invited this way is not yet associated with any account, it merely receives a notification email about the invitation; access to the chamber only exists after the person registers themselves and confirms their email address.

The private chamber and one additional shared chamber are free to use; every further membership beyond that costs a one-time fee of 30 pinches, payable by the person newly joining (regardless of whether by creating or accepting an invitation). Creating or joining a chamber additionally requires at least one previous top-up of your own credit balance. No one is charged pinches without their own consent.

Users are themselves responsible for choosing their chamber members. The operator does not verify whether shared content may lawfully be shared with the invited individuals.

§ 7 Rights to Content

The user retains the rights to content they created or uploaded themselves (their own texts, photos, manually created recipes). For content imported via links (e.g. from recipe websites or video platforms), the user grants the operator only the non-exclusive rights necessary to operate the service (storage and display within the user's own account or shared chambers).

The user warrants that imported content is used only within the private use intended for it and that no third-party rights are infringed. The operator does not review the copyright permissibility of imported content. The operator is entitled to remove content that evidently violates applicable law or third-party rights.

§ 8 Availability and Changes to the Service

There is no entitlement to uninterrupted availability of the service; maintenance work and temporary outages are possible. The operator is entitled to further develop, adapt, or – insofar as reasonable for the user – restrict the scope of functionality.

The operator is also entitled to discontinue the operation of RecipeChamber entirely. Such a complete discontinuation will be announced to registered users in an appropriate manner (e.g. by email and/or a clearly visible notice within the application) with at least 60 days' notice. During this period, the service remains usable as normal, so that any existing credit balance can be used up through regular use. Any credit balance still remaining after the notice period expires is forfeited without compensation, in accordance with § 9.

§ 9 Term and Termination

The usage agreement runs for an indefinite period. The user may terminate it at any time without giving reasons via the “Delete account” function in their own account area, or by informal notice to the contact address given in § 1. A deletion requested via the account area only takes effect after a 30-day reconsideration period, during which it can be reversed by logging back in and giving explicit confirmation. Once the termination takes effect, the account and all associated data are permanently deleted. Any unused credit balance remaining at that time is forfeited without compensation, as no payout option exists – users should therefore use up any remaining credit balance within the reconsideration period, if possible.

The operator may suspend or terminate the account in the event of a serious or repeated breach of these Terms and Conditions (e.g. abuse of the import function, automated mass registration). In this case, any remaining unused credit balance will be refunded proportionally upon request, provided the termination was not caused by intentional misconduct on the part of the user.

§ 10 Right of Withdrawal for Consumers

Right of Withdrawal

Consumers generally have a statutory right of withdrawal when purchasing pinches: you have the right to withdraw within fourteen days of the day the contract was concluded, without giving reasons. To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (Mario Tigges – CreaTig, Teigelbrand 17, 44269 Dortmund, Germany, email: info@creatig.de) of your decision to withdraw by means of a clear statement (e.g. by email). To meet the deadline, it is sufficient to send the withdrawal notice before the deadline expires.

Early Expiry of the Right of Withdrawal

The purchased pinches are credited to the user's account immediately after successful payment and can be used without restriction from that point on. The user must therefore expressly confirm, before every top-up in the order process: “I agree and expressly request that the crediting of the pinches begin before the withdrawal period ends. I am aware that I will thereby lose my right of withdrawal as soon as the pinches have been credited.” With this confirmation and the subsequent crediting, the service (crediting of the pinches) is fully performed within the meaning of § 356 (4) of the German Civil Code (BGB); the right of withdrawal expires at that point. Without this confirmation, no top-up can be carried out.

Consequences of Withdrawal

Should the right of withdrawal exceptionally not have been effectively excluded in accordance with the preceding paragraph, the following applies: if you effectively withdraw, we will reimburse all payments received from you, except for the value of pinches already used (i.e. recipe imports already carried out), without undue delay and no later than fourteen days from the day we receive your withdrawal notice. For this refund, we will use the same means of payment you used for the original transaction, unless expressly agreed otherwise; you will not be charged any fees for this refund.

If you requested that use of the credits should begin during the withdrawal period, you shall, in the event of withdrawal, pay an amount proportional to the services already used up to the point of withdrawal (pinches already consumed) compared to the total scope of the services paid for.

§ 11 Liability

The operator is liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, as well as for injury to life, body, or health. In cases of slight negligence, the operator is liable only for breach of material contractual obligations (cardinal obligations), limited to the damage typically foreseeable for this type of contract.

Important note on automatically recognized content: Ingredient lists, quantities, preparation steps, nutritional information, and allergen labeling that are recognized or estimated by AI from links, photos, or text are generated automatically and may contain errors. They do not replace your own judgment – particularly not in the case of food allergies, intolerances, or other health-related requirements. This applies especially to automated allergen labeling: it is created with the greatest possible care (AI detection plus an additional keyword check), but must never be assumed by users to be complete or error-free under any circumstances. If you have allergies, intolerances, or other health-related restrictions, you must always additionally check the full ingredient list yourself. The operator provides no guarantee for the accuracy, completeness, or currency of automatically recognized or calculated content.

For data loss, the operator is liable only up to the amount of effort that would have been required to restore the data had the user carried out proper and regular backups themselves.

§ 12 Data Protection

Information on the processing of personal data can be found in the separate Privacy Policy.

§ 13 Final Provisions

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. For consumers, this applies only to the extent that it does not deprive them of mandatory protections under the law of the country of their habitual residence. Should individual provisions of these Terms and Conditions be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected.

Changes to these Terms and Conditions will be communicated to registered users in an appropriate form (e.g. by email). If the user does not object within four weeks of receiving the notice, the amended Terms and Conditions are deemed accepted; this right of objection and the significance of remaining silent will be pointed out separately in the notice. In the event of an objection, both parties have the right to terminate the agreement.

§ 14 Last Updated

These Terms and Conditions were last updated on 28.09.2026.