Terms of use

About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and Fornaq LLC, which makes Cuisson. They cover Cuisson on iPhone, the web app at app.cuissoncooking.com, and the site at cuissoncooking.com.

The privacy policy says what Cuisson keeps and who else handles it. The sharing guidelines and the Potluck guidelines are part of these terms whenever you share or publish.

On iPhone, Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies to the app itself.

Who can use Cuisson

Cuisson is offered in the United States.

You must be 18 or older to use Cuisson.

While Cuisson is being tested, an account opens only by invitation.

Your account

An account is for one person. Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what is done with your account.

If you think someone else has used your account, write to support@fornaq.com.

You can delete your account at any time, in the app on your phone or on the web. The privacy policy says what goes and what stays.

Test versions

Cuisson is being tested. Features can change, stop working for a while, or go away.

On iPhone, test versions come through Apple's TestFlight. Settings marked "(trial)" try out a look. They stay on your phone, except Font, which is kept with your account, and they may change or be removed.

Tell us what you find, with Send feedback in the app or through TestFlight. Cuisson may use your feedback to improve Cuisson, and owes you nothing for it.

What Sous and the checks are

Sous is an AI assistant that runs on OpenAI's models. It can be wrong.

The cooking checks read a recipe's own words against reference data. They say what they found, how sure they are, and what they could not settle. They never call a dish safe.

Read what matters before you rely on it, above all anything about allergies, doneness, or how long food has been out.

Food safety and allergies

Cuisson's checks read your recipe's words. They never say a dish is safe, and they can't see your kitchen or the package you opened. If nothing is flagged, that does not mean safe.

Cuisson's four checks are readings of a recipe's words, not tests of food. Here is what they read:

Allergens: the ingredients a recipe names, against the nine major US food allergens: milk, egg, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans and sesame.

Diets: the ingredients a recipe names, against the diets Cuisson screens: vegetarian, vegan, pescatarian, gluten-free and dairy-free. Keto is a daily target you set, not a screening.

Cooking temperatures: what the recipe says, against minimum temperatures from USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, FoodSafety.gov and the FDA Food Code 2022.

Time out of the fridge: how long the recipe has food sit out, against USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service limit of 2 hours, added up across the food's whole life. The adding-up is taken from Food Standards Australia New Zealand's "2-hour / 4-hour rule" page; its 4-hour part is not used.

When Sous tells you how long food keeps in the fridge or freezer, the figure comes from USDA's FoodKeeper, USDA's leftovers guidance or FoodSafety.gov's Cold Food Storage Chart, and Sous is told to say whose it is. That is an answer, not one of the checks.

What the checks cannot see:

An allergen the recipe does not name. The checks know foods, not the products you bought: a brand's own recipe, a package's "may contain" line, and cross-contact in your kitchen are invisible to them.

So "not found" never means "free of". There is no "compliant" result for a diet.

How long an ingredient sat out before you started cooking.

What your food actually reached. A temperature check says what the recipe asks for. Only a thermometer in the food tells you what it reached.

Your allergens, outside a recipe's checks: packaged foods you log, Sous's meal estimates, Fill my week and What's cooking are not checked for them.

Where figures and foods come from:

A food you search for is USDA's record of that food as eaten, made by USDA's usual recipe. If that recipe contains one of your allergens, Cuisson warns you. It says nothing about the rest, and it never calls a food free of anything.

A product found on Open Food Facts was typed in by volunteers. Its figures are marked unverified until you say they match your package. Cuisson keeps no ingredients or allergens from Open Food Facts.

A site's own nutrition figures are marked unverified.

A meal estimate is an estimate. Sous proposes what was probably on the plate, and the figures are the cooking engine's reading of that list. It is marked as an estimate.

Cuisson is not medical or dietary advice. If you, or anyone you cook for, has a serious allergy or a medical condition, follow your doctor's or allergist's advice and read every label.

Coaching

Coaching in Cuisson is for trainers and coaches, not medical care. Do not use it for clinical care, or to diagnose or treat a medical condition.

A coach sees only what the coaching invite lists, only while you let them, and every look they take is shown to you. A coach cannot change your plan or your targets. What a coach sends you, you choose whether to use.

If you coach someone, use what you see only to coach that person.

Either of you can stop the coaching at any time.

Your recipes, and what you share

What you put into Cuisson stays yours.

You let Cuisson store, copy, read and show what you put in, as far as Cuisson needs to run for you and for the people you share with. That means the cooking checks reading it; sending it to the companies the privacy policy names, for what the policy says; showing what you share to the people you share it with, and what you publish to every signed-in cook, with its name, your handle, your photo and its time shown to anyone who opens a post's link; putting a post you publish in other cooks' weekly note; and keeping a post's record and its photo after it comes down, for as long as the privacy policy says.

When someone keeps a copy of what you shared or published, they get their own copy. They can change it, cook from it and share it on. It stays theirs after you take your share back, take your post down, or delete your account. It keeps your first name or handle as the cook it came from, and your photo of the dish.

Share and publish only what is yours to share. The sharing guidelines and the Potluck guidelines say what that means.

Cuisson reads what you share by link when you make the link, and what you publish before it goes up, and may close or take down anything that breaks these terms or the guidelines.

Recipes from sites and from other cooks

A recipe you import from a site is the site's work. Cuisson names the site on it. Import recipes for your own cooking.

You may share an imported recipe. It travels with the site named, and a photo from a site never travels. An imported recipe can never be published to the potluck, however much you change it.

A copy of another cook's recipe is theirs to publish, not yours.

Shopping with Instacart

When you choose Instacart to shop a list or a recipe, you let Cuisson send Instacart what the privacy policy lists, so Instacart can show you a page to shop from. For a shopping list, that is its title, each item's name in your words with the recipe lines it came from, and the brand or barcode you keep. For a recipe, it is also the title, servings, time, and each ingredient with its amount, and the steps only for a recipe Sous wrote for you. It goes under Cuisson's name, never yours, and Instacart may show it on its pages.

What you buy, and what Instacart does with your order, is between you and Instacart. Instacart's own terms and privacy policy apply there.

If Cuisson joins Instacart's affiliate program, Cuisson may earn a commission on orders placed through Cuisson's Instacart links. That would not change what you pay.

Where Cuisson's figures come from

Products found by barcode come from USDA FoodData Central and, where USDA has no figures, from Open Food Facts, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL). How Cuisson's copy of Open Food Facts' answers is built is described under You › Credits.

Foods you search for are USDA's (FoodData Central, FNDDS), as eaten.

Food-safety figures are from USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service, FoodSafety.gov and the FDA Food Code 2022. Adding up time out of the fridge is from Food Standards Australia New Zealand's 2-hour / 4-hour rule page. Sous is told to name the source when it answers from one of these.

Cuisson's drawings and some of its software come from open-source projects, used under their own licenses. Their notices are under You › Credits.

AI credits and plans

What Sous does for you is counted in AI credits. Each plan gives a number of credits a month, and your plan card shows what is left. Typed and spoken questions, answers read aloud, step checks, meal estimates, how it came out, and link readings use them. Your recipes, pantry, plan, shopping list, cooking, adding recipes, and hearing an answer again never do.

At zero, questions, step checks, meal estimates and how it came out wait until the month starts again. Everything else keeps working. On Home Cook and Chef, Sous also takes a short break when one hour's use passes the plan's hourly amount.

Cuisson takes no payment today. Plans, their names and their credits may change while Cuisson is tested. If paid plans come, you will be told how payment works before you pay anything.

Publishing to the potluck is part of the Chef plan.

Using Cuisson fairly

Do not use Cuisson to break the law; to share or publish what is not yours to share; to publish anything that is not food, or food that is not legal to prepare and eat in the United States; to publish photos with people in them, or anything obscene or hateful; to harass, threaten or pretend to be anyone, or take a handle that reads as Cuisson, the people who run it, or Sous; to get into someone else's account, or into Cuisson's systems; to send automated requests, copy Cuisson's content in bulk, or overload it; or to get around AI credits or any other limit.

Report anything that breaks these terms from the post or share itself, or write to support@fornaq.com.

Taking things down, and closing accounts

A post or a share that breaks these terms or the guidelines may be taken down or closed. The cook who posted or shared it is told why.

Cuisson may close an account that breaks these terms, and may refuse a new account from the same email address.

If you think a decision was wrong, write to support@fornaq.com. A person reads it.

Other services

Apple Health and Reminders are Apple's. Cuisson writes to them only after you turn Apple Health on, or tap Send to Reminders, as the privacy policy says.

Recipe sites, USDA, Open Food Facts, Instacart and Apple are not part of Cuisson, and Cuisson does not answer for them.

Copyright complaints

If you believe something in Cuisson infringes your copyright, write to support@fornaq.com. Say what the work is, where it is in Cuisson, how to reach you, and that you believe in good faith the use is not authorized.

No promises beyond these

Cuisson is offered as it is and as available. As far as the law allows, Fornaq LLC makes no promise that Cuisson, Sous or the checks are correct, complete or always available, and no promise that any food is safe.

Limits on liability

As far as the law allows, Fornaq LLC is not liable for indirect or consequential losses, and its total liability to you is limited to [an amount counsel sets].

If a claim is made against Fornaq LLC because of what you shared or published, or because you broke these terms, you will cover its reasonable costs.

Disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of [the state counsel names].

Before any formal claim, write to support@fornaq.com, so we can try to sort it out together.

Changes to these terms

Cuisson may change these terms. The version and date at the top change whenever the words do.

Contact

Fornaq LLC. Email support@fornaq.com. Postal address: PO Box 177, Princeton, TX 75407.