Terms of use

1. Scope and provider

1. These terms of use apply to the BianCuisine app for iOS and Android and the related services (together “BianCuisine”).
2. The provider of BianCuisine and your contracting party for its use is Amed Bozo, sole proprietor, Moritzstraße 43, 65185 Wiesbaden, Germany, email: contact@biancuisine.com (“we”). More details are in the imprint.
3. The terms of the respective app store (Apple App Store or Google Play) also apply to downloading the app and to purchases.
4. How we process personal data is explained in the privacy policy.

2. Services

1. BianCuisine is an app for your personal cookbook, step-by-step cooking with timers, weekly planning with a shopping list – on your own or together in a household –, a nutrition journal, and discovering and publishing recipes.
2. The basic features are free of charge. Further features are offered by the paid BianCuisine Plus subscription (sections 4 and 5).
3. To use BianCuisine, you need an account, a suitable device with a current version of iOS or Android, and an internet connection, the costs of which you bear yourself.
4. For the term of the contract, we grant you the simple (non-exclusive), non-transferable right to use BianCuisine for personal, non-commercial purposes. All rights to the app, its design and the name BianCuisine remain with us.
5. Recipes in Discover come from users. We do not check them in advance and do not adopt them as our own. You have no claim to the availability of particular content from others or of particular food data.

3. Account

1. You register in the app with an email address and a password or with Apple or Google. Until you tap “Create account”, you can correct your entries at any time. The contract of use is concluded when you confirm your email address via the link in our confirmation email or complete the sign-in with Apple or Google. You can view and save these terms on biancuisine.com at any time; we do not store the contract text separately for you.
2. You must be at least 16 years old to use BianCuisine; you confirm this once in the app. If the law of your country sets a higher minimum age, that age applies. If we learn that someone under 16 has an account, we delete the account.
3. Your details must be accurate. Keep your password secret and do not let others use your account. If you suspect misuse, change your password and let us know.
4. You are responsible for actions taken via your account to the extent that you are at fault.

4. Free use and BianCuisine Plus

1. The free features include in particular the cookbook, recipe editor, cooking mode, Discover and publishing, weekly plan, shopping list, journal with food search and barcode scanner, and daily goals. To try things out, you can also use up to three photo estimates within any seven days and up to three recipe imports within any 30 days without Plus.
2. BianCuisine Plus currently includes: photo estimates without this limit, recipe import from a link or a photo, week-plan suggestions, shopping list by store area, “What can I cook?” with ingredient photos, automatic journal entries from the plan, weekly review with personal highlights from your week, home-screen widgets, shared households (creating one and inviting others), a customizable Today view, additional app colors and app icons, and the choice of start screen. You see the exact scope in the app before you buy.
3. To prevent abuse, technical limits apply to all accounts, for example on the number of photo estimates and ingredient photos per minute and per day.
4. Plus applies to your BianCuisine account on every device on which you are signed in with it.
5. You need Plus to create a shared household and invite others. Invited people join for free and use the shared plan and shopping list free of charge. If your Plus ends, the household and its members stay; new invitations are then no longer possible.
6. When Plus ends, the Plus features are no longer available. Your content remains; app color, app icon, start screen and Today view return to the default settings.

5. Subscription: purchase, prices and cancellation

1. You take out Plus as a subscription in the Apple App Store or on Google Play. Apple or Google handle the purchase and payment; their terms also apply to this. Paragraph 7 sets out who your seller is. We provide the Plus features to you under these terms of use. We do not receive payment details.
2. In Germany, Plus costs €3.99 per month or €29.99 per year. These are final prices; the VAT they include is charged and paid by the store. In other countries and currencies, the price the store shows you before you buy applies. We ourselves are a small business under Section 19 of the German VAT Act (UStG) and do not charge VAT.
3. If you take out Plus for the first time, you can try it free of charge for seven days, provided the store shows you this offer. Under the store’s rules, the trial automatically turns into the paid subscription you chose unless you cancel in time: with Apple at least 24 hours before it ends, with Google Play at any time before it ends.
4. Under the store’s rules, the subscription renews automatically for the chosen term, that is, for one month or one year, unless you cancel it in time: with Apple at least 24 hours before it ends, with Google Play at any time before it ends. You can cancel at any time in the subscription settings of your Apple Account or in Google Play under “Subscriptions”; Plus then stays active until the end of the paid period. Billing, renewal and cancellation follow the store’s rules.
5. Deleting the app or your BianCuisine account does not end the subscription. Cancel it in the store first.
6. A price increase only applies to an ongoing subscription if you agree to it. The store informs you in advance; if you do not agree, the subscription ends at the end of the paid period.
7. Withdrawal. As a consumer, you have a statutory 14-day right of withdrawal when you buy Plus. Plus is a digital service. If you asked for Plus to start during the withdrawal period and then withdraw, a pro-rata amount may be due for the time up to your withdrawal; nothing is due for a free trial. You declare the withdrawal to your seller. The easiest way is in the app on the Plus page under “Withdraw from contract”: it takes you straight to the store’s withdrawal and refund function. Who your seller is depends on the store and your country:
   • In the EU, the EEA and the United Kingdom, Apple (Apple Distribution International Ltd., Ireland) or Google (Google Commerce Limited, Ireland) sells Plus to you in its own name, Apple also in Switzerland and Türkiye. With Apple, you can also withdraw in your Apple Account under “Purchase History” or at reportaproblem.apple.com; with Google Play, use Google’s withdrawal form or the order history of your Google Account.
   • In all other countries, Apple and Google arrange the purchase on our behalf; we are then your seller, and you can also declare your withdrawal to us by email to contact@biancuisine.com.

6. Your content

1. Recipes, texts, photos and profile details that you add remain your content. You keep all rights to them.
2. So that we can provide BianCuisine, you grant us the simple (non-exclusive), free right to store your content, technically adapt it for display, for example by reducing the size of photos, and show it to you and to the people you share it with, for example in your household. We may use service providers for this.
3. If you publish a recipe, you additionally grant us the simple (non-exclusive), free right, unlimited in territory, to make the recipe with the selected photos and your public creator profile publicly available in BianCuisine, that is, to show them in Discover, in search, in feeds and on your profile, and to enable other users to save the recipe in BianCuisine for personal use, add it to their plan or journal and cook it. This right ends when you withdraw the publication or delete your account. It continues for recipe versions that others have added to their plan by then; these remain there.
4. Only add content for which you hold the necessary rights. Do not copy other people’s texts or photos, for example from cookbooks, magazines or websites, without permission. Imported recipes are for your personal use; only publish them if you are entitled to do so. Do not show identifiable people in photos without their consent.
5. You are responsible for your content. If third parties assert claims against us because your content infringes their rights, you indemnify us against these claims to the extent that you are at fault for the infringement; this includes the reasonable costs of legal defense.

7. Rules for content and conduct

1. In particular, the following are not allowed:
   • illegal content and content that infringes the rights of others, for example copyright, trademark or personality rights,
   • hate, incitement, discrimination, insults, harassment or threats,
   • pornographic content, content glorifying violence or content harmful to minors,
   • content that can endanger health, for example dangerous preparation instructions, knowingly false allergen information or the glorification of eating disorders,
   • spam, advertising without our consent and misleading information,
   • other people’s personal data without their consent.
2. Be respectful. Your display name, bio and profile photo must not give the impression that you are another person or organization.
3. Do not misuse BianCuisine: no automated requests, no mass extraction of content, no circumventing of limits, paid features or technical protection measures, and no interference that disrupts operation.
4. You can block creators. You then no longer see each other’s public recipes and profiles; existing follows are removed.

8. Reports, moderation and objections

1. You can report published recipes and creator profiles in the app.
2. Anyone, even without an account, can report illegal content by email to contact@biancuisine.com or via the contact form. We confirm receipt and inform you of our decision. So that we can review the notice, it should contain:
   • an explanation of why the content is illegal,
   • where the content can be found, for example the title of the recipe and the name of the creator profile,
   • your name and email address, except for notices concerning the sexual abuse or sexual exploitation of children,
   • your statement that you believe in good faith that the information is accurate and complete.
3. A person reviews reports promptly, diligently, objectively and proportionately. We do not use automated moderation tools.
4. If content violates the law or these terms, we may remove it, withdraw its publication or restrict its visibility. In the case of serious or repeated violations, we may also restrict features such as publishing, temporarily suspend your account or terminate the contract (section 12). In doing so, we take into account the severity of the violation, the fundamental rights of everyone involved, in particular freedom of expression, and their legitimate interests. Before a suspension or termination, we give you the opportunity to respond, unless this is unreasonable because of the severity of the violation.
5. We inform you by email of measures that affect you and give reasons: which measure we take and for how long, which facts and which legal provision or rule of these terms we rely on, whether the measure is based on a notice, and what redress you have. This does not apply where the law provides otherwise.
6. You can object to a decision within six months by email to contact@biancuisine.com or via the contact form, whether you are affected by it or submitted the report. A person then reviews the decision again, and we inform you of the result with reasons. You can go to court regardless of this.
7. If someone repeatedly submits manifestly unfounded reports, we may, after a prior warning, stop processing their reports for a reasonable period.
8. Our single point of contact under the Digital Services Act is listed in the imprint.

9. Nutrition information and AI – no medical advice

1. Nutrition values and product information come from food databases (paragraph 6), from users or from automatic estimates. They are approximations and may be incomplete, outdated or wrong. Calculated values also depend on the amounts entered.
2. The AI features, that is, the photo estimate, recognizing ingredients on photos, recipe import and sorting the shopping list, deliver automatically generated results that may differ considerably or be wrong. Review and correct them before you save or use them; for imported recipes, check amounts, times, temperatures and allergens in particular. Only photograph food, no people and no personal information.
3. BianCuisine does not replace medical advice or dietary advice. The app is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, alleviate or prevent diseases. You set your daily goals yourself; BianCuisine does not calculate or recommend goals. If you have pre-existing conditions, allergies or intolerances, are pregnant, or have or have had an eating disorder, talk to professionals before relying on goals or values.
4. Allergen and dietary information in recipes is provided by the people who created the recipe. It may be missing or wrong. If you have allergies or intolerances, always check the ingredients and the information on the packaging.
5. We do not check other people’s recipes for accuracy. Pay attention to food safety when cooking, for example by cooking meat, poultry and eggs thoroughly.
6. Data sources:
   • German Food Code and Nutrient Database: Max Rubner-Institut (2025): Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel (BLS), Version 4.0 – Deutsche Nährstoffdatenbank. Karlsruhe. License: CC BY 4.0. We use an extract with selected nutrition values and round values for display. We also translated the food names into French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese and Turkish; these translations are ours, not the Max Rubner-Institut’s.
   • Open Food Facts: product data from Open Food Facts, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL); individual contents under the Database Contents License (DbCL).
   • FoodData Central: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central; public domain (CC0 1.0).

10. Availability, changes and updates

1. We aim to provide BianCuisine with as few interruptions as possible. Maintenance, security updates, disruptions at service providers or circumstances beyond our control may temporarily limit use. We do not owe any particular availability for the free features; for Plus, the statutory rules apply.
2. We continue to develop BianCuisine and may change features if there is a valid reason, for example technical developments, security, a change in the law or changes at service providers and data sources, and this does not cause you any additional costs. We inform you of changes clearly and comprehensibly.
3. We will not restrict features that are part of Plus when you buy it by more than an insignificant amount during a period you have already paid for, unless this is necessary for legal or security reasons. In that case, we inform you by email in good time about the change, its timing and your rights, in particular your right to end Plus free of charge under Section 327r of the German Civil Code (BGB).
4. Install app updates promptly. After a reasonable time we no longer support older versions; they may then stop working.

11. Liability

1. We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, for fraudulently concealed defects and to the extent of any guarantee we have given.
2. In the event of a slightly negligent breach of an essential contractual obligation, we are only liable for the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract. Essential contractual obligations are obligations whose fulfillment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose fulfillment you may regularly rely.
3. Otherwise, our liability for slight negligence is excluded.
4. These rules also apply in favor of our legal representatives and vicarious agents. Your statutory rights in the event of defects in digital products (Sections 327 et seq. BGB) remain unaffected; paragraphs 2 and 3 only concern damages and the reimbursement of futile expenses.

12. Term, termination and account deletion

1. The contract of use runs for an indefinite period. You can end it at any time without notice by deleting your account in the app (More → Account → Delete account) or by writing to us.
2. We can terminate the contract of use by email with six weeks’ notice. If you have an ongoing Plus subscription, the termination takes effect at the earliest at the end of the period already paid for; we remind you in good time that you need to cancel the subscription in the store so that it does not renew.
3. Both sides keep the right to terminate for good cause. For us, good cause exists in particular if you seriously violate the law or these terms, or repeatedly do so despite a warning.
4. When the contract ends, we delete your account and your content as described in the privacy policy. If you would like a copy of your data beforehand, write to us. You cancel a Plus subscription separately in the store.

13. Changes to these terms

1. We change these terms only with effect for the future and only if there is a valid reason, for example new features, changes in legislation or case law, requirements of authorities or security reasons.
2. Changes that affect your rights or obligations, for example the scope of the free features, the rights to your content, liability, the term or termination, only apply if you expressly agree to them. We ask you for this in the app or by email at least six weeks before the changes are to apply and show you the changes and the new version. Silence or simply continuing to use BianCuisine does not count as agreement.
3. If you do not agree, the previous terms continue to apply to you. We may then terminate the contract of use under section 12 paragraph 2; a Plus period you have already paid for is not affected.
4. Without your agreement, we only change these terms if the change
   • is purely editorial, for example corrects typos, references or wording without changing the content,
   • is solely to your advantage, for example describes a new free feature, or
   • implements a mandatory legal requirement or a binding decision of an authority or court, and only to the extent it requires; we inform you about such changes in advance in the app or by email.
5. Changes to Plus features are governed by section 10 paragraph 3 and Section 327r BGB, price increases by section 5 paragraph 6.

14. Governing law, jurisdiction, language and dispute resolution

1. The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer habitually resident in another country, you keep the protection of that country’s mandatory provisions.
2. If you are a merchant (Kaufmann), a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, Wiesbaden is the place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract, to the extent that such an agreement is legally permissible. For consumers, the statutory places of jurisdiction apply.
3. Languages. You can conclude the contract in German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese or Turkish. The contract language is the language in which these terms were shown to you when you signed up; that is the language you had set in the app. All language versions have the same content and are equally binding. If versions nevertheless differ, the version in your contract language applies; any remaining doubt is resolved against us. You can write to us in any of these languages; we reply in your language or in English.
4. We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

15. Contact

We answer questions about these terms at contact@biancuisine.com.