Terms, Privacy & Copyright

Last updated: 2026. Operator: Stirring Stories (stirringstories.com). Contact: stirringstories2@gmail.com.

1. Agreement to Terms

By creating an account or using Stirring Stories ("the Service"), you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. We may update these Terms; continued use after changes means you accept them.

2. Accounts

You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your login secure. You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum digital-consent age where you live) to use the Service. You may delete your account at any time.

3. Your content

Recipes, photos, comments, and other material you post ("Your Content") remain yours. By posting, you grant Stirring Stories a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, and share Your Content within the Service so it can function. You are responsible for having the rights to anything you post. You may remove Your Content at any time, including by deleting a recipe from its page or from your cookbook.

Recipes you save are private by default — visible to you, and to the members of a community only if you choose to share them there. Nothing you save is published to the open web by us.

4. Acceptable use

• No unlawful, harmful, hateful, or infringing content.
• No posting of others' copyrighted recipe writing, photographs, or video without permission.
• No spam, scraping, reverse engineering, or attempts to disrupt the Service.

We may suspend or remove accounts or content that violate these Terms.

5. Recipes you bring in from other sites and social media

The Service includes tools that let you paste in text you have copied from elsewhere, or add a link to where a recipe came from. Please read this section carefully, because it sets out who is responsible for what.

• You operate the import; we do not. Stirring Stories does not crawl, scrape, or automatically retrieve content from Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, or any other site. Our tools only tidy up text that you yourself have already copied and pasted. We are a neutral storage and formatting tool acting at your direction.
• Ingredient lists are generally not protected by copyright. Under U.S. law a mere listing of ingredients and quantities is a statement of fact and is not copyrightable (17 U.S.C. § 102(b)). What is protected is the surrounding creative expression — the story, the headnote, the descriptive commentary, and above all the photographs and video.
• So: import the recipe, not the article. Bringing an ingredient list and plain procedural steps into your own private cookbook is ordinary personal use. Copying somebody's photographs, their narrative writing, or a whole blog post is not, and you should not do it.
• Credit the source. When a recipe came from somewhere else, record it in the source field so the original creator is credited wherever the recipe appears.
• Other platforms' rules still apply to you. Copying from another site or app may also be governed by that platform's own terms of service. Complying with them is your responsibility, not ours.
• Don't re-share what isn't yours to re-share. Keeping an imported recipe in your own private cookbook is very different from posting it into a community. The more widely you share someone else's material, the more it is on you to have the right to do so.

6. Your promises to us, and indemnity

By posting, importing, or sharing anything on the Service, you represent and warrant that: (a) you own it, or you have permission to use it, or its use is otherwise lawful (for example, an uncopyrightable list of ingredients, or fair use); (b) it does not infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights; and (c) you have complied with the terms of any site you took it from.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Stirring Stories and its owner(s), operators, and agents from any claim, demand, loss, liability, or expense (including reasonable legal fees) brought by a third party and arising out of content you posted, imported, or shared, or your breach of these Terms. We may take over the defense of any such claim at our own expense, and you agree to cooperate with us if we do.

7. Food safety, allergens & nutrition

Stirring Stories is a recipe-sharing platform, not a source of professional dietary, medical, or food-safety advice. Recipes and allergen tags are provided by members and by automated detection that may be incomplete or wrong. Always independently verify ingredients, allergens, and safe cooking practices before preparing or eating any dish. You assume all risk associated with preparing and consuming recipes found on the Service. Stirring Stories is not liable for any allergic reaction, illness, injury, or damage arising from use of any recipe or information on the Service.

Nutrition figures are estimates. Except where a figure has been read directly from a product's own printed label, calorie and macronutrient numbers are calculated by matching the ingredient names you typed against a reference table of typical foods — supplemented, for ingredients that table does not carry, by public data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's FoodData Central — and by estimating the weight of each measure. They are an approximation for general interest only. They are not a certified nutrition label, they are not suitable for medical, clinical, or regulatory use, and they must not be relied on for managing a health condition such as diabetes, kidney disease, or a food allergy. Where an ingredient could not be matched, the estimate says so and names what it left out.

8. No warranty

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.

9. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Stirring Stories and its owner(s) will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the prior 12 months or US $50.

10. Payments

Paid plans (Pro, Premium) are billed through PayPal, our third-party payment processor. Payment details are handled entirely by PayPal and are covered by PayPal's own privacy policy; we never see or store your card number. Prices are shown at checkout and may change with notice. Except where required by law, payments are non-refundable. You can cancel a subscription at any time; access continues through the end of the paid period.

11. Copyright & DMCA

© 2026 Stirring Stories. The Stirring Stories name, logo, site design, and original content are protected by copyright and trademark law and may not be copied or reused without written permission.

11.1 We host what members save; we don't choose it

Stirring Stories is an online service provider that stores material at the direction of its users. We do not pre-screen, select, or edit what members save, and we do not fetch content from other sites ourselves. We intend to operate within the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. § 512(c), and the process below is how we do it.

11.2 Reporting infringement (takedown notice)

If you believe material on the Service infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent at stirringstories2@gmail.com, with the subject line "DMCA Notice", including all of the following:

1. Your physical or electronic signature.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed.
3. Identification of the material you say is infringing, with enough detail (a URL, a recipe name, a screenshot) for us to find it.
4. Your address, telephone number, and email address.
5. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

We act on complete notices promptly — usually by removing or disabling access to the material and notifying the member who posted it. Please note that under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), knowingly misrepresenting that material is infringing can make you liable for damages.

11.3 Counter-notice

If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice to the same address including: your signature; identification of the removed material and where it appeared; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification; your name, address, and phone number; and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district (or, if outside the United States, any district in which we may be found). We may restore the material in 10–14 business days unless the original complainant notifies us that they have filed a court action.

11.4 Repeat infringers

We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of members who are repeat infringers.

11.5 A note about recipes specifically

Copyright does not protect a list of ingredients and quantities, or a bare statement of a procedure — those are facts and methods, which 17 U.S.C. § 102(b) places outside copyright, and U.S. courts have said so directly (Publications International, Ltd. v. Meredith Corp., 88 F.3d 473 (7th Cir. 1996)). Copyright does protect the creative writing that surrounds a recipe, and it protects photographs and video. We take notices about the latter seriously, and we will decline notices that assert ownership of nothing more than a list of ingredients.

12. Privacy

We collect the account information you provide (such as name, email, and profile photo via Google Sign-In) and the content you create, in order to operate the Service. Authentication and data storage are handled by Google Firebase. We do not sell your personal information. We use your data only to provide and improve the Service. You may request deletion of your account and associated data by contacting us. Data may be processed on servers operated by our infrastructure providers.

13. Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you violate these Terms or if required to protect the Service or its users.

14. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the state in which the Service operator is established, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be handled in the courts located there.

This page is provided for general informational purposes and is not legal advice. Consider having an attorney review these terms once your LLC is formed.