Phork It! Terms of Service

Last updated: October 20, 2026

1. About these Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Phork It! ("Phork It!", "we", "us"). They cover the Phork It! app for iOS and Android, the website at phorkit.com, our emails and any related services (together, the "Services").

By creating an account, signing up for our mailing list or otherwise using the Services, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use the Services.

Important: Section 8 contains a binding arbitration agreement and a class action waiver for users in the United States. It affects how disputes are resolved. You can opt out within 30 days, as explained there.

2. Who can use Phork It! and your account

  • Age. You must be at least 13 years old to use the Services, or 16 in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland. If you are under 18 (or the age of majority where you live), a parent or guardian must agree to these Terms for you.
  • Email and sign-in. You create an account with a valid email address. You sign in with a one-time "magic link" or a one-time code sent to that email. Anyone who can read your inbox can sign in as you, so keep your email account secure and never share sign-in links or codes.
  • Guest use. Where the app offers it, you can use Phork It! as a guest without an email address. A guest account lives only in the sign-in stored on your device: there is no email we can use to recover it, so if you sign out, delete the app or lose your device, you can't get back in. A guest account that no one can sign in to any more, or that isn't used for 90 days, is deleted. Guests may have a lower import allowance and can't use every feature, such as shared households or subscriptions. To keep your recipes, add your email address and confirm it with the code we send.
  • Adding your email or combining accounts. When you add a confirmed email address to a guest account, it becomes an ordinary account with the same recipes, plans and lists. If that email already has a Phork It! account, you can choose to combine them: we move the guest account's recipes, collections, plans, lists and cook log into your existing account and close the guest account. Imports you used as a guest don't count against your account's allowance.
  • One person, one account. Give us accurate information and keep your email address up to date. You are responsible for everything that happens under your account. Tell us right away at [email protected] if you think someone else has used it.
  • Deleting your account. You can delete your account at any time in the app (Settings → Account → Delete account). An account with an email address enters a 30-day grace period in which you can change your mind by signing in again; after that it is permanently deleted. A guest account is deleted straight away, with no grace period, and can't be restored. Some information may be kept afterwards as described in the Privacy Policy, and de-identified or aggregated data (Section 5) is not affected. Deleting your account doesn't cancel a subscription you bought through the App Store or Google Play (Section 3).
  • Waitlist and newsletter. If you only sign up on phorkit.com for news, you don't have an account yet. These Terms still apply to your use of the website, and you can unsubscribe from our emails at any time.

3. What the Services do

  • Importing recipes. When you share a recipe video or web page with Phork It!, we use automated tools, including AI, to read the video's caption, audio and on-screen text (or the page's text) and turn them into a recipe, a meal plan and a shopping list. We may keep a copy of the imported video, audio and thumbnail to process it and to show you the recipe.
  • Check before you cook. Automated extraction makes mistakes. Amounts, ingredients, steps, cooking times and temperatures may be wrong or missing, and we flag fields we are unsure about. Always check a recipe against the original video and use common sense.
  • Not health or dietary advice. Recipes, ingredient lists and any nutrition information are for general information only. We don't guarantee that a recipe is free of any allergen or suitable for any diet or medical condition. If you have allergies or dietary needs, check every ingredient yourself. Follow safe food handling and cooking practices.
  • Nutrition data credits. Food composition data includes Fineli, Release 20.0, from the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Phork It! selects, converts and combines these data with USDA FoodData Central and estimates. Fineli source. THL does not produce or endorse this service.
  • Paid features. Some features may require a subscription or another form of payment, as shown in the app. Prices, plans and what each plan includes are shown in the app before you buy, and we may change them. Any purchase is subject to the price and terms shown at the time and to the App Store or Google Play purchase terms.
  • Subscriptions. Phork It! Pro and other subscriptions are sold and billed by Apple through the App Store or by Google through Google Play, and renew automatically until you cancel. Manage or cancel them in your App Store or Google Play account settings; refunds follow Apple's or Google's rules. Deleting your Phork It! account or the app doesn't cancel a subscription: the store keeps charging you until you cancel it there. We use a service provider, RevenueCat, to check which plan you have (see the Privacy Policy). Guest accounts can't subscribe.
  • Import allowances. Each plan includes a number of imports, shown in the app, for example a monthly allowance on the free plan and a one-off allowance for guests. An import that fails on our side, or that finds a recipe you already have, isn't counted.
  • Feature availability. Not all features described in these Terms, the Privacy Policy, the app stores or on our website will be available at launch, in every country, on every device or on every plan. Some features may be offered as previews or tests, may be limited in how much you can use them, and may change or be withdrawn.
  • Changes. We may add, change, limit or remove any feature, or stop offering the Services, at any time and without liability to you. We'll give reasonable notice of major changes when we can.

4. Your content and creators' content

  • Your content. "Your Content" means the links you share, the recipes and notes you save or edit, your meal plans, shopping lists, ratings and anything else you add. You keep whatever rights you have in Your Content.
  • Licence to us. You give Phork It! a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable licence to host, store, copy, process, adapt, display and otherwise use Your Content to run, improve and promote the Services, to develop new products and features (including training and improving our models), and for the data uses described in Section 5. This licence ends when you delete Your Content or your account, except for copies in backups for a limited time and for de-identified or aggregated data.
  • Creators' videos. Recipe videos belong to the people who made them. Phork It! does not claim ownership of them. Every imported recipe credits the creator and links back to the original video. Use imported recipes for your own personal, non-commercial cooking. Don't republish them as your own.
  • Your responsibility. Only share content you are allowed to share. Don't upload anything illegal, harmful or that infringes someone else's rights.
  • Copyright complaints. If you believe content on the Services infringes your copyright, including if you are a creator who wants a recipe removed, send a notice to our designated agent at [email protected] with the details required by the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)). We remove infringing content and close the accounts of repeat infringers.

5. Privacy, data and advertising

Our Privacy Policy explains in detail what we collect and how we use it. In short, and to the fullest extent permitted by law:

  • What we collect. Your email address (none for a guest account), Your Content, the recipes and creators you save, how you use the app (such as searches, plans, lists and taps), device and app information, approximate location from your IP address, and information from partners and the app stores, including the state of any subscription you buy.
  • We don't sell your personal information. We don't sell, rent or trade your email address, name or other information that identifies you, and we don't give it to data brokers.
  • Our own marketing. We use your information to tell you about Phork It! and to advertise Phork It! on other apps and websites, including showing our ads to people who have visited or used the Services (retargeting) and measuring how our ads perform. To do this we share limited information, such as advertising identifiers, a hashed (scrambled) email address and app events, with advertising platforms. Some US state laws call this "sharing" or "targeted advertising". It is not a sale: no one pays us for your information. You can opt out (see "Your choices" below).
  • Sponsored content. We may show sponsored recipes, offers or ads from brands and retailers in the Services, chosen using what we know about your use of the Services. Brands only receive aggregated reports about how their content performed, never your identity.
  • Shopping and affiliate partners. If you choose to send a shopping list or recipe to a grocery or retail service, we pass it to that service at your request, and it handles it under its own terms and privacy policy. We may earn a commission when you buy through these links.
  • Service providers. We share information with the companies that help us run the Services, such as cloud hosting, AI and video processing, web page fetching, email delivery, push notifications, subscription management (RevenueCat), analytics, crash reporting and customer support. The Privacy Policy lists them by category.
  • Your choices. You can opt out of sharing for targeted advertising by using the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link or by emailing [email protected] with the subject "Do Not Sell or Share". We honour Global Privacy Control signals. Where the law requires your consent first, such as in the EEA and UK or for Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt, we ask for it and respect your answer. We don't share personal information of users we know are under 16 for targeted advertising.
  • Health-related information. Allergies, diets and similar details you give us are used to run the Services and, beyond that, only in broad aggregated statistics. We never sell them, share them with advertising platforms or use them for targeted ads.
  • De-identified and aggregated data. We may turn information into data that no longer identifies you and can't reasonably be linked to you, such as "gochujang recipe saves rose 40% this month" or statistics about groups of users. We may use, publish, share and license this data, for example as market insights and trend reports for brands, retailers and research partners, during and after your use of the Services. We only report on groups large enough that no individual can be singled out, we won't try to re-identify the data, and we require anyone we share it with not to either.
  • Emails and notifications. We send service emails you can't opt out of while your account has a confirmed email address, such as a welcome email, sign-in links and important changes. A guest account gets no emails. After you confirm your email address, when you sign up or when you add it to a guest account, we also send a few getting-started tips by email; you can turn them off with the link in each tip, in the app's Settings or by emailing [email protected]. You can unsubscribe from marketing emails with the link in each email, and turn off push notifications in your device settings.

6. Using the Services fairly

Don't:

  • break the law or anyone's rights, including creators' copyrights;
  • scrape, copy or resell the Services, the recipes in them or our data, or use bots or automated means to access them;
  • reverse engineer, probe or disrupt the Services or get around their security or limits;
  • create accounts in bulk, impersonate anyone or share your account;
  • use the Services to spam, harass or harm anyone.

Our stuff. The Services, the Phork It! name, logo and fork-bang mark, our designs, software and de-identified or aggregated data belong to Phork It! or our licensors. We give you a personal, revocable, non-transferable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, only as these Terms allow.

Feedback. We may ask you for feedback, for example through in-app prompts, surveys, interviews, user tests, beta programmes or emails. Taking part is optional. Anything you send us about Phork It!, including ideas, suggestions, ratings, answers, comments, bug reports, screenshots and recordings ("Feedback"), is given freely. You grant Phork It! a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, transferable and sublicensable licence, without any limitation, to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publish, publicly display, distribute, commercialise and create derivative works from your Feedback, in any media and for any purpose, including building it into our products, training our models and using it in marketing. You also permit us to collect, store, analyse, combine with your other data and share the personal information in your Feedback as described in our Privacy Policy. We owe you no payment, credit or confidentiality for Feedback, and to the extent the law allows you waive any moral rights in it. We won't publish your name, photo or voice alongside your Feedback without your permission.

Other services. The Services link to and rely on third-party services, such as video platforms, app stores and email providers. Their terms apply to your use of them, and we are not responsible for them.

App Store and Google Play. If you got the app from Apple's App Store, these Terms are between you and Phork It!, not Apple. Apple has no duty to support or maintain the app, and isn't responsible for any claims about it, including product liability, legal compliance or intellectual property claims. If the app fails any warranty that applies, you may notify Apple for a refund of any purchase price; Apple has no other warranty obligation. You confirm you are not in a country under a U.S. embargo or on a U.S. restricted-party list. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you. If you got the app from Google Play, Google Play's terms of service also apply.

7. Ending, warranties and liability

Ending. You can stop using the Services and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or close your account, or remove content, if you break these Terms, if the law requires it, or to protect users, creators or Phork It!. Sections 4 (licence for de-identified data), 5, 7 and 8 continue after your account ends.

No warranties. THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PHORK IT! DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND ACCURACY OF ANY RECIPE. WE DON'T PROMISE THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR SECURE.

Limits on liability. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, PHORK IT! WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, DATA OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM THE SERVICES OR THESE TERMS. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF US$100 OR WHAT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM. Some places don't allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

Indemnity. If someone brings a claim against Phork It! because of Your Content or your breach of these Terms, you will cover our reasonable losses and costs, including legal fees, to the extent the law allows.

8. Disputes, governing law and contact

Talk to us first. Most problems can be fixed quickly. Email [email protected] and give us 60 days to try to resolve it before starting a formal claim.

Arbitration (U.S. users). If we can't resolve it, you and Phork It! agree to settle any dispute about the Services or these Terms by binding individual arbitration run by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, instead of in court. Either of us may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court, or ask a court to stop infringement of intellectual property.

No class actions. You and Phork It! may bring claims only individually, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective or representative action. There are no jury trials.

Opting out. You can opt out of arbitration and the class action waiver by emailing [email protected] within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, with your name, account email and a clear statement that you opt out.

Users in the EEA, UK and Switzerland. The arbitration agreement and class action waiver don't apply to you. You keep all rights your local consumer and data protection laws give you, and you can bring claims in the courts where you live. Nothing in these Terms limits those rights.

Governing law. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware and applicable U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any court case not subject to arbitration will be heard in the state or federal courts located in Delaware, unless your local law says otherwise.

Changes to these Terms. We may update these Terms. We'll post the new version with its date, and for important changes we'll notify you in the app or by email at least 30 days before they apply. If you keep using the Services after that, you accept the new Terms.

Other terms. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the Services. If part of them can't be enforced, the rest still applies. Not enforcing a right isn't giving it up. You can't transfer these Terms; we can, for example if Phork It! is sold or merges.

Contact. Questions about these Terms, account deletion, opt-outs or copyright: [email protected]