Terms of Service

Unless the purchase page states otherwise, a Homelore Recipe Box purchase includes:

• one wooden recipe box in the selected available material;
• 200 recipe card prints on linen cardstock;
• 500 recipe formattings; and
• PDF downloads of formatted recipe cards.

Shipping is not included in the purchase price and is charged separately per order.

A recipe may require more than one physical card. Each separate physical card counts toward the applicable print allowance, whether printed on one side or both sides. The Service will display or otherwise confirm the physical-card count before production begins.

Unused print capacity does not automatically transfer between orders unless the purchase page expressly says that it does.

Additional recipe formattings, cards, shipments, boxes, dividers, engraving, expedited services, or other add-ons may be available for purchase. Their prices and terms will be displayed when ordered.

The purchase price does not include shipping. Shipping is charged separately per order at the rate displayed at the time you submit the order. Applicable sales taxes are added at checkout or at the time of shipment submission where required by law.

Expedited shipping, address-correction charges, international shipping, customs duties, import taxes, or other special charges are not included unless expressly stated.

Payments are processed by Stripe or another payment processor identified at checkout. Homelore does not receive or store complete payment-card numbers, security codes, or expiration dates. Your use of a payment processor may also be subject to that provider’s terms and privacy policy.

Your order is an offer to purchase. We may accept, reject, limit, or cancel an order before production begins, including because of product unavailability, pricing or listing errors, suspected fraud, shipping limitations, or our receipt of a copyright or other infringement notice, a credible claim of infringement, or a genuine dispute or conflict regarding the rights in the submitted material. If we cancel a paid order before production, we will refund the amount paid for the canceled portion.

We will ordinarily place unavailable products on a waitlist rather than accept payment. If an item becomes unavailable after payment, Section 8.5 applies.

For the initial box order, production begins when you select “Build My Box” or another clearly labeled final-submission button. For later card shipments or add-ons, production begins when you select the applicable final-submission button.

Before production begins, you must review the complete order summary and all materials submitted for printing or engraving.

By beginning production, you confirm that you have reviewed and approved, as applicable:

• recipe titles, ingredients, quantities, units, temperatures, times, and instructions;
• spelling, capitalization, punctuation, source or provenance information, section names, and organization;
• the physical-card count and card layouts shown;
• box material, engraving text and location, and other personalization;
• the recipient name and delivery address; and
• all other selections displayed in the final order summary.

Unless we expressly offer a separate proofing service, Homelore does not send a separate engraving proof after submission. You are responsible for the spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and other text you enter and approve.

Minor variations in engraving size, position, darkness, alignment, and appearance may occur because of wood grain, material characteristics, equipment, and production processes. Homelore remains responsible if the engraving materially differs from the approved text or selection because of our or our vendor’s production error.

You may request cancellation and a full refund before production begins, subject to any clearly disclosed exception for separately purchased services already completed at your request.

Recipe cards, engraved boxes, and other customized goods are produced specifically for you. Once production begins, they ordinarily cannot be changed, canceled, or returned because of a change of mind or an error in content or personalization that you approved.

This limitation does not apply where required by law or where an item is damaged, defective, materially different from the approved order, or produced incorrectly by Homelore or its vendors.

Contact [SUPPORT EMAIL] within 14 days after delivery if an item:

• arrives damaged;
• has a functional manufacturing defect;
• is missing from the shipment;
• is not the product ordered; or
• materially differs from the approved recipe-card or engraving content because of a production error.

We may request photographs, packaging, the order number, or other information reasonably needed to evaluate the issue. Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, we may repair the item, replace it, reprint affected cards, or refund the affected portion of the order.

Nothing in these Terms limits any warranty, remedy, or consumer right that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

You are responsible for providing a complete and accurate delivery address. We are not responsible for delay, loss, or additional cost caused by an incorrect or incomplete address supplied by you, although we will reasonably assist when possible.

Responsibility for a package does not shift to you merely because it has been handed to a carrier. If tracking shows loss or non-delivery, contact us so we can investigate and provide any remedy required by law or our then-current shipping policy.

You control when to submit your first set of cards for production. We encourage submission within 12 months after purchase.

If you have not submitted within 12 months, we may contact you to arrange an extension, an alternative product configuration, or cancellation and a refund of the unfulfilled portion. The paid recipe-box purchase will not be automatically forfeited solely because you missed that date.

You may order additional card shipments at any time through your account. Shipping is charged per order at the rate displayed when you submit. Separately purchased print credits or other allowances are governed by the terms displayed when purchased.

Production and delivery dates are estimates unless expressly identified as guaranteed. Timing may vary because Homelore uses small-batch production and third-party box makers, engravers, printers, packers, and carriers.

If we cannot ship within the time stated or, if no time was stated, within the period required by applicable law, we will provide a revised estimate and any delay, consent, cancellation, or refund options required by law.

Wooden boxes, recipe cards, dividers, and other components may be produced or shipped by different vendors. They may arrive in separate packages or at different times.

If a selected box, wood, or other material becomes unavailable after payment, we may offer you the choice to:

1. wait for the selected item;
2. select an available alternative, with an appropriate price adjustment if applicable; or
3. cancel and receive a refund for the unfulfilled portion.

We will not require you to leave funds with us indefinitely while waiting for an unavailable supplier or material.

Homelore uses a third-party artificial intelligence service, currently OpenAI, to extract, shorten, organize, translate where requested, and format recipe content that you submit.

Homelore does not sell your recipes or other User Content, and does not permit its AI providers to use your User Content to train or improve generally available AI models except as necessary to provide the Service to you or as otherwise described in the Privacy Policy. Our processing of User Content through the AI provider is governed by that provider’s applicable terms and our agreements with it.

AI-generated content may be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or inconsistent with the source material. It may omit or alter ingredients, measurements, temperatures, timings, allergens, preparation details, or safety information.

Homelore does not guarantee that AI-generated recipe content is accurate, complete, safe, or suitable for a particular purpose. You must review and, where necessary, correct every recipe before beginning production or relying on it.

The Service does not provide medical, dietary, nutritional, allergen, or food-safety advice. You are responsible for determining whether ingredients and preparation methods are safe and suitable for you and anyone who may consume the food.

Follow authoritative food-safety guidance for cooking temperatures, storage, preservation, canning, fermentation, allergies, and other potentially hazardous practices. Do not rely solely on an AI-generated card for such decisions.

“User Content” means recipe text, optional source or story information, edits, notes, section names, engraving text, gift messages, and any other text, image, file, or material you submit through a feature of the Service.

As between you and Homelore, you retain any rights you have in your User Content. Submitting third-party material does not give you ownership of that material, and Homelore does not claim that you own material merely because you submit it.

You grant Homelore and its service providers a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to reproduce, process, analyze, adapt, translate, format, store, transmit, display to you, print, package, and deliver User Content solely as reasonably necessary to:

• provide and fulfill the Service;
• create and display your recipe library and recipe cards;
• generate PDFs and production files;
• print, engrave, package, and ship your order;
• provide support, prevent fraud or abuse, and maintain security; and
• comply with law and enforce these Terms.

This license ends when the relevant User Content is deleted, except to the extent continued retention or use is reasonably necessary for completed orders, legal compliance, dispute resolution, security, backups, or other purposes described in the Privacy Policy.

Homelore does not receive a license to publicly publish, advertise with, sell, or commercially exploit your private recipes merely because you use the Service.

You may submit material only if:

• you own it;
• you have permission to use it; or
• you have another lawful basis for Homelore to process, store, or print it.

You are responsible for ensuring that your submission and use do not violate copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, contractual, confidentiality, or other third-party rights.

The optional source field is provided for your personal provenance and organization. Providing attribution does not by itself create permission to reproduce copyrighted material, and leaving the field blank does not by itself establish infringement.

Recipes and other material you paste may come from third-party websites, books, publications, creators, family members, or other sources. Homelore does not own, endorse, verify, or assume responsibility for third-party material or its accuracy, legality, copyright status, quality, or safety.

Your dealings with third-party sources remain subject to applicable law and any valid terms or restrictions governing your access to those sources. You may not use Homelore to bypass or evade a paywall, access control, anti-bot system, digital-rights-management measure, or other technical restriction.

Do not submit third-party photographs, illustrations, long-form articles, headnotes, personal essays, or other expressive material unless you are legally permitted to do so. The Service is intended primarily for private, personal, household, and noncommercial recipe archiving.

We do not undertake to review all User Content. We may refuse, remove, restrict, or disable access to User Content, and may decline to print, engrave, or otherwise produce an order, or suspend or halt production already underway, when we reasonably believe it violates these Terms, applicable law, or another person’s rights; when we receive a copyright or other infringement notice or a credible claim of infringement; when there is a genuine dispute or conflict regarding the rights in the submitted material; when it threatens safety or security; or when it could expose Homelore or others to liability.

Copyright complaints are handled under the notice and counter-notice procedure in Section 12. If we decline or halt production for these reasons before completing your order, we will refund the amount paid for the unfulfilled portion, except to the extent the material was unlawful or submitted in violation of another person’s rights.

If you place an order for delivery to a recipient other than yourself, you remain the customer responsible for the order, including payment, content approval, and the accuracy of the recipient name and delivery address. Requests to cancel, return, or report a problem with a gift order must be made by, or with the authorization of, the purchaser, except where applicable law provides the recipient a direct remedy.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the digital Service and AI-generated output are provided “as is” and “as available.” We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or compatible with every device, or that generated content will be accurate or complete.

Physical goods are subject to the product descriptions, express promises made at purchase, and all warranties and consumer protections that cannot lawfully be disclaimed.

Except for those obligations, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, Homelore disclaims implied warranties applicable to the Service. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits an implied warranty, statutory remedy, or other consumer right that applicable law does not permit us to exclude or limit.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Homelore makes no representation or warranty that User Content, or the reproduction, printing, engraving, or other production of User Content requested by you, is lawful or does not infringe or misappropriate the copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, contractual, confidentiality, or other rights of any third party. You are solely responsible for the material you submit and approve, and Homelore’s decision to produce, decline, or halt production of an order does not constitute any warranty or determination regarding the rights in that material.

Before initiating any formal proceeding, you agree to first contact us at [SUPPORT EMAIL] and provide a brief written description of the dispute and the relief you seek, and to allow us at least 30 days to attempt to resolve it informally.

Except for claims that may be brought in small claims court and except where prohibited by applicable law, any dispute arising from or relating to these Terms or the Service that is not resolved informally will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by a recognized arbitration provider under its consumer arbitration rules, rather than in court. YOU AND HOMELORE AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.

You may reject this arbitration agreement by sending written notice to [SUPPORT EMAIL] within 30 days after first accepting these Terms. If you opt out, or if the arbitration agreement is found unenforceable, the governing-law and venue provisions of this Section apply. This arbitration agreement does not limit any right you have under applicable law that cannot be waived.

You consent to receive agreements, notices, receipts, order updates, and other transactional communications electronically. You may retain copies for your records.

We may provide notices to you by email to the address associated with your account, by posting within the Service, or by other reasonable means. You may provide legal notices to us at the address in the “Contact Us” section or at [SUPPORT EMAIL]. Notices are deemed received when sent by email or posted, or when delivered if sent by mail.

You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or transfer of the Service, provided the assignee assumes our applicable obligations.

Neither party is responsible for delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control, such as natural disasters, fire, labor disruption, war, government action, carrier interruption, material shortage, utility outage, or widespread internet failure. This provision does not eliminate refund or delay-notice rights that applicable law requires.

If a provision is found unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted, and the remaining provisions will remain in effect.

A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the purchase page, the final order summary, and any additional terms expressly presented for a feature or product constitute the entire agreement between you and Homelore concerning the Service. If there is a conflict concerning a particular purchase, the final order summary and product-specific terms control for that purchase.

Headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.