Terms of use
Last updated 19 October 2026
Tare is a recipe book and meal planner for your phone. It is free to use, and a subscription opens more. These terms say what you get, what we ask of you, and who you are buying from when you subscribe. They are short on purpose.
Who you are agreeing with
Tare is provided by Timothy Lauren Wickens, contactable at support@tare.cooking. The full postal details are in the Impressum. Using Tare means accepting what is written here. If you buy a subscription you are also accepting the store's own terms — Google Play's on an Android phone, the App Store's on an iPhone — because the store is the seller; see Who sells it below. If you got Tare from the App Store, Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement also applies to the app itself.
Your account
You need an account to use Tare, and you are responsible for keeping your password to yourself. Tell us at support@tare.cooking if you think somebody else has got into your account.
One person, one account. Do not share an account with someone — invite them to your cookbook instead, which is what cookbooks are for.
You need to be at least 16 to have an account. That is the age at which, in Germany, somebody can agree to this sort of thing for themselves. A household can of course cook from one cookbook together — the age is about whose name the account is in.
What is free, and what a subscription opens
Nothing you bring into Tare is ever deleted or held back from you: the whole cookbook is yours to export at any time, whatever you pay. A free cookbook opens fifty recipes — the rest wait on the shelf, listed by name, and a subscription opens them all. A free cookbook seats six people; a subscription seats twenty.
Every feature of Tare is free to use. The shelf holds recipes, never people: a recipe beyond the fifty is still yours and still in every export, and it opens when there is room — because you removed a recipe you no longer cook, or because you subscribed. Nothing you bring in is ever refused for lack of room.
A subscription is bought by a cookbook's owner and opens, in every cookbook that owner has: every recipe (up to 1,000 open at once in each cookbook), every cookbook they start (up to fifty), and twenty people in each cookbook. It covers everyone in those cookbooks. Joining somebody else's cookbook never costs anything, however many you join.
It costs €14.99 a year. The store shows you the price in your own currency, including VAT, before you buy, and renews it at that price each year until you cancel. The price you first pay is the price you keep for as long as your subscription runs, even if the price for new subscribers goes up later.
A subscription belongs to the Tare account it was bought from. On another phone, sign in to that account and tap Restore it under Your shelf in the settings.
Who sells it
You buy a subscription from the store, not from us. On an Android phone it is sold to you by Google Commerce Limited through Google Play, under Google Play's own terms; on an iPhone, by Apple through the App Store (in the European Union, Apple Distribution International Ltd.), under the App Store's own terms. The store takes the payment, charges any VAT, issues the receipt, renews the subscription, and handles cancellation, refunds and your statutory right of withdrawal. Manage in Google Play or Manage in the App Store, under Your shelf in Tare's settings, opens your subscription in the store that sold it; that is where you cancel. We never see a card, never charge you ourselves and send no invoice. What we provide, under these terms, is the app and the service behind it.
Renewing and cancelling
The subscription renews automatically each year unless you cancel it in the store that sold it before the year is up. Cancelling does not cut the year short: what you have paid for runs to its end, and then the subscription stops. Whether any part of a period already paid for is refunded is the store's decision, under its own refund policy.
When a subscription ends
Nothing is deleted. The cookbook goes back to fifty open recipes — the fifty you added first stay open and the rest return to the shelf — and to six seats for anyone new; nobody already in the cookbook is removed. Every recipe stays yours to export the whole time.
What you get, and updates
Tare is a digital service in the sense of German law (§ 327 BGB). While you subscribe we keep it working as described on this site, and we provide the updates needed to keep it that way (§ 327f BGB). If something in Tare does not work as described, write to support@tare.cooking and we will put it right. Nothing here limits the rights the law gives you as a consumer for digital products.
Changes to Tare
Tare changes over time — a better ingredient library, a new way to read a recipe, a redrawn screen. We may change it to keep it working on new phones and new versions of Android and iOS, to keep it secure, to fix faults, and to add or improve features (§ 327r BGB). A change never costs you anything extra. If a change would make Tare materially worse for you as a subscriber, we will tell you before it lands — by email to the address on your account and in the app — saying what changes and when, and you may end your subscription free of charge within thirty days of that notice.
Your recipes are yours
Everything you put into Tare stays yours. We do not claim ownership of it, we do not use it to train anything, and we do not show it to anyone outside the cookbooks you put it in.
We store and display your content only so that Tare can work — showing it back to you and to the people you have invited into a shared cookbook. You can take it out or delete it at any time.
A word about recipes from websites. When you capture a recipe, you are responsible for what you do with it. A list of ingredients is generally not protected by copyright, but the words somebody wrote around it and the photographs they took usually are. Keeping a captured recipe for your own cooking is ordinary; republishing somebody's writing or photographs as your own is not, and Tare is not a tool for that.
If you are a recipe author or publisher and believe something in Tare should not be there, write to support@tare.cooking and we will look at it.
What you may not do
- Use Tare for anything unlawful, or to store anything unlawful.
- Upload content that infringes somebody else's rights.
- Attempt to break into, overload, or work around the limits of the service, or access another person's account or cookbook.
- Resell or redistribute the service, or sell access to a cookbook.
If you do any of these we may suspend or close the account. Where it is reasonable to do so we will tell you first and give you a chance to put it right.
What Tare does not promise
We work to keep Tare available and your recipes safe, but no service is up every minute and no store is perfect. Keep your own copy of anything you would be upset to lose. The Download my data option in the app, under the button in the top-right corner, exists for exactly this. Nor can every recipe be read from every website correctly — recipe pages vary enormously and some of them defeat it; what Tare read is always shown to you before it is saved.
Tare scales recipes and converts between units as carefully as it can, and it tells you when it has rounded something. It is a kitchen aid and not a professional instrument. Use your own judgement, particularly where it matters — baking, allergens, and anything you are cooking for someone else.
Liability
We are liable without limit for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the Product Liability Act, and where we have given a guarantee. For simple negligence we are liable only where we break a duty that this contract exists to fulfil — one you were entitled to rely on, such as keeping your recipes available to you — and then only for the loss that was foreseeable and typical for a service of this kind when you took it. Beyond that, our liability for simple negligence is excluded. Nothing here limits any liability that cannot be limited under the applicable law.
Ending it
You can stop using Tare whenever you want. A subscription is cancelled in the store that sold it, as described above, and runs to the end of what you paid for. You can delete your account at any time — see delete your account. Deleting your Tare account does not cancel a subscription: cancel it in Google Play or the App Store first, or the store will go on renewing it.
We may close your account if you do one of the things listed under What you may not do; where it is reasonable we tell you first and give you the chance to put it right. We may close the service with reasonable notice. In either case we give you the chance to export your recipes first, and we never end a paid subscription before the period you paid for is over.
Changes to these terms
We may change these terms where the law, the app stores' rules, or Tare itself changes in a way that needs it. We will tell you at least thirty days before a change takes effect, in the app and by email to the address on your account. A change the law requires, or one that does not worsen your position, takes effect on the date we name. A change that would worsen your position needs your agreement, which we will ask for in the app; if you do not give it, your current subscription runs on these terms until the end of the period you paid for, and renewing it is your choice. Silence is never read as agreement. The date at the top changes with the terms.
Law
German law applies. If you are a consumer, this does not take away the protection of the mandatory rules of the country you live in. We do not take part in dispute resolution before a consumer arbitration board and are not obliged to.