Terms

The plans and their prices

Griddle offers a free plan and two subscriptions, at the prices shown with VAT included, the same across the European Union.

Moving from Essentiel to Premium takes effect at once: only the difference is charged, for the rest of the current period. Moving from Premium to Essentiel takes effect when the paid period ends, with no refund of the current period; for the other members of the family, that is the end of Premium, described below. Stopping a subscription takes effect when the paid period ends, never at the click.

Founder price: should prices ever rise, subscribers who subscribed before the rise keep their price for as long as their subscription runs, including if they move from one plan to the other or change period. A new subscription, after one has stopped, is taken at the price of the day.

Payment happens on Stripe’s pages, and Stripe is the seller: it collects the VAT, sends the receipts and handles the means of payment. Griddle never sees your card.

When no subscription covers your family any more, 30 recipes stay active — the ones opened most recently, which you may choose once — and the others are locked, never deleted: they come back with a subscription, and your data export always contains every one of them.

Fair use

Fair use: “unlimited” means no ceiling for a household’s use, however hungry. To keep the service fast and available to everyone, Griddle may limit plainly abnormal use — mass creation by a script or an assistant, for instance — and sets ceilings far above anything a household reaches. If one is reached, Griddle says so plainly and nothing is deleted.

• 10,000recipes
• 500carnets
• 2,000family foods
• 1,000tags
• 50shopping lists
• 2,000lines on the lists
• 5,000photos
• 5,000shelved items
• 500comments per recipe
• 20recipes per meal
• 10connected assistants per account

Per family unless stated. If one is reached, Griddle says so plainly and nothing is deleted.

Your recipes stay yours

A recipe you write, or import from a page or a photograph, belongs to your family, each of whose members reads and edits it. Griddle holds it in a private library: it publishes nothing, and shows nothing outside your family but what you share yourself.

Sharing a recipe or a carnet

Sharing publishes nothing. A page opened by link can be read only by whoever holds the link, an invitation only by the invited person; the page is not indexed, is listed nowhere, and stops opening as soon as your family revokes the link or withdraws the invitation. It shows the whole recipe — its method, its ingredients and its photographs —, or each of a carnet’s recipes whole, however the recipe came into your family; a recipe imported from a page names that page.

Whoever receives a shared recipe or carnet can only read it: Griddle offers them no way to add it to their own Griddle, to export it or to print it as a booklet. Their browser remains free to print the page they are reading or to save it as a PDF.

By sharing a recipe or a carnet, your family warrants that it holds the rights to show what it shares — the text, the method and the photographs — to the people it shares it with. It holds Griddle harmless against any third-party claim about it and indemnifies Griddle for what such a claim would cost it. A recipe imported from a website or copied from a book often belongs to its author: share it only if you have the right to.

Reporting a page

Every page opened by link — a recipe’s, as well as a carnet’s — carries “Report this page”. A report gives a reason — somebody else’s work, personal data, unlawful content or something else — and, if you wish, details; it asks for no account and records only that reason, those details and the page concerned. It does not hide the page by itself and is not shown to the family: Griddle examines it, then revokes the link or closes the report.

A family, and the end of Premium

The Premium plan one member pays for covers their whole family, up to six accounts on one household. That member may remove another, who leaves with a copy of the recipes, tags and carnets, exactly as if they had left, and is told by e-mail. When Premium is stopped, or the paying member moves to Essentiel, every member is told the date, and any of them may take Premium over: their first payment falls when the period already paid ends. A member who joins a family while holding a subscription of their own keeps it: Griddle never stops it on their behalf.

When Premium ends — at the end of the paid period, once renewed payment attempts have failed, or when the member who paid moves to Essentiel — the family stays with the member who last paid, or else with the longest-standing one. The others each carry on separately, on the free tier, with a copy of every recipe, tag and carnet, of which 30 stay active and the others are locked, never deleted; with no subscription left at all they are the same 30 for everyone, and after a move to Essentiel the family keeps its whole library. Nothing is shared any more. If the member who paid deletes their account, the family keeps the period already paid. As soon as someone takes Premium again, even months later, everybody comes back together: a recipe that stayed identical is not doubled, and one edited in the meantime is kept as a variant, never overwritten.