Community and upload terms

1. What these terms cover

These terms apply to everything you post in Yedeni: recipes with title, ingredients, steps, photos and videos; reviews and comments; collections; profile picture, display name and profile text; reports; and messages to the AI coach where they feed into shared content. They form part of the Terms of Service.

2. Rights in what you upload

You may only upload content if at least one of the following is true:

• You created it yourself — you took the photo, shot the video, wrote the text.
• You have explicit permission from every rights holder to publish it in Yedeni.
• It is under a licence that permits this use, and you provide the required attribution.

A recipe as such — the bare sequence of ingredients and steps — is generally not protected by copyright. The individually written surrounding text, the photos and the videos almost always are. So you may cook someone's recipe and post it here in your own words with your own pictures; you may not take their text and images.

If other people are identifiable in your photos or videos, you need their consent. For children you need the consent of their legal guardians.

Watch out for trade marks too: you may use protected product names descriptively ("with Nutella"), but not in a way that suggests a connection with the brand owner.

3. What you allow us to do

By uploading you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to store, technically adapt and display the content as part of operating Yedeni. Your copyright stays with you. We do not sell your content and we do not use it to train AI models. The licence ends when you delete the content or your account — details in § 4 of the Terms.

4. Content rules

4.1 Describe food honestly

• Ingredients and amounts must match what is actually in the recipe.
• Do not invent nutrition values and do not make them look better than they are.
• State allergens where you know them. Other people rely on that.
• Photos must show the dish in question — no unrelated dish as bait.

4.2 No health promises

Yedeni is not a medical device and not dietary counselling. The following are therefore not permitted:

• Claims that a recipe or food cures, alleviates or prevents disease
• Disease-related claims within the meaning of the Health Claims Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006
• Instructions for extreme diets, zero-calorie diets, unsupervised fasting or detox cures
• Content that trivialises, glorifies or instructs in eating disorders — including competitions over minimal calorie intake, weight or body comparisons and associated hashtags
• Supplement dosage recommendations above the amounts generally considered safe for the wider population

4.3 Prohibited content

Content is not permitted if it

• violates applicable law
• incites violence, hatred or discrimination, or demeans people on grounds of origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability or age
• harasses, threatens, exposes or targets others
• shows sexual content or nudity
• uses unconstitutional symbols or disseminates terrorist content
• discloses third parties' personal data without their consent
• impersonates another person or our company
• contains advertising, chain letters, bulk messages or redirects to commercial offers without our agreement
• contains malware, malicious code or fraudulent links
• was evidently generated automatically in bulk without substantive value
• manipulates ratings — for example bought, traded or multi-account reviews

4.4 Alcohol and adult topics

Recipes containing alcohol are permitted but must be recognisable as such. Because Yedeni is usable from age 16, content encouraging excessive alcohol consumption is not permitted. Tobacco, cannabis and other controlled substances are not permitted as ingredients.

4.5 AI-generated content

You may use AI tools to create content. If you do: label it as AI-generated (Yedeni does this automatically for content generated in the app), check it for accuracy before publishing, and do not pass AI-generated images off as your own photos of a dish you actually cooked.

5. How we review

We are under no general obligation to monitor content and we do not do so. We review:

• automatically on upload — for obviously impermissible images and implausible nutrition values
• on notice, when a report reaches us
• by sampling, for content that is being distributed widely

An automated check alone never produces a final decision about your account. A human always decides before a suspension.

6. What happens after a violation

We act in graduated steps and choose the mildest suitable measure:

We notify you of every measure and state the reason, the content concerned, the legal basis or rule breached, whether automated means were involved, and how you can challenge it. You may challenge any measure within six months — at support@yedeni.com or through the complaints function in the app. The procedure is described under Copyright and reporting illegal content.

7. Reporting something

Every recipe, review and profile has a report function. Report copyright infringements and illegal content through the formal procedure at Copyright and reporting illegal content or to support@yedeni.com. Reports concerning your own safety take priority and are handled first.

8. Partner content

Some recipes in Yedeni come from partners who expressly permitted us to use their content. Such recipes are labelled with their source and author and link back to the original post. If you are a rights holder and want to withdraw such permission, an informal message is enough — we then remove the content promptly.

9. Changes

We may adapt these terms when new features arrive or the legal situation changes. We announce material changes in the app at least 30 days in advance.