Terms of service

Last updated: November 5, 2026

These terms are between you and D Miles Holdings LLC, Wisconsin, USA ("we"), which runs Spatch. By using the app you agree to them, along with the privacy policy and the refund policy.

Who can use it

You need to be at least 13 to use Spatch. Only an adult (18 or older) can start a household or subscribe. Anyone under 18 can use Spatch only as part of a household an adult started, and that adult is responsible for their use of it.

Your household

A household is one shared plan: its recipes, meal plan, grocery list and history. Everyone in it has the same access. Anyone in it can change or delete anything, invite or remove people, manage the subscription, or delete the household, so only add people you trust.
There are two ways in. Each person can put their email on the household and sign in on any phone with a one-time code sent there, or join from an email invite. Each household also has a private link that opens it directly; a phone that signs in by email is given that link. Anyone who has the link is in the household, so treat it like a key.
Replacing the link (in Settings) stops the old one working everywhere, including on phones signed in by email; those sign in again with their email. Removing someone's email stops them signing in with it, but a phone that already has the link keeps it until the link is replaced.
You're responsible for who you let in.

Free trial and subscription

A new household gets 30 days free. No card is needed, and nothing is charged unless you subscribe.
Each person can start one free trial. A household started with an email that has already had a free trial gets only what was left of it. Joining someone else's household doesn't use up yours.
After the trial, planning, the grocery list and adding recipes need a subscription. Your saved data stays readable and downloadable either way.
A subscription is $5 a month or $40 a year per household (US dollars, plus sales tax where it applies). It is billed in advance and renews automatically each month or year until you cancel. Subscribe during your free trial and nothing is charged until the trial ends: the first payment is on the day it would have ended, and cancelling before then means you're never charged. If you pay yearly, we'll email you before each renewal. We'll tell you at least 7 days before any price change takes effect for you, so you can cancel first.
Payments are processed by Paddle, our reseller and merchant of record, which also handles sales tax, receipts and refunds. Paddle's own terms apply to the purchase.
How to cancel: in the app, Settings → Your subscription → Cancel subscription, or use the link in any Paddle receipt. Cancelling stops future renewals, and the app keeps working until the end of the month or year you've paid for. Refunds are covered in the refund policy.

Ending, deleting and suspending

When a trial or subscription ends, nothing is deleted. The household becomes read-only: you can still open, read and download everything, or subscribe again.
Deleting a household (Settings → Delete this household) permanently removes its recipes, photos, plan, ratings, notes, history and emails, for everyone in it. Its subscription, if it has one, is cancelled at the same time; deleting doesn't by itself refund time already paid for (see the refund policy). For 30 days afterwards our hosting keeps disaster-recovery backups that may still hold it. They aren't part of the app, nobody can open the household from them, and we restore one only if you ask us to within those 30 days. After that it's gone. The privacy policy says what, if anything, is kept.
We may suspend or close a household that breaks these terms, for example by abusing the service or trying to get into other households. Where we can, we'll tell you why first and give you a chance to download your data. We may also pause a household's access briefly while we look into suspected abuse, or someone getting in who shouldn't. If we close a paid household that hasn't broken these terms, we'll refund the unused part of its subscription.

Your content

What you put in (recipes, photos, notes, ratings) stays yours. You give us permission to store, copy, back up and process it only as needed to run Spatch for you: on our hosting and with the service providers named in the privacy policy, including sending a photo or page you import to an AI service to read the recipe out of it. Your household's content is private: we don't publish it, share it beyond those providers, or use it for advertising.

Only add content you have the right to use. Recipes and photos from websites, books or posts may belong to their authors, and keeping them for your household doesn't by itself make every use of them allowed. The app keeps the source link where there is one. If someone tells us that content in Spatch infringes their rights, we may remove it (see Copyright complaints).

Sharing a recipe

When you share a recipe as a link, we keep a copy of it behind that link until you delete the recipe or the household. The link shows the recipe's photo only if you added it yourself with Add photo, so add only photos you took or have the right to share; remove the photo and the link stops showing it. Anyone who has the link, including anyone it's forwarded to, sees the recipe, where it came from, and who shared it (by the household's or people's names, never an email address), and can save their own copy into their Spatch. A shared recipe link opens only that recipe, never your household: that's what an invite or the household link is for. Deleting the recipe or the household stops the link working; copies people already saved, photo included, stay in their households. Share only what you're happy for anyone to have.

Copyright complaints

If you believe something on Spatch infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent, registered with the U.S. Copyright Office (DMCA-1085375):

Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)), the notice needs:

your physical or electronic signature;
the copyrighted work you say is infringed;
the material on Spatch you say infringes it, and where it is: for a shared recipe, its link (spatch.kitchen/share?t=…);
your name, address, phone number and email;
a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn't authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and
a statement that the information in the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner.

A household's own recipes are private; what anyone else can see is a shared recipe link. When we get a notice that meets these requirements, we remove or disable the material (usually by ending the shared link, without touching the household) and tell the household that shared it.

Counter-notice. If something you shared was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, send our agent a counter-notice with: your physical or electronic signature; what was removed and where it was; a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or misidentification; your name, address and phone number; and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, if you're outside the US, any district where we can be found) and will accept service of process from the person who sent the notice. We send a copy, including your name and address, to that person, and put the material back 10 to 14 business days later unless they tell us they've gone to court.

Repeat infringers. We close the household of anyone who repeatedly infringes: a household with valid notices against three different pieces of material, not withdrawn or successfully countered, is closed as described under "Ending, deleting and suspending".

Someone who knowingly misstates that material infringes, or that it was removed by mistake, can be liable for damages (17 U.S.C. § 512(f)). If you aren't sure, ask a lawyer before sending either.

Fair use

Don't use the app to break the law, to store things that aren't recipes or meal planning, to overload it with scripts, or to resell it. Reading recipes from photos and some web pages has a generous monthly allowance per household (currently 300 reads), shown in the app if you reach it.

Recipes, amounts and food safety

Recipes, amounts and cooking times in Spatch can be wrong, including ones read from photos or web pages by AI, scaled to a different number of servings, or converted between units. Check them yourself before you cook, especially for allergies, dietary needs and food safety such as cooking temperatures and times. Spatch doesn't give medical or nutrition advice.

If the app changes or closes

We'll keep improving the app, which means features may change. If we ever shut it down, we'll give at least 60 days' notice in the app and by email, keep the full download working until then, and refund the unused part of any subscription, monthly or yearly.

No warranty, and limits

The app is provided as it is. We work to keep it reliable and your data safe, but we can't promise it will always be available or error-free. To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability to you is limited to the greater of what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or $50. Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have under consumer protection laws that can't be waived.

Changes to these terms

If these terms change in a way that matters, we'll tell you in the app (and by email, for changes to payment terms) before the change takes effect. If you don't agree, you can cancel and download your data.

Law, disputes and contact

These terms are governed by the laws of Wisconsin, USA. If a dispute can't be settled by talking to us first, it goes to the state or federal courts in Wisconsin, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring it there. If any part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. These terms, the privacy policy and the refund policy are the whole agreement between us about Spatch. Questions: support@spatch.kitchen.