Terms of Use
Last updated: October 27, 2026
1. Acceptance of These Terms
These Terms of Use ("Terms") apply to your access to and use of gistrecipe.com (the "Website"), operated under the name Gist Recipe ("we," "us," or "our"). By browsing or using the Website, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Website.
The Website is a collection of home-cooking recipes across four categories: Dinners, Sweets, Sides and Breakfast. These Terms explain what you may do with that content, what we ask of you when you submit something, and where our responsibility ends.
2. Use of Content and Copyright
The text, recipes, images, layout and other material on the Website are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. Unless a page says otherwise, they belong to Gist Recipe or its licensors.
What you may do
You may use the Website for personal, non-commercial purposes. For example, you may:
- Cook our recipes at home for yourself, your family and your guests.
- Print a recipe for use in your own kitchen.
- Share a link to a recipe or collection on social media, in a message or on your own site, keeping the link pointing to the original page on gistrecipe.com.
- Quote a short excerpt with clear credit and a link back to the source page.
What you may not do
- Copy, republish, redistribute, sell, rent or sublicense our recipes, photos or text, in full or in substantial part, without our written permission.
- Reproduce a full recipe, with its ingredient list and method, on another website, app, newsletter or social account.
- Use our images separately from the page they appear on.
- Remove or alter copyright or ownership notices.
- Use the Website or its content for commercial purposes, including scraping content to build another product or dataset.
If you use the Website in breach of these Terms, your permission to use it ends immediately. To ask about permission to use our content, please use the Contact Us page.
3. Your Submissions: Ratings, Comments and Messages
The Website lets you submit content in three ways: a rating and comment form on recipe pages (your name and the text you write), and a contact form (your name, email address and message).
Ratings and comments
Comments should be useful and civil, for example a substitution you tried, how a recipe worked in your oven, or a question about a step. You agree not to post anything that is unlawful, abusive, hateful, misleading, spam or promotional, that infringes someone else's rights, or that includes personal information about other people. We may edit, decline to publish or remove any comment at our discretion.
When you submit a comment, you confirm that you wrote it or have the right to share it. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free right to display it on the Website. Your name and comment text may be visible to other visitors, so please do not include contact details or other sensitive information.
Contact messages
Messages sent through the contact form are used only to reply to you. How we handle that data is described in the Privacy Policy.
4. Recipe and Nutrition Disclaimer
Results will vary
Recipes on the Website are developed and edited for clear steps, realistic times and temperatures, ingredient substitutions and food-safety notes. Even so, cooking depends on things we cannot control: your oven's actual temperature, the size and type of your pans, ingredient brands and freshness, altitude, humidity and your own experience.
Times and yields are guides, not guarantees, and we cannot promise that a recipe will turn out the same way in your kitchen.
Food safety and doneness
You are responsible for preparing food safely. Please:
- Wash your hands, boards and utensils, and keep raw meat, poultry, fish and eggs away from ready-to-eat foods.
- Use a food thermometer to check doneness rather than relying on time or color alone. As a general reference, USDA guidance calls for 165°F (74°C) for poultry and ground poultry, 160°F (71°C) for ground beef, and 145°F (63°C) for whole cuts of beef and fish, with a short rest for whole cuts of beef. If a recipe's guidance differs from your local food-safety authority, follow the authority.
- Refrigerate leftovers promptly and reheat them until steaming hot.
- Use your own judgment. If a step seems unsafe for your situation, equipment or ingredients, do not follow it.
Allergens and dietary needs
Many recipes contain common allergens such as wheat, milk, eggs, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, fish or shellfish, and substitutions can introduce others. Always read the ingredient list and the labels on packaged products, which can change. We cannot guarantee that any recipe is free of a given allergen or suitable for a particular diet, including recipes labeled gluten free, vegetarian or healthy.
Nutrition information
Where nutrition values appear, they are estimates only. They vary with brands, portion sizes, substitutions and preparation methods, and should not be treated as exact.
Not medical or dietary advice
Content on the Website is general information about cooking. It is not medical, nutritional or dietary advice and is not a substitute for guidance from a doctor or registered dietitian. If you have a medical condition, food allergy or special dietary requirement, consult a qualified professional before changing what you eat.
5. Third-Party Links and Ads
The Website may link to other websites, including our social profiles on Pinterest, and shows advertising served by Google AdSense. We also use services such as Google Analytics and Cloudflare. These are provided by third parties, and we do not control their content, products or practices. Their appearance on the Website is not an endorsement, and we are not responsible for any loss or damage arising from your use of third-party sites or advertised products. Those sites and services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies. Information about cookies and consent choices is in our Privacy Policy.
6. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability
The Website and its content are provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose or uninterrupted availability. We do not warrant that the Website will be free of errors or interruptions.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Gist Recipe and the people and services involved in running the Website are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any illness, injury, allergic reaction, property damage or other loss, arising from your use of the Website, from preparing or eating food made from its recipes, or from your reliance on its content.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
7. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top shows when the current version took effect. Changes apply from the date they are posted, and continuing to use the Website afterward means you accept the revised Terms. Please check this page periodically.
8. Contact
If you have questions about these Terms, want to report a problem with a recipe, or need to ask about using our content, please reach us through the Contact Us page. You can also learn more about the Website on the About Us page.