Terms of Service

Last updated: 21 August 2026

Welcome to mise.en.place (the "Service", "we", "us", or "our"). These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the mise.en.place mobile application and website at yourmiseenplace.com (together, the "App").

The App is operated by mise.en.place, a sole trader business based in Victoria, Australia. You can contact us at yourmiseenplace@gmail.com.

By creating an account or using the App, you agree to these Terms. When you sign up we record which version of these Terms you accepted. If you do not agree, do not use the App.

1. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old to create an account or use the App. At sign-up, we ask you to confirm that you are 16 or older and keep only the time of that confirmation (see our Privacy Policy).

If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 16, we will remove the account and delete its personal information promptly.

2. Your account

You are responsible for:

Providing accurate information when creating your account
Keeping your password secure
All activity that occurs under your account

You must notify us immediately at yourmiseenplace@gmail.com if you suspect unauthorised use of your account.

You may not:

Create an account using someone else's identity
Create multiple accounts to evade enforcement actions
Sell, transfer, or share your account with another person
Access the App through automated means (bots, scrapers) without our written permission

3. Your content and the licence you give us

The App lets you create and share content including recipes, photos, posts, comments, and reactions ("Your Content").

You own Your Content. You retain all rights in anything you create.

The licence you grant us to run the App. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence — with the right to sublicense to the service providers who host and deliver the App for us, and transferable only as part of a business transfer of the kind described in our Privacy Policy — to host, store, reproduce, adapt (for formatting and display — for example resizing, cropping, thumbnails, and layout), publish, display, communicate, and distribute Your Content:

(a) to operate and provide the App — storing your recipes, showing your posts to the people your visibility settings allow, running the feed and search; and
(b) to promote the App — for example, showing Community recipes, photos, and posts in our own marketing of the App.

This general licence is for running and promoting a cooking app. It does not allow us to sell your posts, comments, profile, personal information, or private content. The narrower commercial recipe licence below applies only to qualifying original recipes you deliberately share with the Community.

Commercial licence for Eligible Community Recipe Content. When you choose to share an original recipe with the Community, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to use that recipe's title, ingredients, quantities, instructions, tags, and other recipe information ("Eligible Community Recipe Content") to:

curate, edit for formatting, combine, reproduce, and distribute recipe collections, databases, and datasets;
develop, train, evaluate, and improve recipe-related features, models, products, and services; and
commercially license, distribute, or sell those recipe collections, databases, datasets, products, and services to customers and business partners.

This does not transfer ownership to us. You keep ownership of your recipe. It permits us to build and commercialise recipe databases and derived products that contain qualifying recipe content, including in de-identified form after account deletion as described below.

What is not Eligible Community Recipe Content. This commercial licence never covers:

your name, email, username, account identifiers, profile, or other personal information;
recipes kept Only me, drafts, grocery or pantry data, posts, comments, reactions, cook history, or other private/account data;
recipes imported, copied, or adapted from another source, recipes carrying a source link, or any material you do not own; or
photographs. We will not externally license or sell a user photograph under this clause without a separate, specific permission.

When the licence ends. If you delete a piece of content, or your account, the licence ends for future uses — we will make no new use of it. The licence continues only for:

content already required for something that has happened (for example, marketing material already published, which we will not reuse in new campaigns);
Eligible Community Recipe Content retained in de-identified form after account deletion, as described in Section 12 and the Privacy Policy — the commercial licence continues for that de-identified recipe content only;
content we must retain for legal or moderation reasons.

Attribution and moral rights. We do not ask you for a general waiver of your moral rights. You give your specific consent, for Your Content, to the following acts only:

reproducing, resizing, cropping, and reformatting it so it can be displayed in the App (including thumbnails, previews, and in-app collections);
displaying it in the App, and in our marketing of the App, without attributing you as its author;
including Eligible Community Recipe Content retained in de-identified form (Section 12) in recipe collections, databases, datasets, and derived products without attribution.

This consent is limited to those acts in those contexts. Nothing in these Terms otherwise affects your moral rights.

Your responsibility for Your Content. You represent and warrant that, for every recipe, photo, post, comment, and other piece of content you post on the App:

You own Your Content, or you have all necessary rights, licences, consents, and permissions to post it on the App
You wrote any recipes yourself, in your own words, from your own notes or experience, and did not copy ingredient lists, quantities, or instructions verbatim from cookbooks, food blogs, published websites, magazines, or any other copyrighted source. Any recipe you previously imported or pasted from elsewhere must remain private (Only me) and must not be presented as your own — see Section 5.
You took any photos yourself, or you have explicit written permission from the person who took them
You did not copy, screenshot, or download photos from Google, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, restaurant websites, food brand websites, cookbooks, or any other source where you do not own the rights
Any person who appears in or is identifiable in your photos has consented to appearing in your post, and where that person is under 16 you have the consent of their parent or legal guardian
Your Content does not include third-party trademarks, logos, branding, or packaging in a way that suggests sponsorship, endorsement, or affiliation
Your Content does not infringe anyone else's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights
Your Content does not defame, disparage, or make false statements about any person, restaurant, brand, or organisation
Your Content complies with these Terms and all applicable laws

If a person who appears in your photo asks us to remove it, we may remove it.

4. Product development, datasets, and machine learning

As described in Section 3.1 of our Privacy Policy, we may use Eligible Community Recipe Content and de-identified, aggregated usage data to develop, train, evaluate, and improve recipe-related features and machine-learning models.

Imported, copied, or adapted recipes and photographs are never used for these purposes.
Nothing that identifies you is used for these purposes unless you separately and expressly opt in. No such opt-in exists in the App today; if we ever offer one, it will be a separate, clearly explained choice that is off by default.
We may commercially license or sell collections, databases, datasets, products, or services containing Eligible Community Recipe Content under Section 3. We do not sell your personal information, private content, imported/adapted recipes, or photographs.
We do not access your device contacts at all, so they can never be used for model training or anything else.

5. Previously imported recipes

MEP no longer provides user-facing automatic recipe import or paste-to-create tools. Recipes imported or pasted through earlier versions remain available for your personal cooking use. For those existing recipes:

You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to save and use that content
Imported recipes are marked as imported and default to Only me. You must not share, publish, or represent as your own any recipe you do not have the right to use — including recipes you pasted in by hand from someone else's work
Imported and adapted recipes are permanently excluded from the marketing licence in Section 3(b) and from all of the uses in Section 4

6. Community standards and prohibited content

There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users on this Service.

You agree not to post, upload, share, or otherwise make available any content that:

Is illegal under any applicable law
Is sexually explicit, pornographic, or sexually suggestive
Involves child sexual abuse or exploitation (CSAE), child sexual abuse material (CSAM), grooming, sextortion, child sex trafficking, or otherwise sexualises, exploits, or endangers a child. See our dedicated Child Safety Standards
Contains profanity, obscenity, or graphic imagery unrelated to the App's purpose of recipe and food sharing
Promotes, incites, or glorifies violence, terrorism, or self-harm
Is hateful, harassing, threatening, or discriminatory based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic
Bullies, intimidates, or stalks another person
Defames, disparages, or makes false statements about any person, restaurant, brand, or business
Copies recipes verbatim from cookbooks, food blogs, published websites, magazines, or any other copyrighted source
Includes photos taken by someone else without their explicit permission
Includes photos copied or downloaded from Google, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, restaurant or brand websites, or any other source where you do not own the rights
Includes images of other people (including children) without their consent
Uses third-party trademarks, logos, or branding in a way that suggests sponsorship, endorsement, or affiliation
Infringes anyone else's intellectual property rights in any other way
Violates anyone else's privacy, including by sharing personal information without consent
Contains spam, scams, phishing attempts, pyramid or multi-level marketing schemes, or malware
Impersonates another person or organisation
Makes specific medical, nutritional, or health claims about food without a clear factual basis
Promotes extreme dieting, disordered eating, or unsafe food practices
Otherwise violates these Terms or our Community Guidelines

You also agree not to:

Use the App to harass, threaten, or harm other users
Attempt to access another user's account or our systems without authorisation
Interfere with or disrupt the App, including by overloading or attacking our infrastructure
Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code from the App
Use the App to send unsolicited commercial messages or to operate a commercial venture without our written permission
Circumvent any technical measures we use to limit access to the App

7. Reporting and moderation

You can report content or users that violate these Terms by:

Tapping the "..." or "More" menu on a post, comment, recipe, Bite, or profile
Selecting "Report" and choosing a reason

We commit to reviewing every report within 24 hours.

We may, acting reasonably:

Remove or restrict content that violates these Terms
Suspend, restrict, or ban an account that violates these Terms (see Section 22 for how we apply this and how to appeal)
Cooperate with law enforcement where required by law

If we remove or restrict your content or your account, we will tell you which rule was breached and why, unless we are legally prevented from doing so or the content poses a serious safety risk. You can appeal any moderation decision — see Section 22.

We are not obligated to monitor content but may do so. Our failure to act on a violation does not waive our right to act on it later.

8. Blocking other users

You can block any other user from the App. When you block someone:

Their content will be hidden from your feed, search, and profile views
They cannot comment on or react to your posts
Your content will be hidden from them
Any existing follow or friend relationship between you is removed

You can manage your blocked users at any time in Settings.

9. Reporting illegal content (notice and action)

Anyone — including people who do not use the App, organisations, and authorities — can notify us of content on the App they consider illegal by emailing yourmiseenplace@gmail.com with:

An explanation of why you consider the content illegal (citing the law you rely on, if you know it)
The exact location of the content (a link, username, or screenshot)
Your name and email address, so we can respond to you (not required where the report concerns child sexual abuse material)
A statement, made in good faith, that the information in your notice is accurate and complete

We will confirm we received your notice, assess it without undue delay (our internal target is 24 hours — Section 7), remove or restrict the content where warranted, and tell you the outcome and our reasons. We handle notices in English. Decisions are made by a human, not by automated means.

Point of contact. For users, non-users, and authorities (including under the EU Digital Services Act): yourmiseenplace@gmail.com (email, in English).

If your content is removed following a notice and you believe that was a mistake, you can appeal — see Section 22.

10. No endorsement; we are not responsible for user content

The App is a platform that allows users to share recipes, photos, and other content. We do not, and cannot, review every piece of content before it is posted.

You acknowledge and agree that:

Any content you see on the App is the responsibility of the user who posted it, not us
We do not endorse, sponsor, verify, or guarantee the accuracy, completeness, safety, legality, or quality of any user content, including recipes, ingredient lists, allergen tags, dietary labels (such as "vegan", "gluten-free", or "nut-free"), nutritional claims, cooking instructions, or photographs
You use any information you find on the App at your own risk
To the extent permitted by law (and subject to Section 17, including your non-excludable rights), we are not liable for loss or harm resulting from your reliance on user content
If a user posts content that infringes your rights, is offensive, illegal, dangerous, or otherwise inappropriate, your remedy is to report it using the in-app reporting tools described in Section 7 or the process in Section 9, and (where applicable) to pursue your own legal remedies against the user who posted it

We have the right but not the obligation to remove user content or to take action against users who post it. The presence of content on the App does not mean we have reviewed, approved, or endorsed it.

11. Health, allergens, and food safety

The App is not a source of medical, nutritional, dietary, or food safety advice.

Recipes and other content on the App are shared by users for general informational and inspirational purposes only. You must use your own judgement when preparing or consuming any food described on the App.

You specifically acknowledge:

Allergens. Ingredient lists, allergen warnings, and dietary tags (such as "vegan", "gluten-free", "dairy-free", or "nut-free") posted on the App are provided by users and may be incomplete, inaccurate, or out of date. If you have a food allergy or intolerance, you must independently verify every ingredient before consuming any recipe.
Food safety. Cooking times, temperatures, ingredient quantities, food handling instructions, and storage advice posted by users may not reflect best practice or food safety standards in your jurisdiction. You are responsible for cooking and handling food safely, including with respect to raw meat, eggs, dairy, seafood, and fermented foods.
Dietary needs. If you have specific medical, dietary, or nutritional requirements — including but not limited to diabetes, coeliac disease, kidney disease, eating disorders, or any other condition — you must consult a qualified health professional. Do not rely on the App for medical guidance.
Special populations. Some recipes may not be safe for pregnant or breastfeeding people, infants, young children, elderly people, immunocompromised individuals, or people with specific medical conditions. Use your own judgement and consult a qualified health professional.

Our liability for harm arising from user content is limited as set out in Section 17. Nothing in this section excludes rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law or other laws that cannot be excluded.

12. Account deletion

You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Your Data → Delete account.

When you delete your account:

Your account is deactivated and your profile and content are hidden from all other users immediately
For 30 days, you can restore your account by signing back in and choosing Restore
When the 30-day window ends, your account and personal information are permanently deleted or irreversibly de-identified, as set out in detail in Section 7 of our Privacy Policy. In summary: your profile, posts, comments, reactions, cook history, preferences, and imported recipes are permanently deleted; Eligible Community Recipe Content that meets the narrow retention conditions (including having a photo you uploaded) may be retained in de-identified form (unlinked from you) and continue to be used under Sections 3 and 4; moderation records may be retained for up to 24 months for safety and legal reasons

13. Our intellectual property

The App itself, including its design, code, branding, name, logo, and all content we create, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by Australian and international intellectual property laws.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of the App without our written permission, except as expressly allowed by these Terms.

14. Reporting intellectual property infringement

If you believe that content on the App infringes your copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights, please contact us at yourmiseenplace@gmail.com with the following information:

A description of the work or right you claim has been infringed (for example, the original recipe, photo, or trademark)
The location of the infringing content on the App (a link, username, or screenshot)
A statement, made in good faith, that the use of the material is not authorised by the rights owner, its agent, or the law
A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the rights owner or are authorised to act on their behalf
Your full name, postal address, phone number, and email address
Your physical or electronic signature

We will review valid notices and may remove infringing content, terminate repeat infringers' accounts, or take other action as appropriate. If you believe your content was removed in error, you may submit a counter-notice with similar information to the same email address (see also Section 22 on appeals).

15. Supporter subscription

mise.en.place offers an optional paid Supporter subscription. The price, billing period, and what is included are always shown before you purchase.

Billing. The subscription is purchased through, and billed entirely by, the Apple App Store or Google Play. We never see your card details.
Auto-renewal. The subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period, at the price shown in your store subscription settings, until you cancel.
Cancellation. You can cancel at any time in your Apple or Google subscription settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep supporter benefits until then. There is no cancellation fee.
Refunds. Refunds are handled by Apple and Google under their store policies; contact them for refund requests. Where a refund decision is ours to support (for example under Section 21, or where a consumer guarantee applies), we will support it.
Price changes. If the price changes, you will be notified in advance and — where the store requires it — asked to consent before the new price takes effect. If you do nothing and the store requires consent, the subscription simply ends rather than renewing at the new price.
Your data is never the price. No paid feature requires you to grant access to personal data beyond what is needed to operate the subscription itself.
Consumer guarantees. The subscription comes with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in this section limits them.

16. Disclaimers

To the extent permitted by law, the App is provided "as is" and "as available", and we do not warrant that:

The App will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure
Any defects will be corrected
The App is free from viruses or other harmful components
Any user content or information you obtain through the App is accurate, complete, safe, or lawful

The App is not a source of medical, nutritional, or dietary advice. See Section 11 for further detail.

This disclaimer does not exclude your statutory rights. See the consumer-law savings provision in Section 17.

17. Liability

Your consumer rights come first. Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law — and you may have equivalent non-excludable rights under the consumer laws of your country. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any guarantee, condition, warranty, right, or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any other applicable law that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted, or modified. Where our liability for failing to comply with a consumer guarantee can lawfully be limited, it is limited (at our option) to resupplying the service or paying the cost of resupply.

Subject to the paragraph above, and to the extent permitted by law:

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or in connection with your use of the App, including loss of data, loss of profits, or business interruption
Our total liability for all claims arising out of or in connection with these Terms or your use of the App is limited to the greater of AUD $100 and the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose

The limits above do not apply to: liability that cannot lawfully be limited; death or personal injury caused by our negligence; or loss caused by our fraud or wilful misconduct.

18. Disputes between users

Disputes between you and another user of the App are between you and that user; we are not a party to them. We may (but are not required to) assist through the moderation tools in Section 7. Nothing in this section limits any right you have against us under Section 17, or prevents you from reporting content or conduct to us.

19. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify us — that is, to compensate us for loss, damage, and reasonable legal costs we incur — in respect of a third-party claim against us, but only to the extent the claim is caused by:

Your Content infringing that third party's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights, or being otherwise unlawful — including a claim by a person who appears in a photo you uploaded without their consent; or
Your breach of these Terms or of applicable law

Limits on this indemnity:

It is reduced proportionately to the extent that our own negligence, breach of these Terms, or wrongful act or omission caused or contributed to the loss
It does not apply to loss caused by our own negligence, and it does not make you liable simply for having used the App
We will notify you promptly of any such claim and take reasonable steps to mitigate the loss

20. Changes to the App

We are always improving the App and may add, change, or remove features. If we discontinue the App entirely, or remove a feature that is core to a paid subscription, we will give you reasonable advance notice where practicable, and Section 21 (your right to exit) and Section 15 (refunds) apply.

21. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we do:

Notice. For material changes, we will notify you through the App or by email at least 30 days before they take effect. For material expansions of the rights you grant us (for example, the licence in Section 3 or the uses in Section 4), we will ask you to accept the change in the App before it applies to you.
No retrospective effect. Changes apply from their effective date; they do not apply retrospectively.
Your right to exit. If you do not agree with a change, you can stop using the App and delete your account at any time, free of charge. If you have an active Supporter subscription and a change materially disadvantages you, you may cancel it and we will support a refund of the unused portion of any prepaid period through the applicable store.
Exceptions. A change may take effect sooner where it is required to comply with law or to address a security or safety risk, in which case we will give as much notice as reasonably possible.

22. Suspension, termination, and appeals

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the App if you materially or repeatedly violate these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if it is reasonably necessary to protect other users, third parties, or the App itself.

Proportionality. We will act proportionately — for less serious violations we will generally warn, remove content, or restrict features before terminating an account. We may suspend or terminate immediately where the violation is serious (for example, illegal content, child safety, threats, or fraud).
Reasons. If we take action against your content or account, we will tell you what rule was breached, unless we are legally prevented from doing so.
Appeals. You can appeal any moderation or termination decision within 6 months by emailing yourmiseenplace@gmail.com. Appeals are reviewed by a human.
Your data. Termination does not deprive you of the deletion and export rights in our Privacy Policy, except where we must retain records for safety or legal reasons.

You may stop using the App at any time. You can also delete your account as described in Section 12.

23. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia, without regard to conflict of laws principles.

Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the App will be resolved in the courts of Victoria, Australia, except where applicable consumer protection law gives you the right to bring a claim in your home jurisdiction — nothing in this section takes that right away.

24. Apple App Store additional terms

If you downloaded the App from the Apple App Store, the following also apply:

These Terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the App or its content.
Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the App.
In the event the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) to you. Apple has no other warranty obligation regarding the App.
Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the App.
Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

25. Contact

For any questions about these Terms, contact us at:

All enquiries (general, legal, and privacy): yourmiseenplace@gmail.com

These Terms of Service were last updated on 21 August 2026.