Terms of Use
These Terms are a legal agreement between you and Luca Dennison, an independent developer based in New Zealand (“I”, “me”), covering the QuickCook app and its content (the “App”). By downloading or using the App, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the App.
1. Your licence
I grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the App on Apple devices you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial cooking use, consistent with Apple’s App Store Terms of Service.
2. What the App does
QuickCook gives you guided, step-by-step recipes with timers and a live “step ticker”, a recipe library, a shopping list, and an optional feature to draft a recipe from a public social-media link you choose to import. Features may change, improve, or be removed over time.
3. QuickCook Pro subscription
- QuickCook Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, priced at the amount shown in the App (currently around US$9.99 per month; the exact price varies by country and is always shown before you buy), with a 3-day free trial for eligible new subscribers.
- Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase.
- The subscription renews automatically for the same period unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Apple charges the renewal within 24 hours before the period ends.
- Manage or cancel anytime in Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions on your device.
- If you start a free trial and then subscribe, any unused part of the trial is forfeited when the paid subscription begins (this is Apple’s policy).
4. Refunds
QuickCook Pro is sold through Apple’s App Store, so I don’t handle billing or issue refunds directly — Apple does, under the Apple Media Services Terms.
Subscriptions are non-refundable except where a refund is required by Apple’s policies or by laws that can’t be excluded. Cancelling stops your next renewal — it doesn’t refund the current period, and you keep Pro access until that period ends.
Nothing here limits rights you have under mandatory consumer law — for example New Zealand’s Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and Fair Trading Act 1986, or the equivalent where you live. Where such a law gives you a remedy that can’t be excluded, it applies despite anything in these Terms.
5. Recipes you import, and your content
The import feature creates a draft from the public text of a link you choose. Drafts can be incomplete or wrong, so review and edit every imported recipe before you cook from it. You’re responsible for the links you import and for having the right to use that content for your own personal notes. I don’t own or endorse third-party content you import, and anything you create or import stays on your device — I don’t claim ownership of it.
6. Cooking & food safety — please read
Cooking involves heat, sharp tools, raw ingredients, and allergens. Recipes, amounts, times, and temperatures in the App are general guidance only, and results vary with your equipment and ingredients. You are responsible for safe food handling, cooking food thoroughly, and checking every ingredient for allergens and dietary suitability for whoever is eating.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, I am not liable for any illness, allergic reaction, injury, loss, or damage arising from preparing or eating any dish, or from following any recipe or timer in the App. The App provides no medical, health, or nutritional advice and shows no calorie or macro figures — if you have a medical or dietary condition, consult a qualified professional.
7. Acceptable use
Please don’t reverse-engineer, copy, resell, or tamper with the App, use it unlawfully, or use the import feature to infringe anyone’s rights.
8. Intellectual property
The App, its name, design, and the curated recipes I provide are owned by me and protected by law. Your licence to use them is personal and doesn’t transfer ownership.
9. “As is”, and limits on liability
The App is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, to the maximum extent permitted by law. To that same extent, my total liability to you for any claim relating to the App is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid for the App and its subscription in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) NZ$100.
Consumer-law exception: if you’re a consumer and your local law (such as the NZ Consumer Guarantees Act) provides guarantees or remedies that can’t be excluded or limited, those apply, and nothing in this section reduces them.
10. Changes & termination
I may update the App and these Terms from time to time; material changes to the Terms will be posted here with a new effective date. You can stop using the App at any time, and cancel a subscription as described above. I may suspend access if these Terms are seriously or repeatedly breached.
11. Apple
These Terms are between you and me, not Apple. Apple isn’t responsible for the App or its content and has no obligation to provide support or maintenance for it. If the App fails to conform to any warranty that can’t be disclaimed, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price (if any); to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation regarding the App. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them. You confirm you’re not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or listed as a prohibited party, and you’ll comply with Apple’s App Store Terms when using the App.
12. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of New Zealand. If you use the App as a consumer in another country, you may also have the protection of mandatory laws of your own country, and nothing here removes those protections.
13. Contact
Luca Dennison — lucadennison@outlook.com (New Zealand)