Terms of Use

Last updated: October 3, 2026

Fond is operated by Fond Kitchen, a French société par actions simplifiée (SAS) with share capital of €500, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under 130 417 363 R.C.S. Paris. Its registered office is 173 rue de Courcelles, 75017 Paris, France. See our Legal Notice.

These terms govern your use of fond.kitchen and the Fond application (the “Service”). In these terms, “we” and “us” refer to Fond Kitchen.

These terms set out the conditions for using a Fond account and purchasing a paid plan. Review them before creating an account or confirming a subscription. The store’s payment and distribution terms also apply to purchases made through that store.

The Service

Fond is a recipe management and meal planning application. We provide tools to save, organize, scale, and plan recipes. Some features use AI to assist with cooking-related questions.

Features available in early access are described in the application and, for paid plans, in the offer shown before purchase. Early access does not remove our contractual duties or your statutory consumer rights.

Your account

• You must provide a valid email address to create an account
• You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure
• You must be at least 16 years old to create an account

Your content

You retain the rights you hold in content you create. Imported recipes, photos, text, and other material may belong to their original creators. Saving or importing material in Fond does not transfer those rights to you or to Fond Kitchen. Only import, upload, or share content that you are entitled to use in that way.

You grant us a non-exclusive permission to host, copy, format, and process your content, including through the providers needed for features you request, to operate Fond for you. This does not permit unrelated advertising use. The permission ends when the content or account is deleted, except for the limited retention described in the Privacy Policy.

To request a copy of your recipes or account data, email hello@fond.kitchen. See the deletion instructions if you want an export before deletion.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Use the Service for any illegal purpose
• Attempt to access other users’ accounts or data
• Abuse, overload, or interfere with the Service’s infrastructure
• Scrape or bulk-download content from the Service
• Use the Service to distribute spam or malware

Educational content

Our blog, glossary, and guides are provided for informational purposes. While we strive for accuracy, cooking involves variables (equipment, ingredients, altitude) that may affect results. Always use your own judgment, especially regarding food safety.

AI features

Fond includes AI-powered features (recipe import, cooking assistant). August, Fond’s cooking assistant, is an AI system, not a person; its answers are generated automatically. AI responses are suggestions, not professional advice. We do not guarantee their accuracy. Do not rely on AI for food allergy or safety-critical decisions.

Availability

We operate Fond with reasonable care and provide the service agreed for your plan. Maintenance, technical incidents, or security measures can interrupt access. Where practicable, we give advance notice of planned interruptions. These interruptions do not remove your right to an appropriate remedy where the service is not supplied or is not conforming.

Free and paid plans

Fond offers a free tier and paid subscriptions. For mobile subscriptions, Apple App Store or Google Play processes payment, and RevenueCat manages subscription status and access to paid features. The store checkout displays the applicable price, currency, billing period, taxes, and any trial or introductory offer before you confirm a purchase.

Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled through the store where you subscribed. Cancel before the renewal or trial deadline shown by that store to avoid the next charge. The store displays the date when access ends; a trial may end earlier under its rules. Deleting Fond or requesting account deletion does not cancel a store subscription.

Manage Apple subscriptions through your Apple account and Google Play subscriptions through your Google Play account. Refund requests are handled under the applicable Apple or Google Play process. Contact us if paid features remain unavailable after a purchase or restore.

Price changes are communicated and applied under the applicable store rules and consumer law. These terms do not exclude statutory withdrawal rights, legal guarantees for digital services, or other mandatory consumer protections.

Withdrawal and refunds

For an EU consumer’s distance contract for a service, the statutory withdrawal period is normally 14 days from conclusion of the contract. A free trial and the statutory withdrawal period are separate. Simply creating an account, downloading Fond, or using it does not by itself waive withdrawal rights.

Any exception or loss of the right must satisfy the applicable legal conditions. For a paid service, full performance during the withdrawal period can remove the right only with the required prior express agreement and acknowledgement; starting an ongoing subscription alone is not full performance. If you expressly request that a service begin during the withdrawal period, any proportionate payment due on withdrawal is governed by law. Rules for digital content supplied without a physical medium are different and require the relevant express agreement, acknowledgement, and confirmation; these terms do not impose an automatic waiver.

Before the deadline, notify the seller identified in your store purchase confirmation or email hello@fond.kitchen with an unambiguous withdrawal statement. You may use the form below, but it is not compulsory. Include your purchase reference so we can identify the contract and coordinate with the store where necessary. Statutory refunds follow the applicable legal deadline and conditions; the store’s voluntary refund policy does not replace mandatory rights.

Model withdrawal form

Complete and return this form only if you wish to withdraw from the contract.

To: Fond Kitchen, 173 rue de Courcelles, 75017 Paris, France; hello@fond.kitchen
I hereby notify you that I withdraw from my contract for the provision of the following service: [service / subscription].
Ordered on: [date]. Purchase reference: [reference, if available].
Consumer’s name: [name]. Consumer’s address: [address].
Date: [date]. Signature: [only if this form is sent on paper].

Legal guarantees for digital services

Where French consumer law applies, a continuously supplied digital service is covered by the legal conformity guarantee throughout the contractual supply period, including subscription renewals. We must provide the updates necessary to keep it conforming. Contact Fond Kitchen at hello@fond.kitchen or the registered-office address to report a defect.

You can require conformity without undue delay, at no cost and without major inconvenience. Where the legal conditions are met, you can obtain a price reduction or end the contract with the appropriate refund, including where we refuse conformity, unjustifiably delay it, cannot provide it without cost or major inconvenience, or the defect persists. A sufficiently serious defect can justify an immediate remedy. A minor defect only permits termination under the conformity rules where no price is paid. Applicable rules suspend the remaining guarantee during downtime for conformity work.

These rights arise under French Consumer Code Articles L224-25-1 to L224-25-31. The legal hidden-defects guarantee can also apply under Civil Code Articles 1641 to 1649, for two years from discovery, with price reduction or reimbursement against giving up the service. The French terms include the statutory guarantee notice. Mandatory protections in other applicable consumer laws also remain available.

Limitation of liability

Fond Kitchen remains responsible for performing its contractual duties under applicable law. Nothing in these terms excludes or reduces statutory guarantees, remedies for failure to supply or non-conformity, or liability that the law does not allow us to limit. The cautions about cooking and AI do not waive those rights.

Termination

You can cancel a store subscription through the store where you subscribed and separately request account deletion through the deletion process. Uninstalling Fond or sending a deletion request does not cancel store billing.

We may restrict or suspend an account where necessary to address serious misuse, an account-security incident, or a legal obligation. Where permitted and practicable, we explain the reason and allow you to remedy the issue before permanent termination. You can challenge the decision through support. Termination does not remove any refund or other remedy required by law. Data-rights requests and retained records are handled as described in our Privacy Policy.

Changes to these terms

We can update these terms to reflect legal requirements or changes to Fond. We provide advance notice of material changes through a durable message, such as email, and obtain agreement where required by law. Changes do not retrospectively alter a purchase.

Changes to a continuously supplied digital service beyond those necessary to maintain conformity require a valid reason, such as security, compatibility, or adapting the service to a changed technical environment, and must not add a cost. Where a change adversely affects access or use beyond a minor effect, we give the notice and termination or unchanged-service options required by law. Continued use alone does not waive those rights.

Governing law

These terms are governed by French law. If you are a consumer, this choice does not deprive you of mandatory protections or rights to bring proceedings available under the law applicable in your country of residence. For a complaint, contact hello@fond.kitchen.

Contact

Questions about these terms? Email us at hello@fond.kitchen.

Contact Fond Kitchen at hello@fond.kitchen, by phone at +33 6 99 95 21 14, or by post at 173 rue de Courcelles, 75017 Paris, France.