Sunday Box

Terms of Service

Last updated 9 November 2026 · Version 2026-11-09

1. These terms

These terms are an agreement between you and the company that runs Sunday Box ("we", "us"). By creating an account, you agree to them and to our Privacy Policy: every Create account form asks you to tick a box saying so, with links to both. Using Sunday Box without an account, for example answering a recipe ask, also means you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use Sunday Box. You can read both at any time from the sign-in page and from Account → Profile, where you can also see when you agreed.

2. Who can use Sunday Box

You must be 13 or older to have an account, and 18 or older (or have a parent's permission) to buy a plan or scans. You're responsible for keeping your password safe and for what happens on your account. Tell us at support@sundaybox.app if you think someone else has used it.

3. Kinds of accounts

• Your own recipe book. You own the recipes you add.
• Family groups. A family has one owner and up to 4 people in all. The owner owns the family's recipes, its pantry and its scans. Members can add, edit and use them. If a member leaves or is removed, the recipes they added stay with the owner. A member who starts their own recipe book takes their own copy of the family's recipes. If the owner deletes their account, each member has 30 days to agree to the current terms and keep their own copy of the family's recipes, either on a free account or by starting a plan of their own.
• Contributor accounts are free accounts for people asked to add a recipe or a memory. What a contributor adds belongs to the family that asked.
• Friends and the Inbox. You can connect with friends and send each other copies of recipes. What lands in your Inbox is yours to keep or put away.

4. Your content

You keep ownership of the recipes, photos, recordings, stories and other things you add ("your content"). You give us a limited permission to host, store, copy, back up, process (including having AI read it when you ask), format and display your content, only to run Sunday Box for you and the people you share it with, and to improve how Sunday Box works. We use product data and usage, such as how well recipes are read and the corrections you make, to make the product perform better. We will not sell your data or your content. This permission ends when you delete your content or your account, except for copies other people already received and backups that expire within 30 days.

When you send a recipe to someone, they get their own independent copy, with its story and where it came from. It's theirs to keep and change. Sending a copy passes on only the rights you have in it: a recipe you saved from someone else's cookbook or site is still for personal cooking in the hands of the person you send it to.

You promise that you own what you add, or have permission or another legal right to use it the way Sunday Box lets you. If someone makes a claim against us because of content you added or the way you shared it, and you were at fault, you agree to cover our reasonable costs of dealing with it, to the extent the law allows.

5. What you agree not to do

• Add content you don't have the right to share, or that infringes someone's copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights.
• Use Sunday Box to copy a whole cookbook, magazine or website to pass around, or to publish, sell or post recipes or photos taken from other people's work.
• Add anything illegal, hateful, harassing, sexually explicit, or that exploits children.
• Share someone's photo, voice or private details when they've asked you not to.
• Try to get into accounts or data that aren't yours, overload or break the service, or scrape it.
• Resell Sunday Box, or use it to build a competing service.

6. Recipes, cookbooks and copyright

Sunday Box is a personal and family catalogue, like a recipe box or a shelf of notebooks. It's built for keeping recipes you have a right to, for your own cooking and your family's, and not for publishing them.

What it's for

• Your family's recipes and your own. Cards, notebooks and recipes handed down to you, and anything you write yourself.
• Recipes from cookbooks and magazines you own. You can photograph a page of a book or magazine you bought (or were given) so you can cook from it, find it and keep notes on it.
• Recipes from websites and video posts. You can save a recipe you found online for your own cooking, with a link back to where it came from.

Who sees it

Nothing on Sunday Box is public. There are no public profiles, no public recipe pages and no search across other people's recipes. What you add is seen only by you, your family group, and the particular people you choose to send a recipe or an ask link to. Please keep sharing of recipes from cookbooks, magazines and sites to that personal circle, the way you might copy out a recipe for a friend. Recipes your family wrote are yours to share however you like.

How Sunday Box handles other people's recipes

• When Sunday Box reads a recipe from a book, magazine, website or video, it keeps the list of ingredients and amounts, and writes the method as short instructions in its own words. It doesn't copy the author's stories, introductions or photos into the recipe card.
• It records where the recipe came from (the book, site or person) and shows it on the card and on anything you print or send, so the author is always credited.
• Photos you take of cookbook pages, and videos you upload, stay private to your recipe box, behind your sign-in. Sunday Box doesn't keep the cover images of video posts it reads.
• Saving a recipe from a website or video adds a link back to the original. Please visit and support the people whose recipes you love.

What isn't allowed

• Scanning or typing in a whole cookbook, or large parts of one, to send to people outside your family or to replace buying it.
• Posting, publishing or selling recipes, photos or text from other people's books, magazines or sites, including in a printed book you make with Sunday Box for sale.
• Removing or changing the credit that shows where a recipe came from, when you send it to someone.

We may limit sharing of a recipe, or ask you to remove it, if it looks like Sunday Box is being used to copy and pass around someone else's work.

Copyright complaints

We respect authors, publishers and recipe creators. If you believe something on Sunday Box infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent at copyright@sundaybox.app that includes:

• your name, address, phone number and email, and your physical or electronic signature;
• the work you believe was copied, and enough detail for us to find the material on Sunday Box (for example, the link you were sent);
• a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn't authorised by you, your agent or the law; and
• a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or are authorised to act for the owner.

We'll respond promptly, remove or disable the material where appropriate, and tell the person who added it. If you added something that was removed and you believe it was a mistake or that you have the right to use it, you can send a counter-notice to the same address with your name, address and signature, what was removed, a statement under penalty of perjury that you believe it was removed by mistake, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal courts for your address. We may then restore it as the law allows. We close the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe.

7. AI reading and recipe accuracy

Sunday Box uses AI to read recipes from photos, links, video posts and spoken notes, and to read pantry photos. It can misread handwriting, quantities, temperatures, ingredients or what's on a shelf. You're responsible for checking a recipe before you cook it, especially for allergies and food safety, and for checking what's really in your kitchen. Food names, categories and brands come partly from public food databases and may be incomplete. Sunday Box isn't a source of medical, dietary or nutrition advice.

8. Free accounts, plans and scans

• Free account. A free account comes with a number of scans to start and a monthly top-up, and typing recipes in yourself is always free. We don't ask for a card, so a free account never turns into a charge on its own. If we offer a free period of a paid plan, we'll say how long it lasts and what happens after, before you start it.
• Paid plans. The price, what a plan includes and how often you're billed are shown before you pay, plus any tax. Plans renew automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. For yearly plans, we'll email you before each renewal.
• Cancelling. Cancel any time from the Account page. Your plan runs to the end of the period you paid for and doesn't renew.
• Refunds. A free account is there so you can try Sunday Box before you buy. A yearly plan, including a renewal, can be refunded in full within 14 days of the charge, but only if no scans have been used on the account since that charge. Ask from the billing help on your Account page or by emailing billing@sundaybox.app. Monthly charges and scan purchases aren't refunded, and part months aren't refunded either. Where the law gives you more, you get more.
• Scans. Scans pay for AI reads. They have no cash value, can't be transferred or sold, and end when the account that holds them closes. Scans you buy don't expire while your account is open.
• Price changes. We'll tell you at least 30 days before a price change applies to you, and you can cancel before it does.
• If a plan ends you keep all your recipes and can view, edit, print, export and type in new ones. Features that need a plan or scans pause until you have them again.

Payments are handled by Stripe, under its terms.

9. Ending your account

You can delete your account yourself at any time, from Account → Profile → Delete my account (see Deleting your account for what happens). Deleting your account ends any plan; it's refunded only where these terms say so. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, puts others at risk, or hasn't paid. Where we can, we'll tell you first and give you a chance to download your recipes. If we ever shut Sunday Box down, we'll give at least 60 days' notice so everyone can download their recipes.

10. The service

We work hard to keep Sunday Box running and your recipes safe, including nightly off-site backups. But Sunday Box is provided "as is", and we can't promise it will always be available or free of errors. We may change or remove features; if a change takes away something you paid for, we'll refund the unused part.

11. Limits on our liability

To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for lost data beyond restoring it from our backups, and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim (or $50 if that's more). Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer protection law that can't be limited.

12. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and of the United States. If you have a problem, please email support@sundaybox.app first; most things can be sorted out quickly.

13. Changes to these terms

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we'll tell you by email or in the app before the change takes effect, and ask you to agree again. If you don't agree, you can delete your account and we'll refund any unused paid time.

14. Contact

Support: support@sundaybox.app · Privacy: privacy@sundaybox.app · Copyright: copyright@sundaybox.app

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