Terms of Use

These Terms of Use (the Terms) are an agreement between you and Nikita Belopotapov about your use of Guston — the Guston apps for iOS and Android, the website at guston.app, and the creator surface at creator.guston.app (together, the Service).

Please read them together with our Privacy Policy, which explains what data we hold and why.

1. Who we are

Guston is operated by Nikita Belopotapov. You can reach us at welcome@guston-app.com or through the feedback screen in the app.

The Service is currently operated by an individual. We may transfer this agreement, together with the Service, to a company we set up to operate it — including when paid plans launch. Your rights under these Terms do not change as a result of that transfer, and we will publish the new operator’s details on this page before the transfer takes effect.

2. Accepting these Terms

You accept these Terms when you create an account, or when you use any part of the Service that does not need an account. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service.

3. Who can use Guston

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service, and at least the minimum age of digital consent where you live — in parts of the European Economic Area that is 14, 15 or 16. If you are below that age, you may only use the Service with the consent of a parent or guardian, who accepts these Terms on your behalf.

4. Your account

You sign in with Apple or with Google. We do not hold a password for you; keeping your Apple or Google account secure is your responsibility, and anything done through your Guston account is treated as done by you.

You can delete your account at any time in Settings. When you do, we delete your account record and the recipes you created that nobody else has saved. Recipes that other people have saved to their own kitchen stay in the Service without your name attached to them — we cannot remove content from other people’s collections. Media we have already copied under section 9 also stays. Section 4 of the Privacy Policy describes deletion in more detail.

5. What Guston does

Guston turns cooking videos and recipe pages into structured recipes you can save, organise, scale, shop for and cook from. You can also write recipes yourself, keep them private or make them public, collect them, and follow other cooks.

Parts of the Service are free and parts may be paid. Features change: we add, alter and remove them as the product develops.

6. Importing recipes from other platforms

When you give Guston a link to a post on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, we retrieve what that post makes publicly available — caption, and where needed video frames or captions — using third-party retrieval services, and we use AI to turn it into a structured recipe: title, ingredients, steps, timings.

A few things follow from how that works, and they matter:

• You start every import. Guston does not crawl social platforms on its own. We fetch a post because a user asked for that specific post.
• You are responsible for what you import. Only import posts that are publicly accessible and that you are permitted to use. Do not use Guston to copy content from private accounts, paid content, or anywhere you are not allowed to take it from.
• We do not host the original video. The recipe we produce is the factual content of the post — ingredients, steps, quantities — which is not itself protected by copyright in most jurisdictions. Cover images for imported recipes are displayed from the original platform’s own servers, except in the case described in section 9.
• Attribution stays. An imported recipe keeps the original author’s name or handle and a link back to the original post, and we will not remove that attribution.
• Imported recipes are not yours to sell. You may keep, edit and cook from what you import; you may not present someone else’s recipe as your own work, or use the Service to build a competing library of other people’s content.

If you are the author of a post someone has imported, section 9 and section 13 describe your options: claim the recipes, or ask us to take them down.

7. Your content

Anything you create or upload — recipes, photos, collections, your profile, comments in feedback — stays yours. You keep every right you had in it.

To run the Service, we need permission to use it. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, adapt (for formats and sizes), translate, and display your content, for as long as you keep it in the Service, and only in order to operate, present and promote the Service. If you make a recipe or a collection public, that licence extends to showing it publicly, including on the web where search engines can index it and where other users can save it to their own kitchen.

You confirm that you have the rights to the content you add, and that it does not infringe anyone else’s rights.

We may use anonymised, aggregated information derived from content in the Service — for example how often an ingredient appears — to improve the Service. We do not sell your content.

8. Rules of use

Do not use the Service to:

• post content that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, violent, sexually explicit, or that endangers anyone’s safety;
• impersonate another person, or claim a creator profile that is not yours;
• infringe copyright, trademarks or other rights;
• scrape, crawl or bulk-download the Service, or resell access to it;
• work around usage limits, quotas or paid features, including by creating multiple accounts;
• attack, probe or disrupt the Service or the systems it runs on, or reverse-engineer it except where the law allows;
• upload malware, or automate the Service in ways we have not published an interface for.

There is no tolerance for objectionable content. Every public recipe and every profile can be reported from inside the app, and you can block a user or a creator so their content stops reaching you. We review reports and act on them — by removing content, suspending an account, or both — normally within 24 hours of a report.

9. Creator pages and claiming your profile

When users import posts from a social account, Guston groups the resulting recipes under a creator profile for that account. Until it is claimed, that profile is a plain attribution page: the handle, the recipes imported from it, and a link back to the original account.

If it is your account, you can claim it. To prove it is yours, you post a one-time code we give you as a comment under one of your own posts, and we check that the comment was written by the account that owns the post. We never ask for your password on the platform you are claiming, and we never post anything as you.

Claiming has consequences you should understand before you do it:

• Your page becomes public. A claimed and published creator page is served at guston.app/@yourhandle and can be indexed by search engines. You can ask us to unpublish it at any time by writing to welcome@guston-app.com.
• We copy the media. Once you claim a profile, you permit us to copy the images from the posts your recipes were imported from onto our own storage, and to display them on your page and on the recipe pages. This is what keeps your page working when the original platform’s links expire. That permission is given when you accept these Terms at the claim step, and it survives you later unpublishing the page or deleting your account — we may keep serving copies of media on recipes that other users have saved.
• You gain editing rights. A claimed profile lets you edit the recipes attributed to it, including their titles, ingredients, steps and photos. Edits change what everyone sees, including users who already saved the recipe.
• Claims can be refused or reversed. We may reject a claim, or withdraw one we granted, if we have reason to believe the profile is not yours, or if the account is used in breach of these Terms.

A claim does not transfer ownership of the recipes other users saved before you claimed, and it does not make us your agent, employer or partner.

10. Creator Pro and payments

Creator Pro is a paid plan for claimed creators that is not on sale yet. What exists today is a wait-list: you can tell us you want it, and — if you choose to — save a card with our payment provider, Stripe, so that you do not have to set it up later.

• Nothing is charged today. Saving a card authorises nothing beyond the €0 verification Stripe performs to confirm the card is valid.
• We will not start a subscription without asking you again. When Creator Pro launches we will contact you and take a separate, explicit agreement before any charge.
• We never see your card. Card details are entered on Stripe’s own pages. Guston has no card fields anywhere.
• Prices are indicative. The prices shown on the Pro page describe the plan we intend to sell; they may change before launch. The price that binds is the one shown at the moment you agree to subscribe.
• You can remove yourself from the wait-list at any time from the Pro page, or by writing to welcome@guston-app.com.

If you subscribe in the future, the subscription terms, renewal, cancellation and refund rules in force at that time will apply and will be shown to you before you agree to them.

11. AI features, limits and accuracy

Importing, translating and structuring recipes uses AI models, including models we access from third-party providers. Those operations cost money to run, so they are subject to usage limits per account. We may change those limits, and we may temporarily restrict them to keep the Service running.

AI output can be wrong. An imported recipe can misread a quantity, drop a step, or mislabel an ingredient. Timings, temperatures, servings and nutritional or dietary labels — including allergen and diet tags — are produced automatically and are not verified by a human.

Do not rely on Guston as your sole source of allergen information. Allergen information in the Service is auto-detected, may be incomplete, and is a convenience rather than a safety control. If you have a food allergy, intolerance or medical condition, check the original source and the actual ingredients you use, and do not use the Service to make allergy, medical or dietary decisions on its own. Cooking also involves heat, sharp tools and raw ingredients: follow safe food-handling practice, and use your own judgement about anything a recipe tells you to do.

12. Our content and brand

The Service itself — the software, the design, the Guston name and logo, and the catalogues and data we build (such as our ingredient and tag catalogues) — belongs to us or our licensors. These Terms give you a personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service; they give you no rights in it beyond that.

13. Copyright and other complaints

If content in the Service infringes your rights, write to welcome@guston-app.com with a link to the content, a description of the right you hold, and confirmation that you are the rights holder or are authorised to act for them. We remove infringing content and, where appropriate, suspend accounts that repeatedly infringe.

If you are the author of posts Guston users have imported and you want them removed rather than claimed, the same address is the way to ask.

14. Suspension and termination

You can stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if your use harms other users or the Service, or if we are required to by law. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you why and give you a chance to put it right.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination — content licences you granted for content others have saved, disclaimers, liability and governing law — continue to apply after it.

15. Availability and changes to the Service

We do not promise the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may change, suspend or discontinue features, and we may set or change limits on storage, imports or other usage. If we discontinue the Service entirely, we will give you reasonable notice and a way to export your recipes.

16. Disclaimers

To the extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that recipes in the Service are accurate, complete, safe, or suitable for you.

17. Liability

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, lost data, or loss arising from your reliance on content in the Service. Where we are liable, our total liability to you is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event and €50.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law — including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, and, for consumers, your statutory rights.

18. If you are a consumer in the EEA

These Terms do not affect the mandatory consumer rights you have under the law of the country you live in, and they do not deprive you of the right to bring proceedings in the courts of that country. Where you buy a paid plan, you have the statutory right to withdraw within 14 days; if you ask for the service to start immediately, that right ends once it has been fully performed.

19. Apple and Google

You download the apps from the Apple App Store or Google Play, and their own terms apply to that download.

For the iOS app: this agreement is between you and us, not Apple, and we alone are responsible for the app and its content. Apple has no obligation to provide support for it. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation. We, not Apple, are responsible for handling any claim relating to the app, including product liability, consumer-protection and intellectual-property claims. You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a terrorist-supporting country, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

20. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the Service changes. When we make a material change, we will update the date at the top of this page and tell you in the app or by email before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the Service after that means you accept the updated Terms.

21. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the law of Spain, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and subject to section 18 for consumers.

22. Contact

Nikita Belopotapov — welcome@guston-app.com.