Terms of service

Last updated 13 November 2026.

Plateoff is a home-cooking league: you check in the meals you cook with a photo, other cooks judge them without seeing your name, and you climb a weekly table. These terms are the agreement between you and Plateoff when you use the app at live.plateoff.app. By creating an account you accept them. How we handle your data is in the privacy policy, which is part of this agreement.

Who can join

• You must be 18 or older.
• One person, one account. A second account to vote for yourself, or to judge your own dishes, is not allowed.
• You are responsible for what happens on your account. Keep access to the email address you sign in with to yourself.

Your dishes

Saving a dish is your word that you cooked it and that the photo is yours to share. Stock photos, restaurant meals and other people's pictures do not belong in the league.

Your photos, titles, notes and recipes stay yours. To run the league you give us permission to store them and show them: with your name to the cooks in your groups, without it to the cooks who judge them, and with your name in the results once the week closes. This permission ends when you delete the dish or your account, except that a finished week's results stay as they were written, with the dish hidden.

We do not use your dishes for advertising, and we do not use them to build any model unless you turn on the training permission described in the privacy policy. It is off by default.

Playing fair

The league works because every vote is honest. You agree not to:

• coordinate votes with other cooks, or ask people to pick your dish;
• use more than one account, or let someone else use yours;
• tick "I cooked with it" for the ingredient of the day when you did not;
• use scripts, bots or anything else that votes, uploads or joins groups for you;
• try to find out who cooked a dish while it is being judged, beyond recognising a meal you already know.

If we find that points were won unfairly, we may void the votes involved, take dishes out of judging, recalculate boards, change a division move, or close the account.

Points and streaks

Points, divisions and streaks are part of the game. They have no money value, cannot be bought, sold or transferred, and are not prizes. We may adjust the scoring rules to keep the game fair; each change is recorded, and a finished week keeps the result it was written with.

What you may not post

Plateoff is about food. Do not post anything that:

• is illegal, or that you have no right to share;
• harasses, threatens, or demeans anyone, including through hate speech;
• is sexual or graphically violent;
• shows another person who has not agreed to be shown, or shares someone's personal details;
• is spam, advertising, or a link to somewhere harmful.

This applies to dishes, notes, recipes, comments, group names and descriptions, and chat.

Groups

Anyone can start a group. A group's host may write their own rules in its description and may remove members and dishes from their group; those rules are not scored. A host cannot take a dish out of league judging: only we can. If you open your group to Explore, anyone may find and join it.

Reports and removal

Any cook can report a dish, a comment, a group or another cook. We review reports and may remove content, take a group off Explore, or suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. Where we can, we tell you what was removed and why, and you can reply to hello@plateoff.app if you think we got it wrong.

Food and recipes

Recipes and notes are written by other cooks and are not checked by us. Use your own judgement about ingredients, allergies, food safety and kitchen hazards. Plateoff gives no dietary or health advice.

Price

Plateoff is free today. If we add a paid plan, we will say what it costs and what it includes before anything is charged, and you will never pay to change a point.

The service

We are a small team and we are still building Plateoff. We will try to keep it running and your data safe, but we cannot promise it will always be available or free of mistakes, and features may change or be retired. We provide it as it is, and to the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect losses or for losses caused by other cooks. Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have as a consumer under the law.

Leaving

You can stop using Plateoff at any time and delete your account in Settings, as described in the privacy policy. We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, and we will tell you if we do.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms, we will update this page and its date, and tell you in the app before a change that matters takes effect. If you keep using Plateoff after that, the new terms apply.

Law and contact

Plateoff is run from Brazil, and these terms are governed by Brazilian law. If you live elsewhere, you also keep the protections the law where you live gives you. For anything on this page, write to hello@plateoff.app.