Cookpad Community Guidelines
Welcome to Cookpad!
We are a global cooking community where people who love cooking and those who cook daily come together to share their ideas. We are delighted you have joined our home cooking community. Welcome!
When you register with Cookpad, you become part of a cooking community with millions of members. If you decide to start sharing your own favourite recipes, or any other content such as cooksnaps or comments, please refer to these guidelines.
About Cookpad
Cookpad’s mission is to “make everyday cooking fun”. Each recipe posted on Cookpad has its own unique story. It may be a treasured family dish passed down from generation to generation, a dish that always makes you and your family smile, a recipe that took years to perfect, made with your favourite utensils, a new culinary discovery, or something to keep and look back on your cooking. Feel free to share your own recipes, or to post your photo (we call them “cooksnaps”) of recipes you have found on Cookpad and cooked in your kitchen.
About the Cookpad Community
The Cookpad community aims to be open to everyone, friendly and safe to use.
When posting recipes, cooksnaps, etc., please remember that this is a place that anyone can access, and do not post false, threatening, harassing, defamatory, libellous, misleading or reproduced content. Cookpad cannot be held responsible for the words and actions of users.
In addition, Cookpad may, at its sole discretion, make contents that it deems inappropriate private or suspend the accounts of users whose continued use is deemed inappropriate. Furthermore, Cookpad aims to make everyday cooking fun around the world, and all content on Cookpad is centred around cooking. As such, we believe that topics discussed within the community should also be centred around cooking.
All recipes published on Cookpad should be dishes that other users can make and eat at home, and all cooksnaps and comments posted on a recipe should be directly related to that recipe. Cookpad provides examples of prohibited items through its Terms of Use and Community Guidelines, but please note that the examples given are not all-inclusive
About recipes
We value the diversity of our recipes.
The recipes posted on Cookpad have a variety of stories behind them: they may be the taste of family memories, they may have been perfected through trial and error, or they may have been created by chance, such as through inspiration. Also, even seemingly similar dishes are different and diverse in the way they are made, the tips and tricks, and the finished dish. Adding a little of your own twist to an original recipe that makes it yours. Even if similar recipes have already been published on Cookpad, don’t hesitate to publish your own version.
When publishing a recipe, if there is a recipe you have referred to, please include the information of the reference source (recipe name, book, recipe ID, etc.) in the recipe. You may be inspired by a TV programme, cookbook, blog, website or another user’s recipe. Be sure to state this clearly as a sign of respect and appreciation for that person. If you wish to introduce a recipe that has already been published by someone else in its entirety, be sure to ask permission from that person before publishing it. In doing so, check with the person in question about how to state the source and respect their wishes. Cookpad may contact you to confirm the circumstances of publication if it seems to be reproduced from a different source.
Recipe photos are not mandatory, but if the main photo of the recipe is included, please include your original photo, so that users will know what the dish should look like when it is finished.
Do not publish photos or images that are someone else’s work or AI-generated images, non-cooking photos, photos with people or animals in them or photos that are not related to the recipe. Any such photos may be removed by Cookpad.
The recipes posted on Cookpad inspire home cooking all over the world. And there are people all over the world who want to recreate your recipes. Please help them by describing clear and easy-to-follow procedures, the quantities that determine the taste, and by posting actual photos and videos of the dishes.
About cooksnaps
Cooksnap is a feature that allows you to report to the author of a recipe on Cookpad with a photo when you have tried making their recipe yourself. When you cook a dish, take a photo of it, add a comment and tell the author ‘It was delicious!’ to the author of the recipe. Cooksnaps are posted not only in your own kitchen but also on recipes, so not only the recipe author but also many other people will see them. Therefore, please do not use photos with people or animals in them, or photos or illustrations that have nothing to do with the recipe. Also, do not post comments that have nothing to do with the recipe, or criticism or slander that goes beyond feedback on the recipe.
If you have any concerns, please contact us
People from many different countries and regions come to Cookpad to share and browse recipes and home cooking customs and heritage. They have different cultures, customs, cooking knowledge, experiences and environments. Even if you do not intend to cause harm, you may hurt others. Information that one person may not find offensive or inappropriate may be found offensive or inappropriate by another person, or there may be disagreement due to differences in food culture, ideas, etc.
If you find something that you feel is offensive or in breach of the guidelines, please first let Cookpad know using the various content reporting functions. If you need a reply, please contact us via email at help@cookpad.com
Valid from 21 October 2024