Community Guidelines
ShareTaste is a place for cooks to share what they love. These Guidelines explain what is and isn't allowed, so the community stays welcoming for everyone.
1. The Short Version
Be kind. Share content you're allowed to share. Keep it legal. If something feels off, report it from the menu on the post, comment, or profile — we look at every report.
2. Be Respectful
- Treat other users the way you'd want to be treated.
- Disagreement is fine. Personal attacks, slurs, and put-downs aren't.
- Different cooking styles, traditions, dietary choices, and skill levels are all welcome here.
3. Keep It Legal
Don't post content that is illegal where you live or where the people in your audience live. That includes:
- Threats of violence or content that promotes terrorism or organised crime.
- Content that promotes self-harm or suicide.
- Content that promotes the sale of regulated goods (drugs, weapons, etc.) outside their legal channels.
4. No Harassment or Hate
ShareTaste is not a place for harassment, bullying, or hate.
- Don't target people based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, disability, age, or serious illness.
- Don't threaten, intimidate, or repeatedly contact someone who has asked you to stop.
- Don't post someone's private information (real name, address, phone number, place of work, etc.) without their permission.
- Don't coordinate group attacks against a person or community.
5. No Sexual or Adult Content
ShareTaste is a cooking app and isn't intended for adult content.
- Don't post sexual imagery, nudity, or sexually suggestive material in posts, comments, profile pictures, recipe photos, or any other content.
- Sexual content involving minors is never allowed in any form. We have zero tolerance, will remove the content immediately, terminate the account, and report to the relevant authorities.
6. No Spam or Scams
- Don't post repetitive, off-topic, or bulk content.
- Don't use the app to drive traffic to unrelated sites, run pyramid schemes, or solicit money.
- Don't link to malware, phishing, or pages that try to steal credentials.
- Don't use bots, scripts, or automation to inflate engagement, follow people, or post content.
7. Respect Intellectual Property
- Only post recipes, photos, and text you have the right to share. Adapting and crediting others is fine; copying word-for-word from a copyrighted cookbook or website is not.
- Don't use logos, brand names, or trademarks in a way that could mislead people about who made the content.
- If you believe content on ShareTaste infringes your copyright or trademark, contact us at the address listed in Section 15 with the details so we can review it.
8. Respect Other People's Privacy
- Don't post identifiable photos or details of other people (including children) without their consent. This applies to background people in your kitchen photos, too.
- Don't share private messages, screenshots of conversations, or other content that wasn't meant to be public.
9. Don't Impersonate Others
- Don't set up profiles that pretend to be another person, brand, or organisation in a way that could mislead.
- Parody and tribute accounts are okay if they're clearly labelled as such.
10. Don't Abuse the System
- Don't try to get around limits, blocks, bans, paywalls, or moderation actions (for example by creating new accounts).
- Don't submit false reports to harass another user or remove content you simply disagree with.
- Don't probe, scan, attack, or interfere with the app, our backend, or other people's data.
11. Share Food Responsibly
Recipes you share may be cooked by people you'll never meet. A few common-sense rules:
- Don't post recipes or instructions that are likely to cause serious harm (for example unsafe canning practices, foraging instructions for plants you can't reliably identify, or "challenges" involving extreme heat or quantities).
- If a recipe involves common allergens (nuts, gluten, dairy, eggs, shellfish, soy, etc.) or non-vegetarian/non-vegan ingredients, label them clearly. Don't mislead people about what's in the food.
- Recipes, ingredient parsing, AI suggestions, and nutrition estimates in the app are general information, not professional dietary or medical advice. Cooks need to verify what they're making, especially for children, pregnant or nursing people, and people with health conditions.
12. What Happens When Content Breaks the Rules
Depending on how serious it is, we may:
- Leave the content up if the report doesn't hold up.
- Hide the content from the feed pending review (this can happen automatically when several credible reports come in within a short window).
- Remove the content.
- Restrict, suspend, or permanently terminate the account.
- Report unlawful content to the competent authorities where required.
We review reports as quickly as we can. We don't guarantee a response time, and we generally don't explain individual moderation decisions, although we will provide a reason where the law requires it.
13. How to Report
- Posts — tap the "…" menu on the post and choose Report.
- Comments — long-press a comment (or swipe it to the left) and choose Report.
- Profiles — open the profile, open the relationship menu, and choose Report.
You can also block or mute a user from their profile or from one of their posts. Blocking removes their content from your feed and prevents future interactions. Muting just hides their posts from your feed.
14. Appeals
If you think content of yours was hidden or removed by mistake, or your account was restricted unfairly, contact us at support@sharetaste.app. Tell us what was affected and why you think the decision was wrong, and a person will review it.
15. Contact
For anything related to these Guidelines, including appeals and questions, write to support@sharetaste.app.