We tell you
For most first issues — a vague ingredient list, a borrowed photo — we explain what to change and the recipe comes back once you fix it.
What this covers
These guidelines apply to anything you publish on One Meal: recipes, their photos and descriptions, your display name and your profile picture. They sit alongside the Terms of Service, and breaking them can cost you a recipe, your credits or your account.
Your household details — who eats with you, their allergies and goals — are private and are never published.
Allergens: the rule that matters most
List every ingredient, every time
Someone with a peanut allergy will read your ingredient list and decide whether to cook your recipe. Leaving something out — or being vague about a sauce, a stock or a garnish — can seriously hurt them.
This is the one rule we enforce without warning.
When you publish a recipe:
- List every ingredient, including oils, sauces, stocks, marinades and garnishes.
- Name things specifically. “Sauce” hides what is in it; “fish sauce” does not.
- Say so if an ingredient commonly contains an allergen — marzipan contains almonds, many stocks contain celery, most Worcestershire sauce contains fish.
- If you substituted something, list what you actually used.
How the app uses this
One Meal reads your ingredient list to work out which allergens a recipe contains, and hides it from households that have declared one. If your list is incomplete, the filter is wrong — and the person relying on it has no way to know.
Publishing recipes
Do
- Publish recipes you have actually cooked.
- Write quantities and steps someone else can follow.
- Use your own photo of the finished dish.
- Credit a source if the recipe is adapted from one.
- Keep it to real home cooking.
Don’t
- Copy a recipe from a book, blog or another app.
- Use a photo you did not take or licence.
- Publish the same recipe more than once.
- Put links, promotions or brand pitches in a recipe.
- Publish joke, test or placeholder recipes.
Recipe ingredients and steps are generally not protectable by copyright, but the writing around them, the photographs and the collection often are. Rewriting a published recipe in your own words, with your own photo, is fine. Copying someone’s prose or images is not.
Photos, names and profiles
- Photos should show the dish. No people, no unrelated images, nothing explicit or graphic.
- Display names and profile pictures are public. Keep them free of impersonation, slurs, contact details and advertising.
- Do not put personal information — yours or anyone else’s — into a recipe or profile.
Credits, honestly earned
You earn credits when other people cook your recipes. That only works if the signal is real, so:
- Cooking your own recipe earns nothing. The app already ignores it.
- Do not create extra accounts to cook your own recipes, and do not arrange reciprocal cooking to inflate each other’s balances.
- Do not split one recipe into several near-identical versions to multiply what it earns.
- Do not automate any part of using the app.
Credits earned in breach of these rules can be reversed or voided, and a pattern of it will cost you the account. There is also a cap on how much a single recipe can earn in a month, so nothing depends on catching abuse in the moment.
Not allowed anywhere
- Anything unlawful, or that encourages harm.
- Hateful, harassing or demeaning content, including toward any group.
- Sexual content, graphic violence, or content involving minors inappropriately.
- Impersonating another person or business.
- Spam, advertising, affiliate links or recruitment.
- Deliberately false ingredient or allergen information.
- Anything designed to probe or break the app.
How moderation works
Recipes may be reviewed before they go live. A published recipe can be reported by anyone in the app, and reported recipes are reviewed again. Depending on what we find, a recipe may be left published, unpublished so only you can see it, or hidden entirely.
What happens when a rule is broken
The recipe comes down
Content that breaks the rules is unpublished or hidden. Credits it earned in breach may be reversed.
Publishing is paused
For repeated problems, you keep your account and your plan but cannot publish for a period.
The account closes
For serious or repeated breaches — falsified allergen information, credit fraud, harassment. Unwithdrawn credits are forfeited.
Falsified allergen information and credit fraud can go straight to step 4. Everything else, we would rather fix than remove.
Reporting and appeals
Use Report on any recipe. Tell us what is wrong — an incorrect allergen, copied content, spam — and we will look at it. Reports are not shared with the person who published the recipe.
If something of yours was removed and you think we got it wrong, write to contact@creart-tech.com with the recipe name. A person will review it.
For copyright concerns, contact contact@creart-tech.com. We will review reports promptly.