Terms of Service

The agreement between you and Superior Dough.

Effective October 6, 2026 · Version 1.5

These Terms of Service govern your use of Superior Dough (the "Service"), operated by Superior Dough LLC ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. The service

Superior Dough is a baking app for home and craft bakers. Core features include:

• Formula Lab — a baker's-percentage calculator engine for any bread, pizza, or pastry formula.
• Active-bake control surfaces — guidance through a live bake, with timing and timer support.
• Starter tracking — feeding schedule, peak prediction, and reminders for your sourdough culture, and gifting a starter to another baker.
• Bake Log — a record of every bake with photos, notes, outcome scoring, and optional costs.
• Learn — lessons, a flour guide, troubleshooting, and reference material.
• Baker Chat — an in-app assistant that uses your recipe, starter, and environmental context to answer baking questions. Baker Chat is the product surface; the underlying language-model technology is provided by Anthropic.
• Scan to Import — a way to bring a recipe you already have (a photo of a page, a web address, or pasted text) into the Formula Lab as a baker's-percentage formula.
• The Bench — an opt-in community feed for sharing bakes, formulas, and technique, with the Weekly Challenge, the Starter Map, and direct messages between bakers.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old (or the local minimum digital-consent age, whichever is higher) to create an account. If you are under 18, you confirm that a parent or guardian has reviewed these Terms with you and consents to your use of the Service.

3. License to use the service

We grant you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Service for your own baking activities. You may not resell, white-label, sublicense, or redistribute the Service or its outputs as a substitute for the Service itself.

4. Your content

You own the content you create in the Service — formulas, bake logs, notes, photos, comments. By posting content to the public Bench feed you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to host, store, reproduce, and display that content solely to operate and improve the Service. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except to the extent we are required to retain it for legal or operational reasons (backups, audit logs).

We do not use your content to train third-party AI models. If that ever changes, we will obtain your explicit opt-in consent before doing so.

Formulas and notes that Baker Chat writes for you are yours to use, share, and publish. They travel with the formula wherever you take it.

Recipes you import

Scan to Import converts a recipe you already have into a formula. An ingredient list and its quantities are facts, and a formula is a mathematical restatement of them; that formula is yours to bake from and to change. An author's writing is different. The headnote, the story around a recipe, and the method as the author wrote it are the author's expression, and copyright protects them.

We draw the line where the law draws it. When you import a recipe, the author's writing is kept on your own account for your personal use, the way a recipe you copied out of a cookbook is yours to keep. When you publish an imported formula to The Bench or share it by link, that writing is removed before anything leaves your account. The formula, the timings, and an attribution to the source travel; the author's prose does not. This happens automatically and cannot be switched off. If you want to say something about a formula you publish, write it yourself in the caption. Editing an author's text does not make it yours, and retyping it into a caption or note is the same as publishing it.

You are responsible for what you import. Do not import material you are not permitted to copy for your own use, and do not attempt to work around the removal described above. We may remove any published formula, note, or shared link that we believe reproduces someone else's writing, and we terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Upload content you do not have rights to — copyrighted material or private information about other people.
• Publish or share another author's recipe text. The app removes it from imported recipes before they are published or shared; putting it back by hand is the same thing.
• Harass, threaten, or abuse other users.
• Attempt to access other users' data, reverse-engineer the Service, or probe for vulnerabilities outside good-faith responsible disclosure.
• Use the Service to send spam or for any commercial advertising purpose. Baker's notes and Bench posts are for craft, not commerce.
• Impersonate another person or baker in a way that could mislead other users.
• Upload sexual content involving minors. We have zero tolerance for child sexual abuse or exploitation material: it is removed on sight, the account is permanently banned, and we report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and to law enforcement as required by law.

Violations may result in content removal, account suspension, or termination. Content posted to The Bench is also subject to our Community Guidelines, which set out what we remove, how to report it, and how quickly we respond.

6. Subscriptions and billing

Superior Dough offers paid plans alongside a free tier. Current tiers:

Founding Baker is a rate, not a separate tier. The first 500 paid subscribers claim a Founding seat from a single shared pool across both paid tiers, lock the founding rate for their tier for the life of the subscription, and carry the Founding Baker hallmark on their wordmark. Seats are counted once across Artisan and Master Baker together, not per tier. When the 500 seats are claimed, new subscriptions are at the standard rate.

Subscriptions bought on the web are billed through Stripe. Subscriptions bought in the iOS app, where available, are billed through the Apple App Store. Subscriptions auto-renew at the end of each billing period at the then-current rate for your tier. You can cancel at any time: web subscriptions from Settings → Account → Manage, which opens Stripe's customer portal, and App Store subscriptions from your Apple account settings. If a renewal payment fails, paid features stay on for three days while the payment is retried, then your account moves to the free tier until the payment succeeds.

If you cancel, paid features remain active until the end of the current billing period. We do not prorate refunds for partial periods except where required by law (such as the App Store's mandatory refund window in some jurisdictions). Refund requests for App Store purchases are handled by Apple.

7. Founding Baker rate-lock policy

If you cancel, or a payment fails and your subscription lapses, you keep your Founding seat, hallmark, and member number. If you subscribe again within 90 days of the day your paid access ended, you pay the Founding rate for your tier. After more than 90 days, a new subscription is at the standard rate for your tier; your seat, hallmark, and member number stay with your account.

Your Founding seat travels with you between paid tiers. If you hold a Founding seat and move from Artisan to Master Baker, you pay the Founding Master Baker rate, not the standard one — and this holds whether or not the 500 seats are still available at the time you move. The seat is yours once claimed, and the rate holds for as long as the 90-day rule above is met.

The seat belongs to the account that claimed it. It follows the account if you change its email address, and it cannot be moved to another account. Founding Baker membership is non-transferable. Any future change to this policy will be made under section 14 and will not reduce a seat already claimed without the notice that section requires.

8. Free-tier limits

Free accounts currently include five Baker Chat questions, three recipe imports, and three Bench posts per calendar month, up to three starters, and one active dough at a time. Limits may change as we tune the model and the cost economics. We will notify you in-app when limits change. Rate limits exist to control operational cost and are not subject to negotiation at the individual-account level.

9. Termination

You may terminate your account at any time from Settings → Account → Delete Account. Account deletion is immediate and irreversible. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or that, in our reasonable judgment, expose us to legal liability. We terminate the accounts of repeat copyright infringers. On termination, we delete your data per the Privacy Policy; some operational records may be retained where legally required.

10. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." We do not warrant that it will be error-free, uninterrupted, or that any specific feature will remain available. Baking advice in the Service — including Baker Chat responses, calculator outputs, and timing predictions — is informational. We do not guarantee the outcome of any bake. Recipes do not necessarily reflect dietary, allergen, or food-safety considerations specific to your situation; you are responsible for evaluating them against your needs.

11. Intellectual property

The Superior Dough name, the sod monogram, the wordmark, the Formula Lab calculator engine, and the user-interface designs are property of Superior Dough LLC. Public-domain technique and the underlying baker's-percentage mathematics are not. You retain all rights in your own content. Recipes you import remain the property of their authors, and nothing in the Service transfers any right in them to you or to us.

Copyright complaints

If you believe that content on the Service reproduces your copyrighted work without permission, email hello@superiordough.com with the location of the material (a Bench post, a shared link, or a note), a description of the work you own, your name and contact details, a statement made in good faith that the use is not authorized by you or by law, and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner. We act on complete notices promptly: we remove or disable access to the material and notify the account that posted it. That account may send us a counter-notice with the same elements; if we receive one, we may restore the material after ten business days unless you tell us you have filed a court action. Notices that misrepresent ownership or infringement carry liability under applicable law.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Superior Dough LLC's total liability to you for any claim arising from these Terms or your use of the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months preceding the claim, or USD $50, whichever is greater. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages.

13. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. You agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Wyoming for any dispute arising out of these Terms.

14. Changes to these terms

If we make material changes, we will notify you in-app at least seven days before the changes take effect and require re-acceptance for continued use. Non-material clarifications take effect on the date posted at the top of this page.

15. Contact

Superior Dough LLC · 1442 Pottstown Pike, Unit #3245, West Chester, PA 19380, USA · hello@superiordough.com