Who this is between
These terms govern your use of Heirloom, an Ardenholt program operated by Ruzylo Cloud, LLC ("we", "us"). Using Heirloom, or this website, means you agree to them.
The service
Heirloom is software provided as-is: a way to photograph recipe cards, transcribe them, set the result as a book with sections, an index and a provenance line under each title, and take that book out as a print-ready file and a plain export you keep.
We work to keep it running and useful, but we offer no uptime guarantee and no warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, except where the law requires one.
Recipes are informational, and cooking is yours
Recipes, ingredients, quantities, times and any nutrition note in Heirloom — whether transcribed by you from a card, typed in from memory, or contributed by a relative — are informational only. We do not verify them and we make no guarantee about accuracy, allergens, or suitability for any diet or medical condition.
You are responsible for safe food handling, for cooking temperatures, and for checking every ingredient against the allergies and dietary needs of the people at your table. A recipe written in 1974 assumed things about ingredients, equipment and food safety that may no longer hold.
Whose recipes these are
The recipes, photographs, notes and provenance lines you put into Heirloom are yours and your family's. We claim no licence over them, we do not have a copy, and we could not use them if we wanted to.
A list of ingredients is not copyrightable, and keeping private copies of recipes your family cooks from is the digital form of the index card. Someone else's written method can be. Keep transcriptions of published recipes for personal and family use, keep the source with the card, and do not publish somebody's write-up to the world under your own name.
What you pay, and what that buys
Heirloom is free to download. The complete program runs for seven days without a card, and the full program is one payment of $29.99 — a keepsake, not a service.
There is no subscription and no tier. Nothing renews, nothing lapses, and nothing has to be cancelled later. The purchase covers the releases that follow it, and it covers the export and the print-ready book in full — those are never held back, degraded, or reserved for a higher tier.
- Free to download, on every platform it ships to.
- Seven full days of the complete program, no card asked.
- One payment of $29.99 — the whole program, permanently.
- The plain export and the print-ready book, whole, forever.
- Thirty days, money back, no reasons needed.
The thirty-day guarantee
Thirty days, money back, on every platform, with no exceptions and no reasons asked. This is a term of the program, not a courtesy we may withdraw.
Bought from us: write to [email protected] and the payment comes back. Bought through Apple: Apple handles refunds under its own policy — and if Apple declines inside our thirty days, write to us and we make it right ourselves.
Whatever you have already transcribed is unaffected either way, because it was never anywhere but your device.
Your account, if you ever make one
You do not need an account to use Heirloom. Account — optional, always. The seven-day trial, the photographing, the transcribing, the setting and the export ask for nothing at all.
An account exists only to prove what you own. It holds your email address and your licence keys — never your recipes, your card photographs, your notes, or the names of your relatives. Those stay on your device, which means we cannot read them, restore them, or hand them to anyone who asks for them.
If you do make one, keep your sign-in link and any key private, and tell us at [email protected] if you believe either has been misused.
Copies you make and copies you give away
The book and the export are yours to print, copy, back up, and hand to your family, in any number, forever. That is the product working as designed and no term here restricts it.
What the purchase does not do is licence the program to another household: your sister may keep, read and reprint the copy you gave her without paying anyone, and she needs her own copy of Heirloom only if she wants to set a book of her own.
Your device, your records, your responsibility
Because we hold no copy (see the privacy sheet), you are responsible for your device security, for your backups and exports, and for deciding who receives a copy of the book. We cannot recover a cookbook from a lost, wiped or inaccessible device, and we would not be able to even if you begged us. Export early, and keep the file somewhere that is not the phone.
Acceptable use
- Do not use Heirloom to store material you have no right to hold.
- Do not break, probe, or reverse-engineer the service, except where the law permits it.
- Do not republish another author's written recipes to the public as your own work.
Ending it
You can stop using Heirloom whenever you like: delete the app and nothing of yours is left behind on our side, because nothing of yours was there. We may suspend website services, such as the register, if we reasonably believe these terms are being broken, with notice where that is feasible.
Liability
To the maximum extent the law permits, our aggregate liability for any claim arising from your use of Heirloom is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or $50, whichever is greater.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, and disputes will be resolved in the state and federal courts located there.
Changes
If we make a material change we will update this sheet and the effective date at its head, and write once to anyone on the register. Continuing to use Heirloom after a change means you accept it. We will not weaken the on-device promise or the export, because between them they are the reason the program is worth buying.
Contact
[email protected] — Ruzylo Cloud, LLC, Thousand Oaks, California.