Terms of Service

1. About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and Paweł Kukulka, a self-employed sole trader (autónomo) resident in Spain, trading as "Chef Portfolios" ("we", "us"). Our details are in the Legal notice.

By creating an account you accept these terms. Please also read the Privacy Policy, which explains how we use personal data, and the Cookie Policy.

These terms are in English. A Spanish version will follow.

2. The service

Chef Portfolios lets professional chefs build a portfolio page. You choose a template, add your career history, accolades, an introduction, optional interview answers, dish photographs and an optional portrait, preview the page and submit it. Once approved, it is published at chefportfolios.com/your-name, with a form that lets visitors ask to be introduced to you.

You can edit your page, hide it, and delete your account at any time.

3. Who can use it

• You must be a professional chef aged 18 or over.
• For now, Chef Portfolios is invite-only. You need a valid invite code to create an account. Each code works once.
• One account per person. The page must be about you.
• The information you give us when signing up must be accurate.

4. Your account and signing in

There is no password. You sign in with a link we email to you. This means anyone who can read your email can sign in as you, so keep your email account secure. If you think someone else has accessed your account, tell us straight away at hello@chefportfolios.com.

You are responsible for what is done through your account, unless it happens because of our failure to take reasonable care.

5. Your content and the licence you give us

"Your content" means everything you add: text, career details, accolades, photographs, your portrait and any CV.

You keep ownership of your content. We do not claim any rights in it beyond the licence below.

You give us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, resize, crop for display, convert the format of, display and distribute your content, solely to operate and show the service. This covers:

• showing it on your page and in the preview while you build it;
• link previews, such as the title and photo shown when someone shares your page link in a messaging app or social network;
• sending it to you, for example in emails about your page;
• backups and security copies.

"Worldwide" is needed because your published page can be seen from anywhere.

We will only use your page or content as an example of a portfolio (for instance on our front page or in posts about Chef Portfolios) if your page is live and you have given us separate permission. You can withdraw that permission at any time, and we will stop using it in new material.

The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies in backups, which are deleted within 30 days, and link previews or copies that other services have already made, which we do not control.

6. What you confirm about your content

By adding content, you confirm that:

• Photographs: you own every photo, or have permission to use it on your page. This includes permission from the photographer and, where relevant, from the restaurant, hotel or employer that owns it.
• People in photos: anyone who can be recognised in a photo has agreed to appear on your page.
• Accuracy: your career history, roles, dates, accolades and ratings are true, and awards are correctly attributed. For example, if a restaurant held a Michelin star, say what your role was there, rather than implying the star was yours alone.
• Confidentiality: nothing on your page breaks a confidentiality agreement or duty to an employer or client, such as unreleased menus, private recipes, or the names of private households you have cooked for without their permission.
• Other people: where you mention other people by name, you have a fair reason to and are not sharing more about them than needed.

If any of this turns out not to be true and someone makes a claim against us because of it, you are responsible for the reasonable costs, to the extent the law allows.

7. Acceptable use

Do not use Chef Portfolios to:

• make false or misleading claims, or pretend to be someone else;
• upload content you do not have the rights to;
• post anything unlawful, defamatory, hateful, discriminatory, sexual or violent;
• share other people's personal data without a good reason;
• send spam, or use the introduction form to send anything other than a genuine introduction;
• copy, scrape or collect content or data from other chefs' pages in bulk;
• try to get into accounts or systems that are not yours, or disrupt the service;
• use your page to advertise other businesses or services unrelated to your work as a chef.

8. Review, declining and removing pages

During the founding programme, every page is checked by us before it goes live. We look at it to catch mistakes and content that breaks these terms. Approval does not mean we have verified your claims; you remain responsible for them.

We may decline to publish a page, ask you to change something, hide a page, or remove content, if we reasonably believe:

• it contains misleading claims, for example about roles or awards;
• someone has complained, with good reason, that it breaks their rights (such as a photographer's copyright or a person's privacy);
• it is unlawful or breaks acceptable use.

We will tell you what the problem is and, where possible, give you the chance to fix it first. If the problem is serious or urgent, we may hide the page first and talk to you after.

9. Introductions

Visitors to your page can send an introduction request. We store it and email it to you. You decide whether to reply.

• We only pass messages on. We do not check who the sender is or whether an offer is genuine. Take the usual care before sharing personal details or travelling for a trial.
• Chef Portfolios is not a recruitment agency or employer, and is not a party to any hiring, trial, booking or contract between you and anyone you meet through the site.
• We charge no fee or commission on any hire, booking or work that comes from an introduction, to you or to the sender.
• We do not guarantee that you will receive introductions or work.
• Once you receive a sender's details, you are responsible for handling them lawfully, and for using them only to deal with their request.

10. Founding member conditions

The first 100 chefs who join by invitation are founding chefs.

What founding chefs get

Founding chefs get the core portfolio free for as long as Chef Portfolios runs and their account stays open. The core portfolio is:

• one portfolio page at chefportfolios.com/your-name;
• on one of the templates available at the time;
• with your career details, up to 40 dish photographs and a portrait;
• and the introduction form.

We may update the templates and how pages look, but we will not remove any part of the core portfolio from founding chefs, or start charging them for it, while the service runs.

What it does not include

• unlimited storage, or more than the photo limits above;
• future premium features or extras;
• any services beyond the core portfolio.

Founding chefs can choose to buy extras if we offer them later, but never have to.

Conditions

• Founding status is personal and cannot be transferred to anyone else.
• It ends if you delete your account, or if we close your account because you seriously breach these terms (see section 15).
• If we ever decide to close the service, we will give founding chefs at least 60 days' notice by email, and a way to get a copy of their content (for example, a download of their text and photographs) before it closes.

11. Future paid plans and extras

Chefs who join after the founding programme will pay for the service. The price has not been set. We may also add premium extras, priced separately.

Before you pay for anything, we will show you the price, what it includes, how to cancel and any right you have to change your mind (for example, the 14-day withdrawal right consumers have for many online purchases). Separate terms may apply to paid plans; we will show them to you before you buy.

12. Availability

We provide the service "as is". We run it with reasonable care and skill, and fix problems as quickly as we reasonably can. But we cannot promise it will always be available or free of errors, and it may be offline for maintenance or because of problems with our providers.

Keep your own copies of your photos and CV. Chef Portfolios is not a backup service.

13. Our liability

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that cannot be limited by law. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for deliberate wrongdoing or gross negligence, and your rights as a consumer under mandatory law.

Subject to that:

• We are not responsible for what visitors or senders of introduction requests do, for the outcome of any hiring or booking, or for losing a job or business opportunity.
• We are not responsible for copies of your public page made by search engines or other people.
• We are not responsible for losses that were not reasonably foreseeable when you accepted these terms, or that are caused by events outside our reasonable control.
• Our total liability to you for all claims connected with the service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or 100 euros.

If you use the service as a consumer, you keep all the rights that consumer law gives you, and nothing here takes them away.

14. Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time with the delete option in your account, or by emailing hello@chefportfolios.com from the address on your account.

When you delete it:

• your page is taken offline, and your details, photographs, CV and sign-in are removed from our live systems;
• deleted files are permanently removed within 30 days, and backups holding your data are deleted within 30 days;
• introduction requests sent to you are deleted from our systems;
• founding status ends and cannot be restored.

Deleting your account cannot be undone. Make sure you have your own copies of anything you want to keep.

15. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or close your account if you seriously or repeatedly breach these terms, for example by publishing photos you have no right to use after being asked to remove them, or by making false claims about your career. Where reasonable, we will warn you first and give you a chance to fix the problem.

If we close your account, we will tell you why, and give you a reasonable chance to get a copy of your content unless the law or the nature of the breach prevents it.

If we decide to close the service for everyone, we will give at least 60 days' notice.

16. Changes to the service and these terms

We may improve and change the service over time.

We may also update these terms. If a change affects you in an important way, we will email you at least 30 days before it takes effect and explain what is changing. If you do not agree, you can delete your account before then. If you keep using the service after the change takes effect, the new terms apply. Small changes, such as correcting typing errors, may take effect straight away.

17. Complaints and notices from rights holders

Complaints about the service

Email hello@chefportfolios.com. We aim to reply within 10 working days.

If content on a page breaks your rights

If you are a photographer, employer, a person shown in a photo, or anyone else whose rights you believe a page breaks, email hello@chefportfolios.com with the subject line "Rights notice", and include:

• your name and contact details, and who you act for if not yourself;
• the link to the page and a description of the content (for example, "the third dish photo");
• which right you believe is broken and why (for example, "I took this photo and did not give permission");
• a statement that the information in your notice is accurate to the best of your knowledge.

We will look at it promptly. We may hide the content while we do. We will usually tell the chef and give them the chance to respond, and we will let you know the outcome. Please do not send notices you know to be unfounded.

18. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by Spanish law. Disputes will be heard by the courts of Spain.

If you use the service as a consumer and live in another country, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence, and you can bring a claim in the courts where you live.

Please contact us first. Most problems can be sorted out by email.

19. General

• If a court finds part of these terms invalid, the rest still applies.
• If we do not enforce a term straight away, we can still enforce it later.
• We may transfer this agreement to someone who takes over the service, if your rights are not reduced. We will tell you first.
• You may not transfer your account or these terms to anyone else.

20. Contact

Paweł Kukulka, trading as Chef Portfolios
[TO ADD: registered business address]
hello@chefportfolios.com