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Terms of Service
Last updated: October 2026. Plain-language terms for an informative baking tool, including how Lab+ subscriptions and payments work.
These terms
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of Bakeryss’s website and the Sourdough Lab application. Bakeryss is the sole-proprietor brand that operates this service. By creating an account or using the service you agree to these Terms. They are an initial product document, written plainly and not claimed to be lawyer-reviewed legal advice.
What the service is
Sourdough Lab is interactive baking software: deterministic calculators, a bake planner, diagnostic decision trees, and tools for recording your own baking history. It is designed to complement — never replace — the guidance in Bakeryss’s guides and ordinary good judgment in the kitchen.
Baking guidance is informational
Calculations such as hydration, baker's percentage, scaling, dough temperature and schedules are mathematical outcomes of the inputs you provide, and the formulas are shown. Fermentation estimates are starting points with confirm signals, not guarantees: fermentation varies with ingredients, environment, starter condition and process. No tool in the service guarantees a baking result.
Food safety is your responsibility
You are responsible for the safety of food you prepare. Use clean tools and ingredients, inspect starters and doughs for mold or contamination, follow safe food-handling practices, and discard anything you are unsure about. The service's guidance can never substitute for that judgment, and nothing in it should be treated as an assurance that a particular practice is safe.
Accounts and acceptable use
You must provide accurate account details and keep your password secure. You may not use the service to upload unlawful content, attempt to access other users' data, abuse the systems, or resell the service. We may suspend accounts that violate these Terms.
Your data
Data you enter is yours. We store it to power the service, protect it with access controls, and delete it only in line with our Privacy Policy or your request. We do not sell personal or baking data.
Intellectual property
Bakeryss’s guides, the Sourdough Lab software, its content and its brand are owned by Bakeryss. You receive a personal, non-transferable right to use the service. You may not copy, redistribute or reverse-engineer the software beyond what the law permits.
Availability and disclaimer of warranties
The service is provided as-is, without warranties of any kind, express or implied. It is a small product under active development: features may change, and those listed as planned are not promises of availability. We do our best to keep things working, but make no guarantee of uninterrupted or error-free service.
Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for damages arising from your use of the service or from following its guidance — including any loss to a bake, ingredient or otherwise. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited.
Commerce and payments
Lab+ is a recurring subscription priced at $6.99 per month or $49.99 per year, with no free trial. A subscription will renew automatically for the billing interval you choose — monthly subscriptions monthly, annual subscriptions annually — until you cancel it, and cancelling stops future renewal. Payment is taken by the payment provider that processes the purchase; Bakeryss does not collect or store card details. Cancellation and refunds are separate: cancelling does not by itself refund a charge you have already paid; refund handling is described in our Refund Policy. The one-time ebook store is still a planned feature — its checkout is not open yet — and it will be covered by updated Terms, including its own refund rules, before anything goes online for it.
Termination and changes
You may stop using the service at any time. We may update these Terms as the product grows; changes take effect when posted, and continued use after posting means you accept them. Questions about these Terms can be sent to the support address below.
Refund and cancellation handling is described in the Refund Policy. Questions about these Terms or your account can be sent to support@bakeryss.com.