Who owns what

You keep the rights you already have in recipes and photos you add.&figs owns the product, the mark, and the software. Other people’s recipes, headnotes, and photographs remain theirs.

In the United States, a bare list of ingredients and a short functional method is often not protected by copyright. The story around a dish, a distinctive write-up, and original photographs usually are. When you publish or import a recipe, you are responsible for staying on the right side of that line.

Imports and adapted-from lines

If you import from a URL or adapt someone else’s work, credit the source. The importer drafts a structured recipe; it does not grant you rights you did not already have. Do not import a page you are not allowed to copy. We may remove a recipe that appears to infringe, and we may close accounts that keep doing it.

Send a complaint

If you believe content on &figs infringes your copyright, email hello@andfigs.com with the subject line “Copyright” and include:

• Your name, mailing address, phone number, and email.
• A description of the work you own, and a URL or copy of it if you can.
• The exact &figs URL of the material you want removed.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury that you are the owner or are authorized to act for the owner.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

That is the information a DMCA notice needs. We may share the complaint with the person who posted the material. We will remove or disable access to content when a complete notice requires it.

Counter-notice

If we removed your recipe and you believe that was a mistake, write to the same address with:

• Your name, address, phone number, and email.
• The material that was removed and where it lived before.
• A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief it was removed by mistake or misidentification.
• Consent to the federal court in your district (or, if you are outside the United States, any district where &figs may be found), and that you will accept service from the complainant.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

If the original complainant does not file a court action, we may put the material back.

Repeat infringement

We will close accounts that repeatedly post infringing material, as the DMCA requires.

Trademark

If you believe a handle, profile, or recipe misuses your trademark, write to the same address with the mark, the URL, and why the use confuses people. We will look at it. A complaint does not guarantee removal.

More

See the Terms of Service for the license you grant us, and the Privacy Policy for how we handle the personal information in a notice.