Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) form a binding agreement between you (“you”, “Customer”) and Mother Hubbard Holdings Pty Ltd (ACN 632 770 113, ABN 90 632 770 113) trading as Curso (“Curso”, “we”, “us”). By creating an account, embedding the Curso plugin on a site you control, or otherwise accessing the Service, you accept these Terms.

If you accept these Terms on behalf of a company or other legal entity, you represent that you have authority to bind that entity.

Curso provides a hosted search and discovery plugin that creators (food publishers, recipe sites and similar) embed on their own websites, plus an associated creator portal at studio.gocurso.com for configuration, analytics and billing. The Service is delivered over the internet and improves continuously; specific features may be added, modified or removed.

• You must provide accurate registration information and keep it current.
• You are responsible for all activity under your account and for safeguarding your credentials.
• You must notify us promptly of any suspected unauthorised use.
• You must be at least 18 years old or have a guardian’s consent to enter into a paid plan.

Plans and fees

Curso offers a free tier and one or more paid tiers. Current plan names, fees, search allowances, included features and any usage limits are described on our Pricing page at gocurso.com/pricing and may be updated from time to time. Prices are exclusive of GST where applicable.

Billing

Paid plans are billed monthly in advance by Stripe, our payment processor. By starting a paid plan you authorise us, via Stripe, to charge your nominated payment method on each renewal date until the subscription is cancelled.

Cancellation and refunds

You may cancel a paid plan at any time from the Stripe Customer Portal accessed via your creator dashboard. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Fees already paid are non-refundable except where required by Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)).

Failed payments

If a payment fails we will retry per Stripe’s default schedule. If payment remains unrecovered after the retry window, your account is downgraded to the free tier and access to paid features is suspended until payment is restored.

Price changes

We may change subscription prices on at least 30 days’ notice by email. Changes take effect at your next renewal; you may cancel before the renewal if you do not accept the new price.

You retain all rights in the recipe content, branding and other materials you publish on your own sites and which the Curso plugin indexes (“Customer Content”). You grant Curso a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to crawl, index, store, transmit and display Customer Content solely to operate the Service for you and your end-users.

You represent and warrant that: (a) you either own all rights, title and interest in the Customer Content, or you have obtained all licences, consents and permissions necessary to publish it on your sites, to allow Curso to crawl, index and display it through the Service, and to grant the licence in this section; and (b) the Customer Content does not infringe, misappropriate or violate any intellectual property, privacy, publicity or other right of any third party.

Anonymised, aggregated data derived from plugin interactions (queries, ingredient combinations, dietary trends — never identifying you, your end-users or your individual content) may be used by Curso to operate, improve and commercialise the Service, including by licensing such aggregated insights to third-party brands.

You must not, and must not permit any end-user to:

• Use the Service to publish unlawful, defamatory, harassing or infringing content.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile or attempt to extract source code from the Service, except as permitted by mandatory law.
• Circumvent the API key, domain allow-list or rate-limit controls.
• Resell, sublicense or white-label the Service without our written agreement.
• Use the Service to develop a directly competing product.
• Scrape or bulk-export data via the plugin or API beyond the volume needed for normal operation of a single creator’s site.
• Interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Service.

Curso (and its licensors) owns the Service, including all software, documentation, trademarks and trade dress. No rights are granted to you other than the limited right to use the Service in accordance with these Terms.

Our handling of personal information is governed by the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms by reference. Where you collect personal information from your end-users through the Service, you are the data controller of that information and must comply with all applicable privacy laws.

We aim for high availability but do not guarantee uninterrupted operation. Scheduled maintenance, third-party outages (notably Google Cloud Platform and Stripe), force majeure events and security incidents may cause downtime. We may suspend the Service with reasonable notice for maintenance, or without notice where urgent action is needed to protect the Service or its users.

Except as required by Australian Consumer Law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy of search results or uninterrupted operation.

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy that cannot be excluded under Australian Consumer Law. Where we are entitled to limit liability for breach of a non-excludable consumer guarantee, our liability is limited, at our option, to re-supplying the Service or refunding the price paid for the Service in the relevant period.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, neither party is liable to the other for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of revenue, profits, goodwill, business opportunity or data.

Each party’s total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms is capped at the amount actually paid by you to Curso in the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the liability, or AUD $100 if no fees have been paid.

You will indemnify Curso against all third-party claims, losses and reasonable legal costs arising from: (a) your breach of these Terms; (b) your Customer Content; (c) your use of the Service in violation of law; or (d) your conduct toward your end-users on your own properties.

We may suspend or terminate your account immediately if you materially breach these Terms (including non-payment after the retry window), if your use of the Service exposes us to legal risk, or if required by law. You may terminate at any time by cancelling your subscription and closing your account from the creator dashboard. On termination, your right to use the Service ceases; we may delete your Customer Content after a 30-day recovery window.

We may amend these Terms from time to time. Material amendments will be notified to account holders by email at least 14 days before taking effect. Continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the amended Terms. The current version is always available at gocurso.com/terms.

These Terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. Each party submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales, Australia and the courts of appeal from them. Before commencing proceedings the parties will attempt to resolve the dispute in good faith by direct negotiation.

• Severability. If any provision is held invalid the remainder continues in effect.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign these Terms to an affiliate or in connection with a sale of our business.
• Entire agreement. These Terms (together with the Privacy Policy) constitute the entire agreement between the parties and supersede any prior agreements on the same subject.
• No waiver. A failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of future enforcement.
• Notices. Notices to us may be sent to daniel@motherhubbard.me. Notices to you will be sent to the email address registered to your account.

Mother Hubbard Holdings Pty Ltd trading as Curso
Email: daniel@motherhubbard.me