Terms of Service

1. About these terms

These Terms of Service are an agreement between you and Chef Teey, also known as Chefteey (“Chef Teey,” “we,” “us”). They apply when you use chefteey.com, join the Chef Teey Cooking Club, or book any of our services, including private chef dinners, meal prep, in home cooking classes, kids classes, team building, fundraisers, and events.

By using our website, creating an account, checking the agreement box at checkout, or paying for any service, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use our website or services.

2. Your account

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account or buy anything from us. Children may take part in sessions and classes only through a parent or guardian’s account and with adult supervision.

Please give us accurate information and keep it up to date. You are responsible for keeping your password private and for everything that happens under your account. Tell us right away at hello@chefteey.com if you think someone else is using it.

3. The Chef Teey Cooking Club

The Cooking Club is a yearly membership, all inside chefteey.com. The price is shown at checkout before you pay. It is currently $79 per year. Membership includes:

• Adults: 3 live cooking sessions per month covering kitchen skills, nutrition, and wellness.
• Kids: 2 live kitchen skills sessions per month.
• On demand access: unlimited access to past live sessions while your membership is active.
• Meal Planning Hub: weekly meal plans, recipes, and shopping lists.
• Digital resources: we may also provide printable guides and other digital resources as part of the membership.

We may add, change, or retire features, recipes, and session topics over time to keep the club fresh. We work hard to hold every scheduled session, but the number of sessions in a given month can change because of holidays, illness, or events beyond our control, and this is not a reason for a refund.

4. Automatic renewal and free trial

Your renewal price is the yearly price shown at checkout. As long as your membership stays active without a break, we will keep you at that price. If we ever raise the price for continuing members, we will email you before your next renewal, and you can cancel before the new price applies.

We email a renewal reminder to the address on your account about two weeks before each renewal date. Please keep your email address current and add hello@chefteey.com to your contacts. A reminder that does not reach you, for example because it went to a spam folder, does not stop the renewal or make it refundable.

By checking the agreement box at checkout, you give us permission to charge your payment method for each renewal until you cancel.

Free trial

We may offer new members a free trial, currently 7 days. A regular debit or credit card is required. Prepaid cards are not accepted. Free trials are limited to one per person, household, email address, and card, and we may decline a trial that does not meet these rules.

During the trial you have full access to the club. Unless you cancel in My Account before the trial ends, your card will be charged the yearly price shown at checkout on the date shown at checkout, and your membership then renews every year until you cancel. We email you a reminder about two days before your trial ends.

If you cancel during the trial, you will not be charged, and you keep access until the trial ends. Once your trial becomes a paid membership, the No refunds section applies. We may change or end the free trial offer at any time.

5. Canceling

You can cancel any time. Log in, open My Account, and choose to cancel your membership. You can also email hello@chefteey.com from the address on your account and ask us to cancel.

To avoid the next charge, please cancel before your renewal date. When you cancel, automatic renewal turns off, you will not be charged again, and you keep full access until the end of the membership year you already paid for. After that, your access ends, including access to past sessions.

Canceling does not create a refund for the current year. See No refunds below.

6. Pausing

If we offer a pause in My Account, you may pause your membership for one to three months, once per membership year. While paused, you will not have access to member content, and your renewal date moves later by the length of the pause. Pausing is a courtesy we may change or remove, and it does not create a refund.

7. No refunds

This includes, without limitation:

• Cooking Club memberships and renewals, including renewals you forgot to cancel.
• Partial membership years and unused time after you cancel.
• Live sessions you miss, recipes you do not cook, and features or resources you do not use.
• Deposits and payments for private chef services, meal prep, in home classes, kids classes, team building, fundraisers, and events.
• Changes in your schedule, household, diet, or interest.

We do not give refunds, partial refunds, prorated refunds, or credits of any kind. All sales are final.

8. Special offers

From time to time we may offer a discount, such as a renewal discount for current members or a welcome back price for former members. Offers are at our choice, are for one use per person and household unless we say otherwise, cannot be combined, have no cash value, and may end at any time. An offer does not change what you already paid and is not applied to past payments.

Unless the offer says otherwise, a discounted membership renews at the regular yearly price shown at checkout.

9. Billing and failed payments

Payments are processed securely by our payment processor, Stripe. We do not see or store your full card number. Prices are in U.S. dollars and include any taxes we are required to collect.

If a payment fails, we or Stripe may try the charge again and may ask you to update your card. If we cannot collect payment, we may pause or end your access until the balance is paid. You are responsible for any amount due for a membership year that has started.

10. Payment disputes

If you have a question about a charge, please contact us first at hello@chefteey.com. Most issues are solved quickly by email.

If you file a chargeback or dispute for a charge that was made under these terms, we may suspend or close your account while the dispute is open, and we may share records with your bank or card company, including your agreement to these terms at checkout, your renewal reminders, and your account activity. If the dispute is decided in our favor, you remain responsible for the charge.

11. Household use only

Your membership gives you a personal, limited, nontransferable permission to use the club for yourself and the people who live in your home. You may not:

• Share your login with anyone outside your household.
• Record, download, copy, stream, or rebroadcast live sessions or replays.
• Copy, resell, publish, or share meal plans, recipes, PDFs, or other member content outside your household.
• Use the club to teach your own paid lessons or run a business.

You may print or save recipes for your own home kitchen. If we believe an account is being shared or content is being copied, we may suspend or close the account without a refund.

12. Live sessions, replays, and recordings

Live sessions stream on chefteey.com. You do not need Zoom or an app, but you do need a working internet connection and a current web browser. We are not responsible for problems caused by your device, browser, or internet service.

We may reschedule or cancel a session because of illness, emergencies, or technical problems. When that happens, we will do our best to offer a new time or a replay. A rescheduled or missed session is not a reason for a refund. We may update or retire older replays from time to time.

Recording notice

Live sessions may be recorded for quality, training, educational, and promotional purposes. Members never appear on camera. You take part by watching and by asking questions in the session chat. By posting in the chat, you agree that your questions and comments, along with the name shown in the chat, may be read aloud during the session and may appear in the recording.

13. Getting the most from your membership

We provide live sessions, replays, meal planning tools, recipes, and other resources to help you get real value from your membership. Using them is up to you. You are responsible for taking advantage of the benefits available to you, and unused benefits are not a reason for a refund or credit.

We send email reminders, session notices, receipts, renewal reminders, and other messages needed to run your membership to the email on your account. You may unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time. Service messages, such as receipts and renewal reminders, are part of your membership and will still be sent while your account is active.

14. Private chef, in home classes, and events

Private chef dinners, meal prep, in home classes, kids classes, team building, fundraisers, and events are booked by quote. Your quote, invoice, or booking confirmation describes the date, menu, guest count, and price. If that written booking and these terms ever disagree, the written booking controls for that event.

• Your date is held only after we receive your deposit or payment. Deposits and payments are nonrefundable.
• If you need to move your date, tell us as early as you can. We will try to find a new date, subject to our availability, but we cannot promise one.
• Final guest counts, dietary needs, and allergies must be given to us in writing before the event. Adding guests may change the price.
• You agree to provide safe access to a clean, working kitchen and to let us know about pets, parking, and anything else we should expect.
• Groceries and ingredients are purchased for your event and cannot be returned.

15. Kitchen safety and risk

Taking part in live cooking sessions, recorded video sessions, demonstrations, recipes, and related cooking activities involves risks, including cuts, burns, fires, slips, food borne illness, and allergic reactions. We work hard to give safe and clear instruction, but accidents and unexpected events can happen.

You are responsible for following safe food handling practices, using kitchen equipment properly and according to its instructions, and deciding whether a recipe, ingredient, technique, or activity is right for you and your household.

Children must be supervised by an adult at all times while cooking, including during kids sessions and any session they join from home.

Allergies. Recipes, sessions, and classes may include or come into contact with common allergens such as milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soy, and sesame. Always read labels and check every ingredient for your own household’s needs. For in person services, tell us about all allergies in writing before the event. We cannot guarantee any food is free of allergens.

16. Educational content and guest presenters

Chef Teey, guest chefs, nutritionists, wellness presenters, and other contributors share educational content in live and recorded sessions. Any advice or recommendations, including cooking techniques, nutrition tips, wellness guidance, and cost estimates, are for general information and education only. They are not medical, dietary, or nutritional advice, and we are not responsible for actions you take based on them.

Please talk with your doctor, a registered dietitian, or another qualified professional before making decisions about your health, diet, nutrition, or wellness, especially if you have a health condition, are pregnant, or take medication.

You may choose to contact a presenter directly. Any separate communications, services, agreements, or recommendations between you and a presenter outside of Chef Teey’s services are between you and that presenter, and Chef Teey is not responsible for them.

17. Our content and yours

Everything on chefteey.com, including recipes, meal plans, videos, recordings, photos, text, logos, and the Chef Teey name, belongs to Chef Teey or our licensors and is protected by copyright and trademark law. Except for your household use described above, you may not use it without our written permission.

When you send us questions, comments, poll answers, photos, or reviews, you keep ownership, and you give us permission to use, display, and share them to run and promote Chef Teey, without payment to you. We will not use your full name or photo in advertising without asking you first. Please only share content you have the right to share.

18. Confidentiality

Some private information may be shared during your membership or a booking. Both of us agree to handle confidential or sensitive information with reasonable care and not to share it with others without permission, except when the law requires it.

19. Community rules

Please be kind. Do not post anything unlawful, hateful, harassing, or misleading, do not try to break or overload the website, and do not use bots or scrapers. We may remove content and suspend accounts that break these rules.

20. Disclaimers

Our website, membership, sessions, classes, recipes, and content are provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent allowed by law, we make no promises or warranties of any kind, express or implied, including that the website will always be available or error free, or that any recipe, plan, session, or class will give a particular result.

21. Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Chef Teey and its owner, staff, and contractors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of our website or services. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim.

Some laws do not allow these limits, so some of them may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

22. Your responsibility to us

You agree to defend and hold harmless Chef Teey and its owner, staff, and contractors from claims, losses, and costs, including reasonable attorney fees, that come from your breaking these terms, your misuse of our content, or injuries or damage in your own kitchen that were not caused by us.

23. Events beyond our control

Neither of us is responsible for a failure or delay caused by events beyond reasonable control, such as natural disasters, fire, flood, storms, power outages, internet or telecommunications failures, pandemics, government actions or restrictions, labor disputes, war, or civil unrest. The affected party will give notice as soon as reasonably possible and will resume once the event has ended. Such events are not a reason for a refund.

24. Ending your access

We may suspend or end your account if you break these terms, share your membership, file a dispute for a valid charge, or misuse the website. If we end your account for any of these reasons, no refund is given.

25. New Jersey law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey. Before filing any claim, you agree to contact us and give us 30 days to try to resolve it informally. Any legal action must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Morris County, New Jersey, and you agree to that location. Either of us may bring a claim in small claims court if it qualifies.

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we do not enforce a part of these terms right away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.

26. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. We will change the date at the top of this page, and for important changes we will email active members before the changes take effect. If you keep using our website or stay a member after changes take effect, you accept the updated terms. If you do not agree, you can cancel as described above.

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