Terms of Service

The terms should sound like the product that actually exists.

These terms are for a maintained sourdough decision site, not for an e-commerce store, a consultancy, or a broad software platform pretending to be something else.

What the product offers

Sourdough Start offers structured support for starter judgment, fermentation timing, loaf troubleshooting, hydration interpretation, and bake scheduling. The purpose is to help users narrow the next practical move, not to guarantee a successful loaf or replace the judgment required in a real kitchen.

No guaranteed result

The site is meant to improve decision quality, not to promise that every bake will succeed. Actual outcomes still depend on the ingredients, room conditions, culture strength, timing, shaping, oven behavior, and how the user applies the output from the tools.

Operational change is part of the model

Because the product is maintained in public, routes, wording, and trust pages may change when weak logic gets corrected or better structure becomes necessary. That ability to revise is part of the real service model. A decision tool that cannot correct itself becomes less trustworthy over time, not more.

Boundaries of help

The site can narrow process uncertainty, but it does not replace broader food-safety judgment, expert instruction, or more formal professional help when a baker’s situation goes beyond an ordinary home-baking decision.

A good terms page should stay close to the actual service: a narrow, maintained product with visible limits, not a grand legal shell borrowed from a different business model.

Why these terms matter

These terms exist to keep the site from sounding broader, more commercial, or more authoritative than it really is. That honesty is part of the product’s usability. Users make better decisions when the site is clear about what it can support and what it cannot.