Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) form a legally binding agreement between you and Aipa Plate, the service operated by Maria Prodan as the founder and project owner (“we”, “us”, “our”), governing your access to and use of the Aipa Plate website at aipaplate.com and the Aipa Plate mobile application (together, the “Service”).

By creating an account, downloading the App, or otherwise using the Service, you confirm that you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy and Cookie Notice. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service.

Apple App Store. The App is distributed via Apple Inc. and is also subject to Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement and to Apple's standard payment terms. Where Apple's terms apply, they apply in addition to these Terms.

You may use the Service only if you are old enough under the law of your country and you have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement. The minimum ages we accept are 13 in the United States, 16 in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom (or the lower age allowed by local law together with parental consent), and 14 in the Russian Federation. We may verify age and refuse service to anyone we reasonably believe is under the minimum age.

When you create an account you agree to provide accurate information, to keep your credentials confidential, and to take reasonable steps to prevent unauthorized access. You are responsible for all activity under your account. Notify us immediately if you suspect unauthorized access.

Plans

Some features of the App require a paid subscription. Plan names, billing cycles, and current prices are presented in the App and on the Website at the moment of purchase. Prices may include applicable taxes, depending on your country.

Billing through Apple

All subscriptions on iOS are billed by Apple through your Apple ID and are processed under Apple's payment terms. We do not see or store your payment card information. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel them at least 24 hours before the end of the current period through your Apple ID settings.

Refunds

Because Apple administers billing, refund requests for App Store purchases are handled directly by Apple under reportaproblem.apple.com. We will support reasonable refund requests when the law of your country gives you a clear right to a refund — for example, the EU statutory rules on lack of conformity.

Right of withdrawal (EU/EEA consumers)

If you live in the EU or the EEA and you are a consumer, you generally have a 14-day right of withdrawal from the moment a contract is concluded. By starting a paid subscription you may be asked to expressly request immediate access to digital content and to acknowledge that this waives your statutory withdrawal right with respect to that content. Where the right of withdrawal continues to apply, you can exercise it by writing to us at the address below.

Price changes

We may change prices and plan structures from time to time. We will notify you through the App or by email before any price increase, and the change will take effect no earlier than the next billing cycle. You can cancel before the new price applies.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial use. This license ends when your account ends.

We reserve all rights not expressly granted.

We own (or license) all rights in the Service — software, content, design system, brand, trademarks, articles, illustrations, and data — except for the content you submit. Nothing in these Terms transfers any ownership interest to you.

You may save, print, and share educational content from the Website for personal, non-commercial purposes only, with attribution. Any other use — including republication, training of machine-learning models, or systematic extraction — requires our prior written permission.

“Your content” means everything you submit to the Service: meal logs, photographs, notes, ratings, feedback, and similar items. Your content remains yours. You are responsible for it and for ensuring you have the rights you need to submit it.

You grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, store, reproduce, adapt, and process your content solely for the purposes of operating, maintaining, and improving the Service for you, complying with our legal obligations, and enforcing these Terms. This license ends when you delete the relevant content or your account, except where the law requires us to retain it.

We do not use your photographs, meal logs, or hunger ratings to train external machine-learning models, and we do not sell your content to third parties.

You agree not to use the Service to do any of the following:

• Break the law or anyone's rights, including intellectual-property and privacy rights.
• Upload illegal, defamatory, harassing, hateful, sexually explicit, or otherwise harmful content.
• Attempt to interfere with the integrity or security of the Service, or to bypass authentication, rate limits, or other protective measures.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service except to the extent the law expressly allows it.
• Scrape, crawl, or otherwise extract data from the Service in bulk without our written permission.
• Use the Service to train or fine-tune machine-learning models without our written permission.
• Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service or any part of it.

Aipa Plate provides general nutrition education, planning tools, and lifestyle guidance. The Service is not a medical device, it does not diagnose or treat any condition, and it does not replace consultation with a qualified physician, registered dietitian, mental-health professional, or other licensed clinician.

Do not use the Service to make decisions about urgent or significant health questions. If you have a medical condition, are pregnant or breastfeeding, are recovering from an eating disorder, or have any clinical concern, talk to a qualified professional. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.

Maria Prodan appears in the Service as the founder, educator, and nutrition coach behind the project. She is not a physician, a registered dietitian, or any equivalent licensed clinical role she does not hold.

Some articles and illustrations on the Website are produced with the help of large-language-model and image-generation tools. Every published item is reviewed and approved by a human editor before it goes live. Despite this review, generated content may contain inaccuracies. Please verify anything that affects your health or finances with a qualified professional or with a primary source we cite.

The Service relies on services provided by Apple, Google (Firebase), and Adapty, among others. Your use of those underlying services is governed by their terms. We are not responsible for outages or changes in third-party services that are outside our reasonable control.

You can stop using the Service at any time and you can delete your account through the App settings or by writing to us.

We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if a payment fails, if we are required to by law, or if continuing to provide the Service would create a security or safety risk. When practical, we will give you notice and a chance to fix the problem first.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including intellectual-property provisions, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and dispute-resolution provisions — will continue to apply.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, to the maximum extent permitted by law. We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will meet your expectations.

Nothing in this section limits our liability where the law prohibits us from doing so — for example, liability for fraud, gross negligence, willful misconduct, or for breach of statutory consumer rights. Consumers in the EU and the UK keep all mandatory statutory rights.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claims arising out of or related to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months immediately before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred US dollars (USD 100).

Neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, except where the law prohibits such a limitation.

You agree to defend and hold us harmless from claims, damages, and reasonable costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) that result from your unlawful use of the Service or your breach of these Terms. This obligation does not apply where the claim is caused by our own negligence, willful misconduct, or breach of the law.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, except that mandatory consumer-protection rules of your country of residence continue to apply.

Disputes will first be addressed informally — please write to us so we can try to resolve the issue within 60 days. If we cannot, then:

• Consumers in the EU/EEA may bring proceedings in the courts of their country of residence and benefit from the EU Online Dispute Resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.
• Consumers in the United Kingdom may bring proceedings in their local courts under the UK Consumer Rights Act 2015.
• Users in the United States agree to resolve disputes individually before a state or federal court located in Delaware, and waive any right to a class action, except where applicable law prohibits the waiver.
• Users in the Russian Federation may bring proceedings before the courts of their place of residence in accordance with the Russian Civil Procedure Code.

Neither party is liable for failure or delay in performance to the extent caused by events outside its reasonable control, including natural disasters, pandemics, war, civil unrest, government actions, network failures, and similar events.

We may update these Terms to reflect product, legal, or business changes. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page indicates the version currently in force. We will notify you in advance of material changes — through the App, the Website, or by email — at least 30 days before they take effect, except where the law requires a different notice period or where the change is required to comply with the law.

If you do not accept the updated Terms, you can stop using the Service before they take effect. Continuing to use the Service after that date means you accept the updated Terms.

• Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Notice, are the entire agreement between you and us.
• Severability. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in force.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a right is not a waiver of that right.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them to an affiliate or successor in connection with a corporate transaction.
• Notices. Legal notices must be sent to the email address in the “Contact” section. We may notify you through your account email or through an in-product notice.