Terms of Service

You must be at least 13 years old to use Aptiva. If you are under 18, or under the age of majority where you live, you may use Aptiva only with the permission of a parent or guardian who agrees to these Terms. You tell us your age when you create an account, and it must be accurate. Ask Chef and the other AI features are available only if you are 18 or older (see section 4). You need an account, created with an email address or Sign in with Apple. Keep your sign-in details private, and tell us if you think someone else has accessed your account. You are responsible for activity on your account.

Aptiva gives general cooking and nutrition information. It is not medical, dietary, or nutritional advice, it does not diagnose or treat any condition, and it does not replace a doctor or registered dietitian. Nutrition values and targets are estimates. Talk to a professional before changing your diet, especially if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, managing a medical condition, or have a history of disordered eating.

Aptiva leaves out recipes it cannot confirm are free of the allergens you declare, but no filter is perfect. Ingredients, product formulas, and restaurant kitchens change. Always read labels, check ingredients yourself, ask restaurants directly, and follow safe food handling. You are responsible for what you prepare and eat.

Ask Chef, dictation, photo questions, and recipe writing help use artificial intelligence provided through Google’s Gemini API. They are available only to users 18 and older. If the age you gave at sign-up shows you are under 18, these features are turned off for your account. AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete, or inappropriate, and it can misidentify ingredients or miss allergens in a photo. Do not rely on it for safety, medical, or allergy decisions. Do not submit information you do not want processed by our AI provider as described in the Privacy Policy.

You own the recipes, reviews, photos, and other content you create (“your content”). Your content is private unless you publish it. When you publish, you give Aptiva a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, adapt for display, and show it to other users within the Service for as long as it stays published. Other users may save it, cook from it, and remix a recipe into their own version inside Aptiva. You can unpublish or delete your content at any time. Remixes other users already made may remain in their accounts.

You promise that you have the rights to everything you publish and that it follows these Terms and our Community Guidelines.

There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. You may not publish content that is hateful, harassing, threatening, sexually explicit, violent, illegal, dangerously misleading about health or food safety, spam, or that infringes someone else’s rights. The full rules are in our Community Guidelines.

• You can report any recipe, review, photo, or profile, and block any user, from inside the app.
• New reviews are checked before they appear, and published recipes are screened automatically.
• We review reports within 24 hours and remove content that breaks these rules. We may suspend or permanently ban the account that posted it.

Do not misuse the Service. That includes scraping or copying the recipe catalog; accessing other people’s accounts or data; reverse engineering or interfering with the Service; getting around usage limits or moderation; using bots or automation; or using Aptiva for anything unlawful.

The app, recipe catalog, illustrations, and software belong to Aptiva or its licensors. We give you a personal, non-transferable, revocable license to use the app on Apple devices you own or control, as permitted by the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, for your own non-commercial use.

The Service links to and relies on services we do not control, such as Apple Maps, Google Search, YouTube, and Walmart. Their own terms and privacy policies apply when you use them; restaurant search, travel times, Look Around imagery, place cards, and directions are subject to the Apple Maps Terms of Use. Restaurant details and product links are provided for convenience. We do not guarantee menus, availability, prices, or products. Answers from other cooks about whether a restaurant serves a dish are unverified; confirm ingredients and kitchen practices with the restaurant. Some shopping links are affiliate links.

You can delete your account in the app at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you break these Terms or to protect other users or the Service. Sections 2, 3, 4, and 11 through 15 survive termination.

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that recipes, nutrition estimates, or AI answers are accurate.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Aptiva will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost data, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim is limited to US$50. Some places do not allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.

We may update these Terms. For a material change, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect and, where required, ask you to agree again. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in California, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim elsewhere.

If you downloaded Aptiva from the Apple App Store, these additional terms apply:

• These Terms are between you and Aptiva, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.
• If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any. Aptiva is free. Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app.
• Aptiva, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet legal or regulatory requirements, consumer protection claims, and intellectual property infringement claims.
• You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

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