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Terms of Service

Last updated: 17 June 2026

1. Provider and Scope

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Gourmate mobile app, website, accounts, subscriptions, AI-generated content, user content, and related services (the "Service"). These Terms are service terms and are not intended to replace any app store end user license agreement that applies to your download or use of the mobile app. The Service is provided by Kryptix GmbH, Kolpingring 2, 82041 Oberhaching, Germany (registered at Amtsgericht München, HRB 277150) ("Gourmate", "we", "us", "our"). Our full provider details are set out in our Impressum. By creating an account or using the Service, you accept these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. Where you are a consumer, these Terms do not affect any mandatory statutory rights that cannot be waived by agreement.

2. The Service

Gourmate is an AI-powered recipe discovery, meal planning, and shopping list application. The Service is provided for general informational and convenience purposes only. It does not provide medical, nutritional, dietary, or health advice, and it is not a substitute for the judgement of a qualified professional. We may modify, suspend, or discontinue features of the Service; where you are a consumer on a paid plan, we will only make changes permitted by law and will give reasonable notice of material changes that adversely affect you.

3. Eligibility, Account, and Minors

  • •You must have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract to use the Service. Paid subscriptions may only be purchased by users aged 18 or over, or by a minor with the prior consent of a parent or legal guardian who accepts these Terms.
  • •The minimum age to create an account is 16 in the European Economic Area (or the higher age required by your local law), and 13 elsewhere where permitted.
  • •You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for all activity under your account.
  • •You must provide accurate, current information during registration and keep it up to date.
  • •You may not share your account or use another person's account.

4. Acceptable Use

  • •You may not use Gourmate for any unlawful purpose or in violation of these Terms.
  • •You may not scrape, crawl, or otherwise automatically extract data from the Service.
  • •You may not attempt to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the app, except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
  • •You may not post or transmit content that is harmful, abusive, or infringes on third-party rights.
  • •You may not use the Service to generate spam or harass other users.
  • •You may not input, upload, or submit any content that is protected by copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights unless you own those rights or have explicit permission from the rights holder. This includes, but is not limited to, recipes, text, or images copied from books, websites, or other publications.

5. Subscriptions, Billing, and Right of Withdrawal

  • •Gourmate offers a free tier and optional paid subscriptions (currently Foodie, Gourmet, and Table). Certain AI features consume "Chef Energy", which is subject to daily limits that vary by plan.
  • •Paid subscriptions are sold and billed through the Apple App Store or Google Play and are subject to those stores’ terms. Payment is charged to your Apple ID or Google Play account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically for the chosen period unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account may be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period, depending on the applicable app store rules.
  • •You manage, cancel, or turn off auto-renewal through your Apple or Google account settings. Refunds for store purchases are handled by Apple or Google under their policies.
  • •EU/EEA right of withdrawal: if you are a consumer, you have the right to withdraw from a purchase within 14 days without giving reasons. For digital content and services, you expressly request that we begin performance immediately and acknowledge that you lose your right of withdrawal once performance has fully begun with your consent. Statutory withdrawal and cancellation rights are otherwise unaffected.
  • •We may change subscription prices or plan features for future billing periods; where you are a consumer we will give advance notice and, where required, your consent or a right to cancel before changes take effect.

6. User Content

You retain ownership of content you submit (for example custom recipes, notes, photos you upload to the Scan feature, and ratings). By submitting content, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display, and process it as needed to operate, secure, and improve the Service, including to generate AI output for you. You represent that you own or have the right to submit the content and that it does not infringe third-party rights. Where your content contains personal data, our handling of it is described in our Privacy Policy.

7. AI-Generated Content: Nature

  • •Recipes, meal plans, shopping lists, suggestions, descriptions, nutritional estimates, and other content produced by our AI systems ("AI-Generated Content") are created automatically using probabilistic models.
  • •AI-Generated Content may be inaccurate, incomplete, out of date, or unsuitable for your circumstances, and similar or identical output may be generated for other users. It is not reviewed by a human before it reaches you.
  • •AI-Generated Content is provided as information and inspiration only. You are responsible for exercising your own judgement before relying on it, in particular before purchasing, preparing, or consuming any food.

8. AI-Generated Content: Intellectual Property

  • •As between you and Gourmate, and to the extent any rights subsist, Gourmate owns the AI-Generated Content and the underlying models, software, and compilations. We make no representation that AI-Generated Content is eligible for copyright or other protection, and purely machine-generated output may not be protectable in some jurisdictions.
  • •We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the AI-Generated Content delivered to you for your own private, household, non-commercial cooking purposes.
  • •You may not resell, redistribute, publish at scale, sublicense, or use AI-Generated Content to build or train a competing product without our prior written consent. If you do publish output, you are responsible for ensuring it does not infringe third-party rights.
  • •We may use AI-Generated Content and, subject to our Privacy Policy and applicable law, data derived from use of the Service, to operate, evaluate, and improve our models and the Service.

9. Food Safety, Allergens, and Health

  • •Allergen and dietary filters are an automated convenience aid only. They rely on AI and on the information you provide, and they may fail to identify or exclude an allergen or unsuitable ingredient. They are not a guarantee that a recipe is safe for you.
  • •You are solely responsible for checking every ingredient against your own allergies, intolerances, medical conditions, and dietary requirements before purchasing, preparing, or consuming any dish. Always read the labels on the products you actually buy.
  • •You are responsible for safe food handling, storage, hygiene, and cooking, including cooking foods to safe temperatures and not using spoiled, raw-unsafe, or otherwise harmful ingredients. The Service does not assess the condition of your ingredients.
  • •The Service does not provide medical, nutritional, or dietary advice. Nutritional values are estimates. If you have a medical condition, allergy, are pregnant, or have any doubt, consult a qualified medical or dietary professional and rely on their advice rather than the Service.
  • •Nothing in this section limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including liability for injury to life, body, or health (see Liability below).

10. Third-Party Services, App Stores, and Apple Standard EULA

  • •The Service is distributed through the Apple App Store and Google Play and integrates third-party services, including AI model providers. Your use of those platforms and third-party services may be subject to their own terms and policies.
  • •Where you obtain the app from the Apple App Store, Apple is not a party to these Terms and is not responsible for the app, the Service, or their content. Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement applies to your use of the iOS app in addition to these Terms. These Terms apply to the Gourmate service, including your account, subscriptions, user content, AI-generated content, website use, and related service features.
  • •To the extent these Terms conflict with Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement for users who obtained the app through the Apple App Store, Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement controls for the licensed iOS app itself, and these Terms control for the Gourmate service to the extent permitted by applicable law.
  • •Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms for the purposes of enforcing the provisions that relate to the iOS app and Apple’s rights, where applicable.

11. Our Intellectual Property

All content, trademarks, and software comprising the Service (excluding user-submitted content) are owned by or licensed to us. Nothing in these Terms grants you a right to use our trademarks, logos, or proprietary information without our prior written consent.

12. Warranties and Statutory Rights

Where you are a consumer, your statutory warranty and conformity rights (including under German and EU law for digital products and services) apply in full and are not excluded or limited by these Terms. Beyond those mandatory rights, and to the extent permitted by law, the Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, and we do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that AI-Generated Content will be accurate or fit for a particular purpose.

13. Liability

  • •We are liable without limitation for damages resulting from injury to life, body, or health caused by our negligent or intentional breach of duty, for damages caused by intent or gross negligence, under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), and to the extent we have assumed a guarantee or fraudulently concealed a defect.
  • •For the slightly negligent breach of an essential contractual obligation (an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible and on whose observance you may regularly rely), our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.
  • •Any further liability for slight negligence is excluded. This does not affect the mandatory liability and consumer rights described above or any other liability that cannot be excluded by law.
  • •Insofar as our liability is excluded or limited, this also applies to the personal liability of our legal representatives, employees, and agents.

14. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, and except where the claim results from our own breach, you agree to hold us harmless from third-party claims arising out of content you submit to the Service or your misuse of the Service in breach of these Terms or applicable law. This does not apply to consumers acting without fault.

15. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access if you materially or repeatedly breach these Terms or where required by law, giving notice where reasonable. You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time via Settings. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination (including IP, liability, and governing law) will survive.

16. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms and your use of the Service are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of habitual residence. The EU Online Dispute Resolution platform has been discontinued by the European Commission; we are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

17. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. We will give consumers at least 14 days’ notice of material changes by email or in-app notice, together with information about your right to object or to terminate before the changes take effect. Where your continued use after the effective date may be treated as acceptance, we will say so clearly in the notice.

18. Severability and Contact

  • •If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, the remaining provisions remain in effect. Questions about these Terms can be sent to [email protected].
  • •For users who obtained Gourmate through the Apple App Store, Apple’s Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement is available at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
  • •Our Privacy Policy is available at: https://gourmate.ai/privacy
Questions? Contact us at [email protected]