Terms of Service

These Terms of Service apply to your use of the Mindful Food Journal iOS app, related services, and this website. By using Mindful, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app or services.

Mindful is a food journal and wellness app for logging meals, reviewing nutrition estimates, tracking personal goals, and reflecting on eating patterns. These Terms are a practical product draft and are not legal advice.

If you download Mindful through Apple's App Store, your use of the app is also governed by Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement and other applicable App Store terms. These Terms supplement those Apple terms by explaining Mindful-specific service rules.

Apple may handle App Store purchases, payment processing, subscription management, refunds, taxes, and related billing support. Your Apple account settings may control cancellation, renewal, refund, and payment-method options.

You must be at least 13 years old to use Mindful. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use Mindful only with permission from a parent or legal guardian.

You are responsible for providing accurate account information, keeping your login credentials secure, and for activity that occurs under your account. Tell us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without permission.

Mindful grants you a limited, personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive right to use the app and services for your own personal wellness and food journaling purposes, subject to these Terms.

You may not copy, modify, resell, rent, sublicense, distribute, reverse engineer, attempt to derive source code from, interfere with, or gain unauthorized access to Mindful, except where applicable law gives you rights that cannot be waived.

You keep ownership of the food logs, photos, notes, corrections, goals, saved meals, wellness logs, and other content you submit to Mindful.

You give Mindful a limited license to host, process, store, sync, display, analyze, secure, and transmit your content as needed to operate Mindful, provide requested features, generate estimates, maintain the service, improve reliability, and support your account.

You are responsible for the content you submit and for making sure you have the rights needed to submit it. Do not submit content that is unlawful, harmful, abusive, infringing, or that violates someone else's rights.

Mindful may provide food recognition, nutrition label scanning, search-assisted nutrition details, AI-assisted estimates, goals, reminders, summaries, and wellness insights. These features may be incomplete, approximate, delayed, or inaccurate.

Mindful is not a medical device, dietetic service, emergency service, or substitute for professional advice. Do not use Mindful to diagnose, treat, prevent, or manage a disease or medical condition. For medical, nutrition, eating-disorder, or emergency concerns, consult a qualified professional or local emergency services.

You are responsible for reviewing entries, estimates, and recommendations before relying on them. Your decisions about food, exercise, health, and wellness remain your responsibility.

Connecting Apple Health is optional. If you connect Apple Health, you control Mindful's permissions through Apple Health and iOS Settings, and you can change or revoke those permissions at any time.

Mindful may use Apple Health information only to provide app features you request, such as activity context, body-mass syncing, goals, or related wellness views. HealthKit-related information should not be used for advertising.

Some Mindful features may require a paid subscription. Subscriptions purchased through the App Store are auto-renewable and renew until canceled, unless Apple's terms or your subscription settings say otherwise.

Apple handles App Store subscription billing, cancellation, payment failures, renewals, refunds, and payment-method updates. You can manage or cancel App Store subscriptions through your Apple account or App Store subscription settings.

Access to paid features may begin, change, pause, or end based on your subscription status, payment status, trial eligibility, refund, cancellation, expiration, billing retry, or grace period.

You agree not to misuse Mindful or help anyone else misuse it.

• Do not use Mindful for unlawful, harmful, deceptive, abusive, harassing, defamatory, or discriminatory purposes.
• Do not upload malware, harmful code, spam, or content that violates another person's rights.
• Do not scrape, overload, probe, scan, attack, bypass, or interfere with Mindful's systems, security, rate limits, authentication, or infrastructure.
• Do not impersonate someone else, misrepresent your identity, or attempt to access another user's account or data.
• Do not use Mindful to build a competing service, train models, or extract service data except as allowed by these Terms or applicable law.

Mindful relies on third-party services to operate features such as app distribution, sign-in, authentication, data storage, subscriptions, analytics, feedback, AI-assisted estimates, and search-assisted nutrition details.

These services may include Apple, Google sign-in, Supabase, RevenueCat, PostHog, UserJot, and AI or search providers. Third-party terms, policies, and availability may apply to your use of those services.

Mindful is not responsible for third-party services that it does not control, but we choose providers to help operate the app and related services.

Mindful may change, improve, limit, suspend, or discontinue features at any time. We may also update the app, change subscriptions or feature availability, fix issues, or impose limits for security, legal, operational, or product reasons.

We work to keep Mindful available, but we do not guarantee that the app or services will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or available in every location or on every device.

Mindful Food Journal owns or licenses the app, website, service design, software, text, graphics, trademarks, logos, and other service content, except for your user content.

These Terms do not transfer ownership of Mindful's intellectual property to you. You may not use Mindful's name, brand, logos, or content in a way that suggests endorsement or affiliation without permission.

Mindful is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the fullest extent allowed by law, Mindful disclaims warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, availability, non-infringement, and uninterrupted operation.

To the fullest extent allowed by law, Mindful Food Journal will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, loss of goodwill, service interruption, or reliance on nutrition, AI, wellness, or app information.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain disclaimers or liability limits, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms limits rights you may have under applicable consumer protection law.

You may stop using Mindful at any time. You can also contact us for help with account or data requests.

Mindful may suspend, restrict, or terminate access to the app or services if we believe you violated these Terms, created risk or legal exposure, misused the service, engaged in fraud or abuse, or if we need to protect the app, users, or service infrastructure.

If you have a concern or dispute, contact us first so we can try to resolve it informally. Most concerns can be handled faster that way.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the applicable laws of the state where Mindful Food Journal is operated, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, unless the laws where you live require otherwise.

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make changes, we will post the updated Terms at this page and update the Last updated date above. Your continued use of Mindful after updated Terms are posted means you accept the updated Terms.