Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account or using MealHuddle, you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. These Terms apply to all users of the Service, including household owners and members.

2. Account & Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to create a MealHuddle account. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials (email, password, and temporary QR login codes). You agree to provide accurate information when creating your account and to keep it up to date.

Household members (such as children) may be added to a household by the account holder. Household members do not have their own login credentials and are managed entirely by the household owner or admin.

3. Household Data

MealHuddle is built around shared households. When you create or join a household, all members of that household can view and interact with the household's data, including:

• Recipes and pantry items
• Meal plans and meal cycles
• Grocery lists and items
• Household member profiles

By adding content to a household, you understand that other household members will have access to that content. Household owners and admins can manage membership and remove members at any time.

4. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Use smart features to generate harmful, illegal, abusive, or misleading content.
• Attempt to circumvent rate limits or subscription restrictions.
• Scrape, crawl, or programmatically extract data from the Service (except through our documented Home Assistant integration API).
• Use the Service to infringe on any third party's intellectual property rights.
• Share your account credentials, QR login codes, or API keys with unauthorized parties.
• Submit spam, abusive, or misleading content through the Community Hub (bug reports, feature requests, or votes).
• Interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure.

5. Smart Features & AI-Generated Content

MealHuddle offers smart features including recipe import (from photos, PDFs, and URLs), receipt scanning, recipe generation, and other AI-powered tools. These features are powered by third-party AI services.

• AI-generated content (including recipe data and images) is provided for convenience and may not be fully accurate. You should review all AI-generated content before relying on it.
• MealHuddle is not liable for errors, omissions, or inaccuracies in AI-generated content, including nutritional information, ingredient lists, or food safety guidance.
• We reserve the right to review and remove AI-generated content that violates these Terms or our content policies.

6. Subscriptions & Billing

MealHuddle offers the following plans:

• Free — core meal planning, grocery lists, recipes, and collaboration features at no cost.
• Pro ($4.99/month or $47.88/year per household) — all Free features plus Chef Mode, recipe generation, receipt scanning, and other smart tools.

New users may be eligible for a 14-day free trial of the Pro plan. No credit card is required for the trial. Each household may use the trial once. Subscriptions are billed monthly or annually through a third-party payment provider. The household owner or admin is responsible for payment.

You may cancel your subscription at any time through your account settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. No refunds are provided for partial billing periods.

7. Your Content & License

You retain ownership of all content you upload, create, or submit to MealHuddle, including recipes, pantry items, meal plans, photos, images, community submissions (bug reports, feature requests), and any other materials ("Your Content").

By uploading or submitting Your Content to the Service, you grant MealHuddle a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, display, reproduce, modify, resize, analyze, and create derivative works of Your Content solely as necessary to operate and provide the Service. This includes processing Your Content through third-party services for features like recipe import, receipt scanning, and recipe generation. This license continues for as long as Your Content remains on the Service and ends when you delete it, except where Your Content has been shared with other household members.

8. Content Representations

By uploading or submitting content to MealHuddle, you represent and warrant that:

• You own or have all necessary rights, licenses, and permissions to use and share that content.
• Your content does not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any third party's intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or other legal rights.
• You have the right to grant the license described in Section 7 above.

MealHuddle does not verify the ownership or legality of user-uploaded content. You are solely responsible for ensuring that any content you upload complies with applicable laws.

9. Intellectual Property

MealHuddle retains all rights to the platform, its design, branding, and underlying technology. AI-generated images created through the Service are licensed to you for personal use within MealHuddle.

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless MealHuddle, its operators, and affiliates from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to:

• Your Content or any content you upload, submit, or share through the Service.
• Your violation of these Terms.
• Your violation of any third party's rights, including intellectual property rights.
• Your use or misuse of the Service.

11. Copyright & DMCA

MealHuddle respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that content on MealHuddle infringes your copyright, you may submit a takedown notice to our designated agent at hello@mealhuddle.com with the following information:

• A description of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed.
• A description of where the allegedly infringing content is located on the Service.
• Your contact information (name, address, email, phone number).
• A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
• Your physical or electronic signature.

Upon receiving a valid takedown notice, we will promptly remove or disable access to the allegedly infringing content. Repeat infringers may have their accounts terminated.

12. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your account if you violate these Terms, including misuse of smart features, circumventing subscription restrictions, or engaging in abusive behavior. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you before or at the time of termination.

You may delete your account at any time. Upon deletion, your personal data will be removed in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Household data shared with other members may persist for those members.

13. Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

MealHuddle is a meal planning tool, not a source of medical, dietary, or nutritional advice. We are not liable for any health outcomes, allergic reactions, or dietary issues arising from recipes, ingredients, or AI-generated content on the platform. Always verify ingredients and nutritional information independently, especially if you have food allergies or dietary restrictions.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, MealHuddle and its operators shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the Service.

14. International Availability

MealHuddle is operated from the United States. While the Service may be accessible from other countries, we make no representation that the Service is appropriate or available for use in any particular location. If you access the Service from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws.

15. Governing Law & Disputes

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Minnesota, United States, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Any disputes arising from or relating to these Terms or the Service shall be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Minnesota, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

Nothing in these Terms limits any consumer protection rights that you may be entitled to under the mandatory laws of your country of residence.

16. Changes to Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the Service after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

17. Contact

If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at hello@mealhuddle.com.