Terms of Service

Last updated May 29, 2026

1. Who can use the Apps

You must be at least 13 years old to create an account. If you are under 18, you represent that a parent or guardian has reviewed these Terms and consents to your use.

The Apps are not directed at children under 13. If we learn we collected information from a child under 13, we will delete it. See our Privacy Policy for details.

2. Your account

You sign in with Apple, Google, or email + password. You're responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials private and for any activity on your account. Let us know promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission — email support@garritsonapps.com.

You may delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete Account. Deletion is permanent and removes your recipes, meal plans, cooking history, grocery lists, and Firebase Auth record. There is no recovery period.

3. Your content — recipes, photos, notes, and meal plans

You own everything you create, save, or upload in either App. We don't claim ownership of your recipes, photos, meal plan entries, cooking notes, or grocery lists.

You grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, and display your content on your own devices and to anyone you explicitly choose to share content with — but only for the purpose of making the Apps work for you. We do not display your content to other users, sell it, or use it to train AI models. We do not browse user content except in the two cases laid out in the Privacy Policy (a support ticket you sent us, or a court-ordered legal request).

3.1 Content you import from third-party sources

The Apps include features to import recipes from external sources: typed URLs, photos of cookbook pages or handwritten cards, voice dictation, phone-call transcripts, and Safari share-sheet links. When you use these features:

• You represent that you have the right to save the content for your personal use, OR that the content is freely available (e.g., a recipe blog post you found online, similar to how a person might handwrite a recipe from a cookbook into their own recipe binder).
• You acknowledge that imported content remains under any copyright of its original author. The Apps' "Personal Recipe Organizer" framing — recipes are saved privately to your own library by default, not republished — keeps your personal use within ordinary fair-use norms.
• We do NOT scrape, harvest, or bulk-import content. Every saved recipe in your library is the result of a deliberate action you took (typing a URL, taking a photo, dictating, etc.).
• We use AI (Claude Haiku) at import time to parse content into a structured recipe and, for URL imports, to rewrite the directions in a consistent, calm voice. The rewritten directions are derivative of the source — we treat them with the same personal-use posture as the original.

3.2 Sharing your content with others

Today, your saved content is private to your account except for household sharing (see §3.3). In a future update we plan to add an opt-in per-recipe share link that generates a public web URL you can send to specific recipients. When and if we ship that feature:

• Sharing will always require an explicit user action — there is no automatic, default, or implicit sharing.
• You will be able to revoke a share link at any time, and revocation will be enforced server-side.
• When you share content, you represent that you have the right to share it. If a recipe you saved was originally written by someone else and you share it publicly, you're responsible for that decision — not us.
• Every share page will include a "Report a copyright concern" link routed to support@garritsonapps.com. We'll triage reports within 24 business hours and revoke shares pending review where the report shows any signal of validity.
• We have registered a DMCA designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office (Registration DMCA-1073229) so rights-holders can submit takedowns through the standard DMCA process. Our designated agent's contact information is published at garritsonapps.com/dmca.

3.3 Household sharing (existing feature path)

If you create or join a household, members you have invited can read and write the recipes, meal plans, and grocery lists in the household's shared workspace. This is a deliberate workspace-sharing feature, not the share-link feature in §3.2 — different mechanism, different scope. Each household member is identified by their own account; you can revoke access at any time and revocation is enforced server-side.

4. Acceptable use

When using the Apps, you agree not to:

• Upload, save, or import content that you don't have the right to use — including content that infringes someone else's copyright, trademark, right of publicity, or privacy.
• Upload, save, share, or import unlawful, harassing, threatening, sexually explicit, or violent content. The Apps are for cooking, not for circulating material that has nothing to do with food.
• Attempt to access another user's account, recipes, or data.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or circumvent the Apps' security or rate limits, including the AI-import quota.
• Use the Apps to send spam, malware, or phishing content.
• Use automated tools (bots, scrapers, crawlers) to interact with the Apps or our servers, except for standard search engine indexing of pages we have explicitly made public.
• Pretend to be someone else or misrepresent your identity in shared content.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate this section. Severe or repeat violations may be referred to law enforcement.

5. Subscriptions and in-app purchases

The Apps offer optional subscription tiers that unlock premium features. Subscription pricing, billing cadence, and the specific features included in each tier are presented to you in-app at the time of purchase — you can choose whether to subscribe before any charge is made. A free tier may also be available; if so, the features included at no cost are clearly indicated in-app.

All subscriptions are billed by Apple under the standard App Store payment terms. You manage and cancel your subscription from your Apple ID subscription settings (Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions on iOS, or the App Store on your device). We do not process payments directly and do not receive your payment-card information.

If you cancel a subscription, you keep access until the end of your current paid period. We don't issue refunds for partial periods — refund requests for App Store purchases are handled by Apple per their policy (reportaproblem.apple.com). If a charge appears that you don't recognize, contact Apple support first; we can assist with account-level questions at support@garritsonapps.com.

We may change subscription pricing or features in future updates. If we do, the change will be presented to you in-app before your next renewal, and you may cancel before the next charge if you don't agree to the new terms.

6. AI features — what they can and can't do

The Apps use AI (provided by Anthropic) for several features:

• Recipe import parsing — converts URLs, photos, voice transcripts, and conversation transcripts into structured recipe data
• Recipe direction rewriting — for URL imports, rewrites directions in a consistent, calm voice without changing the cooking
• Cooking assistant ("Ask Pocket Chef") — answers questions about a recipe you're cooking
• Voice cooking mode — listens and responds during hands-on cooking
• Grocery metadata cleanup — normalizes ingredients across recipes (e.g., consolidates "bell pepper" variants for shopping lists)

AI features have real limitations:

• AI can be wrong. Parsed quantities, units, cooking times, and substitutions are best-effort. Always verify before cooking, especially for food allergies, dietary restrictions, or unfamiliar techniques.
• AI is not a substitute for medical or nutritional advice. Nutrition data shown is estimated, not certified. Don't rely on it for medical decisions.
• AI does not learn from your private content. Anthropic processes inputs to generate responses but, per our agreement with Anthropic and our Privacy Policy, your content is not used to train models.
• AI features may be temporarily unavailable — service outages, rate limits, or maintenance can take them offline. The non-AI features (manual recipe entry, meal plan, grocery list) keep working regardless.

7. Intellectual property

The Apps themselves — code, UI, branding, the names "Pocket Chef" and "Easy Groceries," logos, design system, AI prompts — are owned by Garritson Works LLC and protected by copyright and trademark law. You get a limited, personal, non-commercial license to use the Apps as intended. You don't get to copy, modify, redistribute, or build derivative products on top of the Apps' code or branding.

This doesn't affect your ownership of your own recipes and content (§3).

8. Disclaimers

The Apps are provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties — express, implied, statutory — including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and uninterrupted operation.

We don't warrant that the Apps will be error-free, secure, or available at any particular time. We don't warrant that AI features will produce accurate, complete, or safe output. We don't warrant that imported recipes are accurate, safe to cook, or free of allergens — you are responsible for verifying ingredients and techniques before cooking.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for any claim arising out of or related to these Terms or your use of the Apps is limited to the greater of: (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or (b) USD $50.

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages — including lost profits, lost data, business interruption, or substitute goods or services — even if we were told such damages were possible.

Some states don't allow these limits. If you're in such a state, the above applies only to the extent allowed.

10. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from any claim, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of: (a) your violation of these Terms, (b) your content (including content you share with others), (c) your use of the Apps, or (d) your violation of any third-party right.

11. Termination

You can terminate your account at any time by deleting it from Settings → Delete Account.

We can suspend or terminate your account at any time, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, especially §4 (Acceptable use). If we terminate your account for cause, we may retain data needed to enforce these Terms or respond to legal process — see the Privacy Policy.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination (Intellectual property, Disclaimers, Limitation of liability, Indemnification, Dispute resolution) survive.

12. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top and announce the change in-app at least 14 days before it takes effect. If you keep using the Apps after the effective date, you've accepted the updated Terms. If you don't agree, delete your account before the effective date.

13. Governing law and dispute resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.

For any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the Apps:

• First, contact us at support@garritsonapps.com. We'll try to resolve the dispute informally within 30 days. Most issues can be resolved this way.
• If we can't resolve it informally, the dispute will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, in Salt Lake County, Utah. Arbitration is final and binding — you waive the right to a jury trial.
• AAA filing fees: You are responsible for paying the consumer's portion of the AAA filing fee (capped at USD $200 under the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules). We will pay any AAA filing, administrative, or arbitrator fees in excess of that consumer cap. This allocation does not apply if the arbitrator determines your claim is frivolous.
• You waive the right to participate in a class action, class arbitration, or representative proceeding. Disputes must be brought in your individual capacity.
• Exception: Either party may bring an individual action in small-claims court for a dispute that qualifies for small-claims jurisdiction.
• 30-day opt-out: You may opt out of the arbitration and class-waiver requirements within 30 days of first agreeing to these Terms by emailing support@garritsonapps.com with the subject "Arbitration opt-out." If you opt out, disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Salt Lake County, Utah.

If any part of this §13 is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.

14. Apple-specific terms (App Store distribution)

Because the Apps are distributed through Apple's App Store, the following Apple-required terms apply:

• These Terms are between you and Garritson Works LLC — Apple is not a party.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the Apps.
• If the Apps fail to conform to any applicable warranty, you can notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any). Apple has no further warranty obligation.
• You and Garritson Works LLC — not Apple — are responsible for addressing claims relating to the Apps, including product liability claims and claims that the Apps fail to conform to any legal or regulatory requirement.
• Third-party intellectual property claims about the Apps are between you and Garritson Works LLC — not Apple.
• You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. government embargo or designated by the U.S. government as a "terrorist-supporting" country, and that you are not on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

15. Miscellaneous

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Apps. They replace any earlier agreements.

Severability. If a court finds any part of these Terms unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.

No waiver. If we don't enforce a part of these Terms in one situation, that doesn't mean we waive it for future situations.

Assignment. You can't assign these Terms without our written consent. We can assign them — for example, to a successor entity if we restructure or sell the Apps.

Notices. We can give you notice through the Apps, by email to the address on your account, or by posting an update at this URL. Notices to us go to support@garritsonapps.com.

16. Contact

Garritson Works LLC, a Utah limited liability company
Email: support@garritsonapps.com

For copyright takedown notices, see our DMCA Policy (U.S. Copyright Office Registration DMCA-1073229). DMCA notices may be sent to ryan@garritsonapps.com with the subject "DMCA Takedown Notice."

These Apps are independent and not affiliated with any employer, hospital, or healthcare system.