Legal

Terms of Service

Last updated: October 2026

These terms form an agreement between you and emptea studios, operated by Maruthan Thanabalasingam, Switzerland. They apply whenever you download, install, or use our mobile applications or websites.

Acceptance

By installing or using an app, you accept these terms, our Privacy Policy, and our End User License Agreement. If you do not agree, do not use the app. You must be at least 13 years old, or the age of digital consent in your country, whichever is higher.

Accounts

Some features require an account. You are responsible for the accuracy of your registration details and for keeping your credentials confidential. Tell us promptly if you suspect unauthorised use. You may close your account at any time from within the app or by contacting us.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • —Use the apps for anything unlawful, or in a way that infringes somebody else's rights.
  • —Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code, except where that restriction is prohibited by law.
  • —Interfere with, overload, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to our systems or another user's account.
  • —Resell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute the apps or their content without our written permission.
  • —Upload malware or content that is illegal, abusive, or harmful.

Your content

You keep ownership of everything you create in the apps. You grant us a limited, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, back up, and transmit that content solely to operate the service for you. That licence ends when you delete the content or your account, subject to reasonable backup retention.

You are responsible for the content you upload and for having the rights to it. We may remove content that breaches these terms or the law.

Payments and subscriptions

Paid features and subscriptions are sold and processed through the Apple App Store or Google Play unless stated otherwise in the app. Each app is sold separately: a subscription or purchase in one app does not unlock features in another. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled; you can cancel at any time in your Apple or Google account settings, and cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Refunds are handled by the store under its own policy. Prices may change with notice before the change applies to you.

friggy: shared content

These sections apply to friggy in addition to the terms above. In friggy you can share a photo of a dish you cooked to “cooked today.”, a feed other friggy users can see. We have zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users. You must not share:

  • —Nudity, sexual content, violence, gore, or self-harm.
  • —Hate speech, harassment, bullying, threats, or content that targets a person or group.
  • —Anything illegal, or content you do not have the rights to share.
  • —Photos of other people without their consent.
  • —Spam, advertising, or anything that is not your food.

Every shared photo is checked automatically before other users see it. You can report any post and block any user from the post's menu; blocking hides that user's posts from you right away. A reported post is hidden immediately and reviewed by us within 24 hours. Content that breaks these terms is removed, and the account that posted it is removed from friggy.

friggy: subscriptions

friggy is free to download and includes 3 fridge scans per week. friggy+ is an optional auto-renewing subscription, offered monthly or yearly, that lifts the weekly limit.

  • —The price and billing period are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase.
  • —The subscription renews automatically for the same period and price unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple ID is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the current period ends.
  • —You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time in your iPhone's Settings → your name → Subscriptions. After you cancel, friggy+ stays active until the end of the period you paid for.
  • —Deleting friggy or your friggy account does not cancel your subscription. Refunds are handled by Apple under its own policy.

friggy: AI recipes and food safety

friggy's ingredient lists, recipes, and dish pictures are generated by AI. They are suggestions, not professional or medical advice, and they can be wrong: an ingredient can be misidentified, and quantities or cooking times can be off. Dish pictures are illustrations, not photos of the result.

You are responsible for what you cook and eat. Check every ingredient for allergens and intolerances, make sure food is fresh and stored properly, and cook meat, poultry, fish, and eggs through to a safe temperature. If you have a food allergy or follow a medical diet, do not rely on friggy to tell you what is safe.

Availability and changes

We may add, change, or discontinue features, and we may release updates through the app stores. We aim to give reasonable notice before discontinuing an app or a paid feature, and to offer a way to export your data where practical. The apps are not guaranteed to be uninterrupted or error-free.

Third-party services

The apps may link to or rely on third-party services. We are not responsible for those services, and your use of them is governed by their own terms.

Termination

You may stop using the apps at any time by uninstalling them and deleting your account. We may suspend or terminate access if you materially breach these terms, if required by law, or if we discontinue the service. Provisions on content, disclaimers, liability, and governing law survive termination.

Disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the apps are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for lost profits or lost data. Our total aggregate liability is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the app in the 12 months before the claim, or CHF 50. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for death, personal injury, or gross negligence.

Consumer rights

If you are a consumer, you keep the mandatory rights granted by the law of your country of residence. Nothing here limits those rights.

Governing law

These terms are governed by Swiss law, excluding its conflict of law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The courts of Switzerland have jurisdiction, unless mandatory consumer protection law in your country of residence provides otherwise.

Contact

Questions about these terms: emptea.studios@gmail.com.