Terms of Service

Effective date: 17 October 2026

1. Acceptance

These Terms are an agreement between you and Taras Makota ("we", "us") about the CarboLens mobile app and its services (the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use the Service.

2. What CarboLens does

CarboLens is a calorie and macronutrient tracker. With it you can:

• answer a short questionnaire (sex, birth date, height, weight, goal, target weight, pace, activity level and diet) and get daily calorie, protein, carbohydrate and fat targets;
• photograph a meal, or pick a photo from your library, and get an AI estimate of the food items, portion sizes, calories and macronutrients;
• see your daily totals, meal history, weight entries and progress toward your target weight;
• log your current weight, set a new goal, and turn on a daily reminder notification;
• share an image summary of a meal through your device's share sheet.

The questionnaire can be completed without an account, but analyzing meals and saving your plan require one.

3. Who can use it

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. Before you start, the app shows a health notice: if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, under 18, living with a medical condition, or have a history of eating disorders, talk to a doctor before changing how you eat. By continuing you confirm that you have read that notice.

4. Your account

• You sign in with your Apple account (on iPhone) or your Google account. We don't create passwords for you.
• You're responsible for activity on your account and for keeping access to your Apple or Google account secure. Tell us at makota.tv@gmail.com if you think someone else is using it.
• Your account is personal: don't share it or create accounts for other people.

5. Health disclaimer

CarboLens provides estimates for general wellness only. It is not a medical device and does not give medical, dietary or nutritional advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Calorie and macro targets are calculated from your answers using a standard formula, which an AI model may then adjust within fixed limits. Your needs may differ. Always consult a qualified health professional before making significant changes to your diet or weight, and never disregard professional advice because of something you saw in the app.

6. AI estimates

• Meal analysis is produced automatically by a third-party AI model (Google Gemini) from your photo. It estimates what it can see; it can't know hidden ingredients, oils, sauces, or exact portion sizes.
• Results can be wrong. The app flags lower-confidence results with a note to check the portions, and it marks a photo as "not food" when the model doesn't recognize a meal. Those photos don't count toward your daily limit.
• You are responsible for how you use the results.

7. Price and limits

• The Service is currently free. There are no paid plans or in-app purchases.
• AI meal scans are limited per day, counted by your local calendar day. When you reach the limit, the app tells you, and you can scan again the next day. We may change the limit.
• If we introduce paid features later, we'll show the price and terms before you buy, and you won't be charged without agreeing.

8. Your photos and data

• You own your content. That includes your meal photos and the information you enter.
• Our licence to it. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, copy, resize and process your content, and to send it to our service providers, only to provide the Service to you. For example, we send your photo to the AI model for analysis, and your profile answers to calculate your targets. This licence ends when your content is deleted.
• We don't use your photos for advertising, and we don't make them public. Photos are stored privately and shown only to you through short-lived links.
• Only upload photos you have the right to use. Avoid photos that show other people or personal information.
• When you share a meal, the image goes to whichever app you choose in your device's share sheet. That app's terms apply to what happens next.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• upload content that is unlawful, infringes someone else's rights, or is sexual, violent or hateful;
• try to get around the daily scan limit or other technical limits, for example with multiple accounts or automated requests;
• access the Service's servers or APIs other than through the app, or interfere with, probe, or overload them;
• reverse-engineer the app except where the law allows it;
• use the Service to build a competing product, or resell it.

10. Our intellectual property

The app, its design, the CarboLens name and logo, and its software belong to us or our licensors. We give you a personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, under these Terms and the rules of the app store you downloaded it from.

11. Third-party services

The Service depends on other companies, including Apple and Google (sign-in and app stores), Clerk (authentication), Google Gemini (AI analysis), ImageKit (photo storage), Neon (database), Trigger.dev (background processing) and Sentry (crash and performance diagnostics). Your use of Apple or Google sign-in is also subject to their terms. We aren't responsible for third-party services we don't control. Our Privacy Policy explains what data each one receives.

Apple. If you downloaded the app from the App Store, these Terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support, isn't responsible for claims relating to the app, and is a third-party beneficiary of these Terms with the right to enforce them against you.

12. Deleting your account and ending these Terms

• You can delete your account at any time in Profile → Delete your account. After you confirm, we delete your meal photos, your profile, meals, targets and weight history from our database, and your sign-in account. This can't be undone.
• You can also just sign out. Your data stays saved until you sign back in or delete your account.
• We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these Terms, or where the law requires it. Where reasonable, we'll tell you first.
• We may change, pause or stop parts of the Service. If we shut the Service down, we'll give you reasonable notice where possible.
• Sections 5, 6, 10, 13, 14 and 16 continue to apply after these Terms end.

13. Disclaimer of warranties

To the extent the law allows, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy of estimates, and uninterrupted or error-free operation.

Some places don't allow these exclusions, so they may not all apply to you. Your statutory rights aren't affected.

14. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we won't be liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for loss of data, profits or goodwill. Our total liability for any claim about the Service is limited to EUR 100.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that can't be limited by law.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. If a change is significant, we'll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. The effective date at the top shows the latest version. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the new Terms; if you don't agree, delete your account.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of Ukraine. Disputes will be handled by the competent courts of Lviv, Ukraine. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the country you live in, including the right to bring a claim in your local courts where those laws allow it. Please contact us first. Most issues can be sorted out quickly.

17. Contact

Taras Makota
Kulykivska St. 18a, Lviv, 79000, Ukraine
Email: makota.tv@gmail.com