Terms of Service

§ 1 Provider and scope

(1) These terms govern the contractual relationship between

(hereinafter "we" or "Yedeni") and you as a user of the "Yedeni" app.

(2) They apply to all services provided through the app, free and paid alike.

(3) The Community and upload terms apply in addition and form part of this contract. The Privacy notice is not part of the contract; it informs you about the processing of your data.

(4) We do not accept deviating terms unless we have expressly agreed to them in text form.

(5) The version in force is available in the app under "Settings" > "Other" > "Terms of Service" and at the web address above.

§ 2 What Yedeni provides

(1) Yedeni is an AI-assisted nutrition app. Its distinguishing feature is reverse tracking: instead of only recording what you have eaten, Yedeni suggests what still fits into your daily budget.

Included in Yedeni Basic (free)

• Profile with nutrition goals and an automatically calculated calorie and nutrient budget
• Food diary covering meals, water, caffeine and supplements
• Weight and activity history, optionally connected to Apple Health or Health Connect
• AI features — coach chat for logging and asking questions, recognition of meals and labels on photos, AI estimates, AI-created recipes — within the weekly allowance of Yedeni Basic (paragraph 2); dictating messages to the coach without using the allowance
• Suggestions based on the remaining daily budget (reverse tracking); in the suggestion deck, watching an ad unlocks further suggestions after a number of them
• Searching, creating, cooking and sharing recipes with the community
• Shopping list
• Barcode scanner (no allowance used) and label recognition (from the weekly allowance)
• Streaks as well as social features

Additionally with Yedeni Pro

• AI features — coach, photo recognition, reverse tracking — without the weekly allowance of Yedeni Basic, subject to an upper limit that protects against abuse (paragraph 2)
• Weekly planning with AI suggestions for the whole week
• Recipe import from text, photo, video and voice recording
• Protecting a streak by freezing it on individual days
• Ad-free use

(2) The exact scope of both tiers is displayed in the app before purchase. A weekly allowance applies to the AI features: every AI action — such as a message sent to the coach, a meal photo, a label scan, an AI estimate, a generated recipe or, for a recipe import from audio or video, every ten seconds of soundtrack started — uses a fixed share of the allowance that reflects our costs; it renews weekly, and the app shows the current level. Dictating a message, i.e. turning your speech into text, uses no allowance and remains possible when the allowance is used up, up to 150 seconds per recording and up to 60 minutes a day. Once the allowance is used up you cannot send the coach further messages until it renews; an entry already under way can still be completed. In Yedeni Basic the allowance is deliberately small; every feature without AI (diary, barcode, search, favourites, combos) runs independently of it. With Yedeni Pro a weekly allowance many times higher applies, which ordinary use does not reach and which serves solely to protect against abuse and automated use. A few particularly expensive features are additionally limited per day, such as AI-filling a weekly plan and automatic translations; the app states the limit before it applies. We may adjust allowances and daily limits where reasonable for you. A reduction for Yedeni Pro is a change under § 12 and is announced at least 30 days in advance; in that case you may terminate extraordinarily (paragraph 4).

(3) Ads are shown in Yedeni Basic. Whether and which ads you see follows your decision in the consent form: with consent, personalised ads; with mere consent to device access, non-personalised ads; if you decline, the app shows at most limited ads without device access, usually none. Yedeni Basic remains fully usable in every case (privacy notice, section 9).

(4) We may develop the service further and change or discontinue individual features where there is a valid reason — such as changed technical conditions, the security of the service, a changed legal situation or the loss of an upstream service —, where this is reasonable for you, causes you no additional costs and does not jeopardise the purpose of the contract. We announce material restrictions at least 30 days in advance; in that case you may terminate paid services extraordinarily, and we refund the part of the price attributable to the time afterwards. Your rights under § 327r BGB remain unaffected.

(5) Once per account we give you 3 days of Yedeni Pro (the “Pro days”). They exist in the app from the version that contains the new setup (onboarding) and the one-time introduction; older versions of the app do not grant them. A new account receives them as soon as you complete setting up the app in such a version, provided the account has never had Yedeni Pro — no subscription in the App Store or on Google Play, not even an expired one, no redeemed promotional code (§ 6(6)), no Pro access granted by us and no earlier Pro days. An existing account receives them as soon as you start the one-time introduction in the app, provided at that moment you have no Yedeni Pro — neither a running subscription nor running access — and have not received Pro days before; earlier, ended periods with Yedeni Pro do not exclude you, and whether you finish the introduction makes no difference. In addition, there are Pro days only once per person and device: your account receives none if Pro days have already been granted on the same device, for the same email address or for the same Apple or Google account, including to another account or to one that has since been deleted. When comparing email addresses we disregard upper and lower case, any suffix after a “+” before the @ sign and, for Gmail, dots, because such spellings arrive in the same mailbox. So that we can check this, the app transmits an identifier of your device in the step in which your account receives the Pro days; without this identifier we do not grant Pro days. What we store for this and for how long is set out in the privacy notice (section 3.6). During the Pro days you receive the services of Yedeni Pro under paragraph 1, including the weekly allowance of Yedeni Pro (paragraph 2), with one exception: the Pro days include at most 3 photos per day for the AI. Every photo you send to the coach counts — for example of a meal, a nutrition label, a recipe page or a menu —, as does every label scan and every photo from which you import a recipe. A day is your day in the app; it changes at the time set as the day boundary in the app's settings (3 a.m. by default). A request with more photos than are left for that day is refused as a whole. If you have Yedeni Pro through a subscription, a promotional code or access granted by us, this limit does not apply. The Pro days are free of charge and part of your existing user contract: you buy nothing, provide no payment details and take out no subscription. They end by themselves 3 days after they start — without cancellation, without cost and without turning into a subscription; afterwards your account has Yedeni Basic. If the Pro days end without a subscription taking their place, your first week of Yedeni Basic begins on that day — whatever day of the week it is — with the full weekly allowance (paragraph 2); what you used during the Pro days does not count towards it. From that day on, the weekly allowance renews every seven days. If you buy a subscription during the Pro days (§ 6), it starts on purchase and takes the place of the remaining Pro days; they are not added on, nor restored if you withdraw from the purchase or it is refunded. The same account does not receive Pro days a second time. In case of abuse, for example through several accounts (§ 3(6)), we may end the Pro days early. The Pro days are not transferable and cannot be paid out.

§ 3 Account and minimum age

(1) Use requires a free user account. The contract is concluded upon successful registration.

(2) You register with an email address and password or by signing in with Apple or Google.

(3) You must be at least 16 years old. We verify this against the date of birth you provide. If we find that a younger person holds an account, we suspend and delete it.

(4) Your details must be accurate; please tell us about changes or update them yourself.

(5) Keep your credentials confidential. If you suspect unauthorised use, please inform us immediately at support@yedeni.com.

(6) One account per person is permitted. Accounts are not transferable.

§ 4 Your content

(1) You may post your own content — in particular recipes with photos and videos, reviews, collections and a profile picture. Which content is permitted is governed conclusively by the Community and upload terms.

(2) You warrant that you hold all rights required for the content you post and that it infringes neither third-party rights nor applicable law. You confirm this expressly before every upload.

(3) You retain your copyright. You merely grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free right to store the content, process it technically (for example to scale, convert or translate it), display it and make it available to other users as part of operating the app. If you make the content public, that right also covers display via share links outside the app. We may add to and change the classification of your recipes and their data — for example categories, cuisine, difficulty, times, nutrition values, allergens, dietary labels, weights, the link of an ingredient to our food database, the crop of the cover image and translations — without asking you. What you wrote or created — title, description, tips, photos, video, ingredients and amounts, steps and servings — we change only with your consent (community terms no. 5.2).

(4) This licence ends as soon as you delete the content or your account. For technical reasons copies may persist in backups for up to 30 days. If other users have added your public recipe to their plans or collections, it remains there without naming you; on request we delete that as well.

(5) We are under no general obligation to monitor content. We publish recipes from accounts without the “verified” badge, and recipes we have not approved or have taken out of public view because of a breach, only after a person on our team has reviewed and approved them; if, without the badge, you change the videos, photos, title or description of an approved recipe, we review it again (community terms no. 5.2). Approval only means that we noticed no breach; your assurance under paragraph 2 remains unaffected. We do not review any other content before it is published. We review on occasion, in particular on notice, and remove content that is illegal or violates the community terms. Usernames are checked automatically; a recipe reported by three different accounts is hidden provisionally until a human has reviewed it (community terms no. 5).

(6) We do not use your content to train our own AI models, nor do we pass it to third parties for that purpose.

§ 5 Our rights

(1) All rights to the app, its structure, its design, its databases and the underlying software rest with us or our licensors.

(2) You receive a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the app on your devices for private, non-commercial purposes.

(3) Not permitted are in particular: systematic extraction of content (scraping), using content to train AI models, circumventing technical protection measures or usage limits, and reverse engineering the app. Your statutory rights under §§ 69d, 69e UrhG remain unaffected.

(4) For the data sources and libraries used in the app and the third-party rights attaching to them, see Attributions.

§ 6 Yedeni Pro and payment

(1) Yedeni Pro is an auto-renewing subscription. Price, term and scope are displayed in the app before purchase. All prices are final prices including statutory VAT.

(2) You buy Yedeni Pro exclusively in the Apple App Store from Apple Distribution International Ltd. or on Google Play from Google Commerce Limited. The respective store sells the subscription in its own name, collects the price, issues the receipt and accounts for VAT; for payment, receipt and refunds through the store its terms apply in addition. We receive no payment data from the store; we need your bank details only for a refund by us (paragraph 4). The service itself — unlocking and providing Yedeni Pro in the app — is performed by us under these terms; for it we are your contractual partner.

(3) A monthly subscription runs for an indefinite period, is billed monthly in advance and can be cancelled at any time with effect from the end of the current billing month. A subscription with a longer first term, such as the annual subscription, ends when that term expires if you cancel it at least 24 hours beforehand; otherwise it continues for an indefinite period, and you can then cancel it at any time with one month's notice. You can cancel in the respective store's subscription management, which the app links to under "Settings"; this also stops further billing. You can equally cancel with us, informally by email to hello@yedeni.com, by phone on +49 176 81136011 or by post. Because we cannot always stop the renewal in the store ourselves, please also cancel there; anything the store bills for the time after your cancellation takes effect is refunded under paragraph 4.

(4) If the store bills a price for the time after your cancellation takes effect — for example for the annual subscription, which the store bills again for a whole year in advance after the first term —, we refund the part of that price attributable to the time after the cancellation takes effect, calculated by the day, but at least the part attributable to the full months after it. An informal message by email to hello@yedeni.com or by phone on +49 176 81136011 is enough. We transfer the amount to an account you name, promptly and at the latest 14 days after your message or, if the store bills only after that, after it bills, and deduct anything the store has already refunded to you for it. The stores also refund pro rata: on Google Play through immediate cancellation with a partial refund in the cancellation flow, at Apple through Apple Support. Otherwise refunds through the store follow its policies. Your statutory right of withdrawal and your other statutory rights remain unaffected.

(5) We announce price changes for a running subscription at least 30 days before they take effect, in the app or by email; they never apply to the current term. A price increase applies to you only if you expressly agree to it; the respective store obtains that agreement before the next renewal. If you do not agree, the subscription ends at the end of the current term at the previous price. A price reduction applies in your favour from the next renewal without further action.

(6) Promotional codes may grant time-limited or permanent access or a discount on a subscription. They are non-transferable, cannot be paid out and may be withdrawn if used abusively.

§ 7 Right of withdrawal

Yedeni Pro is a digital service. Your right of withdrawal therefore does not expire as soon as we begin performance, but only once we have performed the service in full (§ 356(4) BGB). If you requested that we begin during the withdrawal period — Apple and Google obtain this request during the purchase flow —, you pay a pro-rata amount for the time until withdrawal if you withdraw (§ 357a(2) BGB). You can declare the withdrawal to us or to the store.

§ 8 Health notice and liability

(1) Seek medical advice before substantially changing your diet — in particular in the case of illness, metabolic disorders, eating disorders, pregnancy and breastfeeding, if you are a minor, or if you take medication.

(2) Nutrition values come from public and commercial databases and from user submissions. AI-assisted estimates, particularly from photos, are inherently imprecise. We check values for plausibility but cannot guarantee their accuracy or completeness. Never rely on the app alone where allergies or intolerances are concerned — always check the packaging.

(3) We are liable without limitation for damage arising from injury to life, body or health caused by an intentional or negligent breach of duty by us, our legal representatives or our agents, as well as for intent, gross negligence and where we have given a guarantee.

(4) In cases of slight negligence we are liable only for breach of material contractual obligations — obligations whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely. In that case liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.

(5) Liability under the Product Liability Act remains unaffected.

(6) We are liable for other users' content only from the point at which we become aware of a specific infringement.

(7) Content that other users post is their own content, and we do not adopt it as our own. Where we review a recipe before publication (§ 4(5)), we only check whether it breaches these terms, the community terms or applicable law — not editorially; approval does not confirm that details and nutrition values are correct. What we contribute to a recipe ourselves — classification and data we add or change (§ 4(3)) and our part of a suggestion you accepted (community terms no. 5.2) — we are responsible for as for our own content. It is different for content we publish ourselves — Yedeni's recipes and partners' content that we post with their permission through accounts we operate: for that we are responsible as for our own content.

§ 9 Availability

(1) We strive for high availability but do not owe uninterrupted accessibility. We announce planned maintenance where possible and schedule it during low-demand periods.

(2) We are not liable for outages outside our sphere of control — in particular force majeure, disruptions at upstream providers and network failures.

(3) If a paid service is unavailable for more than 48 consecutive hours and we are responsible, we refund the pro-rata price on request. Your statutory rights in respect of defects in digital products (§§ 327 et seq. BGB) remain unaffected.

§ 10 Violations, suspension and complaints

(1) If you breach these terms, the community terms or applicable law, we may — graduated by severity and repetition — remove individual content, restrict its visibility, temporarily disable features, temporarily suspend the account or terminate the contract extraordinarily. We do not publish a recipe submitted for review that breaches these terms, the community terms or applicable law (§ 4(5)).

(2) We inform you of every such measure at the latest when it takes effect and state the measure and its duration, the content concerned, the facts and circumstances it is based on — including whether it follows a notice or our own review —, whether automated means were involved, the legal basis or contractual clause, and how you can challenge it (Art. 17 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065). If someone reported the content, we also tell that person our decision, together with the ways to challenge it (Art. 16(5) of the Regulation).

(3) You may challenge any measure within six months — informally at support@yedeni.com or through the reporting and complaints function in the app; likewise, anyone who reported content may challenge our decision on the notice. Complaints are always decided by a human, not by an automated system alone. We confirm receipt without delay and decide promptly. If the measure proves unfounded, we reverse it.

(4) Independently of this you may turn to an out-of-court dispute settlement body certified under Art. 21 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, or take legal action. Details of the procedure: Copyright and reporting illegal content.

(5) Where manifestly unfounded notices or complaints are submitted repeatedly and abusively, we may suspend their processing for a reasonable period after prior warning.

§ 11 Term and termination

(1) The contract for free use runs indefinitely and may be terminated by either party at any time without notice period and without giving reasons.

(2) You terminate by deleting your account in the app under "Settings" > "Delete account". Deleting the account also counts as cancelling a running subscription with us (§ 6(3)); it does not, however, stop billing in the store automatically. Please therefore also cancel the subscription in the respective store's subscription management; anything the store bills for the time after the cancellation takes effect is refunded under § 6(4).

(3) We may terminate the free contract with 30 days' notice. The right to extraordinary termination for good cause remains unaffected on both sides.

(4) Upon termination your personal data is deleted in accordance with the privacy notice.

§ 12 Changes to these terms

(1) We may change these terms with effect for the future where this is necessary due to new features, a changed legal situation or changed technical conditions, and where it does not unreasonably disadvantage you. We do not use this route to change the description of the main service, prices or the balance of service and consideration to your detriment; such changes require your express agreement (for prices see § 6(5)).

(2) We inform you of changes at least 30 days before they take effect, by email or in the app, and specifically point out your right to object and its consequences.

(3) If you do not object before the changes take effect, the amended terms are deemed accepted. If you object, we may terminate the contract with ordinary notice as of the date the changes take effect; until then the previous terms continue to apply. A running subscription then ends at the end of the paid term; amounts already paid beyond that are refunded pro rata.

(4) Changes that work solely in your favour, or that only add or correct information, apply from their publication without your consent and without the procedure in paragraphs 2 and 3. You can recognise them by the "last updated" date at the top of these terms; the version you agreed to otherwise continues to apply unchanged.

§ 13 Final provisions

(1) The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer habitually resident in another state, the mandatory consumer protection provisions there remain unaffected (Art. 6(2) Rome I).

(2) If you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the exclusive place of jurisdiction is München. Otherwise the statutory rules apply.

(3) We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

(4) Should any provision be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected. The statutory rule replaces the invalid provision.