By using our service (from now on "the Service"), so by accessing and using our software platform (from now on "the Platform") in any of its forms (whether it’s a website, a computer program, a mobile APP, or any other form), and by following the dietary program (from now on "the Program") that it will suggest, the user implicitly agrees with the following terms and conditions.
The dietary program and rules the Service follows are the result of years of research and testing conducted by third party nutritionists. However, the Service itself is provided thru the Platform, which uses an advanced automated algorithm, whose suggestions are automatically generated according to the studies the researches conducted by the nutritionists, the rules they developed, the preferences the user specified while registering to the Service, and the data he or she provides every day. No doctor (and, in general, no human being at all) is or will be involved in generating those suggestions.
What the Service will suggest is just a set of three recipes per day, one for each meal, which are basically standard recipes (with very little to no modifications from the ones that could be found on a cooking book). Thanks to the Program, they are combined to help the user reach the desired weigh, while still providing him or her with a balanced diet thru the day and the days.
The Service will never suggest anything but recipes: the Program does NOT include any food supplements or meal replacements.
The Service has not to be considered as a medical advice, and can in no way replace the opinion of a certified doctor: everything the service suggests has, indeed, to be considered as a series of suggestions.
Should the user experience any problems while following the dietary program suggested by the Service, he or she shall consult to a specialist, and, in case, stop following the Program entirely, should the doctor advise him/her to.
The Service is intended solely for adult people (18yo+), and is absolutely not intended for people who are mentally incapacitated or not self-sufficient.
The Service is not intended for pregnant women.
The Service is not intended for people who suffer from any diseases which may be influenced by, or may influence, the Program: please consult your doctor before proceeding or in case of doubt.
The Service, and the Program it provides, are offered to the users free of charge to whoever wants to use them.
However, since our earnings come from the ads which appear on the Platform, we discourage the using of any form of ad-blocker.
We may offer a paid subscription to those who don't want to see ads: the subscription has, in such case, to be intended for the sole removal of the ads.
The Service is provided as is, with no warranty whatsoever about its functionality: you are kindly invited to report any bugs, so we can fix them.
While the dietary program was originally developed by third party nutritionists, the software platform, the website, and whatever they contain, remain our exclusive intellectual property.
Even though the platform runs above an open-source CMS (Content Management System), and some third-party open-source or commercial plugins/components/templates, which remain the intellectual properties of the respective developers, we retain the intellectual property on the assembled platform in its whole, and on whatever we developed (being it a component, a plugin, some code stored in single files, or whatever else we developed and used in or for the platform).
By using our software platform (from now on "the Platform") in any of its forms (whether it is a website, a computer program, a mobile APP, or any other form), you agree with the following privacy rules.
The platform will store a digital copy of all the data you will provide. Here is a list of some of the data we collect, and why we need them
Collected and saved once
| Data | Mandatory | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Name and surname | No | Used for identifying you, should you contact us using anything different from an email. You can enter whatever you want, like a pseudonym, since we don't really need to know your name unless you contact us yourself. Should you decide to go for a pseudonym, please provide the same name when contacting us. |
| Email address | Yes | Used in many ways
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| Username | Yes | Used for logging you in. By default, your email address is used as your username, thus making it easier for you to remember it and login. You can change it at any time. |
| Nickname | No | It's some kind of public name: it may be used in the future should we integrate a forum platform. |
| Phone number | No* | Used for identifying you should you call/text us. *Agents must provide a valid phone number; users can leave it blank. |
| Gender | Yes | Used for customizing your dietary program |
| Date of Birth* and height | Yes | Used for customizing your dietary program. *Only the age is actually relevant. |
| Unit/date format | Yes | Used for your own convenience to let us know whether you prefer to use metric units (such as Cm and kg) or imperial ones (such as in and lb), and DD-MM or MM-DD date format. |
| Time zone | Yes | All the date and times are computed and stored relatively to your time zone. |
| Food allergies | Yes | We need to know any foods or ingredients you're allergic to, to completely avoid suggesting it. Any recipes containing any of those ingredients will never be either suggested nor even shown to you. |
| Food preferences | Yes | We need to know any foods or ingredients you don't like, to avoid suggesting it. Any recipes containing any of those ingredients will never be suggested to you, anyway you will still find them, highlighted in red, at the end of the list of the alternative recipes. |
Everyone of the aforementioned data can be modified, at any time, by using either the Profile form or the Dietary preferences form (depending on the data you want to modify), which are accessible, from an page, thru main menu > Profile.
Collected every day
| Data | Mandatory | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Weight | Yes | The system needs to monitor your trend and your progresses (possibly with an accuracy up to 100g or 0.2lb) for suggesting you your next meals. |
| Blood sugar level, blood pressure | No* | Collected up to multiple times per day, they're used for your own record only. *The feature may not be implemented or may be removed at any time. |
| Neck/Chest/Waistline | No* | Used for your own record only. *The feature may not be implemented or may be removed at any time. |
| IP | Automatic* | We may store your IP with some of your activities, for software debugging, for identifying malicious activities from unauthorized users, or should you report an unauthorized access to your account (to prevent the last case, though, please use a strong password, and never use the same password for more than one service) *This feature may be removed in the future to improve performances. |
| Recipe replacement history | Automatic* | We keep trace, for some time, of every change the user makes to the recipes the system suggests. We may use those data anonymously for finely tuning the algorithm. *This feature may be removed in the future to improve performances. |
| Suggested meals (AKA Prescriptions) | Automatic | They're, of course, the main purpose of the system, and they contain what is suggested to you for every meal. |
You can modify your daily data only within the same day. You can also modify the suggested recipes only for the following days.
At any time, you can ask to completely anonymize your data. Once you do that, your personal data will be replaced with anonymous values, as follows:
- Your given name1 and surname1 will be deleted;
- Your Email, Username, and Nickname will be replaced with random strings in the form of "UserNNNNNNN", where NNNNNNN is your numeric UserID;
- Your Preferences, Time zone, dietary preferences, date of birth, and whatever appears in "Dietary/personal data", will be erased.
- All your history (weights and prescriptions) will be erased.
1 If you are also one of our agents/representatives, and you've been, or still have to be, paid by us for any reason (such as, but not limited to, a commission on a sale, a salary, or the payment of a single work), we're required by the law to keep your data, and the details about such payments, for accounting and fiscal purposes.
Keep in mind that the process is irreversible: should you just want to anonymize your account, you could do that yourself by simply replacing your personal info (like email, name, phone numbers, date of birth, etc) with generic ones, by going to either "Account details" or "Dietary/personal data", depending on the details you want to change (which are both accessible, from any page, thru main menu > Profile)
The system keeps no history of the previous values for those fields in its database, so updating them with newer ones will actually overwrite the previous values, thus permanently deleting the original ones from the database.