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Terms of Service

Last updated: August 14, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding legal agreement between you ("you," "your," or "User") and Brizo Finance LLC, the operator of MinervaOS ("MinervaOS," "we," "us," or "our") governing your access to and use of the MinervaOS mobile application, together with any related software, features, content, and services we provide (collectively, the "Service").

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY. By creating an account, tapping "I Agree," or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

IMPORTANT — PLEASE NOTE:


1. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old (or the higher minimum age required in your country to consent to the processing of your personal data without parental permission) to use the Service. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the Service only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by these Terms.

The Service is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. See our Privacy Policy for more.

By using the Service you represent and warrant that: (a) you meet the age requirements above; (b) you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms; (c) you are not barred from using the Service under the laws of any applicable jurisdiction; and (d) all information you provide is accurate and truthful.

1.1 Users under 18

If your date of birth indicates you are under 18, we apply protections by default that you do not have to go looking for: group content is shown in reverse chronological order and is never ranked or recommended by an algorithm; notifications are silenced between 12:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. every day and between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on weekdays; your profile is not surfaced in search to people you are not already in a group with; and we never sell or share your personal information or use it for targeted advertising. These are defaults, not features you must enable, and they reflect the standards California's SB 976 sets for minors.

A parent or guardian may contact support@minervaos.app to review, correct, or delete a minor's information or close the account.

1.2 A caution about tracking and young people

Calorie, weight, and body-composition tracking is not right for everyone, and for a young person with or at risk of an eating disorder it can do real harm. If that describes you or your child, please talk to a qualified professional before using these features, and see Section 4.

2. The Service

MinervaOS is a nutrition, fitness, and wellness tracking application. Its features may include, without limitation: logging food and meals; estimating calories and macronutrients from text, nutrition labels, or photographs using artificial intelligence; estimating your energy expenditure ("calorie burn") and metabolism; integrating with Apple Health and third-party wearable devices; tracking body weight and other metrics; setting personalized targets; an AI assistant; and optional social "group" features that let you share progress with others.

All outputs of the Service — including all calorie counts, macronutrient and micronutrient values, calorie-burn and metabolism estimates, wearable-derived metrics, AI food recognition, targets, recommendations, and predictions — are estimates and approximations, not measurements or professional advice. They may be inaccurate, incomplete, or unsuitable for you. See Section 4.

3. Accounts

To use most features you must create an account. You agree to: (a) provide accurate, current, and complete information; (b) keep your credentials confidential and secure; (c) be solely responsible for all activity under your account; and (d) notify us promptly at support@minervaos.app of any unauthorized use. You may not share your account, maintain more than one account without our permission, or use another person's account. We may suspend or terminate accounts as described in Section 16.

4. Not Medical Advice — Important Health Disclaimer

The Service is provided for general informational, educational, and self-tracking purposes only. It is not a medical device and does not provide medical, healthcare, nutritional, dietary, psychological, or professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

You acknowledge and agree that you use the Service and rely on any of its outputs entirely at your own risk, and that we are not responsible for any decision you make or action you take based on the Service.

5. Artificial Intelligence Features

Certain features use artificial intelligence and machine-learning models, including third-party models (for example, models provided by Anthropic), to analyze photographs, text, and other inputs and to generate estimates, descriptions, and suggestions ("AI Outputs"). You understand and agree that:

5.1 You are talking to software

Our AI assistant is not a person. It is automated software, it is labelled as such wherever it appears, and it will tell you so if you ask. It is not a companion, a friend, a therapist, a counsellor, or a crisis service, and it is not designed or offered to meet social or emotional needs. Do not use it as a substitute for human support.

5.2 Safety limits

The assistant is instructed to refuse requests for extreme-restriction, purging, or other disordered-eating guidance, and to stop and surface crisis resources rather than continue a conversation that indicates a risk of self-harm or an eating disorder. Those resources are also available at any time in the app under Settings → Safety & Crisis Resources.

If you are in immediate danger, contact your local emergency number. In the United States you can call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline). For eating-disorder support, the National Alliance for Eating Disorders helpline is 1-866-662-1235.

5.3 AI-generated content

Estimates, descriptions, and suggestions produced by AI are marked in the app so you can tell them apart from figures you entered or values read from a nutrition label. We do not generate synthetic images, audio, or video.

6. Wearables and Apple Health

The Service can, with your permission, read data from Apple Health and connect to third-party wearable devices and platforms (such as WHOOP, Oura, or Garmin) to improve its estimates, and can write certain data (such as body weight you log) back to Apple Health. Your use of any third-party device or platform is governed by that third party's own terms and privacy policy, and we are not responsible for third-party products, services, or data. We access, use, and store health-related data as described in our Privacy Policy, and we do not use Apple Health data for advertising or sell it.

7. Subscriptions, Purchases, and Billing

Some features require a paid subscription ("Subscription").

7.1 Automatic renewal — California and other automatic-renewal laws

This summary is provided to meet California's Automatic Renewal Law (Bus. & Prof. Code §§17600–17606) and equivalent laws elsewhere. Before you subscribe, the purchase screen shows, next to the button you tap to subscribe: the price, the billing period (weekly, monthly, or annual), the length and price of any free trial and what it converts to, and the statement that the subscription renews automatically until you cancel. Apple's own confirmation sheet then restates the price and period before any charge is taken.

8. User Content and License

The Service lets you create, upload, and store content, including food logs, photographs, descriptions, weights, metrics, messages, comments, and posts ("User Content"). You retain ownership of your User Content.

You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, modify (for formatting and processing), transmit, display, and otherwise use your User Content solely as needed to operate, provide, secure, and improve the Service and to perform our obligations under these Terms (including transmitting content to service providers such as AI and hosting providers). For User Content you share to a group, you also grant other members of that group the ability to view it within the Service.

You represent and warrant that you own or have all necessary rights to your User Content and that it does not violate these Terms or any law or third-party right.

9. Community Standards, Objectionable Content, and Moderation

THERE IS ZERO TOLERANCE FOR OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT OR ABUSIVE USERS. If you use group, profile, feed, or other social features, you are responsible for everything you post, send, or upload, and the following is a condition of your continued access to the Service.

9.1 Prohibited content and conduct

You will not post, send, upload, stream, or otherwise transmit any content, and will not engage in any conduct, that:

You also will not harass, abuse, or retaliate against any other user, including through repeated unwanted contact, coordinated targeting, or the abuse of the reporting tools themselves.

9.2 What we do about it

We filter content before and after it is posted, using automated systems and human review. We do not merely reserve the right to moderate — we moderate.

We provide, on every surface that carries User Content, the ability to report content or an account and the ability to block another user. We act on reports of objectionable content within 24 hours of receiving them by removing the content and, where warranted, ejecting the user who provided it — including permanent termination of their account.

We may remove, restrict, quarantine, or refuse to publish any content, and may suspend, restrict, or permanently terminate any account, at any time, with or without prior notice, where we believe in good faith that this Section, any law, or the safety of our users requires it. Content that is awaiting review may be temporarily invisible to others. Enforcement decisions are made at our discretion and are not a waiver of any other remedy.

Where we are legally required to do so, we report content to the appropriate authorities. Apparent child sexual abuse material is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the associated account is terminated immediately and permanently.

9.3 Reporting to us

Report objectionable content or an abusive user in the app (the flag or "Report" control on any post, comment, message, group, or profile), or email support@minervaos.app. Emergencies involving an immediate risk to life should go to your local emergency services first.

9.4 Appeals

If we remove your content or restrict your account and you believe we were wrong, email support@minervaos.app within 30 days and we will review the decision. We are not obligated to restore content, but we will tell you the outcome.

9.5 Copyright — DMCA notice and counter-notice

Designated agent. Notices of claimed copyright infringement should be sent to:

DMCA Agent, Brizo Finance LLC
Email: support@minervaos.app (subject line: "DMCA")

To file a notice (17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3)), include all of: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the copyrighted work claimed to be infringed; identification of the material claimed to be infringing and information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it in the Service; your address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf. A notice that omits these elements may not be effective, and knowingly making a material misrepresentation may make you liable for damages under §512(f).

What we do. We remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a compliant notice, and we take reasonable steps to notify the user who posted it.

To file a counter-notice (17 U.S.C. §512(g)(3)), if your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, send our agent: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the material and where it appeared before removal; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification; and your name, address, and telephone number, together with a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where you live (or, if outside the United States, for any district in which we may be found) and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the notice. If we receive a valid counter-notice, we may restore the material in 10–14 business days unless the original complainant tells us they have filed a court action seeking to restrain you.

Repeat infringers. We terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.

9.6 Content from others

We are not responsible for User Content posted by other users, and we do not endorse it. Content published by other users is their own; nothing posted by another user is medical, nutritional, or professional advice (see Section 4).

10. Acceptable Use

You agree not to, and not to attempt to: (a) use the Service for any unlawful, harmful, or fraudulent purpose; (b) reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service except to the extent permitted by law; (c) access the Service by automated means, scrape, or bypass rate limits or security; (d) interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure; (e) upload malware or infringing, illegal, or harmful content; (f) impersonate others or misrepresent your affiliation; (g) resell, rent, or commercially exploit the Service without our permission; or (h) circumvent or attempt to defeat any usage, subscription, or access limits.

11. Third-Party Services

The Service relies on and links to third-party services and platforms, including Apple, our hosting and database provider, AI providers, and wearable providers. Your use of those services is governed by their terms and privacy policies. We are not responsible or liable for third-party services, and their availability, accuracy, or practices are outside our control.

Third-party food data. Product and nutrition information for barcode scans and food lookups is drawn in part from Open Food Facts (https://world.openfoodfacts.org), © Open Food Facts contributors, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Open Food Facts is a crowdsourced database, and we do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information it provides.

12. Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics, logos, and all related intellectual property (excluding your User Content), is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for your personal, non-commercial use. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. "MinervaOS" and our logos are our trademarks; you may not use them without our prior written permission.

13. Feedback

If you send us suggestions or feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use it for any purpose without obligation or compensation to you.

14. Disclaimers of Warranties

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT AND OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR ACCURATE; THAT ANY ESTIMATE, CALCULATION, OR AI OUTPUT WILL BE CORRECT OR RELIABLE; OR THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THE SERVICE CREATES ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED HERE.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you.

15. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL MINERVAOS OR ITS OWNERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, SUPPLIERS, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, OR FOR ANY PERSONAL INJURY, BODILY HARM, OR HEALTH CONSEQUENCE, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) FIFTY U.S. DOLLARS ($50).

These limitations are a fundamental basis of the bargain between you and us. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of the above may not apply to you; in that case our liability is limited to the smallest extent permitted by law.

16. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time (Settings → Account → Delete Account). We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, if we believe you have violated these Terms, to protect the Service or others, or as otherwise permitted by law. Upon termination, your license to use the Service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive (including Sections 4, 8, 12–18) survive termination.

17. Changes to the Service and Terms

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time. We may also update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide notice (for example, in-app or by updating the "Last updated" date), and, where required, ask you to re-accept. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

18. Dispute Resolution; Binding Arbitration; Class-Action Waiver

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY — IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.

If any portion of this Section is found unenforceable, it will be severed, except that the class-action waiver is non-severable — if it is unenforceable, this entire Section 18 is void.

19. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, and, where applicable, the United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Subject to Section 18, the exclusive venue for any dispute not subject to arbitration is the state and federal courts located in San Mateo County, California, and you consent to their jurisdiction. Nothing in this section deprives you of the protection of mandatory consumer-protection laws of your country of residence.

20. Apple App Store — Additional Terms

These Terms are between you and MinervaOS only, not with Apple Inc. ("Apple"), and Apple is not responsible for the Service or its content. To the extent these Terms serve as the end-user license agreement for the App:

21. General

22. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Contact us at support@minervaos.app