Accepting these terms
Read My Plate ("the app") and this website are published by Esther Michele Kazir ("we", "us"). By downloading, opening or using the app, or by using this site, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree to them, do not use the app, and delete it.
These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, form the entire agreement between us regarding the app.
What Read My Plate is
You photograph a meal. You tag what is on the plate by touch. The app scores the plate from 1 to 5 against the profile you entered, shows you the reasoning behind that score, and suggests exactly one change that would move the plate closer to your profile.
It keeps a history of the readings you save and shows you weekly trends. That is the whole product.
By design and permanently, Read My Plate does not count calories, does not track weight, does not set a daily target and does not keep streaks. This is a deliberate choice, not a missing feature.
What Read My Plate is not
This section is the most important one in this document.
Not a medical device
The app is a general wellness and self-tracking product. It is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, mitigate or prevent any disease or health condition.
Not advice
Nothing the app produces, and nothing published on this site, is medical advice, nutritional advice, dietary advice, or professional advice of any kind. A reading is general information about a photograph. It is not a recommendation for you, your body or your circumstances.
Not reviewed by a professional
No physician, dietitian or nutritionist reviews your meals, your readings or your profile. The rule table behind the app has not been reviewed, verified or approved by any registered dietitian, physician or other qualified professional, and no such review is planned. The app states this on every reading. This disclosure is permanent and will not be softened or removed.
Not personal to you
The app knows only the answers you typed into it. It has no knowledge of your medical history, diagnoses, medications, supplements, allergies, intolerances, laboratory results, pregnancy status, age or any other individual circumstance, and cannot take any of them into account.
Consult a physician or a registered dietitian before making any change to your diet, nutrition or lifestyle, and before acting on anything the app shows you. This matters especially if you are pregnant or nursing, elderly, managing any medical condition — including diabetes, kidney, liver, heart, thyroid, autoimmune or gastrointestinal disease — taking any medication, living with food allergies or intolerances, or have any history of disordered eating.
Never disregard professional medical advice, and never delay seeking it, because of something the app showed you. If you think you may have a medical emergency, contact your physician or your local emergency number immediately.
How the readings are made, and why they can be wrong
- Readings, scores and suggested changes are produced automatically by software, including artificial intelligence and statistical pattern matching.
- The underlying rule table was assembled from publicly available nutrition information, popular nutrition frameworks and general statistics found on the internet.
- Such information may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, contested or simply wrong. The software may misjudge a portion or a component. A reading can look confident and still be incorrect.
- The nutrition framework the app uses is popular but is not established science. It is offered only as a structure for paying attention to meals.
- No health outcome, weight change, symptom improvement, result or benefit of any kind is promised, guaranteed or implied. Individual responses to food vary widely.
Use of the app is entirely at your own discretion and your own risk, and you remain solely responsible for what you eat and for every decision you make about it.
Who may use it
Read My Plate is intended for healthy adults aged 18 and over who wish to pay closer attention to their meals. By using it you confirm that you are at least 18 years old.
It is not intended for children, for clinical use, for use in any healthcare setting, or for the management of any medical condition or eating disorder. If you are living with, or recovering from, disordered eating, please speak to your clinician before using any food-tracking tool, including this one.
Your licence and your conduct
We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, for your own personal, non-commercial use, in accordance with these terms and with Apple's App Store Terms of Service.
You agree not to:
- Copy, modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the app, or attempt to derive its source or its rule table, except where such a restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
- Rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, redistribute or otherwise make the app available to anyone else.
- Use the app, its readings or its rule table to provide nutritional, dietary or medical services to any other person.
- Use the app for any unlawful purpose, or in any way that could damage or impair it.
- Remove, obscure or alter any notice, disclaimer or attribution shown by the app.
Your data is yours
Your profile, your photographs and your history belong to you and stay on your device. We do not receive them, cannot access them and hold no copy. Deleting the app deletes them, permanently and irrecoverably — there is no backup we can restore for you.
Please read the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms and explains this in full.
Purchases
This version of Read My Plate contains no purchases. There is no subscription, no in-app purchase and no payment of any kind.
If paid features are introduced in a future version, all of the following will apply, and this page will be updated before they are offered:
- All billing is handled by Apple through the App Store. We never see, receive or store your payment card, your billing address or your name.
- Any subscription renews automatically until you cancel it. You manage and cancel it in your Apple account settings, not through us, and cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period.
- Refunds are governed by Apple's policies and are requested from Apple. We cannot issue a refund for an App Store purchase ourselves.
- Prices may differ by country and may change; a change never applies retroactively to a period you have already paid for.
Ownership
The app, this site, their design, text, interface, code, and the rule table behind the readings are owned by Esther Michele Kazir and are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. These terms grant you a licence to use the app, not any ownership of it. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
Availability and changes
We may change, suspend or discontinue the app, or any part of it, at any time. We may update these terms; when we do, the version number and date at the top of this page change, and the current text always appears here. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the updated terms. A change that materially affects you will be stated plainly at the top of this page.
The app runs on your device and does not depend on a server of ours, so we make no uptime commitment and none is needed.
No warranty
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the app and this site are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties or conditions of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any reading it produces will be accurate or suitable for you.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these terms limits any right you have as a consumer that cannot lawfully be limited.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we accept no liability for any loss, injury, damage or adverse outcome — direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary — arising from the use of, or reliance on, the app, this site, or any reading, score, suggestion or information they produce. This includes any loss of data, and any health consequence of a dietary decision you make.
Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, our total aggregate liability to you is limited to the amount you actually paid for the app in the twelve months preceding the claim, or, if you paid nothing, to US$0.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Apple
These terms are between you and us, not between you and Apple. Apple is not responsible for the app or its contents and has no obligation to provide any support or maintenance for it.
If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app. Any claim relating to the app — including product liability, a failure to conform to a legal requirement, or a claim under consumer protection or privacy legislation — is our responsibility and not Apple's. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.
You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to its conflict of law rules, and the competent courts of Tel Aviv-Jaffa have exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory consumer law of your country of residence.
If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force.
Contact
Questions about these terms go to LIVINGOODFOREVER@GMAIL.COM.
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