These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Gastronomy mobile application, website, and related services (collectively, the "Service"), provided by Gastronomy LLC ("Gastronomy", "we", "us", or "our").
By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.
1. Eligibility and Accounts
You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the Service only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian.
When creating an account, you agree to provide accurate information and to keep your account information current.
You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and for activity that occurs through your account. You may not impersonate another person, create an account using information you are not authorized to use, or transfer your account to another person without our permission.
2. The Gastronomy Service
Gastronomy is a food discovery and social platform that allows users to discover, rate, organize, and share information about individual dishes, packaged products, restaurants, and related food experiences.
The Service may include features such as ratings, check-ins, photos, lists, recommendations, restaurant and menu information, packaged product information, social features, location-based discovery, and other features that we may add or modify over time.
We may modify, add, suspend, or discontinue features of the Service from time to time.
3. User Content
The Service allows users to submit or create content, which may include ratings, check-ins, photos, lists, comments, restaurant information, dish information, packaged product information, profile information, and other materials ("User Content").
You Retain Ownership
You retain ownership of the User Content you create and submit to Gastronomy.
License to Gastronomy
By submitting User Content to the Service, you grant Gastronomy a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, format, modify for technical or presentation purposes, and otherwise use your User Content as reasonably necessary to operate, provide, maintain, improve, and promote the Service.
This license allows Gastronomy, for example, to display your photos and ratings to other users, include your contributions on restaurant, dish, or product pages, format content for different devices, and operate features that organize or recommend content.
You represent that you own your User Content or have the rights necessary to submit it and grant this license.
Gastronomy does not claim ownership of your User Content.
4. Community Standards and Prohibited Content
You agree not to submit, upload, post, transmit, or otherwise use the Service to distribute content or engage in conduct that:
- Is unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or discriminatory
- Promotes violence or illegal activity
- Contains sexually explicit, obscene, or exploitative material
- Exploits, harms, or endangers children
- Infringes another person's copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights
- Impersonates another person or misrepresents your identity or affiliation
- Contains spam, unauthorized advertising, scams, malicious software, or other harmful material
- Manipulates ratings, reviews, check-ins, or other features of the Service
- Knowingly provides materially false or misleading restaurant, dish, product, or other information
- Attempts to interfere with, disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to the Service or its systems
- Uses automated means to scrape, harvest, copy, or access the Service except as expressly authorized by Gastronomy
- Otherwise violates these Terms or applicable law
We may remove or restrict access to User Content that violates these Terms or that we reasonably determine may harm Gastronomy, our users, or third parties.
We may also terminate accounts that violate these Terms.
5. Reporting Content and Users
If you believe content or another user's conduct violates these Terms or is otherwise inappropriate, you may report eligible content using reporting features available within the Service or contact Gastronomy at info@gastronomyapp.com.
We may review reports and take action we determine appropriate, including removing content or terminating accounts.
6. Restaurant, Dish, and Product Information
Gastronomy contains information about restaurants, dishes, menus, packaged products, prices, availability, ingredients, and other food-related information.
Some of this information may be provided by users, restaurants, manufacturers, third parties, or other sources.
We strive to provide useful and accurate information, but we do not guarantee that information available through the Service is complete, accurate, current, or error-free. Restaurants, menus, ingredients, prices, products, and availability may change without notice.
Users should independently verify information that is important to their decisions.
7. Food Allergies, Dietary Information, and Health
Information available through Gastronomy is provided for general informational and food-discovery purposes.
Gastronomy does not guarantee the ingredients, preparation methods, allergen content, nutritional information, dietary classification, or safety of any dish, product, restaurant, or other food item.
If you have a food allergy, intolerance, dietary restriction, or medical concern, you should verify relevant information directly with the restaurant, manufacturer, or other appropriate source before consuming a food or beverage.
Gastronomy is not a substitute for professional medical, nutritional, or dietary advice.
8. Intellectual Property
Except for User Content and third-party materials, the Service and its content, software, features, functionality, design, databases, branding, logos, trademarks, and other materials are owned by or licensed to Gastronomy and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.
Subject to these Terms, Gastronomy grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for its intended purposes.
You may not copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, sell, license, reverse engineer, or commercially exploit the Service or Gastronomy's intellectual property except as permitted by law or with our written permission.
9. Feedback
If you provide ideas, suggestions, feedback, or recommendations regarding Gastronomy or the Service, you agree that we may use that feedback without restriction or compensation to you.
10. Third-Party Services and Content
The Service may contain or interact with information, websites, maps, authentication services, restaurants, manufacturers, or other products and services provided by third parties.
Gastronomy does not control and is not responsible for third-party services, content, products, practices, or availability. Your use of third-party services may be subject to separate terms and privacy policies.
11. Account Termination
You may stop using Gastronomy and delete your account at any time using the account-deletion functionality described in our Privacy Policy.
We may terminate your account or access to the Service if we reasonably believe that you have violated these Terms, created risk or potential legal exposure for Gastronomy or others, engaged in fraudulent or abusive activity, or used the Service in a manner that could harm the Service or its users.
Where appropriate, we may remove User Content associated with a terminated account.
12. Copyright and Intellectual Property Complaints
Gastronomy respects the intellectual property rights of others.
If you believe content available through the Service infringes your copyright or other intellectual property rights, please contact us at info@gastronomyapp.com and provide enough information for us to identify the content and evaluate your request.
We may remove content that we reasonably believe infringes intellectual property rights and may take action against users who repeatedly infringe the rights of others.
13. Disclaimer of Warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.
Gastronomy does not warrant that the Service will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, accurate, complete, or error-free.
Your use of the Service and your reliance on information available through it are at your own risk.
Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties or rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.
14. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Gastronomy LLC and its officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or related to your use of, or inability to use, the Service.
This includes, where permitted by law, losses arising from reliance on user-generated content, restaurant or product information, third-party services, interruption of the Service, or unauthorized access to or alteration of your content.
Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited or excluded.
15. Indemnification
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Gastronomy LLC and its officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, and agents from claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and reasonable costs arising from your User Content, your misuse of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of another person's rights.
16. Changes to the Service or These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect changes to the Service, our practices, or applicable requirements.
When we update these Terms, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. If changes are material, we may provide additional notice as appropriate.
Your continued use of the Service after updated Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms to the extent permitted by applicable law.
17. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, without regard to its conflict-of-law principles, except where applicable law requires otherwise.
Any disputes arising from these Terms or the Service will be resolved in the courts having jurisdiction in New Jersey, except where applicable consumer-protection law provides you with the right to bring a claim elsewhere.
18. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.
19. Entire Agreement
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms that expressly apply to particular features of the Service, constitute the agreement between you and Gastronomy regarding your use of the Service.
20. Contact Us
If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at:
info@gastronomyapp.com
Gastronomy LLC