Shelfsmith

Draft, not yet in effect. These terms are awaiting legal review and will take effect when Shelfsmith is released.

Terms of Service

Last updated September 21, 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Rhett Lindell ("we", "us"), who operates the Shelfsmith app. By creating an account or using the app, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use Shelfsmith. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your information.

1. Who can use Shelfsmith

You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms on your behalf. You are responsible for keeping your password secure and for activity on your account.

2. Households

A household shares one pantry, shopping list and cooking history. Anyone with your household's invite code can join it and see and change its shared information, so share the code only with people you trust. The household owner can remove members. If you leave, or delete your account, what you added stays with the household for the remaining members. When a household's last member leaves, it is deleted with all of its data.

3. Shelfsmith Plus subscriptions

Some features, including receipt scanning, are available only with a Shelfsmith Plus subscription. When offered:

• Billing. Subscriptions are purchased and billed through your Apple ID, and Apple's terms apply to the payment. The price and billing period are shown before you buy.
• Automatic renewal. Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each period, at the then-current price, unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. Your Apple ID is charged within the 24 hours before renewal.
• Free trials. If a free trial is offered, it converts to a paid subscription when it ends unless you cancel at least 24 hours before. Any unused part of a trial ends when you buy a subscription.
• Cancelling. Manage or cancel anytime in your iPhone's Settings, under your name, then Subscriptions. Cancelling stops the next renewal; you keep access until the end of the period you paid for. Deleting the app or your Shelfsmith account does not cancel an Apple subscription.
• Refunds. Apple handles refunds under its own policies. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com. Nothing in these terms limits any right to a refund or cancellation that the law gives you.
• Household sharing. A subscription unlocks Plus features for every member of the subscriber's household while the subscriber belongs to it. If the subscriber leaves, the other members lose access unless another member subscribes.
• Fair use. Receipt scanning is limited to 100 scans per household in any 30 days, which covers far more than normal use. We may change subscription features or prices with reasonable notice. Apple will ask for your agreement before any price increase applies to you where required.

4. Using Shelfsmith properly

You agree not to misuse the app, including by: trying to access other households' data or our systems without permission; interfering with or overloading the service; reverse engineering it except where the law allows; using it to break the law; or using automated means to extract recipes or other content.

5. Your content

You keep ownership of what you add, such as pantry items, lists and household names. You give us permission to store, process and display it only as needed to run Shelfsmith for you and your household. You are responsible for having the right to upload the receipt photos you scan.

6. Our content

The app, its design, and its recipe collection, including recipe text, instructions and nutrition figures, belong to us. We give you a personal, non-transferable licence to use them in the app for your own non-commercial cooking.

7. Food, health and safety

Please read this section carefully.

• Allergies. Excluding an ingredient hides recipes that list it, but recipes and packaged foods can contain allergens that are not listed, such as in sauces, seasonings or through cross-contamination. Shelfsmith is a convenience, not a safety system. Always check ingredient labels, and do not rely on the app if you have a serious allergy.
• Nutrition. Calories and macronutrients are estimates per serving from standard references. They vary with ingredients and portion sizes, and are not dietary or medical advice. Talk to a doctor or dietitian before making health decisions.
• Food safety. Expiry reminders and dates are estimates. Follow the dates on packaging, and use your own judgement about whether food is safe to eat. Cook food thoroughly and follow safe food-handling practice.
• Receipt reading. Receipts are read by AI, which can make mistakes. Check the items on the review screen before adding them.

8. Availability and changes

We work to keep Shelfsmith running and improving, but it may sometimes be unavailable, and we may change or remove features. If we stop offering Shelfsmith, we will give reasonable notice where we can, and you can request a copy of your information before it closes.

9. Ending your use

You can stop using Shelfsmith and delete your account at any time in Settings. We may suspend or close accounts that seriously or repeatedly break these terms, or where the law requires, and will tell you why unless the law prevents it.

10. Disclaimers

To the extent the law allows, Shelfsmith is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy of recipes, nutrition information or receipt reading, and uninterrupted availability.

11. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential losses, or for loss of data, arising from your use of Shelfsmith, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us for Shelfsmith in the 12 months before the claim, or US $50 if greater.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

12. Your rights as a consumer

If you live in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada or elsewhere with consumer protection laws, you have legal rights that these terms cannot take away. In Australia, our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Where these terms conflict with those rights, those rights win.

13. Changes to these terms

If we make material changes, we will tell you in the app or by email at least 30 days before they take effect. Continuing to use Shelfsmith after that means you accept the new terms; if you do not, you can delete your account.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of [to be confirmed], United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. If you are a consumer living outside the United States, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and may bring claims in its courts.

15. Apple App Store terms

If you downloaded Shelfsmith from Apple's App Store, you and we also agree that:

• These terms are between you and us only, not Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for Shelfsmith and its content.
• Your licence to use Shelfsmith is limited to Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for any maintenance and support. Apple has no obligation to provide any.
• If Shelfsmith fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, which may refund the purchase price. To the maximum extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation, and any other claims, losses or costs from a failure to conform to a warranty are our responsibility.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims about Shelfsmith, including product liability claims, claims that it fails to meet legal or regulatory requirements, and claims under consumer protection, privacy or similar laws.
• If anyone claims that Shelfsmith infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for investigating, defending, settling and discharging the claim.
• You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a US government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and are not on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• You must comply with any applicable third-party terms, such as your wireless data agreement, when using Shelfsmith.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms, and once you accept them, Apple may enforce them against you.

16. Contact

Questions, complaints or claims: Rhett Lindell, lindellrhett@gmail.com.