Terms and Conditions
Effective · Last updated
1. Who we are
Kaunto (“the App”) is provided by:
EN PLACE AD S.R.L., a limited liability company registered in Romania Trade Register no. J2018002711129 · EUID ROONRC.J2018002711129 · Tax ID (CUI) 39521926 Registered office: Str. Regina Maria nr. 14D, Cluj-Napoca, Județul Cluj, Romania Email: contact@fabelx.com · Phone: +40 742 092 489
(“we”, “us”, “our”)
These Terms form a binding agreement between you and us. By creating an account or using the App you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use the App.
Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your personal data and forms part of these Terms.
2. Eligibility
You must be at least 16 years old to use Kaunto. The App is not directed at anyone younger, and we do not knowingly process their data.
By using the App you confirm you are 16 or over and have legal capacity to enter into these Terms. If you are under 18, please review these Terms with a parent or guardian.
3. Your account
You need an account. Register with an email and password, or sign in with Google or Apple.
You are responsible for the accuracy of your registration details, for keeping your credentials confidential, and for activity under your account. Tell us at contact@fabelx.com promptly if you suspect unauthorised access.
One account per person. Do not share, sell, or transfer your account.
4. ⚠️ Health disclaimer — read this carefully
Kaunto is a self-tracking and informational tool. It is not a medical device. It does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
- Calorie and macronutrient targets are estimates, calculated from general-population formulas using the details you enter. They may be materially wrong for you.
- Nutritional values are estimates. Food data comes from third-party databases, other users, automated photo recognition, and your own entries. Detailed breakdowns — vitamins, amino acids, fibre subtypes — are derived approximations, not laboratory measurements, and must not be relied on for clinical purposes or to manage allergies or dietary restrictions.
- Photo recognition and barcode scanning are automated and frequently inaccurate. Always verify before relying on a result.
- Do not rely on the App as a sole information source if you have a medical condition — including diabetes, kidney or liver disease, allergies or intolerances, pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before starting or changing any diet, exercise, or weight-management programme. Never disregard or delay professional medical advice because of something in the App.
If you think you may be having a medical emergency, contact your local emergency services immediately.
4.1 A note on disordered eating
Calorie tracking is not right for everyone and can be harmful for some people. If you have, or think you may have, an eating disorder, please speak to a healthcare professional before using Kaunto.
If you need support, contact your healthcare provider or a local eating-disorder support service.
4.2 Assumption of risk
You acknowledge that using a calorie- and macronutrient-tracking tool, and making dietary or exercise changes based on information you obtain from it, carries inherent risk. You use the App voluntarily and assume that risk. You are solely responsible for evaluating whether the App is appropriate for you, for verifying any figure before acting on it, and for seeking professional advice where your circumstances warrant it.
5. Licence
We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the App on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial use, subject to these Terms and your app store’s rules.
We reserve all rights not expressly granted. The App, its design, and its content are protected by intellectual property law and remain ours or our licensors’.
6. What you may not do
You may not:
- use the App unlawfully or in breach of these Terms;
- reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble it, except where that restriction is prohibited by law;
- copy, modify, distribute, sell, sublicense or lease any part of it;
- access it by automated means, or circumvent rate limits, authentication, or security controls;
- interfere with or place undue load on our systems or our providers’;
- submit content that is unlawful, deliberately false, offensive, infringing, or that contains another person’s personal data;
- use the App to build a competing product or dataset, or to scrape or bulk-extract its data;
- create multiple accounts to evade limits or restrictions.
7. Your content
You keep ownership of what you create: logs, recipes, custom foods and activities, profile details, and photos.
7.1 Private by default
Your logs, recipes, profile, photos and health data are private to your account and are never shown to other users.
7.2 Community food entries are public
When you create a new food item, it is added to a shared community food database and becomes visible to and usable by other Kaunto users.
For those entries you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt, publish and distribute the entry within the App, including making it available to other users. This licence exists solely to operate and improve the App.
It survives deletion of your account for entries already shared — other users may rely on them. On deletion we strip the internal account identifier from those entries, so they carry no link to you and do not identify you.
Shared: food name, brand, barcode, nutritional values. Not shared: your identity — no other user sees who created an entry. See Privacy Policy §7 for exactly what an entry stores while your account is active. Do not put personal information in a food name.
You confirm you have the rights to what you submit and that it infringes no one else’s rights.
7.3 Improving our services
We may use content and activity in the App to operate, secure, analyse and improve the App and to develop new features, including by producing de-identified and aggregated data as described in §7.4.
Where applicable law requires your consent for a particular use of your personal data, we will obtain it before that use. Our current practices are described in the Privacy Policy, which we may update in line with §19.
7.4 Aggregated and anonymised data
We may create aggregated and anonymised statistics and insights from usage of the App — for example, how many users log a given food, or overall feature usage — and use them to operate, analyse, improve and promote the App.
Such data is irreversibly stripped of anything identifying you and can no longer be linked back to you or your device. Because it is no longer personal data, it is not subject to the Privacy Policy, and we may retain and use it without limitation, including after your account is deleted. We do not sell your personal data (see the Privacy Policy).
7.5 Feedback
If you send us ideas, suggestions, bug reports or other feedback, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use it for any purpose without obligation, attribution, or compensation to you. Please do not send us anything you consider confidential or proprietary.
7.6 Moderation and takedown
We may remove or edit content we reasonably believe breaches these Terms, is inaccurate, or infringes a third party’s rights, but we are not obliged to monitor content.
If you believe content in the App infringes your intellectual property, email contact@fabelx.com with: identification of the work, identification of the infringing content, your contact details, and a statement that you believe in good faith the use is unauthorised. We will investigate and act where appropriate.
8. Third-party data and services
The App depends on third parties whose availability and accuracy we do not control:
- Open Food Facts — barcode and product data, under the Open Database License (ODbL). Contributed by the public, not verified by us, and possibly incomplete or wrong. Always check the packaging for allergen and nutritional information.
- USDA FoodData Central — nutritional reference data.
- OpenAI — automated food recognition from photos.
- Google Firebase — authentication, database, file storage.
- Google Sign-In / Sign in with Apple — optional authentication.
Your use of third-party services may be subject to their own terms. See the Privacy Policy for what data reaches each.
9. Apple Health and Health Connect
With your permission, the App integrates with Apple Health (iOS) or Health Connect (Android). This is optional and revocable at any time in your device settings; the App works without it.
- We read: steps, active energy burned, total calories burned, exercise time, distance, weight, height, workouts, heart rate.
- We write: workouts you log in the App.
Revoking permission stops future syncing but does not retroactively remove data already imported — you can delete that in the App.
We do not use health data for advertising or marketing, we do not sell it, and we do not share it with data brokers.
10. Camera and photos
With your permission the App can use your camera and photo library to recognise food and to set a profile picture.
Meal photos are uploaded for processing. Before upload they are downscaled and stripped of embedded metadata, including any location data. The Privacy Policy sets out retention.
11. Availability and changes
We aim to keep the App available but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation, and we do not commit to any particular feature, level of service, or availability. We may add, change, limit, suspend or discontinue any part of the App at any time and without liability to you, including features you rely on. Where applicable law requires notice of a change, we will give it; otherwise none is required.
Most features need an internet connection. Your carrier’s data charges are yours.
Support: contact@fabelx.com.
12. Price
Kaunto is currently free, with no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, and no advertising.
If we introduce paid features in future we will update these Terms and notify you before they affect you. Purchases would be processed by Apple or Google under their own terms, and any subscription would auto-renew until cancelled in your app store account settings. We will never target advertising using your health data.
13. Ending your use and deleting your data
You may stop using the App at any time and delete your account in-app (Profile → Delete account).
Deletion permanently removes your profile, food and activity logs, recipes, custom activities, settings and profile photo. It is irreversible. Community food entries you contributed may remain, unlinked from you (§7.2). Full detail: Privacy Policy §9–§10.
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the App, or delete your account and associated content, at our discretion and at any time, including where we believe you have breached these Terms, where required by law, or where we discontinue the App or any part of it. Where we are legally required to give notice, we will. Otherwise we are not obliged to provide notice, a reason, or an opportunity to cure, and we have no liability to you for doing so. Your statutory rights as a consumer are unaffected.
14. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the App is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the App will meet your requirements, be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, or that any data, calculation or estimate it provides is accurate or complete.
Nothing in these Terms limits your statutory rights as a consumer. If you are a consumer in the EU, EEA or UK, you keep all mandatory rights under applicable consumer law, and these disclaimers apply only so far as that law permits.
15. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law:
- We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, data, goodwill, or business opportunity, however caused.
- We are not responsible for backing up your content. You are solely responsible for keeping your own copies. We are not liable for any loss, corruption, or deletion of content, whether caused by us, a third-party provider, or otherwise.
- We are not liable for any health outcome, injury or condition arising from your reliance on the App. Decisions about your diet, exercise and health are yours.
- Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the App is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or (b) EUR 100.
We do not exclude or limit liability for: death or personal injury caused by our negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If you are a consumer, your mandatory statutory rights are unaffected.
16. Indemnity
You will indemnify us against reasonable claims, losses and costs arising from your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the App, or content you submit that infringes a third party’s rights. This does not apply where the claim results from our own breach or negligence.
17. Apple App Store — additional terms
If you obtained the App from the Apple App Store:
- These Terms are between you and us only, not with Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for the App and its content.
- Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support.
- If the App fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any). To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever.
- We, not Apple, are responsible for claims relating to the App — including product liability, legal or regulatory non-compliance, and consumer protection claims.
- We, not Apple, are responsible for investigating and resolving third-party intellectual property claims.
- You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated “terrorist supporting”, and are not on any U.S. Government prohibited or restricted party list.
- Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.
18. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by Romanian law, and disputes fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the mandatory protections of the law of your country of residence, and you may also bring proceedings there. EU consumers may use the European Commission’s Online Dispute Resolution platform: https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.
18.1 Talk to us first
Before starting formal proceedings, please email contact@fabelx.com with a description of the issue. Most problems are resolved quickly this way, and we ask for 30 days to try. This does not prevent you from exercising any statutory right, or from seeking urgent relief.
18.2 Time limit for claims
To the fullest extent permitted by law, any claim arising out of or relating to the App must be brought within one year of the event giving rise to it, or be permanently barred. This does not apply where a longer period is mandatory under the consumer law that applies to you.
19. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. The “Last updated” date will change and, for material changes, we will give reasonable notice in the App or by email before they take effect. Continuing to use the App after that means you accept them. If you do not, stop using the App and delete your account.
20. Events outside our control
We are not liable for any failure or delay in providing the App caused by events beyond our reasonable control — including outages or changes at our infrastructure or third-party providers, internet or network failures, changes in law, acts of government, industrial action, natural events, epidemics, or armed conflict.
21. Beta and experimental features
We may label certain features as beta, preview, or experimental. These are provided “as is” for evaluation, may be changed or withdrawn at any time, and may be less reliable or accurate than the rest of the App. Use them at your own discretion.
22. Survival
Sections that by their nature should survive termination do so — including §4 (health disclaimer), §5 (licence and IP), §7 (your content, including the community-food and feedback licences), §14 (disclaimers), §15 (limitation of liability), §16 (indemnity), §18 (governing law, disputes, time limit), and this §22.
23. General
- Severability — if a provision is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable, or severed; the rest stand.
- No waiver — not enforcing a provision, once or repeatedly, does not waive it.
- Assignment — you may not assign or transfer these Terms. We may assign them to a successor in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, on notice to you.
- No third-party rights — except Apple under §17, no one other than you and us has any right to enforce these Terms.
- Notices — we may give notice in the App, or by email to your registered address; you give notice to contact@fabelx.com.
- Entire agreement — these Terms plus the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement about the App, and supersede any prior understanding. Nothing here limits liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
- Language — the English version prevails in the event of any conflict with a translation, so far as applicable law permits.
24. Contact
EN PLACE AD S.R.L. Str. Regina Maria nr. 14D, Cluj-Napoca, Județul Cluj, Romania contact@fabelx.com · +40 742 092 489