Terms of Service

0. Summary (non-binding plain-English overview)

This summary is provided for convenience only and is not part of the binding agreement. If it conflicts with the numbered sections below, the numbered sections control.

1. Agreement to these Terms

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding contract between you and Karan Sharma (sole proprietor), a sole proprietorship organized under the laws of Michigan ("Karan Sharma (sole proprietor)," "we," "us," or "our"), governing your access to and use of the MacroSquad mobile application, websites, APIs, and related services (collectively, the "Service").

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 at https://getmacrosquad.com/privacy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not access or use the Service.

2. Eligibility and age requirements

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Service. If you are between 13 and 17, you represent that a parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms on your behalf and consents to your use of the Service, including its social features.

The Service is offered and intended for use only in the United States. We make no claim that the Service is appropriate or available for use outside the United States. If you access the Service from elsewhere, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local law.

You represent that you are not barred from receiving the Service under applicable law and are not located in an embargoed or restricted jurisdiction.

3. Your account and security

You are responsible for safeguarding your account credentials and for all activity occurring under your account, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to (a) provide accurate, current account information; (b) keep it updated; and (c) notify us promptly at support@getmacrosquad.com of any unauthorized use or security breach.

We may suspend or disable credentials we reasonably believe have been compromised or used in violation of these Terms.

4. License to use the Service

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to download and use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted. You obtain no ownership interest in the Service or its software, trademarks, or content (other than your own User Content).

5. Not medical, nutritional, or professional advice

MacroSquad is a software tool for tracking nutrition, macronutrients, and related personal data. It is NOT a medical device, and it does NOT provide medical, dietary, nutritional, psychological, or other professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. We are not your doctor, registered dietitian, nutritionist, or therapist, and no clinician-patient or similar relationship is created by your use of the Service.

Nothing in the Service should be relied upon for any medical or health decision. Always seek the advice of a qualified, licensed health professional with any questions about your nutrition, a medical condition, weight, supplementation, or before starting, stopping, or changing any diet or exercise program. Never disregard or delay seeking professional advice because of something you read or saw in the Service. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call your doctor or 911 (or your local emergency number) immediately.

The Service does not establish individualized calorie or macro recommendations as clinical guidance; any goals, targets, or defaults are general informational tooling that you control and may change.

6. Nutrition estimates disclaimer

What produces your numbers today. Nutritional values in the Service come from third-party nutrition databases (Section 13), from a barcode you scan, or from values you enter yourself. Photo-to-macros image recognition is switched off and the Service does not read macros from your photos. A photo you attach to a meal is shown to the people your privacy setting allows and is not analyzed.

THESE ESTIMATES ARE APPROXIMATIONS AND MAY BE INACCURATE, INCOMPLETE, OR WRONG. Database entries can be mislabeled, portions differ from the serving a database assumes, and a barcode can point at a reformulated product. You are solely responsible for reviewing and verifying any estimate before relying on it, especially where accuracy materially affects your health, allergies, or any decision. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or fitness of any value the Service shows. Outputs are not reviewed by a human professional.

If automated recognition is switched on later, the same disclaimer applies to it in full, and we will say so in this Section and in our Privacy Policy before it ships.

7. User Content and license grant

"User Content" means any content you submit, post, or transmit through the Service, including meal photos, captions, comments, food names, reactions, recap content, and profile information.

You retain ownership of your User Content. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable (solely to our service providers acting on our behalf), and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, modify (e.g., resize/format), display, and distribute your User Content solely as necessary to operate, provide, secure, and improve the Service and consistent with your privacy settings and our Privacy Policy. This license ends when you or we delete the User Content, except (a) for content shared with others who have not deleted it, and (b) for reasonable backup copies retained for a limited period.

We do not sell your User Content. We do not use your User Content to train third-party generative AI models without your explicit, separate opt-in consent.

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

8. Acceptable use and social conduct

The Service includes a friends-only social layer. To keep it safe, you agree not to, and not to enable or encourage others to:

Friend conduct. Friend connections require mutual acceptance. Content you share is visible only to connections within the limits of your privacy settings. Because the social graph involves real friends, abusive conduct toward connections may result in removal of content, restriction of social features, suspension, or termination.

We may remove content and suspend or terminate accounts that violate this Section, with or without notice, in our reasonable discretion, prioritizing user safety.

8.1 Zero tolerance for objectionable content and abusive users

There is zero tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behavior on the Service. "Objectionable content" includes, without limitation, content that is harassing, threatening, hateful, defamatory, obscene, sexually explicit, that depicts or sexualizes minors, that promotes self-harm or disordered eating, or that is otherwise unlawful or abusive.

To keep the friends-only social layer safe, we provide the following safeguards:

To report content or a user outside the app, or to escalate an urgent safety concern, email support@getmacrosquad.com.

9. Wellbeing, eating-disorder safety, and crisis resources

We design the Service to reduce, not amplify, risks associated with disordered eating and harmful body-image comparison, consistent with our internal wellbeing safeguards. Among other measures, the Service: does not provide public leaderboards, public profiles, ranking of one person's day against another's, restriction-based awards, or shame-based visualizations; never colors a macro red and never greys one out for going over a target; and keeps your body weight to yourself, structurally, by never including it in anything a friend or squadmate can see.

These are product-design constraints, not a clinical service, and they are not monitoring. The Service does not diagnose, monitor, treat, screen for, or guarantee the prevention of any eating disorder, mental-health condition, or harm, and nothing in it watches your logs for signs of one. If you are struggling, the resources below are always available, and they are not gated behind a subscription.

If you are struggling, help is available 24/7. You can also reach these from Settings, then About, then Wellness resources in the app:

If you are in immediate danger, call 911 or your local emergency number.

10. Subscriptions, auto-renewal, and Apple billing

The Service offers an optional paid subscription ("MacroSquad Premium"). Logging is free forever and is never gated by a subscription: food search, barcode scanning, quick add, saved meals, relogging, your privacy controls, data export and account deletion are free on every tier. Premium adds interpretation and capacity on top of that.

Pricing (introductory; subject to change per below):

Billing through Apple. All subscriptions are sold and processed as in-app purchases through the Apple App Store using your Apple ID, subject to Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions. We do not collect or store your payment-card details; Apple handles billing.

Auto-renewal: please read. Your subscription automatically renews at the then-current price for the same period (monthly or annual) unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple ID account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial, if offered, is forfeited when you purchase a subscription.

How to cancel. Manage or cancel your subscription in Settings, then [your name], then Subscriptions on your Apple device, or via the App Store, at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; you retain Premium access until then. Deleting the app does not cancel your subscription.

Refunds. Purchases are handled by Apple, and refund requests are processed by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com, subject to Apple's policies. Except where required by law, payments are non-refundable and we do not control or guarantee refunds.

Price and plan changes. We may change subscription pricing or features. For active subscribers, we will provide at least 30 days' notice of a price increase via in-app notice or email, and (where required) Apple will request your renewed consent before the new price takes effect; if you do not agree, you may cancel before renewal.

11. No advertising

The Service shows no advertising, on any tier. There is no ad network and no advertising SDK in the app, and no advertiser or advertising broker receives anything about you. Earlier versions of these Terms reserved the right to show ads outside the logging flow; that reservation has been removed because it described something the app has never done. If that ever changes, we will amend these Terms and our Privacy Policy under Section 22 before any advertising appears.

12. Privacy

Your use of the Service is subject to our Privacy Policy at https://getmacrosquad.com/privacy, which explains how we collect, use, and share information. Because the Service handles health- and nutrition-related personal data, you should review it carefully.

13. Third-party services and attributions

The Service relies on third-party services, which have their own terms and may change. These include, without limitation:

By using the Service you agree to comply with applicable third-party terms where they govern features you use. We are not responsible for third-party services, their availability, or their content.

14. Intellectual property

The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics, logos, and trademarks (excluding User Content), is owned by Karan Sharma (sole proprietor) or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. You may not use our name, logos, or trademarks without prior written permission. Feedback you provide may be used by us without obligation or compensation to you.

15. Termination

By you. You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time through the app or by contacting support@getmacrosquad.com.

By us. We may suspend or terminate your access, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, created risk or legal exposure for us or other users, or for any other lawful reason. We may also discontinue the Service or any feature.

Effect of termination. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends. We will delete your personal data within 30 days, subject to legal retention requirements and reasonable backups. Sections that by their nature should survive (including Sections 5–9, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20) survive termination.

16. Indemnification

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Karan Sharma (sole proprietor) and its officers, members, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to (a) your User Content; (b) your use or misuse of the Service; (c) your violation of these Terms or any law; or (d) your violation of any third-party right.

17. Disclaimers of warranties

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT AND ESTIMATES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE OR ANY NUTRITIONAL ESTIMATE WILL BE ACCURATE, UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN DISCLAIMERS, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

18. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, Karan Sharma (sole proprietor) AND ITS REPRESENTATIVES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR HEALTH OUTCOMES, ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) $50 USD.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED BY LAW (INCLUDING, WHERE APPLICABLE, LIABILITY FOR GROSS NEGLIGENCE, WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY OUR NEGLIGENCE).

19. Dispute resolution: binding arbitration and class-action waiver

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY. THIS SECTION AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, INCLUDING YOUR RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT AND TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.

Informal resolution first. Before filing a claim, you and we agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting support@getmacrosquad.com and allowing 60 days to resolve it.

Binding arbitration. Except for the carve-outs below, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its applicable consumer rules. Arbitration will take place in Washtenaw County, Michigan or by remote means where available. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Carve-outs. Either party may bring qualifying claims in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief for intellectual-property infringement or unauthorized access in court.

Class-action waiver. YOU AND WE AGREE THAT CLAIMS WILL BE BROUGHT ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims.

30-day opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing support@getmacrosquad.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, stating your name and intent to opt out. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.

20. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and (for arbitrability) by the Federal Arbitration Act. Subject to Section 19, any matter not subject to arbitration will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Washtenaw County, Michigan, and you consent to their personal jurisdiction and venue.

21. Apple-required terms (App Store EULA addendum)

If you obtained the app through the Apple App Store, you acknowledge:

22. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes, we will provide notice via in-app notice or email and, where practicable, at least 30 days before they take effect. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and may cancel any subscription.

23. General

Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede prior agreements. Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect, and (except for the class-action waiver in Section 19, which is not severable from the agreement to arbitrate) the unenforceable provision is modified to the minimum extent necessary. No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. Assignment. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Force majeure. We are not liable for delays or failures due to causes beyond our reasonable control. Notices. We may provide notices via in-app message, email, or posting. Headings/Summary. Headings and the Section 0 summary are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation.

24. Contact

Karan Sharma (sole proprietor)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Email: support@getmacrosquad.com
Safety / abuse reports: support@getmacrosquad.com
Support: https://getmacrosquad.com/support

Change log: what version 2.2 corrected

Version 2.2 removes claims and reservations that did not match the shipped app. Every change narrows what we reserve or assert; none of them expands our rights or your obligations, so none is a material change requiring advance notice under Section 22.

Effective date: July 2, 2026

Last updated: September 12, 2026

Version: 2.2