These Terms are the agreement between you and the developer of Vercue. Please read them before using the app.
Vercue (the “App”) is an iPhone application operated by Pavel Movilean, an individual resident in the Republic of Moldova (“we”, “us”, “our”). By downloading, accessing or using the App you agree to these Terms of Use (“Terms”) and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the App.
The App tells you this before you start: the first screen carries the line “By continuing, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy”, with both documents linked from the words themselves, and continuing past that screen is how you accept them. Section 15, about how disputes are resolved, changes your legal rights, so please read it.
Vercue is intended solely for adults. By using the App you represent that you are at least 18 years old. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18, and we will delete such an account if we learn of it.
Vercue is offered only in the United States and in the Republic of Moldova. We do not market or direct the App to residents of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, and the App is not available on those App Store storefronts. If you access the App from anywhere else, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with your local law.
Vercue is a general wellness and food-journaling tool. You photograph a meal; artificial intelligence produces an estimate of its calories and macronutrients; the App shows your day and suggests a next step in non-judgemental language. The App itself is licensed to you under Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User Licence Agreement, on Apple-branded devices you own or control and as permitted by Apple’s Media Services Terms and Conditions. These Terms are the terms of the Vercue service and sit alongside that licence rather than replacing it; on a question about the software licence itself, Apple’s licence controls, and the terms Apple requires are set out in Section 17.
Vercue is a general wellness product for informational and self-management purposes only. It is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, prevent or screen for any disease or condition, including eating disorders, diabetes, or any metabolic condition. It does not provide medical, clinical or dietetic advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before changing your diet, your training, or the management of any health condition. Where the App links to external help resources, it does so for information only; that does not create a duty of care or a clinical relationship.
The App does not ask about, detect or account for pregnancy, breastfeeding, medication, or medical conditions affecting nutrition. If any of these apply to you, the App’s targets and suggestions are not appropriate for you, and you should follow guidance from your healthcare provider instead.
The same goes for a disordered relationship with food. Vercue is written to avoid guilt, but it is still an app that counts things, and it has no way of knowing when counting is bad for you. If you are being treated for an eating disorder, or someone qualified has told you not to track food or weight, follow them and not this App.
Vercue is not designed to identify allergens or to determine whether a food is safe for a person with a food allergy or intolerance. Its ingredient guesses are estimates produced by AI from a photograph and may be wrong or incomplete. Always verify ingredients and allergen information independently, from the packaging, the manufacturer, or the venue that prepared the food. Never rely on Vercue to decide whether a food is safe for you to eat.
We do not promise that using Vercue will produce any particular outcome — any amount of weight lost or gained, any change in body composition, or any other result. Results depend on factors outside the App’s control, and nothing in the App, on this site, or in our marketing should be read as a guarantee.
When you scan a meal, you are interacting with an artificial intelligence system, not a person. AI generates the dish name, the ingredient list, the calorie and macronutrient estimates, the next-meal suggestion and the short comment shown with a scan, and the observations and suggestions in the weekly read. Your daily calorie and protein targets are not generated by AI: they are calculated by a fixed formula from your answers and your weight.
Everything AI produces is an estimate or a suggestion. It may be inaccurate, incomplete or misleading; it varies with the photo, the dish and hidden ingredients such as oils, sauces and cooking method; and no person, dietitian or clinician reviews it before you see it. Vercue is designed to follow direction over time rather than to measure a single meal precisely. Do not rely on it for precise dietary management, for allergen decisions, or for any medical purpose.
You sign in with Apple. You are responsible for the security of the Apple ID you use. The meals, photographs, weights and answers you enter remain yours. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, revocable permission to use them only to operate the App for you: to turn a photo into an estimate, to store your log so you can see it, to diagnose and fix faults, to keep the service secure, and to check and improve the accuracy of our estimates using your content and your accuracy feedback. That permission ends when you delete your account, except for backup copies that expire as described in our Privacy Policy. It is not a licence to publish your content, to use it in marketing, to sell it, or to train an AI model on it. We do not publish your content, and other users cannot see it. How photos are handled is described in the Privacy Policy.
If Vercue offers a referral reward, such as free days of premium access for inviting a friend, the details are shown in the App when the offer is available. Rewards hold no cash value, are not a currency or an account balance, cannot be exchanged for money, and may be withdrawn or reversed if the underlying purchase is refunded or if we detect abuse. Automated, bulk, misleading or spam invitations are prohibited and may result in loss of rewards and closure of the account. Creators who receive commissions do so under a separate written agreement and are independent contractors, responsible for their own taxes and for disclosing their material connection to Vercue in the manner required by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
The App, its name, mark, design, text and software are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property law. These Terms grant you a licence to use the App; they do not transfer any ownership to you.
You may stop using Vercue at any time and can delete your account and its data from within the App (Settings › Delete account). Deleting your account does not cancel your Apple subscription — cancel that separately in Apple’s Settings. We may suspend or terminate access if you materially breach these Terms, if we are required to by law, or if continuing to provide the service is no longer viable; where practical we will give notice. We may also change, add or withdraw features over time. If a change materially reduces what a paid subscription gives you, we will say so before it takes effect where that is practical, and your statutory rights are unaffected.
THE APP IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE APP WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY NUTRITIONAL ESTIMATE IT PRODUCES WILL BE ACCURATE.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE APP, OR TO ANY INACCURATE NUTRITIONAL ESTIMATE OR SUGGESTION IT PRODUCES. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE APP WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, demand, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your misuse of the App, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.
The provisions below from “Binding arbitration” to the opt-out apply if you live in the United States. If you live in the Republic of Moldova, they do not apply to you, and your rights under Moldovan consumer law are unaffected.
Before starting formal proceedings, contact us at support@vercue.app with a short description of the problem and what you want. We will try in good faith to resolve it within 30 days.
If we cannot resolve it, you and we agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the App will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in court, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section. The arbitration will be conducted in English, and may be conducted by telephone or on written submissions where the rules allow.
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, consolidated or representative proceeding.
If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are filed against us by, or with the coordination of, the same law firm or organisation, the AAA’s Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules will apply, and you and we agree to cooperate with the process arbitrator appointed under them, including any staging or grouping of cases that arbitrator directs. Any limitation period is paused for a demand that is waiting its turn, so nobody loses a claim by waiting. Nothing in this paragraph prevents your own claim from being heard and decided on its merits, and either party may still settle an individual claim at any time.
We will pay the portion of AAA’s filing, administrative and arbitrator fees that the applicable AAA rules allocate to us, and we will not seek our legal costs from you unless the arbitrator finds your claim was frivolous or brought in bad faith. If AAA’s consumer fee schedule requires you to pay a filing fee and paying it would prevent you from bringing your claim, tell us and we will pay it for you.
IF FOR ANY REASON A DISPUTE PROCEEDS IN COURT RATHER THAN IN ARBITRATION, YOU AND WE EACH KNOWINGLY AND IRREVOCABLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the App must be brought within one year after the claim arises. A claim brought after that period is permanently barred. Where the law of your state does not allow a shortened period, the shortest period that law does allow applies instead.
If the class-action waiver above is found unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, that claim or request, and only that one, will be severed and decided in court, not in arbitration, and the court proceeding will be stayed until the individual claims in arbitration are decided. A class, collective or representative arbitration will never take place. Nothing in this section waives a right to seek public injunctive relief that cannot be waived under applicable law; any such request will be decided by a court after the remaining claims are arbitrated individually.
You can opt out of arbitration and the class-action waiver by emailing support@vercue.app with the subject line “Arbitration Opt-Out”, from the address on your account or with enough detail for us to identify it. You have 30 days from first accepting these Terms — and, if we later change this Section 15, a fresh 30 days from the date that change takes effect. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms, and we will not treat you differently for doing so.
If you live in the United States, the Federal Arbitration Act governs Section 15, and otherwise these Terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the law of the U.S. state in which you reside, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. If you live in the Republic of Moldova, these Terms are governed by the law of the Republic of Moldova. Wherever you live, nothing in these Terms deprives you of the protection of consumer law that cannot be waived by agreement.
Apple Inc. requires the following, and it applies to your use of the App:
We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will give notice in the App and on this page before it takes effect, and the date at the top will change. Continuing to use the App after that means you accept the updated Terms; if you do not, stop using the App and delete your account. A change to these Terms does not apply to a dispute that had already arisen before the change took effect, and a change to Section 15 reopens your 30-day right to opt out of arbitration.
Pavel Movilean — Vercue
Email: support@vercue.app