Terms of Use

Last updated: September 3, 2026 · Version 2026-09-03 · For accounts created before that date, in effect from October 15, 2026

These terms govern your use of Food Loot (the "Service"): the Food Loot mobile application and the website www.foodloot.app. By creating an account or using the Service you agree to them; if you do not agree, do not use the Service. The Privacy Policy explains what data the Service processes and is part of this agreement.

1. What the Service is

Food Loot lets you discover restaurants, cafés and bars, write personal reviews with photos, keep lists of places, and follow people to read their reviews. The Service is provided free of charge. It is published by a private individual based in France (the "operator", "we"); contact details are in section 16 and in the Privacy Policy.

2. Who can use it

You must be at least 16 years old to use the Service. If we learn that an account belongs to someone younger, we delete it. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child under 16 has created an account, write to us and we will remove it.

3. Your account

An account is optional; it exists to sync your content across your devices and to follow people. You agree to provide accurate information when creating one, to keep your credentials to yourself, and to tell us if you believe your account has been compromised. You are responsible for activity that happens under your account. One person, one account: you may not create an account for someone else, nor use an account after we have closed it.

You can delete your account at any time from the app (Profile → account) or by writing to contact@foodloot.app.

4. Your content

The reviews, photos, and lists you create remain yours. When you sync them, you grant us the non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence needed to operate the Service: storing your content, making it available to you on your devices, showing your published reviews to the people who follow you, and displaying a review on its public web page when you or a follower share its link. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for the copies described in section 6.

You are responsible for what you post. By publishing content you confirm that you have the right to publish it, that it does not infringe anyone's rights (including the right to one's own image: don't photograph people without their consent), and that it is not deliberately misleading. A review is about a place and a meal, not about a person.

A published review has a public web page (www.foodloot.app/reviews/…). Whoever has the link can open it, even without an account, so sharing the link makes the review public to that extent. Blocking someone does not take a link away from them.

5. Community rules — zero tolerance

Food Loot is a place to talk about food. There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. You may not post, share, or send through the Service anything that:

• harasses, threatens, bullies, or intimidates anyone;
• is hateful or discriminatory on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age;
• is sexually explicit, or sexualises a minor in any way;
• depicts or glorifies violence or self-harm;
• is illegal, promotes an illegal activity, or infringes someone's copyright, trademark, or other rights;
• reveals someone's private information (home address, phone number, identity documents) or shows an identifiable person without their consent;
• impersonates a person or a business, or misrepresents who you are;
• is spam, advertising, or a fake review — including a review of a business you own, work for, or compete with, written as if you were a customer;
• contains malware, or tries to disrupt, overload, or gain unauthorised access to the Service.

You also may not scrape, harvest, or resell data from the Service, nor use it to reach people who have blocked you.

These rules apply to everything you can write or show through the Service: reviews, photos, captions, list names, your handle, and your reactions.

6. Reporting, blocking, and moderation

Reporting. Every review and every account can be reported from the app: open the ⋮ menu on a review, or someone's profile page, and choose Report. You can pick a reason and add a note. Reports are read by a person and are confidential: the reported user is not told who reported them.

Acting on reports. We review every report. Content that breaks section 5 is removed within 24 hours of the report, and the account that posted it is ejected from the Service: it can no longer sign in, and its published reviews are withdrawn from everyone's feed. We may also eject an account without a report when we become aware of a violation. We keep the reports, including after the accounts involved are deleted, as the evidence that they were acted on and as the law may require; removed content stays stored, hidden, for as long as the account that posted it exists.

Blocking. You can block any account from its profile page or from the ⋮ menu on one of its reviews. Blocking is immediate: their reviews leave your feed, their reactions are removed from your reviews, and they can no longer follow you, react to your content, or find you. The blocked person is not notified. We are notified of every block, so that an abusive account is noticed even when nobody files a report. You can undo a block from your profile.

Contesting a decision. If your content was removed or your account ejected and you believe this was a mistake, write to contact@foodloot.app. A person will review the decision and answer you, and we restore content or accounts when the decision was wrong.

Copyright. If you believe that content on the Service infringes your copyright or your trademark, write to contact@foodloot.app with the URL of the content, a description of the work, proof that you own it, and your contact details. We remove infringing content promptly, and repeat infringers lose their account.

7. Place data

Information about restaurants and other venues comes from open datasets — © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and the Overture Maps Foundation. This data is provided as-is: opening hours, addresses, and even a place's existence can be out of date. Always double-check before crossing town for a meal.

8. Intellectual property and your licence to the app

The Food Loot name, logo, app, and website, and everything in them that is not your content or third-party data, belong to the operator and are protected by copyright and trademark law. We grant you a 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, in accordance with these terms. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, rent, reverse-engineer, or extract the source code of the app, except where the law expressly allows it. The app includes open-source components, which remain under their own licences.

9. App stores and third-party services

Google and Apple sign-in. If you sign in with Google or Apple, your use of those services is governed by their own terms. We receive only the name and email address they share with us.

App stores. The app is distributed through Google Play and the Apple App Store, whose own terms apply to the download. If you obtained the app from the App Store, the following also applies. These terms are between you and the operator, not Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app. If the app fails to conform to a 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, and any other claim, loss, liability, damage, cost, or expense attributable to a failure to conform to a warranty is our responsibility. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claim relating to the app, including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and consumer protection claims. If a third party claims that the app infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of that claim. You confirm that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

10. Availability and warranty

The Service is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind. We work to keep it fast and available, but we don't guarantee uninterrupted operation, and features may change or be discontinued. Keep your own copies of photos you care about: your originals stay on your device, and the Service is not a backup product.

11. Liability

To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect damages arising from your use of the Service, for content posted by other users, or for the accuracy of place data. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under French law, and nothing in them limits the rights you have as a consumer under the mandatory laws of the country where you live.

12. Ending the agreement

You can end this agreement at any time by deleting your account (section 3). We can end it by ejecting your account under section 6, or by closing the Service, in which case we will give you at least 30 days' notice in the app or on this website so that you can export your data from the app. Sections 4 (for content you have made public), 7, 8, 11, 14, and 15 survive the end of the agreement.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the Service or the law evolves. The date and version of the latest text appear at the top of this page. For a material change we will notify you at least 30 days before it takes effect, by email to your account address or in the app. If you do not agree with the new terms, delete your account before that date; continuing to use the Service after it means you accept them.

14. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by French law. If you are a consumer in the European Union, you also keep the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, and you may bring a claim before the courts of that country. If you have a problem with the Service, please write to us first — most issues are settled by an email. Any dispute that cannot be resolved amicably falls under the jurisdiction of the competent French courts, subject to the mandatory rules above.

15. General

These terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If a provision is found invalid, the rest remains in force. Our not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not transfer your account or this agreement to anyone else; we may transfer it to a successor operating the Service, with notice to you. These terms are written in English; translations, if any, are provided for convenience and the English text prevails.

16. Contact

Questions about these terms, reports you cannot file from the app, appeals, and copyright notices: contact@foodloot.app.