Terms of Service

Version 2.1 — Effective: August 11, 2026 (replaces the version dated June 10, 2026)

1. Who We Are and What These Terms Cover

Rout1 Home Brain ("the Service") is a family and household management application, available as a web app and a mobile app. The Service is operated by MARIA PRECIOUS PAULA SUARNABA LAPIZAR, an individual developer based in Tokyo, Japan ("we," "our," or "us").

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms of Service ("Terms") and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account and use this Service.

By creating an account, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age.

The Service lets you, as a parent or guardian, manage information about your family members, including minor children. By entering information about another person, you represent and warrant that you have the legal authority or that person's permission to do so — for your minor children, parental authority is sufficient; for other adults in your household, their consent is your responsibility.

3. Your Account

You are responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials secure and for all activity that occurs under your account. Any use of the Service through your authenticated credentials is treated as use by you.
You must provide accurate information when registering and keep it up to date.
Do not share, sell, or transfer your account to anyone else. Notify us immediately at paula@rout1.com if you suspect unauthorized access.
You may delete your account at any time via Settings. Deleted accounts cannot be recovered.

4. Your Content

You own your content. Everything you create, upload, or store in the Service — tasks, recipes, family member profiles, photos, documents, school forms, food logs, chat messages — remains yours.
You grant us a limited, non-exclusive license to host, process, and display your content solely to provide the Service's features to you and your household. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except as described in Section 10 (Suspension and Termination) and the Privacy Policy's retention rules.
We do not use your content to train AI models — neither our own nor third-party models. See Section 5.
You are responsible for the content you enter. We do not monitor user content except as necessary to operate the Service or comply with legal obligations.
The Service is not a backup system. Please keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose (you can use the in-app data export at any time).

5. AI Features

The Service includes optional features powered by OpenAI through its API. AI features remain off until you separately grant the current AI data-sharing consent in the app; you can withdraw that consent in Settings.

AI output is informational only and is not professional advice.

Meal plans, dietary suggestions, food analysis, and nutrition estimates are not medical, dietary, or nutritional advice.
Document analysis, translations, and task extraction may contain errors.
The "Food DNA" feature is a taste-preference profile computed from your family's meal ratings. Despite its name, it does not involve genetic or biometric data of any kind.

AI-generated content can be inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated. Review AI output before acting on it, and consult a qualified professional for health, legal, financial, or other significant decisions. The AI assistant is an artificial intelligence system, not a human, and will confirm this if asked.

When you use AI features, the content needed to fulfill your request is sent to OpenAI solely to generate the response. API data is not used for model training and is subject to OpenAI's default API retention, currently up to approximately 30 days for abuse monitoring. Raw images, documents, and audio require a separate confirmation for each action. Details are in the Privacy Policy.

You agree not to use the AI features to: generate content that is illegal, harassing, or infringes others' rights; make automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects on any person; obtain professional advice that legally requires a licensed practitioner; or extract, reproduce, or reverse-engineer the underlying models.

6. Health-Related Features

Some features let you record health-related information (food logs, allergies, dietary restrictions). These features are optional, and we ask for your explicit consent to process this category of data through a dedicated consent step in the app. You can withdraw that consent and delete the associated data at any time via Settings. See the Privacy Policy, Section 6.

7. Subscriptions and Payments

The Service offers a free tier with usage limits and paid subscriptions ("Pro").
Mobile subscriptions are purchased through the Apple App Store or Google Play, which act as merchant of record. Billing, auto-renewal, cancellation, and refunds for those purchases are handled by the app store under its terms. To cancel, use your App Store or Google Play subscription settings; deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period unless cancelled before the renewal date. Cancelling stops future renewals; it does not refund the current period, except where the app store's policy or applicable law provides otherwise.
Pricing is always shown before you are charged. We will never charge you for a feature without your explicit action.
Nothing in this section limits any mandatory refund or withdrawal rights you have under the consumer protection law of your country of residence.

8. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

Use the Service for any unlawful purpose or in violation of applicable law;
Infringe the intellectual property, privacy, or other rights of any person, including by uploading content you have no right to use;
Enter personal information about people outside your household without authority or their consent;
Attempt unauthorized access to the Service, other users' accounts, or related systems;
Interfere with or disrupt the Service, place excessive load on it, or circumvent usage limits, quotas, or security measures;
Upload malware or other harmful code;
Reverse-engineer, decompile, or extract the source code of the Service, or use the Service or its output to develop or train a competing product or machine-learning model;
Use automated means (bots, scrapers) to access the Service except through interfaces we provide;
Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit the Service without our written permission;
Impersonate any person or misrepresent your affiliation with anyone.

We may suspend or restrict access without prior notice if we reasonably determine you have violated, or are likely to violate, this section.

9. Service Availability and Changes to the Service

We aim to keep the Service available but do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We may temporarily suspend the Service for maintenance, security, system failure, force majeure, or other circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

We may modify the Service's features where the change benefits users generally (such as improvements or new features), or where the change is reasonable in light of its necessity and the circumstances. We may discontinue the Service with reasonable advance notice, during which you will be able to export your data.

10. Suspension and Termination

We may suspend or terminate your account, with notice where practicable, if:

You violate these Terms or applicable law, or we reasonably determine there is a risk you will;
Your account is used fraudulently or in a way that harms the Service or other users; or
We are required to do so by law.

You may terminate at any time by deleting your account in Settings.

Effect of termination: your right to use the Service ends and your content is deleted per the retention schedule in the Privacy Policy. You acknowledge that residual copies may persist temporarily in encrypted backups, security and audit logs, and third-party providers' transient caches, and are then deleted in the ordinary course as described in the Privacy Policy.

11. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by law, we make no warranties, express or implied, including as to accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or uninterrupted, error-free operation — including with respect to AI-generated content.

12. Limitation of Liability

Except in cases of our willful misconduct or gross negligence, we are not liable for damages arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Service, including damages arising from AI-generated content, loss of data, or disputes with third parties.
Where we are liable, our liability is limited to direct and ordinary damages actually incurred, and capped at the greater of the amount you paid us in the one (1) month preceding the claim (for subscriptions, one month's subscription fee) or USD 50. We are not liable for lost profits or indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages.
The limitations above do not apply to liability arising from our willful misconduct or gross negligence, and do not limit any liability that cannot be limited under the Consumer Contract Act of Japan or other mandatory consumer protection law applicable to you.

14. Changes to These Terms

We may amend these Terms in accordance with Article 548-4 of the Civil Code of Japan, where the amendment (a) conforms to the general interest of users, or (b) is reasonable in light of its necessity, the appropriateness of the amended terms, and other relevant circumstances.

When we amend these Terms, we will announce — in the app or on our website, a reasonable period before the effective date — (1) that the Terms are being amended, (2) the content of the amended Terms, and (3) the effective date. For material changes, we will additionally ask you to review and accept the amended Terms in the app before continuing. Using the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

15. Assignment

You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent. If we transfer the business relating to the Service (for example, by sale or merger), we may assign these Terms and the associated user data to the successor, and you consent in advance to such transfer; the Privacy Policy will continue to apply to your data.

17. Governing Law, Jurisdiction, and Language

These Terms are governed by the laws of Japan.
Any dispute arising from or relating to the Service shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Tokyo District Court as the court of first instance.
Nothing in these Terms deprives you of mandatory consumer protections, or of the right to bring proceedings in your local courts, where the law of your country of residence grants you those rights and they cannot be waived by agreement.
The English version of these Terms is the official text. The Japanese version is provided for convenience; in case of any discrepancy, the English version prevails. （本規約の正文は英語版です。日本語版は参考訳であり、相違がある場合は英語版が優先します。）