Last updated: November 9, 2026
11.1 Acceptance
By downloading, registering for, or using ALYAF you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use the service. The service is provided by Rayan Shafy Alkharasani in Saudi Arabia (“we”, “us”).
11.2 Eligibility
You must be at least 18 years old. No one under 18 may create an account or use the service, and if we learn of an account belonging to someone under 18, we delete it (section 10.11).
11.3 Your account
Provide accurate information and keep it current. You're responsible for your email and the codes sent to it (don't share a code with anyone), for your Google account if you sign in with it, and for your phone while your account is open on it: someone who gets into it unlocked can use your account as you do, though they can't delete it without a code sent to your email. You're also responsible for all activity under your account. One account per person. Tell us immediately if you suspect unauthorized use. We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these Terms.
11.4 Not a medical service
This is the most important clause in this document.
ALYAF is an information and tracking tool. It's not a medical device and doesn't provide diagnosis, treatment, or medical or dietary advice.
Goals and numbers are estimates based on general equations for healthy adults and may not suit you. Food values vary by source, cooking method and actual portion, and may differ from what you eat. What the AI features estimate or read from a photo can be wrong. Check every number before you save it. Every number can be edited. Decisions about your health are yours and should be made with a licensed professional. The medical disclaimer in section 2 of the Arabic text forms part of these Terms.
11.5 Acceptable use
You may use the app for your own personal, non-commercial purposes, log your food, publish your recipes, and take part in a respectful community.
You may not:
- post unlawful, abusive, misleading or infringing content
- impersonate anyone or claim professional credentials you don't hold
- give medical or dietary advice to others through the app
- promote eating-disorder behavior, dangerous diets or harmful weight goals
- scrape data or try to reach another user's data
- reverse-engineer the app or get around its security
- upload malware or overload the service
- use the service or its content to train AI models
- resell any part of the service
Zero tolerance for objectionable content or abusive users. Insults, harassment, sexual content, hate, bullying and content that promotes self-harm aren't allowed in recipes, comments, names, bios, usernames or meals shared with friends. We check that text automatically before it's published and refuse text with words from our list, we remove anything that breaks these Terms within 24 hours of a report, and we suspend the account that posted it. A suspension takes effect at once on every device. The automatic check does not catch everything, so reporting and blocking are available on every recipe, comment and profile. Recipe photos aren't checked automatically: a report about one reaches us and is reviewed within 24 hours like any other. Members can no longer add profile photos or covers, and comments and replies are text only. Accepting this clause is part of the one consent in the app (section 10.6), and we keep the version you accepted and when.
11.6 Your content
You own what you post. Product photos you send us are the exception, covered at the end of this section. By publishing publicly you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, display, distribute and reformat that content solely to operate the service. The license ends when you delete the content, apart from technical backups which expire on their normal cycle. You confirm you hold the rights to what you post. We may remove content that breaches these Terms.
Product photos you send us
When we don't have a product you scanned, the app offers to send us a photo of its front and one of its nutrition label so we can add it (section 10.3). These two photos are covered by the following, not by the start of this section, and you accept it by tapping “Send photos” after the notice shown above it:
- They become ours. You assign to us all your economic rights in both photos: to copy, edit, crop and combine them, to publish, display, distribute and make them available, and to sell and license them to others, by any means and anywhere, in the app, on our website and elsewhere, for any purpose we choose, including commercial ones, worldwide, for the full term of protection, with no payment to you. These rights include having AI (Google Gemini) read the photos to fill in the product's nutrition values (section 10.3). Where the law doesn't allow that assignment, in whole or in part, you instead grant us an exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license with the same rights, which we may sublicense and transfer.
- We don't delete them because you ask. We decide whether to use or delete the photos. We don't delete them because you ask us to or because you delete your account, except as point 4 says. Deleting your account deletes your request and its link to you (section 10.7), not a photo we've used.
- You confirm that you took both photos yourself or have the right to send them and give us these rights, that they show the product alone, with no face, person or part of anyone's body that could identify them, and no document, receipt, screen, address or other personal information about you or anyone else, and that publishing them infringes no one's rights.
- If a photo shows personal information (a face, a name, a number, or anything that identifies a person or where they live), point 2 doesn't apply to that part. We delete or blur it when we notice it, or when you or the person it identifies asks at [email protected], or we delete the whole photo, and we handle it under our Privacy Policy (section 10).
- The product's name, brand and packaging design belong to their owners. This clause transfers none of them to us or to you. What you transfer is your own right in the photo.
- Sending photos doesn't oblige us to add the product or to use them. We never show your name with them or present them as your endorsement of a product. This clause doesn't affect any moral right the law doesn't let you give up.
11.7 Other users' content
Recipes, comments and numbers posted by other users are theirs, not ours. We don't review every post by hand before it goes live, don't verify its numbers and aren't responsible for them. We do check their text automatically before publishing and review every report about them within 24 hours (section 11.5). The nutrition values on a user-published recipe are that user's estimate.
11.8 Our intellectual property
The app, its name, logo, design, code and curated food catalogue are ours or licensed to us. The open datasets the app builds on remain under their own licenses, set out in section 3 of the Arabic text.
11.9 Availability
We aim to keep the service available but do not guarantee it. Features may change or be withdrawn. If we discontinue the service entirely we will give 30 days' notice and let you export your data.
There are no in-app purchases today.
11.10 Limitation of liability
The service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or uninterrupted operation.
To the extent permitted by law we are not liable for indirect, consequential or incidental damages, or for loss of data or profits, arising from your use of the service. We are not liable for any health outcome arising from your reliance on information in the app.
Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
11.11 Indemnity
You agree to indemnify us against third-party claims arising from your breach of these Terms or from content you posted.
11.12 Termination
You may delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your account for a material breach, including posting objectionable content (section 11.5), telling you why unless legally prevented from doing so. A suspended account can't sign in or use any feature, even with a session still open on a device. To delete it, write to us from its registered address (section 10.9).
11.13 Changes
We may amend these Terms. For material changes we notify you in the app 30 days in advance, and continued use after they take effect is acceptance.
11.14 Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of Saudi Arabia, and its courts have jurisdiction over any dispute.
11.15 General
If any clause is held invalid the rest remain in force. These Terms and the Privacy Policy form the entire agreement between us. Failure to enforce a clause is not a waiver of it.