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Terms of Service

Effective 23 April 2026 · Last updated 23 April 2026

These Terms are the agreement between you and BrewIQ when you use the BrewIQ mobile app, the brew-iq.app website, and anything else we describe as BrewIQ (collectively, the “Service”). By creating an account or continuing to use BrewIQ, you accept these Terms.

Please also read our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your personal data, and our Cookie Policy. Where the Privacy Policy and these Terms overlap on data handling, the Privacy Policy wins.

Contents

  1. Who we are
  2. Eligibility and your account
  3. What BrewIQ does (and what it doesn’t)
  4. Recommendations — important disclaimers
  5. Your content and the licence you give us
  6. Acceptable use
  7. Fees, subscriptions, and billing
  8. Availability, updates, and changes to the Service
  9. Our intellectual property
  10. Third-party services and app stores
  11. Termination
  12. Warranties and disclaimers
  13. Liability
  14. Indemnity
  15. Changes to these Terms
  16. Governing law and disputes
  17. Contact

1. Who we are

BrewIQ (“BrewIQ”, “we”, “us”) is operated from the United Kingdom. You can reach us at hello@brew-iq.app.

2. Eligibility and your account

  • You must be at least 16 years old to create a BrewIQ account or use the Service. If you are under 16, you’re not permitted to use BrewIQ, and you must stop using it and ask a parent or guardian to request account deletion by emailing info@brew-iq.app. At signup we ask you to confirm your age; providing a false confirmation is a breach of these Terms. We take the UK Age Appropriate Design Code seriously — see Section 12 of the Privacy Policy for how we apply it.
  • You must provide a real email address and keep it up to date so we can reach you about your account.
  • You’re responsible for the security of your login credentials, including any sessions you leave open on your devices. If you suspect unauthorised access, reset your password and email us.
  • You can have one personal account. Don’t share it, resell it, or let anyone else use it on your behalf.

3. What BrewIQ does (and what it doesn’t)

BrewIQ helps you log brews by voice, keeps a history of what you’ve made, and suggests changes based on coffee extraction principles and — with your consent — signals aggregated across other users. BrewIQ is a coaching tool. It is not professional barista training, it is not a medical, dietetic, or nutritional service, and it does not supervise the operation of your equipment.

AI disclosure. Parts of BrewIQ are powered by third-party AI systems (OpenAI Whisper for transcription and Anthropic Claude for parameter extraction and bean-label reading). AI-generated content shown in the app is labelled as such. For the detail of what we send to whom, see the Privacy Policy.

4. Recommendations — important disclaimers

You are responsible for your own safety and your own equipment. In particular:

  • Follow your manufacturer first. When our recommendation differs from your equipment manufacturer’s documented safe ranges (for grind setting, water temperature, pressure, brew time, cleaning, maintenance, or anything else), follow the manufacturer. BrewIQ flags when a suggestion lies outside a known safe range, but cannot guarantee every manufacturer specification is captured in our data.
  • Hot water, steam, and pressure are dangerous. Espresso machines, kettles, and pour-over setups can cause burns, scalding, or injury if misused. BrewIQ does not operate your equipment for you. Do not leave equipment unattended and do not bypass safety features on the basis of a brew suggestion.
  • Caffeine is a stimulant. BrewIQ does not track or manage your caffeine intake. If you have a medical condition, are pregnant, or are sensitive to caffeine, talk to a qualified healthcare professional about how much is right for you.
  • Results vary. Grinders drift, beans age, water changes, and two kettles of the same model can produce different water temperatures. BrewIQ’s suggestions are starting points, not guarantees of how a brew will taste.

5. Your content and the licence you give us

“Your Content” means the brew logs, taste notes, voice transcripts, photos, equipment records, bean details, consent settings, and anything else you create or submit while using BrewIQ.

  • Your Content is yours. You keep ownership of it.
  • You grant BrewIQ a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to host, store, process, transmit, display, and create embeddings and aggregates from Your Content to operate the Service for you — including generating your personal recommendations and running BrewIQ’s own models against your data.
  • You also grant BrewIQ a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual (for the uses described below), sub-licensable to our service providers solely for the limited purpose of operating those services on our behalf, licence to use Your Content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, benchmark, test, debug, and improve BrewIQ’s recommendation engine, machine-learning systems, voice and vision pipelines, product analytics, and any future model, feature, or product BrewIQ develops, together with the research, experimentation, and internal evaluation that supports them. This licence is subject to the safeguards described in the Privacy Policy. Most tasks only use brew parameters, taste outcomes, equipment, and derived features — not your email or free-text content. Trained models and analytics stay inside BrewIQ and aren’t delivered or sold to third parties. You can object to this use at any time (see the Privacy Policy). If we ever want to use Your Content in a materially different way — for example, sharing personal data with a third party or fine-tuning an external foundation model on individual logs — we’ll ask for fresh consent first.
  • You also grant BrewIQ a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, sub-licensable, irrevocable licence to use aggregated and anonymised data derived from Your Content — data from which you cannot be identified and which cannot be reverse-engineered to identify you — for any lawful purpose, including research, benchmarking, industry reports, public content, and partnerships with roasters, equipment manufacturers, and similar third parties.
  • We collect product analytics and usage data (sessions, feature usage, active times, performance, stability, and similar events) to understand how BrewIQ is used, improve the product, and evaluate new features, as described in the Privacy Policy. By using the Service you agree to this collection on the legal bases set out there.
  • Separately, and only if you have turned on Share anonymised brew data in Profile → Privacy & consent, you grant BrewIQ a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable licence to use anonymised brew parameters, taste outcomes, and derived embeddings from Your Content in cross-user pooled signals that inform the recommendations other users see. This licence does not cover your free-text notes, transcripts, email address, or anything else that could identify you, and it terminates for future runs the moment you withdraw consent. Aggregates already produced cannot be un-aggregated.
  • You warrant that you have the right to submit the content you submit, and that it doesn’t infringe anyone else’s rights.

6. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

  • Break the law, infringe anyone’s rights, or harass another person using BrewIQ.
  • Try to access data that isn’t yours (probing our servers, bypassing row-level security, scraping another user’s brews, etc.).
  • Upload malware, run stress tests, or otherwise try to disrupt the Service.
  • Reverse engineer, decompile, or circumvent protections on the app or edge functions, except where applicable law explicitly allows it and you tell us first.
  • Use the Service to build a competing product, or to train a machine-learning model that competes with BrewIQ.
  • Submit content that is unlawful, hateful, sexually explicit, or that you know to be false.
  • Pretend to be someone else, or create fake brew logs in a way designed to mislead our recommendation engine.
  • Disregard rate limits we’ve put in place, or automate the app to make more requests than a real person would.

7. Fees, subscriptions, and billing

Today, BrewIQ is free to use. We reserve the right to introduce paid plans or optional features in future. If we do, prices, billing cycles, renewal behaviour, and cancellation terms will be clearly stated before you pay, and we’ll give existing users notice of any change. Paid plans do not retroactively require payment for use that was free.

If you’re a UK consumer, any paid digital content supplied under these Terms will meet the quality standards in the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Nothing in these Terms limits your statutory rights as a consumer.

8. Availability, updates, and changes to the Service

  • BrewIQ is provided on an “as available” basis. We do not commit to any particular uptime or service level.
  • We may change, add, or remove features at any time. If a change meaningfully reduces functionality, we’ll tell you in-app.
  • Mobile updates are delivered via app stores and/or Expo over-the-air. Using the current version is usually the best way to keep the app working.
  • We may suspend or restrict access to protect the Service from abuse, security issues, or legal risk.

9. Our intellectual property

The BrewIQ name, logo, app, website, source code, design system, documentation, and the models and algorithms behind our recommendations are owned by BrewIQ or our licensors. Nothing in these Terms transfers that ownership to you. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service as intended, subject to these Terms.

10. Third-party services and app stores

BrewIQ runs on top of third-party platforms (notably Supabase, OpenAI, Anthropic, Expo, Apple, Google, and Vercel). Their terms apply when you use the Service: for example, the Apple Media Services terms or Google Play terms govern your download and installation of the mobile app. We pick these partners carefully and hold them to written data processing agreements where your data is involved — see the Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for those third-party services, but we are responsible for choosing and configuring them.

If you download BrewIQ from the Apple App Store, you acknowledge that these Terms are between you and BrewIQ, not Apple, and that Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app. Apple is a third-party beneficiary of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

11. Termination

  • You can stop using BrewIQ at any time. You can delete your account from Profile → Account → Delete account.
  • We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if we reasonably believe your use is unlawful or harmful, or if we must do so to comply with law. Where practical we’ll warn you first.
  • Provisions that by their nature should survive termination do (including Sections 5, 9, 12, 13, 14, and 16).

12. Warranties and disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any recommendation will produce a particular result. Your statutory rights as a consumer are not affected — if you are a consumer in the UK or EEA, nothing in these Terms limits rights you have under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, the UK GDPR, or equivalent legislation that cannot be excluded.

13. Liability

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that law does not allow us to limit.

Subject to that:

  • We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive losses; loss of profit, revenue, goodwill, or expected savings; loss of data, to the extent it was caused by something outside our reasonable control; or damage to equipment caused by misuse or by following a recommendation in a way that contradicts manufacturer guidance.
  • Our total aggregate liability to you arising from or in connection with the Service in any twelve-month period is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in that period, and (b) £100.

14. Indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify BrewIQ against claims, damages, and costs arising from (a) your breach of these Terms, (b) your misuse of the Service, or (c) content you submit that infringes someone else’s rights. This doesn’t apply to the extent a claim results from BrewIQ’s own negligence or wrongdoing.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the product evolves. If the change is material we’ll notify you in-app before it takes effect and give you a chance to decide whether to keep using the Service. Continued use of BrewIQ after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer resident in Scotland or Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in your local courts, and nothing here removes any mandatory consumer-protection rights you have under the law of your country of residence.

17. Contact

Questions about these Terms: hello@brew-iq.app. Privacy questions: info@brew-iq.app.

See also: Privacy Policy · Cookie Policy