Terms of Service
These terms are an agreement between you and Idempotent Studio LLC ("we"), which runs SafetySieve. By creating an account you accept them. Please read the parts about what SafetySieve can and cannot promise: they matter more here than in most apps.
What SafetySieve is
SafetySieve relays public recall and safety notices published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA FSIS), filtered to what your household has told us it cares about: its states, and any allergies, medications and devices it lists.
SafetySieve is not affiliated with, endorsed by or acting for the FDA or USDA. Recall information comes from their public notices at fda.gov and fsis.usda.gov.
Who may use it
You must be at least 18 and in the United States. You hold the account, and you are responsible for what you enter in it, including information about others in your household, such as children, which you enter as the adult who cares for them.
Not medical advice
SafetySieve tells you what an agency published. It does not diagnose, advise on treatment, or tell you whether anyone has been harmed. If you think someone is unwell, contact a medical professional; in an emergency, call 911.
No alert is not a promise of safety
When we cannot tell whether a recall concerns you, we show it rather than hide it. But SafetySieve may miss a recall, or match one wrongly: agencies' notices are not always complete or clear, and our reading of them is automated. The absence of an alert never means a product is safe or that a recall does not affect you, and we never certify that you are unaffected. A barcode or search that finds no recall means only that no recall we hold prints it.
Timeliness is best-effort
Agencies publish on their own schedules, their feeds can change or fail, and notifications depend on your phone and its network. Notifications are sent only between 8am and 8pm your time. We work to deliver alerts promptly, but cannot guarantee when, or that, any alert arrives.
The agencies' notices are the authority
Recall information belongs to the agencies that publish it. We link to their pages and files rather than re-hosting them. Where our summary and the agency's notice differ, the agency's notice is correct; read it before acting.
Subscription
- SafetySieve is sold as a yearly subscription through Google Play, with a free trial before the first charge. The price and the date of the first charge are shown before you subscribe.
- The subscription renews each year until you cancel it. Cancel in Google Play, at least a day before renewal; cancelling during the free trial means you are not charged. Deleting the app or your account does not cancel it.
- Payments and refunds are handled by Google Play under its terms.
- A subscription covers your account and one other account you share it with. The other account sees your email address and that you pay, and nothing else of your household; you can stop sharing at any time.
- Without a subscription or trial, SafetySieve shows and sends nothing, urgent recalls included.
- If the price changes, Google Play tells you before your next renewal.
Your household's information
We use what you enter only to decide which notices to show you. We never sell it, broker it, or use it for advertising. See the Privacy Policy and the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy.
Fair use
Use SafetySieve for your own household. Do not try to reach other people's accounts, interfere with the service, copy it wholesale by automated means, or resell it. We may suspend an account that does.
Ending your account
You can delete your account at any time in Settings, or as our account deletion page describes. We may end the service, or an account that breaks these terms, telling you first where we can; if we end the service, we will not charge you for a year we do not provide.
Disclaimer
SafetySieve is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including that the service is accurate, complete, uninterrupted or fit for a particular purpose.
Limit of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or for any harm arising from a recall SafetySieve did not show, showed late, or showed wrongly; and our total liability for any claim about SafetySieve is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before it. Some places do not allow these limits, so they may not all apply to you.
The law that applies
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules, and any dispute is resolved in the state or federal courts there, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring it at home.
The app is ours
We give you a personal, non-transferable licence to use SafetySieve while you have an account. The app, its name and logo, and our wording are ours; the agencies' notices are public records and belong to no one.
General
These terms, with the Privacy Policy and the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between us about SafetySieve. If a court finds part of them unenforceable, the rest still applies. Not enforcing a term is not giving it up. We may transfer these terms to whoever takes over SafetySieve, under the Privacy Policy's promises; you may not transfer them.
Changes to these terms
If these terms change in a way that matters, the app asks you to accept them again before you continue.
Contact
Idempotent Studio LLC, 2603 Clarion Ln, Fort Collins, CO 80524 · support@idempotent-studio.com