Mealkin
Terms of Use
| Document | Terms of Use |
|---|---|
| Provider | Galix Studios Pty Ltd (ABN 22 703 560 141) |
| Application | Mealkin mobile application |
| Version | 1.2 |
| Last updated | 8 November 2026 |
| Status | Current |
Important health notice. Mealkin is a meal-planning aid. It is not a medical device, does not give medical advice and cannot guarantee that any food is free from an allergen. Always read the label of the product you are using, check with whoever prepares your food, and follow the advice of your doctor, allergy specialist or dietitian and any allergy action plan. In an emergency, follow the action plan and call 000 in Australia or your local emergency number.
Key points
- Mealkin compares ingredient names with the foods each person avoids. A result such as “No avoided foods found” reports what Mealkin found in the information it had. It is never a statement that a food is safe.
- Product information comes from a public database and may be wrong or out of date. Nutrition figures and translations are approximate.
- Meal planning, allergen checks and the shopping list are free. Any paid feature shows its price before you buy, and refunds are handled by the app store.
- Nothing in these Terms takes away your rights under the Australian Consumer Law or other consumer laws that protect you.
Contents
- 1.About these Terms
- 2.Definitions and interpretation
- 3.What Mealkin does
- 4.Health, allergy and dietary information
- 5.Product Information and other content
- 6.Nutrition, prices and other estimates
- 7.Recipes and your content
- 8.Fees and purchases
- 9.Using the App fairly
- 10.Intellectual property
- 11.Privacy
- 12.Changes to the App
- 13.Ending your use
- 14.Your consumer rights
- 15.Our responsibility
- 16.Complaints and disputes
- 17.Changes to these Terms
- 18.General
- 19.Apple App Store and Google Play
- 20.Contact
1.About these Terms
1.1
These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your use of the Mealkin mobile application and its related web pages (the “App”). The App is provided by Galix Studios Pty Ltd, ABN 22 703 560 141, a company based in Queensland, Australia (“we”, “us”, “our”).
1.2
You accept these Terms by ticking “I agree” in the App. If you do not agree, please do not use the App.
1.3
These Terms include our Health and Allergy Notice, Privacy Policy and Purchases, Subscriptions and Refunds Policy. Please read the Health and Allergy Notice in full: it explains how the App works and what it cannot do.
1.4
Your licence to install and use the App is granted under the standard licence terms of the app store from which you obtained it (for the Apple App Store, Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement). These Terms are additional terms between you and us. If they conflict with the app store’s licence terms about your licence to use the App, the app store’s terms apply to that extent.
1.5
You must be at least 13 years old to use the App. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian must agree to these Terms for you and is responsible for your use of the App. A parent or guardian may record information about children so that meals can be planned for them, and is responsible for the information they record.
2.Definitions and interpretation
2.1
In these Terms:
“ACL” means the Australian Consumer Law set out in Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth).
“App Store” means the Apple App Store, Google Play or any other marketplace from which you obtained the App.
“Non-Excludable Rights” means has the meaning given in clause 14.1.
“Paid Features” means any feature of the App offered for a fee, such as Mealkin Plus.
“Product Information” means information about packaged products, including names, ingredients, allergen statements and images, obtained from Open Food Facts or entered by you.
“Profile” means the allergies, intolerances, diets and food preferences you record in the App for a person.
“Recipe Library” means the recipes supplied with the App.
“Result” means an indication the App gives about a meal, recipe or product for a person, namely “No avoided foods found”, “Swap available”, “Check labels”, “Has an avoided food” or “Doesn’t love it”.
“User Content” means recipes, notes, prices and other content you enter or import into the App.
2.2
Headings are for convenience only. The words “including” and “for example” do not limit what comes before them. A reference to a law includes that law as amended or replaced.
3.What Mealkin does
3.1
Mealkin helps you plan meals, keep recipes and make shopping lists around the foods that each person you plan for has chosen to avoid. It does this by comparing the names of ingredients in recipes and products with those foods and with a list of foods and allergen families, as described in the Health and Allergy Notice.
3.2
Mealkin is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, monitor or alleviate any disease or condition, including food allergy, intolerance or coeliac disease, and it is not a medical device.
3.3
Mealkin is not an emergency service.
4.Health, allergy and dietary information
4.1
The App does not give medical, dietetic or nutritional advice and does not replace the advice of your doctor, allergy specialist or dietitian.
4.2
You acknowledge that:
- (a)the App’s list of foods and allergen families may be incomplete, and it may not recognise an ingredient written in an unusual way, misspelt or given a brand name;
- (b)recipes, ingredient lists and Product Information may be wrong, incomplete or out of date, and manufacturers can change a product at any time;
- (c)“Contains” statements on labels only have to name certain allergens and “may contain” statements are voluntary, so the absence of a statement does not mean a food is absent;
- (d)the App cannot detect cross-contact during manufacture, storage, preparation or service; and
- (e)a Result reflects only the information available to the App at the time.
4.3
A Result of “No avoided foods found” means only that the App did not find, in the information available to it, any food recorded in that person’s Profile. It is not a statement that a food is safe for that person.
4.4
You are responsible for:
- (a)recording each Profile accurately and keeping it up to date;
- (b)reading the label of every product before you use it;
- (c)confirming ingredients and preparation with restaurants, caterers, schools, carers and anyone else who prepares food; and
- (d)following the advice of your doctor, allergy specialist or dietitian and any allergy action plan.
4.5
Translations in food cards are provided for convenience. They have not been checked by a native speaker and may contain errors, so please show the English text as well and talk to the person preparing the food.
5.Product Information and other content
5.1
Product Information is obtained from Open Food Facts, a free, open database to which anyone can contribute, or is entered by you. Neither we nor Open Food Facts check it or guarantee that it is accurate, complete or current.
5.2
Open Food Facts data is available under the Open Database License and product photographs under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence, as set out in our Licences and Attributions. Mealkin is not affiliated with or endorsed by Open Food Facts.
5.3
Other websites, including those you import recipes from or reach through links in the App, are responsible for their own content and practices. Supermarket searches opened from the shopping list are the supermarket’s own pages: we do not see your trolley, orders or the supermarket’s prices, we are not affiliated with or endorsed by any supermarket, and their search results do not take your Profiles into account.
5.4
Supermarket, brand and product names appear in the App only to identify a store or a product. Mealkin is not connected with or endorsed by Woolworths, Coles, ALDI, Costco or the product brands shown in the App.
6.Nutrition, prices and other estimates
6.1
Nutrition figures are approximate. They are worked out from a recipe’s ingredients using figures from USDA FoodData Central and our own estimates, with assumed quantities, can differ materially from the real values, and are provided for general interest only. They are not suitable for medical dietary management, including insulin dosing, kidney, PKU or infant diets, eating disorders or supervised weight loss.
6.2
Prices are the ones you enter. Totals are estimates and may not reflect current prices.
7.Recipes and your content
7.1
The Recipe Library is provided for your personal, household use. Please follow safe food-handling practice, including cooking meat, poultry, seafood and eggs thoroughly, and observe age advice (for example, honey should not be given to babies under 12 months).
7.2
User Content belongs to you and stays on your device; we do not receive it (see our Privacy Policy). You are responsible for making sure you are entitled to add or import it.
7.3
Importing copies a recipe from a web page or text you choose into your own recipe book, for your personal, non-commercial use. Recipes belong to their authors: import only what you are permitted to, and do not use the App to republish, sell or collect recipes in bulk. The App keeps a link to the original page and does not copy its photographs.
7.4
We do not check imported recipes. The App’s allergen checks rely on the ingredients as they are written.
8.Fees and purchases
8.1
The App’s core features, being meal planning, allergen checks and the shopping list, are free.
8.2
Paid Features, if offered, are sold through the App Store under its terms and under our Purchases, Subscriptions and Refunds Policy. The App Store processes payment and handles refunds, withdrawal and cancellation. The price, billing period and any trial terms are shown before you buy.
8.3
Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. You can cancel at any time in your App Store account settings; cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends to avoid the next charge.
8.4
Refunds for App Store purchases are decided by the App Store. Nothing in this clause limits your Non-Excludable Rights.
9.Using the App fairly
9.1
Subject to these Terms and the App Store’s licence terms, you may use the App for your personal and household purposes. This permission is personal to you and cannot be transferred.
9.2
You must not:
- (a)copy, modify, distribute, sell or sublicense the App or the Recipe Library;
- (b)reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the App, except to the extent the law allows despite this restriction;
- (c)use the App to extract the Recipe Library or Product Information in bulk, or to send automated requests to Open Food Facts;
- (d)circumvent any security or licensing feature of the App; or
- (e)use the App unlawfully or in a way that infringes anyone’s rights.
10.Intellectual property
10.1
The App, including its software, design, text, graphics and the Recipe Library, is owned by or licensed to us. This does not include Product Information, User Content or the open-source software, fonts and data listed in our Licences and Attributions, which are used under their own licences. Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under those licences.
10.2
“Mealkin” and the Mealkin logo are our trade marks. Please do not use them without our permission.
10.3
If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without any obligation to you.
10.4
If you believe something in the App infringes your rights, please contact us (clause 20) and we will look into it promptly.
11.Privacy
11.1
Our Privacy Policy explains how information is handled. In short, the information you enter stays on your device.
12.Changes to the App
12.1
We may update the App from time to time, for example to fix errors, improve features, keep it secure or reflect changes in the law. We will provide the updates needed to keep the App working as described for as long as you can reasonably expect.
12.2
If we decide to stop providing the App or a feature, we will give reasonable notice in the App where practicable. If a change materially reduces a Paid Feature you have paid for, we will tell you in advance, you may cancel, and we will support your request to the App Store for a refund of any unused period. This does not limit your Non-Excludable Rights.
13.Ending your use
13.1
You may stop using the App at any time by deleting it. Deleting the App, or selecting Settings > Delete all my data, deletes the information it holds on your device.
13.2
We may suspend or end your permission to use the App if you materially breach these Terms, after giving you notice where that is reasonable.
13.3
Clauses 4, 6, 10, 14, 15 and 18 continue to apply after your use of the App ends.
14.Your consumer rights
14.1
Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the ACL. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right or remedy, or any guarantee, warranty or other term or condition implied or imposed by the ACL or any other law, that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified (“Non-Excludable Rights”).
14.2
If you live outside Australia, you also have the benefit of the mandatory consumer protection laws of the country where you live, such as the Consumer Rights Act 2015 in the United Kingdom, the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 in New Zealand and the consumer laws of your country in the European Union.
15.Our responsibility
15.1
Subject to your Non-Excludable Rights and clause 15.3, we do not promise that the App will be uninterrupted or free from errors, or that the information in it is complete, accurate or current.
15.2
Subject to your Non-Excludable Rights and clause 15.3, we are not liable for any loss that:
- (a)was not reasonably foreseeable;
- (b)was caused by something beyond our reasonable control; or
- (c)resulted from relying on the App instead of taking the steps in clause 4.4.
15.3
Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, for defective products where the law does not allow it, or any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.
16.Complaints and disputes
16.1
If you have a problem with the App, please contact us first (clause 20). We will acknowledge your complaint within 5 business days and aim to resolve it within 30 days.
16.2
Nothing in these Terms prevents you from contacting a consumer protection regulator (in Queensland, the Office of Fair Trading), applying to a tribunal such as the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal, or going to court.
17.Changes to these Terms
17.1
We may change these Terms to reflect changes to the App, our business or the law. We will publish the updated Terms in the App with a new version number and date.
17.2
If a change materially affects your rights, we will tell you in the App at least 30 days before it takes effect (unless the change is urgently required by law or for security) and ask you to agree to the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you may stop using the App and cancel any subscription, and we will support your request to the App Store for a refund of any unused period.
18.General
18.1
These Terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Queensland and the courts that can hear appeals from them. This does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of the country in which you live, or of your right to bring proceedings there.
18.2
If any part of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, it is read down to the extent necessary and the rest of these Terms continues to apply.
18.3
If we do not enforce a right straight away, we have not given it up.
18.4
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to someone who takes over the App, provided your rights under these Terms are not reduced, and we will tell you if we do. You may not transfer your rights under these Terms.
18.5
These Terms (including the documents referred to in clause 1.3) and the App Store’s licence terms are the entire agreement between you and us about the App.
19.Apple App Store and Google Play
19.1
If you obtained the App from the Apple App Store:
- (a)these Terms are between you and us only, and not with Apple Inc. (“Apple”); we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the App and its content;
- (b)Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support services for the App;
- (c)we, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the App or your possession or use of it, including product liability claims, claims that the App fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation;
- (d)if a third party claims that the App or your possession and use of it infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim;
- (e)you represent and warrant that you are not located in a country that is subject to a United States Government embargo or that has been designated by the United States Government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not listed on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties;
- (f)you must comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App; and
- (g)Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, once you accept them, Apple may enforce them against you as a third-party beneficiary.
19.2
If you obtained the App from Google Play, Google’s terms for Google Play also apply, and Google is not responsible for the App.
20.Contact
20.1
Questions, complaints and claims about the App: Galix Studios Pty Ltd, ABN 22 703 560 141, Queensland, Australia. Email: support@galixstudios.com.
20.2
Please do not send health details by email unless they are needed to deal with your question.
Terms of Use · Version 1.2 · Last updated 8 November 2026 · Galix Studios Pty Ltd