Terms of Service

Effective date: July 23, 2026 App: Otto (the "App" or "Service") Provider: Juan Diego Lugo ("we", "us", "our")

Welcome to Otto — a quiet cookbook for saving, importing, cooking, planning, and sharing recipes. These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you and Juan Diego Lugo. By creating an account or using the App, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, please don't use the App.

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1. Who can use Otto

You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age required in your country) to use Otto. If you're under the age of majority where you live, you may use Otto only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. By using the App, you confirm you meet these requirements.

2. Your account

• You're responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for activity that happens under your account.
• Provide accurate information and keep it current.
• Tell us promptly at juandiego@ottosapp.com if you believe your account has been compromised.
• You may sign in using email or a third-party provider (Apple, Google, Facebook); your use of those is also subject to their terms.

3. What Otto does

Otto lets you save and organize recipes, import recipes from links or pasted text, browse recipes from a third-party recipe database, estimate nutrition, plan meals, build shopping lists (including lists you share with people you invite), and share recipes. We may add, change, or remove features over time.

4. Otto Club subscriptions

Otto's core features are free. Otto Club is an optional paid membership that unlocks additional features (shown in the App). If you subscribe:

• Billing. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account through the App Store at the price shown in the App before you confirm your purchase.
• Auto-renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends.
• Free trial. If a free trial is offered, it converts to a paid subscription unless you cancel before the trial ends. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited if you purchase a subscription during the trial.
• Cancelling. Manage or cancel your subscription in your device's App Store settings (Settings → your Apple ID → Subscriptions). Deleting the App does not cancel a subscription. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep Otto Club access until then.
• Refunds. Purchases are processed by Apple, and refunds are handled by Apple under App Store policies — request one at https://reportaproblem.apple.com. We can't issue App Store refunds ourselves.
• Price changes. If the price changes, we'll follow the App Store's notice and consent rules before you're charged at the new price.
• Feature changes. Otto Club features may change over time (see §17). If we discontinue Otto Club entirely, active subscriptions will not renew.

5. Your content

• You own your content. Recipes you write, plans you build, lists you make, and photos you keep in your on-device journal remain yours.
• License to operate the App. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, process, display, and transmit your content only as needed to provide the App to you (for example, syncing your recipes to your account or generating a share link you request). This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for content you've already shared with others (see §7) and limited backups or records we must keep.
• You're responsible for your content. Don't upload or import content you don't have the right to use, and don't include anything unlawful, infringing, or harmful.

6. Importing recipes and third-party content

• Otto can import recipes from web links or text you provide, and it displays recipes from a third-party database (TheMealDB). We don't own or control third-party recipe content and aren't responsible for its accuracy, licensing, or availability.
• When Otto imports a recipe from a source, it preserves attribution (the source name and a link). You're responsible for ensuring you have the right to import and use any recipe you bring in, and for respecting the original creator's rights.

7. Sharing

• Share links. When you create a share link for a recipe, anyone who has the link can view it. You can revoke a link in the App, but copies others made before revocation may persist.
• Collaborative lists. When you invite people to a shared shopping list, they can see and edit that list's items and see the names/labels of who added or checked items. Share only what you're comfortable with those people seeing.

8. Acceptable use

Don't use Otto to:

• break the law or infringe anyone's rights;
• upload malware, attempt to breach or overload the Service, or scrape it in bulk;
• reverse engineer or misuse the App except as permitted by law;
• harass others or post content that is unlawful, hateful, or harmful through shared features.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms.

9. Nutrition, health, and food-safety disclaimer

Please read this — it matters.

• Nutrition figures in Otto are estimates, not exact values or medical advice. They're computed or approximated from recipe data and can be wrong or incomplete. Do not rely on them for medical, dietary, or health decisions.
• Otto is not a medical, nutritional, or health service. If you have a health condition, food allergy, dietary restriction, or are pregnant, consult a qualified professional. Always verify ingredients and allergens yourself.
• You are responsible for safe food handling and cooking. Follow safe food-preparation, storage, temperature, and allergen practices. We are not responsible for outcomes from preparing or eating any recipe found, imported, or shared through Otto.

10. Our intellectual property

The App itself — including the Otto name, the Otto mascot, logos, design, and software — is owned by us or our licensors and protected by intellectual-property laws. These Terms don't give you any right to our branding or software except to use the App as intended.

11. Feedback

If you send us feedback or suggestions, you grant us the right to use them freely to improve Otto, without any obligation to you.

12. Termination

• You can stop using Otto and delete your account at any time from within the App.
• We may suspend or end your access if you violate these Terms, if required by law, or if we discontinue the Service.
• Sections that by their nature should survive (such as content licenses already granted for shared content, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and governing law) survive termination.

13. Disclaimers

The App is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don't warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or that any recipe, nutrition estimate, or third-party content is accurate or reliable. Some jurisdictions don't allow certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Juan Diego Lugo will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising from or related to your use of the App. Our total liability for any claim relating to the App will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us for the App in the 12 months before the claim (if any) or US$50. Some jurisdictions don't allow these limits, so they may not fully apply to you.

15. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Juan Diego Lugo from claims, damages, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your content, your use of the App, or your violation of these Terms or others' rights, to the extent permitted by law.

16. Apple App Store

If you download Otto from the Apple App Store, the following also applies:

• These Terms are between you and Juan Diego Lugo only, not Apple. Apple is not responsible for the App or its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the App.
• To the extent permitted by law, Apple has no warranty obligation for the App, and any claims, losses, liabilities, or costs attributable to a failure to conform to any warranty are our responsibility, not Apple's.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or a third party relating to the App, including product-liability, legal/regulatory, or consumer-protection claims.
• You represent that you're not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo and are not on a U.S. Government prohibited-parties list.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.
• You must comply with applicable third-party agreements (for example, your wireless data plan) when using the App.

17. Changes

• To the App: we may modify or discontinue features at any time.
• To these Terms: we may update these Terms as Otto evolves. We'll update the effective date and, for material changes, provide reasonable notice (for example, in the App). Continuing to use Otto after changes take effect means you accept the updated Terms.

18. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. You agree that disputes will be resolved in the courts located in the State of Florida, United States, unless applicable law gives you the right to bring a claim elsewhere. Nothing here limits any non-waivable consumer rights you have where you live.

19. Contact

Questions about these Terms?

Juan Diego Lugo Email: juandiego@ottosapp.com https://ottosapp.com