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Terms of use

Last updated: 21 September 2026

1. Scope and provider

(1) These terms govern the use of the website getabite.app and the GetaBite app for iOS as well as the services offered through them.

(2) The provider is:
52N34S Group – Steffen Giebler
Schwedter Str. 25, 10119 Berlin, Germany
support@52n34s.com

(3) "Consumer" and "trader" are understood as defined in §§ 13, 14 of the German Civil Code (BGB).

(4) Terms of the user that deviate from these do not apply unless we expressly agree to them.

2. What the service does

(1) GetaBite analyses menus. You photograph a menu, an AI model reads it and classifies the dishes according to whether they are vegan or vegetarian. You can also search for restaurants near you.

(2) You can associate an analysis with a restaurant and create missing restaurants. Associated analyses are visible to other users together with the date of the photograph. They reflect what was on the menu at that time and are confirmed neither by the restaurant nor by us.

(3) The service is free of charge and requires no user account.

(4) Product information from a barcode scan comes from an open database, maintained by volunteers, and is not checked by us.

3. What the service expressly does not do

Please read this section carefully. It describes the central limitation of the service.

(1) The service cannot confirm that a dish is vegan or vegetarian. It reproduces what the photographed menu says and infers what can be inferred from it.

(2) Menus list dish names, not complete ingredient lists. Whether a soup contains cream, whether a dough was made with egg, or whether something was fried in butter rather than oil is generally not stated. The service therefore assigns each result one of three confidence levels and names what would need to be asked when ordering.

(3) The service does not provide allergen information. Milk and egg are allergens. Any statement by the service is not a statement about allergens and must not be understood as one. If you have an allergy or intolerance, ask at the restaurant. The statutory duty to declare allergens rests with the business, not with us.

(4) Results relate to the state of the menu at the time of the photograph. Recipes, ingredients and preparation methods may change without the menu being changed.

(5) AI-generated results may be incomplete or factually incorrect. We do not warrant any particular recognition quality or level of accuracy.

(6) The decision about what you order is yours.

(7) The barcode scan is not allergen information either. The same limitation as in paragraph 3 applies: milk and egg are allergens, and a status returned by the barcode scan is not a statement about allergens. If you have an allergy or intolerance, ask at the point of sale or check the packaging yourself.

4. Usage limits

(1) The number of analyses, the creation of places and the submission of reports are limited per connection and time period. The limit serves abuse prevention and cost control.

(2) We may adjust the limit. There is no entitlement to a particular number of analyses, places or reports.

5. Acceptable use

You undertake not to use the service to:

• carry out or promote unlawful acts;
• disrupt or overload the service or the underlying infrastructure, or gain unauthorised access to it;
• circumvent usage limits, security measures or access restrictions;
• access the service or extract content by automated means;
• upload content that is unlawful or infringes third-party rights;
• use the AI-supported features to develop, train or evaluate your own machine learning models;
• create fictitious places;
• make false associations of analyses with places;
• abuse the reporting channel.

6. Your photographs

(1) You retain the rights to the photographs you upload.

(2) By uploading, you grant us a simple, non-exclusive and revocable right to process the photograph for the purpose of analysis and to transmit it to the image analysis provider we engage. This right ends when the analysis is complete.

(3) We do not store your photographs, do not sell them, do not use them for advertising, and make them available to no one for training AI models.

(4) You warrant that you hold the necessary rights to the content you upload. Photograph only the menu. Do not upload photographs in which other people are identifiable without their consent.

7. Your contributions

(1) Contributions are associations of analyses with places, newly created places and reports.

(2) For contributions, you grant us a simple, temporally and geographically unlimited, royalty-free right to store, edit and publish them within the service and to include them in the collection under section 8. The photograph itself is not covered; section 6 applies to it.

(3) We do not tolerate offensive, insulting, discriminatory, misleading or unlawful contributions, nor users who post such contributions or abuse the reporting channel.

(4) We may review, hide and delete contributions and exclude connections from the contribution feature. We do not undertake any duty to review contributions in advance. Reported content is reviewed promptly.

(5) You report content via the reporting feature in the website and the app or to support@52n34s.com.

8. Intellectual property

(1) The name "GetaBite", the logo, the koala mark, the design of the website and the source code belong to us. Reproduction, adaptation, distribution or making available to the public is not permitted without our prior written consent.

(2) The collection of dish data built up within the service — in particular its selection, compilation, normalisation and association with places — constitutes a database within the meaning of §§ 87a ff. of the German Copyright Act (UrhG). You may not extract or re-utilise it or substantial parts of it, and you may not repeatedly and systematically extract insubstantial parts. This applies in particular to automated retrieval, scraping and bulk export. Data from OpenStreetMap and Open Food Facts is under the Open Database License and remains unaffected by this restriction; the terms of that licence apply to it.

(3) We reserve the use of our content for text and data mining within the meaning of § 44b(3) UrhG. Use for training, fine-tuning or evaluating machine learning models is not permitted.

(4) Private, non-commercial use as part of the intended use of the service is of course permitted.

9. Availability and changes

(1) We do not owe uninterrupted availability. Maintenance, outages at our service providers and network failures may temporarily affect the service.

(2) We may change, extend, restrict or discontinue the service. As the service is free of charge and usable without an account, no disadvantage arises for you that would require prior notice. If we discontinue the service entirely, we will note this on the website with reasonable notice.

10. Liability

(1) We are liable without limitation for damages arising from injury to life, body or health, for intent and gross negligence, under the German Product Liability Act, and to the extent of any guarantee we have given.

(2) In cases of slight negligence, we are liable only for the breach of a material contractual obligation. A material obligation is one whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose fulfilment you may regularly rely. In that case liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.

(3) Any further liability is excluded.

(4) The limitations also apply for the benefit of our legal representatives and vicarious agents.

(5) We are not liable for damages resulting from your having relied on an assessment by the service without checking it, where the service pointed out the limitation and the need to ask. Paragraph 1 and section 3 remain unaffected.

11. Waiting list

(1) If you sign up for updates, a contract for the delivery of those messages is formed once you click the confirmation link in the email sent to you.

(2) You may end this contract at any time by following the unsubscribe link in any message or by sending us an informal message.

(3) You must be at least 16 years old to sign up.

12. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms where there is a valid reason, such as a change to the service or in the law. The current version is available at getabite.app/terms. If you are signed up to the waiting list, we will inform you of material changes by email.

13. Governing law, dispute resolution

(1) German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

(2) If you are a consumer with your habitual residence in another EU member state, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of that state.

(3) We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

(4) If the user is a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction is Berlin.

14. Final provisions

(1) Should any provision be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected. The statutory provisions take the place of the invalid provision.

(2) Amendments and additions require text form.