Foocat Terms of Use

Last updated: 2026-10-25

These terms apply when you use Foocat. The most important part is about what you contribute: when you save a product with your own photo, the photo becomes part of Foocat’s shared product catalog, where every user can see it — and it stays there. How we handle data about you is described in the privacy policy.

Using Foocat

You can use Foocat without an account. You may use the app for your own purposes, but not to disrupt the service, get around its protections or limits, or harvest the catalog automatically at scale.

Your account

An account is optional. It saves your favorites, scans and glucose log so they follow you to a new phone, and lets you share a cat with others.

You sign in with Apple or Google, and you must be at least 13 years old to create an account.
An account is for one person. Whoever can sign in to your Apple or Google account can also sign in to your Foocat account, so keep those secure, and tell us if you think someone else has got into it.
What we store in your account, and why, is described in the privacy policy.

The owner of a cat can invite others to share it, with a code that works once.

Everyone in a shared cat can see its whole log, including what was logged before they joined, and can add, change and delete entries. They also see each other’s names. Only invite people you are happy to share the log with.
The owner can remove members, and any member can leave. What a member has logged stays with the cat when they leave.
If the owner leaves or deletes their account, the member who joined first becomes the owner.
Don’t use a shared cat to harass the others in it, and don’t use a name that pretends to be someone you are not, such as a vet clinic.

Ending your account

You can delete your account at any time, in the app under Profile → Account → Delete account, or by email as described on our account-deletion page. What is deleted and what stays is described in the privacy policy.

We may suspend or delete an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, for example by abusing the service, getting around its limits or protections, or harassing others in a shared cat. Unless there is a good reason not to, such as an ongoing attack, we will tell you by email first and say why.

If we stop offering accounts, we will tell you at least 30 days in advance, and you can ask us for a copy of your data until then.

Nutrition values are guidance

The values in Foocat are read from packaging and come from users’ submissions. The values on a package are legal minimums and maximums, and carbohydrates are calculated as a difference — so they carry the error of every other value. Treat the figures as informed guidance rather than a lab analysis, and talk to your vet before making decisions about your cat’s health.

What you submit

You can submit photos of the packaging and product details such as name, brand, and analytical constituents. Photos and details that are accepted become part of the shared catalog and are shown to all users.

You keep the copyright, we get to use the photo

The photos you take are yours. By saving, you give Foocat the right to use the photos and details you submit. That right is:

non-exclusive — you remain free to use your photos however you like,
royalty-free, worldwide, and without time limit, and
irrevocable — it does not end if you stop using the app, uninstall it, or ask us to remove the photo.

It covers storing, displaying, and distributing the photos and details in the app, on foocat.app, and when we tell people about Foocat, for example in screenshots of the app. It also covers editing the photos, such as cropping, rotating, or compressing them. We may let the suppliers who run the service on our behalf do the same, and transfer the right to whoever runs Foocat in the future. Photos are shown without crediting you as the photographer.

What you promise

You took the photo yourself, or otherwise have the right to share it.
The photo shows the packaging — no people and no personal information, such as names, addresses, or receipts.
The details are accurate, as far as you know.

What is not allowed

Do not submit photos or details that:

are sexual, violent, hateful, abusive, or otherwise offensive,
show people or contain personal information,
infringe someone else’s rights, for example a photo someone else took,
are illegal, or
are deliberately wrong, advertising, or spam.

Screening and removal

Before a photo is shown to others, it is checked — automatically by an AI service, or by us by hand. Photos that break these terms are not published, and photos with offensive content, people, or personal information are deleted. We may remove, hide, or replace photos and details at any time — for example if they break these terms, are wrong, or a better photo exists.

Because photos are part of a shared catalog, we are not obliged to remove a photo just because the person who took it asks us to. We will always remove content when the law requires it, for example if a photo shows a person, contains personal information, or infringes someone else’s rights. This does not affect your rights under data protection law, as described in the privacy policy.

Report content

See a photo or detail in Foocat that you believe is illegal or breaks these terms? Email foocatcontact@gmail.com and tell us which product it concerns (barcode or name), what is wrong, and why. We review every report and remove whatever breaks the law or these terms. Wrong analytical constituents can also be corrected directly in the app.

Liability

We do our best to keep the details accurate and Foocat working, but we cannot promise that they always will be. We are not liable for damage arising from your reliance on details in the app, except where mandatory law says otherwise.

The same goes for what you keep in Foocat. We back up account data every night, but we can’t promise that nothing is ever lost, so keep your own copy of anything you can’t do without, for example as a PDF report from the glucose log.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The latest version is always available on this page, with the date of the most recent change at the top. If we change how we may use what you submit, the change applies only to what you submit after it is published.

Governing law

These terms are governed by Swedish law. If you live in another country, you keep the consumer protection its law gives you.

Contact

If you have questions about these terms, contact:

Email: foocatcontact@gmail.com