Terms of Use

Effective July 21, 2026 · These terms are an agreement between you and HarbingerScope LLC

1. The agreement

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern the MacroPair iOS application and macropair.com (together, the "Service"), provided by HarbingerScope LLC, doing business as WhiteBoxForge, of Richmond, Texas ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to create a MacroPair account. If you are under 18, you may use MacroPair only with the consent and involvement of a parent or guardian. Deliberate calorie restriction carries particular risks while you are still growing — if you are under 18, speak to a doctor before starting a deficit, and read the Health Disclaimer. You are responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials secure and for all activity on your account.

3. Your license to use MacroPair

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the app on Apple-branded devices you own or control, in accordance with these Terms and the App Store's usage rules. We retain all rights in the Service itself — its software, its coaching engine, its design and its brand. This license does not permit copying or reselling the Service, reverse-engineering the coaching engine except where law permits, or presenting MacroPair as your own product. Nothing in this section restricts the rights you already have in the open data underneath the food catalog — those are described in section 4, and they are not ours to take away.

4. The food catalog and its licences

Most of MacroPair's food catalog is derived from public databases. The licences those databases carry travel with the data, including into our copy of it, and we do not attempt to override them.

• Open Food Facts. Records derived from Open Food Facts are made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0, with their individual contents under the Database Contents License (DbCL) v1.0. Product data © Open Food Facts contributors. Nothing in these Terms limits, conditions or charges for any right the ODbL grants you in those records. If you want that data in bulk, take it from Open Food Facts directly — it is complete there, and fresher than any copy of ours.
• USDA FoodData Central. Records derived from FoodData Central are works of the U.S. government and are in the public domain. We credit USDA as a courtesy, not because a licence obliges us to. Neither USDA nor Open Food Facts endorses MacroPair or is responsible for it.
• What is ours. Our own work on top of those sources is protected in the ordinary way: the software that searches, ranks, arbitrates and checks the catalog, the corrections and quality flags we produce, and our brand. Your private data is not open data — your diary, your weights, your photos, your recipes and your notes belong to you and are never published by us under any licence.
• What you contribute to the catalog. One narrow category is different, and we would rather be plain about it than bury it. When you scan a barcode we do not yet have and then add that product — by photographing its label or typing it in — the product's name, brand and nutrition numbers become a catalog entry that every MacroPair user can see. That is the mechanism that makes the app's database better the more it is used, and it is why an unknown barcode usually only has to be fixed once by one person. Specifically:
  • It applies only to products carrying a barcode that is missing from the catalog. A food you create without a barcode stays private to you, always.
  • Entries are screened before publication: nutrition numbers must be physically plausible, and names and brands pass a content filter. We decline to publish; we never edit or censor your own copy, which stays in your diary either way.
  • A photographed label may also correct the numbers on a barcode we already hold, when the label and our data disagree. Text is never overwritten this way.
  • Because a published entry describes a commercial product rather than a person, it carries no link to your account, and it remains in the catalog if you later delete your account. Everything else of yours is deleted — see the Privacy Policy.
  If you would rather not contribute, add the food without its barcode and it stays yours alone.

Full credits and licence links live at Data sources and attribution.

5. Subscriptions, trials and billing

• Auto-renewal. MacroPair is offered as an auto-renewing subscription billed through your Apple ID. The price, period and any free-trial length are shown in the app and on the App Store listing before you confirm the purchase.
• Plans and coverage. A Solo subscription covers one account. A Household subscription covers the subscriber and one linked household partner; the partner's access ends if the subscription lapses or the household unlinks. Features are identical across plans — they differ only in the number of people covered.
• Renewal and cancellation. Your subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your device's subscription settings (Settings → your name → Subscriptions). Cancelling stops future renewals; the current period runs to its end.
• Trials. If a free trial is offered, any unused portion is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. A trial converts to a paid subscription unless cancelled before it ends.
• Refunds. Purchases are processed by Apple; refund requests are made to Apple via reportaproblem.apple.com and are governed by Apple's policies. When you request a refund, Apple may ask us how much of the subscription you actually used so that it can decide fairly. By accepting these Terms you consent to us sending Apple that usage summary — how long you have been subscribed and broadly how much you used the app. We never send your diary contents, your weights or your photos. If you would rather we sent nothing, email [email protected] and we will withhold it, with no effect on your request.
• Price changes. If a renewal price increases, you will be notified in accordance with App Store rules and can cancel before it applies.

6. Your content

You own the data you log — your diary, weights, recipes, photos and notes. You grant us the limited license needed to store, process, back up and display that data in order to operate the Service, including displaying it to a household partner exactly as the consent model describes. We claim no other rights in your content. Recipes you create, and any food you create without a barcode, remain private to you.

The one exception is described in full in section 4: adding a product whose barcode is missing from our catalog publishes that product's name, brand and nutrition numbers to every user, and a published entry outlives your account because it describes a product rather than a person. Nothing else you log is ever published.

7. Households

Linking a household requires action by both people: an invitation and an acceptance. While linked, each partner can view the other's diary, weights, targets and progress, and can create attributed entries on the other's day. Either partner may unlink at any time, which immediately ends access in both directions, including to history. Do not invite someone to a household without their knowledge, and do not use MacroPair to monitor a person who has not consented.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to: (a) probe, breach or test the security of the Service; (b) access another person's data outside the household consent model; (c) put automated or bulk load on our servers beyond ordinary personal use of the app; (d) upload unlawful content; (e) misrepresent your identity to us or to another user; or (f) use the Service in any way that violates applicable law.

Item (c) is a limit on our infrastructure, not on your rights in the open data described in section 4. We ask you not to hammer our servers for it because there is a better place to get it: the sources publish it in bulk themselves, complete and free.

9. Not medical advice

The Service provides general wellness information and mathematical estimates. It is not medical care, medical advice, nutrition therapy or a diagnostic tool, and no clinician-patient relationship is created by using it — see the Health Disclaimer, which is part of these Terms. Consult a qualified professional before changing your diet, especially if you are pregnant, nursing, under treatment, or have a history of disordered eating. If the app's guidance ever conflicts with your clinician's, follow your clinician.

10. Availability and changes to the Service

We work to keep the Service available and your data durable, but the Service is provided "as is" and "as available". We may add, change or retire features, and we may suspend accounts that violate these Terms. If we ever discontinue MacroPair entirely, we will give reasonable notice and a window to export your data.

11. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law: the Service is provided without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and accuracy of nutritional data (food databases and printed labels contain errors); and our total liability for any claim arising from the Service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

12. Indemnity

You will indemnify us against claims arising from your violation of these Terms or your misuse of the Service, to the extent permitted by law.

13. Termination

You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time (Settings → Account → Delete account). We may suspend or terminate accounts for material violation of these Terms; where practical we will warn you first. Sections that by their nature survive termination — including 4, 6, 11, 12 and 15 — survive.

14. Apple-specific terms

These Terms are between you and HarbingerScope LLC, not Apple. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app and is not responsible for addressing claims relating to it, including product-liability, regulatory or IP claims. In the event the app fails to conform to an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price; to the maximum extent permitted by law Apple has no other warranty obligation. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you. You represent that you are not located in an embargoed country and are not on a U.S. government restricted-party list.

15. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Fort Bend County or Harris County, Texas, and you consent to their jurisdiction. If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect.

16. Changes to these Terms

If we make a material change, we will update the date above and surface the change in the app before it takes effect. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

17. Contact

HarbingerScope LLC (WhiteBoxForge) · Richmond, Texas, USA
[email protected]