Terms of Service

Last updated: May 30, 2026

Butler is a family kitchen assistant that helps you plan meals, track your pantry, and build grocery lists. These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and the operator of Butler (the developer listed in the App Store and Google Play store pages, contactable at [email protected]). By creating a Butler account or using the app, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't create an account or use Butler.

Who can use Butler

• You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough to form a binding contract where you live, to create an account.
• Butler is designed for an adult running a household. If you add children's names or ages to your household profiles, you confirm you're a parent or guardian doing so.
• You're responsible for keeping your sign-in credentials (Apple or Google) secure and for activity that happens under your account.

Your account & household

You sign in with Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google. You may create a new household or join an existing one with an invite code. Everyone in a household can see and edit that household's shared data — family members, recipes, pantry items, meal plans, grocery lists, and cooked-meal logs. Only invite people you trust to your household.

Acceptable use

When using Butler, you agree not to:

• Break the law or infringe anyone else's rights.
• Upload content that is illegal, harmful, or that you don't have the right to share.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to Butler, other households' data, or our systems.
• Probe, scan, overload, or disrupt the service, or circumvent rate limits and security measures.
• Use Butler to build a competing product or resell access to it.
• Misuse the AI assistant — for example to generate unlawful content or to extract data you're not entitled to.

Your content

You keep ownership of the content you put into Butler (family profiles, recipes, photos, chat messages, and so on). You grant us the limited permission needed to host, process, and display that content so we can operate the service for you — including sending the relevant context to our AI and image-analysis providers to generate responses. We handle your data as described in our Privacy Policy.

AI assistant — no warranty on advice

Butler's assistant is powered by third-party AI models and can be wrong. Meal suggestions, ingredient substitutions, expiry estimates, nutritional assumptions, and parsed order data may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always use your own judgment for food safety, allergies, and dietary restrictions. Butler does not provide medical, nutritional, or professional advice, and you rely on its output at your own risk.

Third-party services

Butler integrates with services like Apple, Google (including optional Gmail and Calendar connections), Anthropic, and others described in our Privacy Policy. Your use of those services is also governed by their own terms. If you connect Gmail or Google Calendar, you can disconnect at any time from Settings inside the app.

Service availability & changes

Butler is offered on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We may add, change, or remove features, and we may suspend or discontinue the service, at any time. We'll make reasonable efforts to give notice of significant changes, but we don't guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation.

Ending your use

You can stop using Butler and delete your account at any time from Settings → Account → Delete account, which permanently removes your household data as described in the Privacy Policy. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or that pose a risk to the service or other users.

Disclaimers & limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Butler and its operator disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we won't be liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, or for any loss of data, arising from your use of (or inability to use) Butler. Some jurisdictions don't allow these limitations, so some may not apply to you.

Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we'll update this page and notify account holders by email or in-app message before the change takes effect. Continuing to use Butler after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

Contact

Questions about these Terms: [email protected].