Terms of Service
Last Updated: May 20, 2025
1. Introduction
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE OR THE APP.
These terms of service (“Terms of Service”) (together with the documents they refer to) tell you the terms on which you may make use of Plezha’s website (“Site”) or mobile application (“App”, together with the Site, the "Services"). Use of the Site or the App includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use Site or App.
When we mention “Plezha”, “Company“ “we”, “us” or “our” in this Terms of Service, we mean Plezha MB, a legal entity registered at Krivių g. 5, Vilnius, Lithuania.
By using our Site or App, you confirm that you accept and agree to comply with these Terms of Service set out below. If you do not agree to these Terms of Service, you must not use our Site or App. We recommend that you keep a copy of these Terms of Service for future reference.
2. Applicable Policies
The following additional policies also apply to your use of our Site or App:
Our Privacy Policy, which explains what personal information we collect, why we collect it, how we use it, the controls you have over your personal information and the procedures that we have in place to protect your privacy. It applies to personal information we collect through the Site and the App. Please make sure that you read our Privacy Policy carefully before using the Site or the App.
Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our Site and App.
3. User Eligibility
If you are below the age of consent under applicable law in the country in which you reside, then your parent or legal guardian must read and accept the terms and conditions of this Terms of Service in your name and on your behalf.
You must be at least 16 years of age to use the Services. By using the Services, you represent and warrant that you are at least 16 years of age. If you are under age 16, you may not, under any circumstances or for any reason, use the Services. Our Sites are not targeted to nor meant for anyone under 16 years of age. If you become aware of anyone using the Services who is under the age of 16, please report this to: contact@plezha.com. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age of 16.
We may, in our sole discretion, refuse to offer the Services to any person or entity for any reason. We may also change this eligibility criteria at any time, in our sole discretion. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the Services is in compliance with all laws, rules and regulations applicable to you. If you are a minor, you may wish to consult your parents about what portions of the Services are appropriate for you.
Further, the Services are offered only for your personal use, and not for the use or benefit of any third party.
4. Overview of Our Site and App
Our Site provides information about the project, while the App allows you to browse recipes.
Our Site is designed to work on modern web browsers, major operating systems and platforms. Our App is designed to work on mobile devices running Android version 12.0 or later. Features and compatibility may vary between some web browsers, operating systems and platforms.
We may rely on third-party service providers to provide the Company Service or meet our obligations under these Terms.
We do not promise that our Site or App, any content on them, or services as may be provided by such third party service providers, will be free from errors or omissions.
5. Important Information Regarding Recipes
All recipes on our App are provided for general information only. The recipes, comments and other information provided on our Site or App are not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and any use of or reliance on any recipe of other content provided on our Site or App is at your own risk.
Therefore:
you should verify any unusual or novel ingredients or methods in a recipe by referring to other sources;
you should comply at all times with any food safety notices or bulletins issued by your local government authority, and you should not expect the Company Service to note or explain risks contained in food preparation, method or techniques of cooking or consumption of certain food; and
if you are new to cooking, we recommend following each step carefully and consulting an experienced cook or relevant resource if you have any questions about health and safety while preparing recipes from the Company Service.
If you have any comments or concerns about any recipes or other content on the Company Services or, are aware of other infringing, illegal or inappropriate material, please contact us at: contact@plezha.com.
6. Disclaimers
6.1. General Disclaimer
The contents of Services are for informational purposes only and are not intended to offer personal medical advice or professional culinary training. You should seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have read on this Site or App.
Always check ingredient information carefully and consult a medical professional if you have, or suspect you may have, any food allergies or sensitivities. The Company is not responsible for allergic reactions or any other adverse effects resulting from the use of recipes, products, or recommendations mentioned in the Services.
The Company does not recommend or endorse any products.
6.2. No Warranty
The Services are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without any warranties of any kind, either express or implied. We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted or error-free.
6.3. Cooking and Ingredient Disclaimer
The Services provide recipes and cooking ideas for informational purposes only. We do not guarantee that the recipes will achieve the results you desire or that they will be free from errors. Variations in ingredients, equipment, cooking methods, and individual skill levels may affect the outcome of recipes. We are not responsible for any adverse effects or results from the use of recipes or ingredients suggested in the App.
6.4. Nutritional Information Disclaimer
Any nutritional information provided in the App is based on estimates and should not be construed as a guarantee. Actual nutritional content may vary based on methods of preparation, origin, and freshness of ingredients, among other factors. Always consult with a qualified nutritionist or healthcare provider regarding any dietary concerns.
6.5. Healthy Eating Plate Disclaimer
The principles for recipe composition and ingredient recommendations in the App are based on information from Harvard Public Health's Healthy Eating Plate, available from public sources (https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/). While we strive to accurately reflect their guidance, we do not guarantee that our content perfectly aligns with their recommendations. The Company is not responsible for the accuracy of information provided by Harvard Public Health, and any discrepancies or issues with their guidance should be addressed directly with them. Our interpretations and representations of their principles are made to the best of our understanding and capability.
6.6. Cooking Time Disclaimer
Any cooking and preparation times provided in the App are approximate and intended for reference only. Actual times may vary depending on factors such as individual kitchen equipment, ingredient types, and user experience. Adjust times as necessary to achieve your desired results.
6.7. Serving Size Disclaimer
Each serving size provided in the App is an estimate based on the Harvard Healthy Eating Plate guidelines for an adult weighing approximately 60 kg. Please note that portion sizes may vary depending on individual dietary needs, preferences, and health conditions. Always adjust portions according to personal requirements and consult a qualified nutritionist if needed.
6.8. Equipment and Tools Disclaimer
The use of specific cooking tools and equipment is suggested based on common practices. We do not guarantee that using these tools will yield the desired results, and we are not responsible for any damages or injuries resulting from their use. Users should follow the manufacturers' instructions for any equipment and ensure it is used safely and appropriately.
6.9. Replacement Ingredients Disclaimer
Suggestions for ingredient replacements are provided for convenience and may not always yield the same results as the original ingredients. We do not guarantee the success of recipes using alternative ingredients. Users should use their judgment and consider any dietary restrictions or allergies.
6.10. Notification and Timer Disclaimer
Notifications and timers provided in the App are meant to assist users during the cooking process. However, we do not guarantee their accuracy or that they will work without interruption. Users should use their discretion and not solely rely on the App for timing critical cooking steps.
7. User Accounts
You may register for an account on the App (an "Account") or log in using login information. To use the Site, you are not required to sign up for an Account.
If you choose to become a Registered User, you must treat your account information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party. You accept full responsibility and liability for all activities that occur under your account, except where it is our fault.
If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your account, you must promptly notify us at contact@plezha.com.
You are solely responsible for all of the activity that occurs on your Account, and for keeping your Account password secure. You may never use another person's user account or registration information for the Services without their permission. You must notify us immediately of any change in your eligibility to use the Services, breach of security or unauthorized use of your Account. You should never publish, distribute or post login information for your Account. You shall have the ability to delete your Account. Contact us at contact@plezha.com to delete the account.
8. Our Site and App Content
The term "Content" includes, without limitation, any information, data, text, photographs and other images, videos, audio clips, written posts, articles, comments, software, scripts, graphics, and interactive features generated, provided, or otherwise made accessible on or through the Services.
By accessing or using our Services, you agree to comply with all applicable laws and to respect the intellectual property rights described in the 'Intellectual Property Rights' section of these Terms of Service.
9. Subscription Model
Our App is distributed via a paid subscription model with a free trial for new users. By subscribing, you agree to:
pay the monthly subscription fee through the payment methods provided by Google Play or Apple App Store, depending on your device;
automatic renewal of your subscription unless it is canceled before the end of the current billing period;
understand that subscription fees are non-refundable once billed.
The free trial provides full access to all features of the App for a limited time. After the trial ends, the subscription will automatically begin unless canceled in advance. You can manage or cancel your subscription at any time via your Google Play or Apple ID account settings.
We do not collect or store your payment information directly. All payments are securely handled by Google or Apple.
Each subscription purchased via Google Play is permanently linked to a single user account within the App. Once this link is established (after creating your account), it cannot be changed, transferred, or reassigned to a different account.
Please ensure you are signed up with the correct account when purchasing a subscription (with starting your free trial).
Creating multiple accounts to access repeated trials or bypass this limitation is not permitted and may result in restricted access.
10. Copyright Notice
All contents of Site and App are: Copyright © 2024 Plezha, Vilnius, Lithuania. All rights reserved.
11. Intellectual Property Rights
All content, features, and functionality of the App, including but not limited to recipes, videos, text, graphics, and logos, are the exclusive property of Plezha and are protected by intellectual property laws. You may not reproduce, distribute, modify, or create derivative works based on any content from the App without our prior written consent.
When accessing or using the Site, you agree to obey the law and to respect the intellectual property rights of others. Your use of the Site is at all times governed by and subject to laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property. You agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute any information or content (collectively, “Content”) in violation of any third party’s copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. You agree to abide by laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property, and you shall be solely responsible for any violations of any relevant laws and for any infringements of third party rights caused by any Content you provide or transmit. The burden of proving that any Content does not violate any laws or third party rights rests solely with you.
We give you permission to use the Content to the extent, and only to the extent, necessary to access and use the Company Services for your personal, non-commercial use in accordance with these Terms of Service. All other rights are expressly reserved.
Therefore:
you must not use any part of the Content, or our Site or App, for commercial purposes without obtaining an explicit consent to do so from us and/or (if applicable) our licensors;
you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text; or
you must not use Content outside our Site or App, especially by deleting any identified company’s status as the author of Content on our Site or App.
12. Code of Conduct
You promise that you will not:
infringe intellectual property rights of third parties, including without limitation, intellectual property rights such as copyright and trademark, of us, other users or third parties;
infringe the property rights, privacy rights and image rights of us, other users or third parties;
register multiple email addresses to obtain multiple accounts, while being a single user;
obtain an account on behalf of a Registered User whose account has been suspended or terminated;
discriminate against, harass, bully, intimidate, defame, or damage the reputation and credibility of, other users or third parties;
alter and/or erase Content made available through the Services;
impersonate us, other users or third parties (including doctoring email headers for the purpose of falsifying the source of email headers and the identity of the sender);
transmit computer programmes or viruses that are harmful or cause other users or third parties to receive such programmes or viruses;
accessing without authorisation, or conducting port scans, denial of service attacks, or spamming the facilities of other users or third parties or the facilities used by the Services (including, without limitation, telecommunication facilities, computers and other equipment, as well as software that is used in the provision of the Services by us) and/or causing or attempting to cause interference with the use or operation of such facilities;
transmit, without authorisation, email that are advertisement or promotion or solicitation or that are of a repulsive nature (including spam); obstruct the receipt of email by other users or third parties; request the transmission of chain emails and/or transmission of chain emails in accordance with such requests;
circulate information, equipment and software that are used for the purpose of disabling or circumventing the access control function of servers and other facilities;
reproduce, modify, disassemble, reverse engineer or analyse the samples or software contained in the Content (except to the extent permitted by law, and you agree to give notice to us in such circumstance);
obtain account information without authorisation or through fraud (including, without limitation, by phishing or similar methods);
use the Services for commercial activities (including any incentivized activities), for profit and in anticipation of profit, unless prior written approval has been obtained from us;
use the Services for election campaign or other political activities;
use the Services in contravention of applicable laws and regulations;
hinder the operation of the Services or hinder the exchange or sharing of Content; or cause damages or losses to us, other users or third parties by damaging their credibility or infringing their intellectual property rights;
cause significant hindrance to the operations of our business through repetitive, frivolous or vexatious enquiries or emails, which are beyond our obligations and/or are unreasonable;
breach the Terms of Service; or impede public order and morality (including, without limitation, by transmitting or displaying Content that may promote and induce violence, illegal images or suicide);
establish a link to our Site or App in order to encourage any of the actions, including those by third parties;
contravene such other requirements that we may impose from time to time at its sole and absolute discretion; or
use the Services in a manner that Plezha reasonably deems unsuitable or inappropriate. Plezha will refer to factors such as the typical use of the Services by the majority of its users, and general industry practice, when determining whether such use is unsuitable or inappropriate.
13. Termination of Service
We may terminate or suspend your access to the App at our sole discretion, without prior notice or liability, for any reason, including if you breach these Terms. Upon termination, your right to use the App will immediately cease, and you must delete or destroy any downloaded Content in your possession.
14. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Plezha shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses resulting from:
Your use or inability to use the App.
Any unauthorized access or use of our servers.
Any bugs, viruses, or other harmful software transmitted through the App.
Any errors or omissions in any content.
We will not be liable to you for any losses or damages suffered by you that: (i) were not reasonably foreseeable at the time you accepted these Terms of Service - loss or damage is reasonably foreseeable if either it is obvious at the time you accepted these Terms of Service that it may happen, or both you and we knew it might happen, for example, if you and we discussed it; or (ii) are not caused by us breaching a term of these Terms of Service, or any other failure by us.
We will also not be liable to you for:
any errors or omissions in any recipe or other Content;
use of or reliance on any Materials displayed on our Site or App;
any unauthorised access to or use of our secure servers or any and all non-secured personal information;
any interruption or the cessation of transmission to or from our Site or App;
a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programmes, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Site or App or to your downloading of any Materials on it, or on any website linked to it;
the content of websites linked on our Site or App; or
third party demands, assertions, claims, suits, actions or other proceedings brought against you from other users, alleging that your Contents infringes any third party’s intellectual property rights, or misappropriates a third party’s confidential information;
We will only be liable to Subscribed User up to a maximum aggregate limit of the Subscription Fees paid by that Subscribed User to us in respect of the Subscription Service.
15. Internet Connectivity Requirements
In order to use our Site and our App, your device will need a connection to the internet. You are solely responsible for obtaining, at your own expense, any hardware, software, and third-party services (such as a wireless service plan purchased through a telecommunications service provider) necessary to connect your device(s) to the internet, including any data transfer fees that may be imposed by your chosen service provider and which, if you choose to upload large amounts of data such as image files, may be substantial.
16. Third-Party Links and Resources
Where our Site or App contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
17. Third-Party Rights
Only the parties to these Terms of Service have the right to enforce any of its terms. No third party who is not a party to these Terms shall have any right to enforce any term within these Terms of Service, unless explicitly stated herein or as otherwise required by applicable law. No consent of any third party is required to vary these terms.
18. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
We will do our best to resolve any disputes over these Terms of Service.
These Terms of Service, their subject matter, and their formation are governed by Lithuanian law. However, if you are a consumer and resident of any other European Union country, you will benefit from mandatory provisions and legal rights available to you under the laws of that country. Nothing in these Terms of Service affects your rights as a consumer to rely on these local mandatory provisions and legal rights.
These Terms are governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Lithuania, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Both you and we agree that the courts of Lithuania have jurisdiction over any disputes related to these Terms. However, if you are a consumer residing in another country, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of your country, and we may choose to do the same.
19. Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)
The EU Commission has provided for an internet platform for online dispute resolution (“ODR Platform”). This ODR Platform serves as point for an alternative dispute resolution with regard to contractual obligations from online contracts. The ODR Platform is accessible at the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.
20. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold Plezha, its officers, directors, employees, and agents, harmless from any claims, disputes, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising out of or in any way connected with (i) your access to or use of the App, (ii) your violation of these Terms, or (iii) your violation of any rights of a third party.
21. Prohibited Uses
Company imposes certain restrictions on your permissible use of the Site and App. You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate any security features of the Site or App, including, without limitation, (a) accessing content or data not intended for you, or logging onto a server, account, or application feature that you are not authorized to access; (b) attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Site, App, or any associated system or network, or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (c) interfering or attempting to interfere with service to any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, by means of submitting a virus to the Site or App, overloading, “flooding,” “spamming,” “mail bombing,” or “crashing;” (d) using the Site or App to send unsolicited e-mail, including, without limitation, promotions, or advertisements for products or services; (e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or in any posting using the Site or App; or (f) attempting to modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reduce or attempt to reduce to a human-perceivable form any of the source code used by Company in providing the Site or App. Any violation of system or network security may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.
22. Artificial Intelligence Policy
Company does not consent to the content on the Site or App being used or downloaded by any third parties for the purposes of developing, training, or operating artificial intelligence or other machine learning systems (“Artificial Intelligence Purposes”), except as authorized by the owner in writing (including written electronic communication). Absent such consent, users of this website or app, including any third parties accessing the website or app through automated systems, are prohibited from using any of the content for Artificial Intelligence Purposes. Users or automated systems that fail to respect these choices will be considered to have breached these Terms of Service.
23. Modifications to Our Site, App, and Services
We may update our Site or App from time to time, and may change the Content at any time. We also reserve the right to change and improve the features and functionality of the Services at any time and at our sole discretion. This includes adding, modifying or removing specific features and functionality of the Services. If we intend to remove any material functionality of the Service to which you subscribe, we will give you reasonable advance notice. Please note that any of the Material on our Site or App may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.
24. Temporary or Permanent Suspension of Services
We do not promise that the Services, or any Content on the Site and App will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw, or discontinue all or any part of the Services without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our Services are unavailable at any time or for any period.
We may also suspend or cancel your access to or right to use the Services where we are withdrawing them, in which case we will give you reasonable advance notice.
25. Amendments to Terms
We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Terms on this page. Your continued use of the App after the changes have been posted constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms.
Previous changes we have made to this Terms are as follows:
May 20, 2025: clarified subscription model.
Apr 25, 2025: initial version.
26. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about these Terms, please contact us: