LoMangioTerms and Conditions of Use
These Terms and Conditions (the "Terms") govern the use of the LoMangio mobile application and the website lomangio.com (the "Service"). By using the Service you fully accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, do not use the Service.
⚠️ Important — Allergies and health
LoMangio is an informational aid, not a medical device, and it does not provide medical, nutritional or health advice. The verdict is based on data that may be incomplete, out of date or incorrect (see §6).
If you have an allergy or intolerance, especially a severe one, ALWAYS check the product's physical label before consuming it and follow your doctor's instructions. Do not rely on the app's verdict alone for decisions that concern your health. In the event of an allergic reaction, contact the emergency services immediately.
1. Service provider
The Service is operated by Davide Negri, a natural person (the LoMangio project is not incorporated as a company). Contact and point of contact for communications: [email protected].
2. Nature and mission of the Service
LoMangio is a personal food scanner: the user sets their own allergens, the additives to avoid and their own nutritional preferences; by pointing the camera at a product, the app compares the ingredients with the user's profile and returns a concise verdict (🟢 I eat it · 🔴 I bin it · ⚪ I don't know it) and an indicative health score.
Product ingredients come mainly from Open Food Facts, a collaborative open-data database, and/or from reading the ingredient list via the camera (OCR). When a product is not available, the app can still provide an answer by reading the ingredients from the photo on the device.
3. Minimum age and minors
To use the Service you must be at least 14 years old. Minors aged between 14 and 17 may use the free features; for the Premium subscription and for any in-app purchase, the consent of the holder of parental responsibility is required (typically through Google's parental control tools).
4. Acceptance and changes
Use of the Service implies acceptance of these Terms and of the Privacy Policy. We may amend the Terms for technical, regulatory or Service-evolution reasons; substantial changes will be communicated with reasonable notice and, where required, you will be asked to accept the updated version again. Continued use after entry into force constitutes acceptance.
5. Features: Free and Premium
5.1 Free plan
Includes the personalised verdict on allergens and on the additives in your blocklist, the product's health score, the search and consultation of the additives catalogue, and the scan history.
5.2 Premium plan
Adds advanced rules (e.g. custom nutritional thresholds, trace management per allergen, "avoid X") and multiple family profiles. The Premium features may evolve over time.
5.3 Trial period and pricing
Any free trial periods, prices and subscription duration are indicated in the app at the time of purchase and managed through Google Play Billing.
6. Indicative nature of the verdict and health disclaimer
The verdict and the health score are purely indicative and informational in nature. In particular:
- The ingredient data may be incomplete, out of date, incorrect or missing, as it comes from third-party collaborative sources (Open Food Facts), from community contributions, or from automated reading (OCR) of a label, which is subject to recognition errors.
- Product formulations change over time: the physical label of the product in your hand always prevails over the app's data.
- The app cannot detect cross-contamination during production nor the presence of undeclared traces.
- The verdict is calculated on the basis of the profile that you set: an incomplete or inaccurate profile produces an unreliable verdict.
It is not medical advice
LoMangio is not a medical device and does not replace the advice of a doctor, an allergist or a nutritionist, nor the reading of the manufacturer's official label. If you have allergies, intolerances or medical conditions, always check the physical label and consult a healthcare professional. The Controller is not liable for dietary decisions made on the basis of the Service. Use of the Service is at your sole responsibility.
7. Use of automated technologies and OCR
To read the ingredient list from photos, the app uses text recognition on the device (Google ML Kit). Images are not sent to our servers. Automated text recognition and the interpretation of the ingredients may contain errors: the same as set out in §6 applies.
8. Account, subscription and deletion
To use the Service you create an account (email/password or Google login). You are responsible for the confidentiality of your credentials. The Premium subscription renews automatically unless cancelled through Google Play before the renewal.
8.1 Account deletion
You can delete your account at any time from Profile → Delete account in the app, or by following the procedure at lomangio.com/account-deletion. Deletion removes the account, the food profile and the history. Cancelling an active subscription must be done separately on Google Play.
9. Processing of personal data
The processing of personal data, including the health-related data contained in the food profile (special categories under Art. 9 GDPR, processed on the basis of your explicit consent), is described in the Privacy Policy, which forms an integral part of these Terms.
10. User contributions
If in the future you contribute to the shared catalogue (e.g. photos of the ingredients of missing products), you warrant that you have the right to do so and grant the Controller a non-exclusive, royalty-free and worldwide licence to use such contributions in order to manage and improve the catalogue of the Service. This feature will be opt-in and governed by dedicated consent.
11. Intellectual property and open data
The name "LoMangio", the logo, the interface and the code of the Service are owned by the Controller. The product data coming from Open Food Facts is distributed under the Open Database License (ODbL) and we acknowledge its source. Product images remain the property of their respective owners/contributors.
12. Limitation of liability
The Service is provided "as is". To the extent permitted by law, the Controller is not liable for damages arising from: inaccuracy or incompleteness of product data, OCR or verdict errors, unavailability of the Service, dietary or health decisions made on the basis of the Service.
12.1 Preservation of mandatory rights
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits the Controller's liability for wilful misconduct or gross negligence, for personal injury, nor the mandatory rights granted to the consumer by the applicable law (in particular by the Italian Consumer Code, Legislative Decree 206/2005).
13. User conduct
You undertake not to use the Service for unlawful purposes, not to attempt to circumvent its security measures, not to enter false or misleading content into the shared catalogue, and not to interfere with the operation of the Service.
14. Right of withdrawal
For purchases of digital content, by accepting immediate performance you acknowledge that the 14-day right of withdrawal may lapse once use has begun, within the limits provided for by the Consumer Code. Refunds and purchase management follow Google Play's policies.
15. Applicable law, jurisdiction and complaints
These Terms are governed by Italian law. For the consumer, the competent court is that of the place of residence or domicile. For complaints, write first to [email protected]: we will seek an amicable solution. The European online dispute resolution (ODR) platform is also available: ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.
16. Final provisions
If any clause is found to be invalid, the remaining ones remain valid. Toleration of any breaches does not constitute a waiver. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Controller in relation to the Service.