barm app terms

These terms are an agreement between you and Nima Project Ltd about your use of the barm app. We are a company registered in England and Wales, company number 13152926, with a registered office at 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE.

They cover the app, and nothing else. Nima Project also works as a design and development agency, and that work runs on separate terms and conditions. Those are written for clients commissioning a project. None of them apply to you as someone using barm.

barm is in closed alpha on Android. It is still being tested, so features described here can change, and some of them will.

By installing barm and using it, you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the app.

This is the most important clause on the page, so here it is again in plainer words. barm counts time, and it shows you photographs of what a step is meant to look like. It has no way of seeing, smelling or tasting what is in your jar. A finished countdown means the time you set has run out. It means nothing more than that.

The same goes for every date barm shows you. A best-before date on the shelf is a note you asked the app to keep for you. It is not an assessment of anything.

Follow the food-hygiene rules that apply where you live. If you are in any doubt about something you have made, throw it away.

You need to be old enough to agree to these terms, and old enough to consent to your own data being processed where you live.

Under the GDPR that second age is set by each country and it is not the same everywhere: 13 in the United Kingdom, 15 in Greece, 16 in Germany. Other countries set it somewhere between 13 and 16. barm ships in eight languages, so this is a real difference rather than a technicality.

If you are younger than the age that applies where you live, use barm only with a parent or guardian, who agrees to these terms on your behalf and stays responsible for how the app is used.

barm is also a kitchen app. Some of what it describes involves boiling water, hot pans and sharp knives, and a young cook should have an adult with them.

Everything you put into barm is yours: your batches, your photographs, your notes, and any recipe you tune and save as your own version. We claim no ownership of it, and we take no licence over it.

We could not take one even if we wanted to. barm has no accounts and no server holding your batches. Your photographs are written to the app’s own storage on your phone and deleted with the item they belong to. They are never uploaded.

That cuts both ways, and it is worth being plain about it: if you delete the app, or lose the phone, your batches and photographs go with it. There is no copy for us to restore, because there was never a copy. Back up your phone if that content matters to you.

What barm does collect is described in our privacy policy.

We ask a few things of you in return. Please do not:

• reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the app, or try to extract its source or its recipe data, except where the law expressly gives you that right
• copy, republish, redistribute or resell the recipes, the step photography or the written guidance — they are ours or our licensors’, and they are the part of barm that took the longest to make
• use the app for anything unlawful, or in a way that interferes with it working for anyone else
• present barm, or anything taken from it, as an assurance about the condition of food, whether to a customer, a regulator or anyone else

barm is licensed to you for personal use, in your own kitchen. The licence is non-exclusive, revocable, and does not transfer to anyone else.

barm is supplied as it is. We do not promise that it will run without interruption or without faults, and during a closed alpha you should expect some of both.

Reminders depend on your phone, not on us. barm schedules notifications locally and your phone’s own operating system decides when, and whether, to show one. Battery savers, focus and do-not-disturb settings, and force-stopping the app can all delay a reminder or stop it appearing at all. Do not rely on a notification alone for a step that matters to you.

We may change, suspend or withdraw features, and we may end the closed alpha. Where a change would clearly matter to you, we will give you notice we reasonably can.

barm is not medical, dietary or professional advice of any kind, and it is not a substitute for the rules that apply to a commercial kitchen.

Without Pro, barm runs up to three ferments at once and stays free forever. That is not a trial, and it does not run out.

Pro removes the limit on how many ferments you can run at once, and adds temperature-adjusted timing, your own saved recipes and the full shelf history. It costs €9.99 a year, or €19.99 once.

Pro cannot be bought yet. Payments have not launched, so nothing in the app can charge you anything today. The rest of this section describes how buying Pro will work when it does launch, and it is here so that nothing arrives as a surprise.

• Pro will be billed by Apple or Google, not by us. We never see your card and never learn its number.
• The annual plan renews until you cancel it. Cancel it through the store you bought it from, before the next renewal date.
• Lifetime is a single purchase, not a subscription. It does not renew, and there is nothing to cancel.
• Refunds go through the store you bought from, under that store’s rules rather than ours. If a store refuses a refund you believe you are owed, email us anyway and we will help where we can.

Your rights as a consumer to cancel and to a refund come from the law, not from this section, and nothing here reduces them.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else the law does not allow us to limit or exclude. If any part of this section conflicts with that, the law wins and the rest of the section still applies.

You have rights under consumer law — in the United Kingdom mainly under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, and in the EU under your own country’s consumer legislation. Those rights cannot be signed away, and these terms do not try to.

If we fail to meet the standard those laws set, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our failure. Loss is foreseeable if it is obvious that it will happen, or if you told us it might when you started using barm.

We are not responsible for loss or damage that was not foreseeable, or that comes from something outside our reasonable control.

We are not responsible for what you decide to make. Section 2 is the reason: barm cannot assess the condition of anything you make, so the decision about it is yours and stays yours.

barm is supplied for personal and domestic use. If you use it in a business — a café, a bakery, a commercial kitchen, a market stall — we have no liability to you for loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of a business opportunity.

We have deliberately not put a money figure on our liability here. Our agency terms do that, and a cap measured in project fees is meaningless to someone paying €9.99 a year. Whether a cap belongs on this page at all is one of the things the legal review will decide.

We may update these terms — to reflect a change in the app, or in the law, or because the legal review of this draft tells us to. The current version always lives at this address, with its date at the top.

Where a change materially affects you, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect. If you do not accept a change, you can stop using barm and delete it. If you have paid for Pro and a change genuinely disadvantages you, contact us.

You can end them at any time, by deleting barm from your phone.

We can end them, or suspend your access, if you seriously or repeatedly break section 5, or if we have to for legal reasons. Where we can give you notice first, we will.

Ending these terms does not undo a Lifetime purchase you have already made, unless we have ended them because of something you did.

Sections 2, 8 and 11 carry on applying after these terms end.

These terms, and any dispute arising out of them, are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction.

If you live in the EU or the EEA, that does not take away the protection given to you by the mandatory consumer rules of the country you live in, and you can bring proceedings in your own country’s courts. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can bring proceedings in your own courts.

Email: [email protected]. A person will answer.

Nima Project Ltd
Company number 13152926, registered in England and Wales
3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE

How barm handles your data is described in our privacy policy. The barm product page is at thenimaproject.com/barm.