Terms of Use

1. About these terms

These terms cover your use of the Kista iPhone app and its share extension ("Kista"), made by asa ehf, a company registered in Iceland ("we", "us"). By using Kista you agree to them. Our Privacy Policy explains how we handle your data.

2. Apple's licence agreement

Kista is licensed to you under Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement (EULA). These terms add to the EULA; if the two conflict, the EULA applies. Apple is not responsible for Kista or its content and has no obligation to provide support for it.

3. Your account

You can sign in with Apple, Google or an email address. Keep your sign-in details to yourself; you're responsible for what happens in your account. A guest account, where the app offers one, is tied to the app on your phone until you add an email address, and its recipes can't be recovered if you log out or remove the app.

4. Kista Plus subscriptions

• Free and Plus. Without a subscription you can keep up to 10 recipes. Kista Plus removes that limit. It's offered as a yearly or a monthly subscription.
• Price. The price and billing period are shown in the app, in your local currency, before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase, or when a free trial ends.
• Free trial. New subscribers may get a free first month. If you don't cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends, the subscription starts and you're charged. You can only use the trial once.
• Automatic renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the period ends. Your Apple ID is charged for the renewal within the 24 hours before the period ends.
• Managing and cancelling. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple ID settings: open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions. When you cancel, you keep Kista Plus until the end of the period you've paid for. Deleting the app or your Kista account doesn't cancel the subscription.
• Refunds. Apple handles all payments and refunds. You can ask for a refund at reportaproblem.apple.com.
• If your subscription ends. You keep every recipe you've saved. While you have more than 10, you can't add new ones until you subscribe again or delete some.

5. Recipes you save

What you save in Kista stays yours. You give us permission to store, process and show it to you only so that Kista can work — for example to import a recipe, store its photo and build your grocery list.

Recipes you import come from other people's posts and websites. Kista keeps a link and credit to the original creator. Use Kista to save recipes for your own personal cooking, and respect the rights of the people who made them: don't use Kista to republish or sell someone else's recipes, photos or videos.

6. Imports, matching and nutrition

Kista uses an AI service to turn a post into a recipe, and automatic matching to pair ingredients with supermarket products. Both can make mistakes: an amount can be misread, a step left out or a product matched wrongly. Check the recipe and your grocery list before you cook or order, especially if you have allergies or dietary needs.

Nutrition values are estimates calculated from the supermarket's product data for the matched products. They are for general information only and are not medical, dietary or nutritional advice.

7. Supermarkets and other services

Kista is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any supermarket, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube or any website you import from. The Buy button opens your list in the supermarket's app or website. Product range, prices and availability are the supermarket's, and prices shown in Kista are estimates that can be out of date. Any order you place is between you and the supermarket, on its terms. The same goes for other services you open from Kista.

8. Acceptable use

Please don't:

• break the law or other people's rights using Kista;
• try to get into other people's accounts or our systems, or get around the free limit;
• overload Kista, for example with automated or bulk imports;
• copy, resell or reverse-engineer the app or its product data, except where the law allows.

9. Changes to Kista

We're always working on Kista, so features may change. Importing depends on other services that can change without notice, and a link that imports today may not import tomorrow. We'll do our best to keep Kista running, but we can't promise it will always be available or error-free.

We may update these terms. If a change matters, we'll tell you in the app or on this page before it takes effect. If you keep using Kista after that, the new terms apply.

10. Liability

Kista is provided "as is". To the extent the law allows, we're not liable for indirect or consequential losses, or for losses caused by mistakes in imported recipes, product matches, prices or nutrition estimates, or by services we don't run. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have as a consumer that can't be limited by agreement.

11. Ending

You can stop using Kista at any time and delete your account under More → Delete account. We may suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms. If we ever shut Kista down, we'll give reasonable notice in the app.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by Icelandic law. Disputes go to the District Court of Reykjavík (Héraðsdómur Reykjavíkur), unless the consumer law of the country you live in gives you the right to go to court there.

13. Contact

asa ehf, Iceland · hello@thekistaapp.com