These Terms of Service (“Terms”) constitute a legal agreement between you and M-Malik, operated by Mansoor Ahmed Malik ("we", "us", or "our"), governing your use of the Thali mobile application (the "App"). By creating an account or using the App, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the App.
1. Eligibility
You must be at least 16 years old to use Thali. By using the App you confirm you meet this requirement.
2. What Thali is — and is NOT
Thali helps you estimate the calorie and macronutrient content of food, presented as honest ranges, not exact figures.
Thali is not a medical device and does not provide medical, nutritional, or health advice. All nutrition figures are estimates and may be inaccurate. Do not rely on Thali for medical decisions, treatment of any condition, or the management of any diet requiring clinical precision (for example diabetes, allergies, or a prescribed medical diet). Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before making decisions about your diet or health. You use the estimates at your own risk.
If you have or are recovering from an eating disorder, please consult a healthcare professional before using calorie-tracking tools.
3. Your account
You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for all activity under your account. Tell us immediately at thali@m-malik.com if you suspect unauthorised use.
4. Acceptable use
You agree not to: misuse or attempt to disrupt the App; reverse-engineer or scrape it; upload unlawful content; attempt to access other users’ data; or use the App to build a competing dataset or product. You may only upload a profile photo you have the right to use.
5. Subscriptions, payments and refunds (if offered in future)
Thali is currently free. If we add paid features in future, subscriptions will be sold and billed through Apple, will be subject to Apple’s terms, and auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple account settings. Free-tier usage limits may apply and may change.
Refund policy: all purchases are processed by Apple, so refunds are requested from and decided by Apple under its App Store refund policies (reportaproblem.apple.com). We do not receive your payment details and cannot issue refunds directly. Cancelling a subscription stops future renewals; it does not retroactively refund the current period unless Apple grants it. Nothing here limits your statutory refund rights (including EU/UK consumer withdrawal rights, which Apple’s process implements).
6. Third-party services
The App relies on third-party services, such as our hosting provider and Sign in with Apple or Google, described in our Privacy Policy. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party services, and their availability may affect App features.
7. Intellectual property
We own the App, its content, design, food/nutrition database, and branding. We grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the App. You retain ownership of the content you create (such as your meal logs and profile photo) and grant us a licence to process it solely to provide the App.
8. Disclaimer of warranties
The App is provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or uninterrupted availability. We do not warrant that nutrition estimates are accurate or that the App will be error-free. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of these exclusions may not apply to you; nothing in these Terms limits rights you have that cannot be waived under applicable law (including mandatory consumer-protection rights in the EU/UK).
9. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, M-Malik will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, or health outcomes, arising from your use of (or inability to use) the App — including reliance on nutrition estimates or any data-security incident.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability for any claim relating to the App will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) USD $50.
Nothing in this section excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law (such as for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or fraud).
10. Data security and breach
We take security seriously (see the Privacy Policy), but no online service is completely secure. You acknowledge that you provide your data at your own risk and that, to the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for unauthorised access to your data that occurs despite our reasonable security measures. This does not reduce our statutory data-protection obligations, including breach notification.
11. Termination
You may stop using the App and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms or to comply with law. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (ownership, disclaimers, liability, governing law) will survive.
12. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms. Material changes will be notified in-app or by email; continued use after changes means you accept them.
13. Force majeure
Neither you nor we will be liable for any delay or failure to perform obligations under these Terms where the delay or failure results from events beyond reasonable control, including natural disasters, internet or telecommunications outages, government actions, labour disputes, or failures of third-party service providers.
14. Governing law and disputes
These Terms are governed by the laws of Pakistan, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes will be subject to the courts of that jurisdiction, except that consumers in the EEA/UK retain the right to bring proceedings in, and benefit from the mandatory consumer protections of, their country of residence.
15. Severability and entire agreement
If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding your use of the App and supersede any prior agreements or understandings relating to the App.
16. Contact
M-Malik
Operated by Mansoor Ahmed Malik
thali@m-malik.com