Terms of Service

What this is

Morsel is a personal diary of dishes and a shared catalog of the dishes people log. It is a place to remember what you ate and to find what is worth ordering. It is not a reservation, delivery or payment service, and it has no relationship with the restaurants it lists.

The service is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind, to the extent the law allows.

Your account, which comes first

You need an account to log a dish. Reading does not need one: the map, the search, and the page of any dish or restaurant are open to anyone, with nothing to sign into and nothing to fill in.

You sign up with an email address and a password. Keep the password to yourself: whatever is done from your account is attributed to you.

Your entries belong to that account rather than to this browser. They follow you to your phone, to another computer, and they survive a cleared cache. That is what the account is for.

Signed in, logging still works with no signal: the entry waits on the phone and lands in your log when connectivity returns. An entry typed while signed out waits on the device too, and the account adopts it the moment you sign in — what you wrote is not lost either way.

You are responsible for what is done through your account and for the accuracy of what you record. Do not log dishes on behalf of someone else without their knowledge.

What you write and photograph

Your entries, ratings, notes and photos remain yours. By marking an entry public you allow it to be shown on the page for that dish and that restaurant, and to be counted in the averages shown there.

A private entry is never shown to anyone else and never feeds a public average. Private is the default.

What you must not post

Photos you do not have the right to publish. Other people’s personal information. Entries written to inflate or sink a dish rather than to record a meal. Anything unlawful, hateful or deliberately false.

Entries that break this may be removed, and the account behind them closed.

The shared catalog

Dish and restaurant rows are shared between everyone. Near-duplicates get merged, misspellings get corrected, and your entry follows the row it belongs to. That merging is the point of the catalog rather than a defect of it.

Recommendations

The palate assistant needs an account with an address attached, like everything else you write here. It reads your whole log and every answer costs real money, so it is not offered to someone who is only looking around.

Recommendations are generated by a language model reading your own log, and they only ever point at dishes that already exist in the catalog. They can still be wrong.

They are not advice about allergies, ingredients, nutrition or health. If a detail matters to your safety, ask the restaurant.

Availability and changes

There is no uptime promise. Features may change or disappear, and the service may be discontinued. If that happens, you will be given a way to export what you logged.

Ending it

You can stop at any time. Deleting your account is a button on the account page inside the app — you do not have to ask anyone. It removes your entries, your photos and your palate profile.

The catalog rows stay: the fact that a dish exists at a restaurant is shared, and after the deletion nothing about it is attached to you. If the button fails, or you would rather we did it by hand, write to [email protected].

These terms may change; the date above is when this version was published. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept it.