Terms of service

Last updated 4 October 2026. Effective immediately for new accounts, and 30 days from this date for existing ones.

These terms are a binding agreement between you and Particular Palate ("we", "us"), operated by Noah Schultz as a sole proprietor in Missouri, United States. By creating an account or using the service you accept them. If you do not accept them, do not use the service.

1. What this is, and what it is not

Particular Palate records infant feeding and growth information that you enter, performs arithmetic on it, and draws charts from it. That is the whole of what it does.

It is not medical advice, and it is not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat, prescribe, monitor, or recommend. It has not been evaluated or cleared by the Food and Drug Administration or any other regulator. It makes no clinical judgement of any kind.

Growth percentiles are drawn from the WHO Child Growth Standards and are a statistical reference, not an assessment of your child. The feeding plan is one you enter from your own clinician. Any decision about volumes, fortification, thickening, restriction, tube feeding, or anything else belongs to your dietitian, physician, or cleft team — never to this software and never to a number it displays.

In an emergency, stop and call emergency services. If your child is struggling to breathe, turning blue or grey, limp, unresponsive, or will not wake to feed, this app is the wrong place to be.

2. Who may use it

You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract. You must be the parent, legal guardian, or a caregiver authorised by them for any child whose information you enter. You are responsible for having the right to enter that information.

3. Your account

You are responsible for your password and for everything done through your account, including by anyone you share access with. Tell us promptly if you believe your account has been compromised.

Email confirmation is deliberately not required, so that a parent can start logging immediately. The consequence is that an address entered incorrectly at sign-up cannot be used to recover the account. You can correct your email in Settings at any time, and we recommend you check it.

4. Subscription and billing

Free trial. New accounts get 7 days of full use at no charge and without a card.
Price. $6.00 per month after the trial. Taxes may apply depending on where you live.
Payment processing. Billing is handled entirely by Stripe. We never see or store your full card number.
Renewal. The subscription renews automatically each month until you cancel.
Cancellation. Cancel any time, with one click and no conversation. Either open the app and go to Settings → Account → Manage billing, or go straight to the Stripe billing portal and enter the email address you subscribed with. Cancelling stops future charges; access continues to the end of the period you have already paid for.
Refunds. Charges are non-refundable except where required by law, or where we choose to refund at our discretion. If you believe you were charged in error, write to us and we will look at it.

5. What happens if you stop paying

Your account becomes read-only. It is not deleted, suspended, or locked.

Every feed, measurement, note and chart you have entered stays visible.
The healthcare export keeps working, so you can always take your records to an appointment.
You can still export everything as a file, and still delete your data.
What stops is adding new records and editing existing ones.

We will not hold your child's feeding record hostage to collect a subscription. This is a commitment, not a courtesy, and it applies however long an account has lapsed.

6. Price changes

If the price changes, we will give at least 30 days' notice by email and in the app before it takes effect. You may cancel rather than accept it.

7. Acceptable use

Use it only for a child in your care.
Do not attempt to access another account's data or probe the system for ways to do so. If you find a flaw, please write to us rather than exploit it; we will not pursue anyone who reports a vulnerability in good faith and gives us a reasonable chance to fix it.
Do not scrape, resell, rebrand, reverse engineer, or build a competing service from it.
Do not upload anything unlawful, or anyone else's information you have no right to.

8. Intellectual property

Your records remain yours. You grant us only the limited licence needed to store, process and display them so the service can function. We claim no ownership of what you enter and we do not use it to train models or build datasets. See the privacy policy.

Particular Palate™ is our trademark. The software, source code, interface design, layout, graphics, icons, and the text of these pages are our copyrighted work — copyright © 2026 Noah Schultz, all rights reserved.

You are granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the service for a child in your care. That licence does not let you copy, adapt, translate, decompile, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the service; reproduce the interface or its design in another product; or use the Particular Palate name, logo, or anything confusingly similar, whether as a product name, a domain, or branding. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.

If you send us feedback or a suggestion, we may act on it without obligation, payment, or attribution. Nothing in these terms transfers your ownership of anything you enter.

9. Availability

This runs on free and low-cost hosting tiers. It will sometimes be slow and it can go down. We do not promise any level of uptime, and we may change, suspend or discontinue any part of it at any time. Do not make it the only place a number exists — export your data.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, error-free, or that any calculation, percentile, chart or export will be accurate or complete. Figures are only as good as what you enter, and entries made in the middle of the night are often wrong. Check your data before relying on it, and before an appointment.

11. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR FOR PERSONAL INJURY, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, AND EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

THIS INCLUDES, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY CLAIM ARISING FROM A DECISION MADE ON THE BASIS OF ANYTHING THE SERVICE DISPLAYS, CALCULATES, OMITS, DELAYS, OR FAILS TO DISPLAY, AND ANY CLAIM ARISING FROM LOST, CORRUPTED OR UNAVAILABLE DATA.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) TWENTY US DOLLARS.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain warranties or liabilities, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for gross negligence or wilful misconduct. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, and in those jurisdictions the limitations above apply only to the extent permitted.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of your use of the service, your breach of these terms, your violation of any law, or your violation of anyone else's rights.

13. Termination

You may stop using the service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate an account that is being used to attack the service, to break the law, or to harm someone, and we will say why where we reasonably can. Sections 8 through 15 survive termination.

14. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Missouri, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Any dispute will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Cole County, Missouri, and you consent to the jurisdiction of those courts. If you are a consumer in a jurisdiction whose law gives you the right to bring proceedings locally, this does not remove that right.

15. General

If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in force and that provision is enforced to the greatest extent permitted. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, with the privacy policy, are the entire agreement between us. You may not assign them; we may assign them in connection with a sale or transfer of the service, in which case your data continues to be governed by a privacy policy at least as protective as this one.

16. Changes

If these terms change materially, the date at the top changes and you will see a notice in the app. Continuing to use the service after that is acceptance. If you do not accept, stop using it and delete your account; your records remain exportable until you do.

17. Contact

hello@particularpalate.com