Disclaimer

1. AI-generated content is advisory only

Recommendations, summaries, dish descriptions, ratings, and any other text the app surfaces are produced by artificial-intelligence models. AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, internally inconsistent, or fabricated ("hallucinated") even when it sounds confident.

Treat T4Taste's suggestions as a starting point, not a verdict. We do not guarantee that any restaurant exists, is open, accepts reservations, serves a given dish, or matches the description shown. Always cross-check critical details (address, hours, prices, allergen information) directly with the restaurant before visiting.

2. Google Maps and Places data

Restaurant information — names, addresses, photos, hours, phone numbers, ratings, reviews, place categories, geocoding, and autocomplete — is sourced from Google Maps Platform (Places API). T4Taste does not maintain this data and cannot guarantee its accuracy or freshness.

• Coverage varies widely by region. Major cities are well-mapped; smaller towns, rural areas, and recently opened venues may be sparse, missing, or duplicated.
• Opening hours can be outdated, especially around holidays, special events, or recent ownership changes.
• Photos are user- and merchant-uploaded; they may be unrepresentative, watermarked, or stale.
• Ratings and review counts reflect Google's user base, which is not uniform across countries or cultures.
• Place identifiers (Place IDs) can occasionally be merged, retired, or replaced by Google, which may cause a previously-saved restaurant to look different or disappear.
• Some metadata (cuisine tags, accessibility, dietary indicators) is inferred — not declared by the venue — and can be wrong.

3. OpenAI and other large-language-model variance

Conversational discovery and Deep Dive insights are generated in part by large language models served by external providers. The default provider is OpenAI; you may opt to route your chats through Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Doubao (ByteDance), Kimi (Moonshot AI), Qwen (Alibaba), GLM (Zhipu AI), or MiniMax via Settings → AI Provider. Some of these providers operate outside the EEA — see the Privacy Policy at /privacy/ §5 for the jurisdictional implications. Several practical limitations follow:

• The same prompt can produce different answers across runs, models, model versions, and providers. Quality, depth, latency, and tone vary noticeably between providers, and may shift further as each provider updates its models.
• Models have a knowledge cutoff. Information about new restaurants, recent renovations, ownership or menu changes, and time-sensitive events may be missing or wrong.
• Long conversations are summarised or truncated under token limits; earlier context may be lost.
• Tool-calling reliability (used to fetch live place data) differs by provider; some providers occasionally produce malformed tool calls that the app catches and recovers from, but with extra latency.
• Models may decline to answer certain queries for safety reasons, or produce overly cautious responses. Refusal patterns and safety thresholds also vary by provider.
• Cloud generation requires an internet connection. Offline use of AI features is not supported.

4. Apple on-device Foundation Models

Some lightweight AI tasks (e.g. quick rewrites, intent classification) may run on-device using Apple's Foundation Models framework. These have additional limitations:

• Available only on devices that meet Apple Intelligence requirements (iOS 26 or later, supported iPhone models).
• Output quality and capabilities are constrained by the device's smaller, faster on-device model — they will generally be less detailed than cloud generation.
• Apple Intelligence and on-device generation are subject to Apple's regional rollout schedule and may be unavailable in some countries or for some languages.
• On-device models have shorter context windows; the app may switch to cloud generation for tasks that exceed them.

5. Voice input and speech recognition

Voice input is provided through Apple's Speech Recognition framework. Whether the audio is transcribed locally or sent to Apple's servers depends on your iOS settings, on the language you're speaking, and on whether your device is online — see Apple's privacy policy for details. T4Taste itself never records or stores raw audio.

• Transcription accuracy depends on background noise, distance from the microphone, accent, language, and uncommon vocabulary (cuisine and restaurant names are particularly hard).
• The transcription is not the AI's recommendation — it is plain text that the model then reads. Errors in the transcript propagate downstream as if you had typed them.
• You can always edit the transcribed text before sending.
• Microphone and speech recognition both require their respective iOS permissions. Denying or revoking either disables voice input gracefully without affecting the rest of the app.

6. Menu, dietary, and allergen information

When menus, dish lists, or dietary indicators are shown, they are derived from third-party sources — restaurant websites, Google's place data, user reviews, and AI summarisation — and are not authoritative declarations from the restaurant.

• Items, prices, portion sizes, and availability change without notice. The menu shown in the app may not match what is served today.
• Tags such as "vegetarian", "vegan", "gluten-free", "halal", "kosher", or "nut-free" are inferred from text and images. They are not certifications.
• Allergen information is advisory. If you have a food allergy, intolerance, or strict dietary requirement, you must confirm directly with the restaurant before ordering. T4Taste accepts no responsibility for harm arising from reliance on dietary information shown in the app.
• Translations of menus across languages may be partial or inexact.

7. Real-time availability and reservations

T4Taste is an informational app. We do not check live waitlists, do not handle reservations, and do not place orders or payments. "Open now" indicators rely on Google's posted hours and on-device clock; they are best-effort, not guarantees.

8. No professional advice

T4Taste does not provide medical, dietary, nutritional, financial, legal, or other professional advice. Recommendations are for general dining discovery only. Consult a qualified professional for any decision that depends on accurate health, dietary, or legal information.

9. Service availability and changes

Features may change, become limited, or be discontinued at any time. Subscription tiers, daily and weekly quotas, model selection, and the set of available providers may evolve based on cost, performance, regulatory, or business considerations. We will communicate material changes through the app, the Release Notes page, or by email where applicable.

Some features may not be available in all regions or in all languages.

10. Third-party services

T4Taste depends on third-party services, each governed by its own terms. Outages, rate limits, deprecations, regional restrictions, or policy changes by these providers can affect what T4Taste can do, sometimes without notice.

• Apple — App Store, StoreKit, iCloud / CloudKit, Sign in with Apple, Speech Recognition framework, and on-device Foundation Models (where available).
• Google — Maps Platform (Places API), Firebase Authentication, Sign in with Google, and Google Cloud Platform (which hosts our usage-enforcement backend in europe-west).
• Vercel — hosting for the t4taste.app website and cookieless analytics.
• LLM providers — OpenAI (default), and optionally Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Doubao (ByteDance), Kimi (Moonshot AI), Qwen (Alibaba), GLM (Zhipu AI), and MiniMax. The full list and jurisdictional notes appear in the Privacy Policy at /privacy/ §5.

11. "As is" basis and limitation of liability

T4Taste is provided "as is" and "as available". To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of T4Taste — including any loss arising from acting on AI-generated suggestions or third-party data.

Nothing in this disclaimer limits liability for fraud, gross negligence, or any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded under applicable consumer-protection law.

12. Relationship to Terms of Service

This page complements the Terms of Service. In case of conflict, the Terms of Service control. EU consumer rights and any other mandatory rights you have under your local law remain unaffected.

13. Contact and changes to this page

We may update this disclaimer as the app evolves. The date at the top reflects the last revision. For questions, write to contact@t4taste.app.