Terms of Service

Effective May 5, 2026

Last updated May 5, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding legal agreement between you and Varient Nutrition LLC ("Varient", "we", "us", or "our") governing your use of the Varient iOS application, the varientnutrition.com website, and any related services we provide (collectively, the "Service"). If you do not agree to these Terms, do not create an account or use the Service.

1. Not medical, dietetic, or professional advice

Varient is a general nutrition and meal-planning tool. It is not a medical device, a healthcare service, a clinical decision-support tool, or a substitute for professional medical, dietetic, mental health, or fitness advice. The Service does not establish a doctor-patient, dietitian-client, or therapist-client relationship between you and Varient or any of its personnel.

Meal plans, calorie and macronutrient targets, micronutrient suggestions, AI coach output, food databases, and any other content presented by the Service are for general informational and educational purposes only. They are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, or mitigate any disease or condition, nor are they tailored to any individual's specific medical or psychological situation.

Always seek the advice of a licensed physician, registered dietitian, or other qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, dietary restriction, medication interaction, supplement use, weight-management goal, or fitness program. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you read or saw in the Service. If you think you may have a medical emergency, call 911 (or your local emergency number) immediately.

2. Bloodwork interpretation disclaimer

The Service includes features that let you enter laboratory values (e.g., serum vitamin levels, lipid panel, hormone markers) and that surface general nutrition suggestions based on those values. These features are NOT:

• a clinical interpretation of laboratory results;
• a medical device, in vitro diagnostic device, or laboratory-developed test under FDA, CLIA, or equivalent international regulations;
• a substitute for review by a qualified healthcare provider operating in a CLIA-certified or equivalent setting;
• a service that diagnoses, treats, monitors, or prevents disease.

You are solely responsible for the accuracy of values you enter and for sharing your actual lab results with a qualified provider. Varient makes no representation that the suggestions surfaced are appropriate for your specific medical situation, and any reliance on them is at your own risk.

3. Assumption of risk & acknowledgment

By using the Service, you expressly acknowledge and agree that:

• You are voluntarily participating in a self-directed nutrition and meal-planning program.
• Changes to diet, calorie intake, macronutrient ratios, or micronutrient intake carry inherent risks, including but not limited to nutritional deficiency, weight changes, metabolic effects, gastrointestinal symptoms, allergic reactions, fluctuations in blood sugar or blood pressure, fatigue, hormonal change, and interactions with medications or pre-existing conditions.
• You assume full responsibility for evaluating whether the Service is appropriate for you, for monitoring how your body responds, and for discontinuing use if any adverse symptoms arise.
• You will consult with a qualified healthcare provider before beginning, modifying, or terminating any nutrition program based on the Service if you have, suspect you may have, or have a family history of any medical condition; if you take prescription medication or supplements; if you are pregnant, nursing, or trying to conceive; if you are under 18; if you have or are at risk of an eating disorder; if you have a kidney, liver, cardiac, endocrine, or autoimmune condition; or if you are otherwise advised to be cautious with dietary changes.
• To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release Varient, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, and agents from any and all claims, damages, demands, and causes of action arising out of or related to your use of the Service.

4. Eating-disorder & mental-health warning

Calorie tracking, macronutrient tracking, weight tracking, and structured meal planning can be harmful for individuals with current, prior, or emerging eating disorders, disordered-eating patterns, body-image disturbances, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, or related mental-health conditions. If any of the following applies to you, do not use the Service without first consulting a qualified mental-health professional or registered dietitian who specializes in eating-disorder recovery:

• You have ever been diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, ARFID, orthorexia, or another eating disorder.
• You have a current or recent history of restrictive eating, purging, compulsive exercise, or weight cycling.
• You experience significant distress related to food, body weight, body shape, or eating behavior.
• You are in active treatment or recovery for any of the above.

If you are in crisis or experiencing thoughts of self-harm, please contact the National Eating Disorders Association Helpline (1-800-931-2237 in the US) or the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (call or text 988) immediately.

5. Allergens & food safety

Varient's food database lists common nutritional values for generic foods. We do not represent that any food, recipe, or meal plan is free of any specific allergen, contaminant, or pathogen. You are solely responsible for verifying ingredient labels, restaurant disclosures, and food handling for your own dietary, allergic, intolerance, religious, or ethical requirements. Cross-contamination during food sourcing, preparation, or service is outside our control. If you have a food allergy or intolerance that could result in serious harm, treat the Service as a planning aid only and consult appropriate sources (manufacturer labels, restaurant staff, your physician or allergist) before consuming any food.

6. AI coach & automated content

The in-app coach and certain plan-generation features rely on artificial-intelligence models, including third-party large language models. Their output is automatically generated and may be:

• Inaccurate, incomplete, biased, or outdated;
• Inconsistent across sessions;
• Unable to detect medical conditions, allergies, drug interactions, or pregnancy-related risks;
• A "hallucination" — content that appears plausible but is factually wrong.

Always sanity-check AI output before acting on it. Never rely on AI coach output for medical, mental-health, emergency, legal, or financial decisions. We may rate-limit, throttle, or modify AI features at any time without notice.

7. No guarantee of results

Individual results vary. Varient makes no guarantee that following meal plans, calorie targets, or suggestions surfaced by the Service will result in any specific weight change, body-composition change, performance improvement, biomarker improvement, symptom relief, or other outcome. Any testimonials or before-and-after content shown by us or by users are personal experiences and are not representative results.

8. Eligibility & account

• You must be at least 13 years old. If you are between 13 and 17, you may use the Service only with the verifiable consent of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by these Terms on your behalf. We may require proof of consent at any time.
• You must not be barred from using the Service under the laws of the United States or the laws of the jurisdiction in which you reside.
• You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information when creating your account and to keep it up to date. The Service's output depends on the accuracy of the data you enter.
• You are responsible for safeguarding your password and for any activity that occurs under your account. Notify us immediately at support@varientnutrition.com if you suspect unauthorized use.
• You may not share, transfer, lease, or sell your account, and you may not create an account on behalf of another person without their authorization.

9. Subscriptions, billing & auto-renewal

• Premium features require a paid subscription, processed by Apple through your App Store account. Pricing, term length, and free-trial availability are displayed in-app at the time of purchase.
• Auto-renewal: subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each billing period for the same term and at the then-current price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Apple charges your payment method on the day of renewal.
• Free trials: if a free trial is offered, your payment method will be charged automatically when the trial ends unless you cancel before then. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited if you purchase a subscription before the trial ends.
• Cancellation: you may cancel at any time by going to iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Varient. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period.
• Refunds: all billing is processed by Apple, which determines refund eligibility under its own terms. We do not process refunds directly. To request a refund, use Apple's Report a Problem page.
• Price changes: we may change subscription prices. We will provide reasonable advance notice via in-app notification and/or email. Price changes apply only to renewal terms after the notice period; you may cancel before the change takes effect.

10. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to discover the source code, algorithms, or models underlying the Service, except to the extent applicable law expressly prohibits such a restriction;
• Scrape, crawl, mirror, harvest, or republish data from the Service without our written permission;
• Use automated tools, bots, scripts, or excessive request rates that strain or attempt to disrupt our infrastructure;
• Probe, test, or circumvent the security or authentication of the Service;
• Access or attempt to access another user's account, data, or session;
• Use the Service to harass, threaten, defame, impersonate, dox, or harm any person;
• Submit content, including bloodwork values or profile data, that is false, misleading, or designed to manipulate the recommendation engine, AI coach, or any moderation system;
• Use the Service in violation of any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right (including privacy and intellectual-property rights);
• Resell, sublicense, or commercialize the Service, in whole or in part, without our written permission;
• Remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary notices in the Service.

We may investigate suspected violations and take appropriate action, including suspending or terminating accounts and reporting unlawful activity to authorities.

11. User content & license to us

You retain ownership of the content you submit to the Service (profile values, food logs, custom requests, bloodwork values, AI-coach messages — collectively, "User Content"). By submitting User Content, you grant Varient a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, copy, transmit, process, modify (only as needed for technical operation), and display your User Content for the sole purposes of (a) providing and improving the Service to you, (b) complying with legal obligations, and (c) enforcing these Terms. We do not use your User Content to train AI models, do not sell your User Content, and do not share it with advertisers.

You represent and warrant that you have the rights to submit your User Content and that doing so does not violate any law or third-party right.

12. Our intellectual property

The Service, including its software, code, design, trademarks, logos, copy, graphics, plan-generation algorithms, food database compilation, AI prompts and configurations, and other materials (collectively, the "Varient IP"), is owned by Varient or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, trade-secret, and other intellectual-property laws. We grant you a personal, limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to use the Service for your personal, non-commercial use, subject to these Terms. No other rights are granted, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise.

13. App Store terms (Apple)

The following provisions apply if you obtained the Varient iOS app from the Apple App Store:

• These Terms are between you and Varient only, not with Apple Inc. ("Apple"). Apple is not responsible for the Service or its content.
• Your license to use the iOS app is limited to a non-transferable license to use the app on any Apple- branded products you own or control, as permitted by the Apple Media Services Terms.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the Service.
• If the iOS app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, which may refund the purchase price (if any) of the iOS app. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the iOS app.
• Varient — not Apple — is responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the iOS app or your use of it (including product-liability claims, claims that the iOS app fails to conform to applicable legal requirements, and consumer-protection or privacy claims).
• If a third party claims that the iOS app infringes its intellectual property, Varient — not Apple — is solely responsible for investigating, defending, and resolving the claim.
• You represent and warrant that you are not in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or listed by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple is a third-party beneficiary of these Terms as they apply to your use of the iOS app, with the right to enforce them against you.

The standard end-user license agreement available at apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula is incorporated by reference, except where superseded by these Terms.

14. HealthKit & fitness device data

If you grant the Service permission to read data from Apple HealthKit or a connected fitness device, we will use that data only as described in our Privacy Policy. In particular, and as required by Apple's HealthKit guidelines:

• We will not use HealthKit data for advertising, marketing, or other use-based data-mining purposes other than improving health, fitness, or medical research.
• We will not disclose HealthKit data to any third party without your explicit permission, and we will not disclose HealthKit data to advertising platforms, data brokers, or information resellers.
• We will not sell HealthKit data.
• We will not share HealthKit data with any third party for any purpose other than as described in the Privacy Policy and only with your authorization.

You may revoke HealthKit access at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Health → Varient. Disabling HealthKit may degrade certain features (e.g., automatic calorie-target adjustment).

15. Termination & suspension

You may stop using the Service at any time. You may delete your account and your associated personal data through the in-app Profile → Delete Account option, or by emailing support@varientnutrition.com.

We may suspend or terminate your account, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, abused the Service, engaged in fraudulent or unlawful behavior, or if continued provision of the Service to you creates a legal, regulatory, or technical risk. Upon termination, provisions that by their nature are intended to survive (including ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, dispute resolution, and miscellaneous provisions) will continue to apply.

16. Disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, with all faults and without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Varient and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, suppliers, and licensors disclaim all warranties, express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, completeness, quiet enjoyment, and any warranties arising out of course of dealing or usage of trade.

Without limiting the foregoing, we do not warrant that: (a) the Service will meet your requirements; (b) the Service will operate uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or be free of viruses or other harmful components; (c) any meal plan, calorie target, micronutrient suggestion, AI coach output, or other content will be accurate, reliable, complete, current, or appropriate for your individual situation; (d) any errors will be corrected; or (e) use of the Service will produce any specific health, weight, performance, or other outcome.

17. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law:

• In no event shall Varient or its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, suppliers, or licensors be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including but not limited to damages for loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, data, business opportunities, anticipated savings, personal injury, emotional distress, or any other intangible loss, arising out of or related to your access to, use of, or inability to use the Service, regardless of the cause of action and regardless of whether Varient has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
• The total cumulative liability of Varient and its affiliates for any claim arising out of or related to the Service or these Terms is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) USD $50.
• The foregoing limitations apply to the maximum extent permitted by law even if any limited remedy fails of its essential purpose.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages (including, in some jurisdictions, damages for personal injury arising from gross negligence or willful misconduct). To the extent any limitation in this Section is held unenforceable in your jurisdiction, the remaining limitations will continue to apply, and our liability will be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law in that jurisdiction. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

18. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Varient, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, suppliers, and licensors from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use or misuse of the Service; (b) your violation of these Terms; (c) your violation of any law or third-party right (including intellectual-property and privacy rights); (d) your User Content; or (e) any reliance by you or anyone acting on your behalf on output of the Service. We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, and you agree to cooperate with us at your expense.

19. Binding arbitration & class-action waiver

READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY — IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.

Agreement to arbitrate. You and Varient agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service (a "Dispute") — including the interpretation, formation, performance, breach, termination, enforceability, or validity of these Terms — will be resolved exclusively through final and binding individual arbitration, except as provided below. The Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. §§ 1–16) governs the interpretation and enforcement of this arbitration agreement.

Arbitration administrator and rules. Arbitration will be administered by JAMS under its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules & Procedures (or, for claims under USD $250,000, its Streamlined Arbitration Rules & Procedures), each available at jamsadr.com. The arbitration will be conducted in the English language by a single neutral arbitrator. The arbitrator's award will be final and binding, and judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Location. Unless you and we agree otherwise, arbitration will take place in the U.S. county where you reside, or by telephone or videoconference if available.

Class-action waiver. You and Varient agree that each may bring claims against the other only in your or its individual capacity, not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, mass, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims and may not preside over any form of class or representative proceeding. If this waiver is found to be unenforceable, then the entirety of this Section 19 (Binding arbitration) will be null and void, but the rest of these Terms will remain in effect.

30-day right to opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement by emailing legal@varientnutrition.com within 30 days after first accepting these Terms. Your email must include your full name, the email address associated with your account, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out of arbitration. Opting out will not affect any other provision of these Terms.

Exceptions. Notwithstanding the agreement to arbitrate, either party may (a) bring an individual action in small-claims court for any qualifying claim, and (b) seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court for actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of intellectual-property rights or the Acceptable Use section.

20. Governing law & venue

These Terms are governed by and construed under the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Subject to Section 19, any action permitted in court must be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in New Castle County, Delaware, and the parties consent to personal jurisdiction and venue there.

21. Force majeure

We are not liable for any failure or delay in performance to the extent caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, pandemics, war, terrorism, civil unrest, governmental action, labor disputes, internet- or telecom-provider failures, cyberattacks, or other force majeure events.

22. Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights or obligations under them, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms freely, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, financing, or by operation of law. Any attempted assignment in violation of this Section is void.

23. Severability & waiver

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect, and the invalid provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

24. Notices

We may provide notices to you by email (to the address associated with your account), by in-app notification, or by posting on the Service. You consent to receive notices in electronic form. Notices to us must be sent to legal@varientnutrition.com.

25. DMCA & intellectual-property complaints

We respect intellectual-property rights and respond to notices of alleged infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. To submit a DMCA notice, send a written communication to legal@varientnutrition.com that includes the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), including (a) a physical or electronic signature, (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, (c) identification of the allegedly infringing material and its location, (d) your contact information, (e) a statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorized, and (f) a statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and you are authorized to act on the owner's behalf. We may forward notices to the alleged infringer and may terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances.

26. Export controls

You may not use, export, re-export, or transfer the Service in violation of any U.S. or other applicable export-control laws or regulations. You represent and warrant that you are not located in, and are not a national or resident of, any country subject to a comprehensive U.S. embargo, and that you are not identified on any U.S. Government restricted-party list.

27. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you in-app or by email at least fourteen (14) days before they take effect (or such longer period as may be required by law). Your continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service and may delete your account.

28. Entire agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms presented at the point of a specific feature or purchase, constitute the entire agreement between you and Varient regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements between us regarding the Service.

29. Contact

General questions: support@varientnutrition.com
Legal notices: legal@varientnutrition.com