BiteVote Terms of Service

Effective date: July 12, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and ProspectOre LLC ("BiteVote", "we", "us") governing your use of the BiteVote app and related services (the "Service"). Please read them together with our Privacy Policy and Moderation Policy, which are incorporated into these Terms by reference.

Acceptance

By tapping to accept these Terms, or by creating or joining a group or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. If you use the Service on behalf of a household or group, you accept these Terms for yourself and confirm you have authority to invite the people you add.

Eligibility and Accounts

You must be old enough to consent to this agreement in your jurisdiction to use BiteVote as an adult member. BiteVote does not let minors create independent accounts. A parent or guardian may add a parent-managed teen profile (ages 13 to 17) to a group for meal voting only; the managing adult is responsible for that profile and accepts these Terms on the minor's behalf, consistent with our Privacy Policy and applicable children's-privacy law. BiteVote uses accountless, device-based authentication by default and optional Sign in with Apple, Google Sign-In, or email-link restore. You are responsible for activity that occurs through your device and any linked sign-in.

The Service

BiteVote helps a household or small group decide what to eat: propose options, vote, and keep a shared library and meal history. Some capabilities (the "Pro" tier) require a paid subscription. We may add, change, or discontinue features. We may also suspend or limit access to protect the Service, comply with law, or address abuse.

Your Content

"Your Content" means anything you submit through the Service — group and place names, dishes, notes, votes, meal history, reports, photos, and other material. You keep ownership of Your Content. You grant BiteVote a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, and transmit Your Content solely to operate, secure, and improve the Service for you and the groups you belong to. You are responsible for Your Content and confirm you have the rights to submit it and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights or violate law or our Moderation Policy. You further confirm that you have obtained any consents needed for any identifiable person, and any permissions needed for trademarks, logos, or private property, depicted in a photo you submit.

Community Photo License

Community photos are a distinct, opt-in feature and are governed by this section. Only if you explicitly choose to share a photo of a place with the wider BiteVote community, and only after the photo passes automated de-identification and screening (metadata including any embedded location is stripped, the image is re-encoded, photos with any detectable face are refused, and no name or account identity is ever displayed with a published community photo), that photo is published anonymously to all BiteVote groups.

By sharing a community photo, you grant BiteVote a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, adapt (for format, size, and de-identification), publish, publicly display, and distribute that de-identified photo anonymously as part of the BiteVote community photo collection, including after your account is deleted. You represent that you took the photo and have the right to grant this license.

This license is what lets the community collection remain a durable, shared resource rather than disappearing when any one contributor leaves. It applies only to the de-identified, anonymized community copy. You may remove any community photo you shared at any time from Settings › Community photos, and doing so ends its publication going forward. Deleting your account permanently severs the private record linking you to your shared photos; the de-identified photos themselves remain published anonymously under this license unless you removed them first. Parent-managed teen profiles cannot contribute community photos.

Acceptable Use

You agree not to: submit unlawful, infringing, hateful, harassing, sexual-exploitation, or otherwise objectionable content; upload a photo you did not take or that depicts a person in a way they have not agreed to; misuse invites, impersonate others, or evade a block or removal; probe, disrupt, scrape, or overload the Service; or use the Service to violate any law. Our Moderation Policy describes how content is screened and how we act on violations, including removing content and blocking abusive members or devices.

Copyright and DMCA

We respect intellectual-property rights and expect you to do the same. If you believe content on BiteVote infringes your copyright, send a notice to our designated agent, registered with the U.S. Copyright Office:

5441 S Macadam Ave Ste N, Portland, OR 97239, USA

Email: copyright@prospectorellc.com

Your notice must include: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the copyrighted work; identification of the material claimed to be infringing and enough detail for us to locate it; your contact information; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized; and a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and you are authorized to act. We will remove or disable infringing material, notify the contributor where possible, accept counter-notices, and terminate the accounts of repeat infringers in appropriate circumstances, consistent with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Subscriptions and Billing

Pro subscriptions are sold through the Apple App Store or Google Play and billed to the store account you use on that platform. The store-provided localized price, billing period (monthly or yearly), offer terms, and renewal terms are shown before you confirm. Subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current price for the same period until you cancel; payment is charged at confirmation and at each renewal under the applicable store's rules. Manage or cancel auto-renewal in your App Store or Google Play subscription settings within the time shown by that store to avoid the next charge. The applicable store's refund and billing policies govern purchases. Deleting your BiteVote account does not cancel an active store subscription — cancel it in the store separately.

Apple

These Terms are between you and BiteVote (ProspectOre LLC) only, not with Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support for the app. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no warranty obligation with respect to the app, and Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app, including product-liability, legal-or-regulatory-compliance, and consumer-protection claims; any claim that the app or your use of it infringes a third party's intellectual-property rights; or any third-party claims arising from your use of the app. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S.-government embargo or designated as terrorist-supporting, and that you are not on any U.S.-government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you.

Google Play

If you obtain BiteVote through Google Play, your download, use, subscription, cancellation, and refund rights are also subject to the applicable Google Play terms and policies. These Terms remain between you and BiteVote (ProspectOre LLC), not Google, and BiteVote—not Google—is responsible for the app, its content, maintenance, and support except to the extent Google Play's terms state otherwise.

Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software, design, and brand, is owned by BiteVote and its licensors and is protected by law. These Terms grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable license to use the app as intended. You may not copy, modify, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works of the Service except as permitted by law.

Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that community or group content is accurate. Automated moderation is not a substitute for human judgment and may not catch every violation.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, BiteVote will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, arising out of or related to your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the claim or twenty-five U.S. dollars. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of these may not apply to you.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold BiteVote harmless from claims arising out of Your Content, your community photo contributions, or your violation of these Terms or of another's rights, to the extent permitted by law.

Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time and delete your account from Settings › Delete Account. We may suspend or terminate access if you violate these Terms or to protect the Service or other users. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including the Community Photo License, Intellectual Property, Copyright and DMCA, Apple, Google Play, Disclaimers, Limitation of Liability, Indemnity, Governing Law and Venue, and General — survive.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. If we make a material change, we will update the effective date above and, where appropriate, ask you to accept the updated Terms in the app before you continue. Your continued use after an update means you accept the revised Terms.

Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the State of Oregon, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, except where local consumer-protection law grants you rights that cannot be waived. You and BiteVote agree that the exclusive venue for any dispute not subject to small-claims court will be the state and federal courts located in Multnomah County, Oregon, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there. Nothing in these Terms limits any non-waivable statutory rights you have as a consumer, and either party may seek injunctive relief for intellectual-property or misuse claims in any court of competent jurisdiction.

General

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the rest remain in effect. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and Moderation Policy incorporated by reference, are the entire agreement between you and BiteVote about the Service and supersede any prior agreement. You may not assign these Terms; BiteVote may assign them, including to a successor in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets (the app is designed to be portable to other platforms and organizations). Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. Neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control. The section headings are for convenience only.

Contact

For questions about these Terms, email support@prospectorellc.com. For privacy or deletion requests, email privacy@prospectorellc.com. For copyright/DMCA notices, email copyright@prospectorellc.com. For EU Digital Services Act notices, email dsa@prospectorellc.com.