Terms of Service

1. Who We Are and Your Acceptance

Iron & Grits is operated by Vylon LLC, a South Carolina limited liability company ("Vylon," "we," "our," or "us"). These Terms of Service (the "Terms") are a binding legal agreement between you and Vylon LLC.

By creating an account, accessing, or using the Iron & Grits app, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms by reference. If you do not agree, do not use Iron & Grits.

You must be at least 18 years old to use Iron & Grits. By creating an account, you represent and warrant that you are 18 or older and that you have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts belonging to users under 18.

In these Terms, "Vylon Parties" means Vylon LLC together with its members, managers, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, service providers, licensors, successors, and affiliates. The release, disclaimers, limitation of liability, and indemnification below protect each of the Vylon Parties individually, in their personal capacity, as fully as they protect Vylon LLC itself.

2. Account Terms

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account. Contact us at support@ironandgrits.com if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

You agree to provide accurate account information and to keep it current. You may sign in with an email and password, or through Sign in with Apple or Google.

You may not create more than one account per person, share your account, or allow anyone else to use it.

You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete Account. Deletion is permanent and irreversible.

3. Subscriptions, Billing, and Refunds

Iron & Grits offers a free plan and paid subscription tiers. Current pricing is Gold at $5.99 per month or $34.99 per year, and Diamond at $9.99 per month or $59.99 per year, in U.S. dollars. The price shown in the app at the time of purchase controls.

Paid subscriptions are auto-renewing and are sold as in-app purchases through Apple. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically for the same period at the then-current price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Apple charges the renewal within 24 hours before each period ends.

You manage and cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings under Subscriptions, not inside Iron & Grits. Deleting the app, or deleting your Iron & Grits account, does not cancel a subscription and does not stop billing. If you cancel, your paid access continues through the end of the period you already paid for.

If a free trial is offered, any unused portion of that trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. A trial that is not cancelled before it ends converts automatically into a paid subscription at the then-current price.

Apple, not Vylon, processes your payment and holds the billing relationship with you. We never receive or store your card details. Because Apple handles the transaction, we cannot issue refunds directly. All refund requests are handled by Apple under its App Store refund policy, and Apple's decision on a refund is final. Any credit, extension, or in-app allowance we choose to grant is a one-time courtesy and creates no obligation to do so again.

We may change subscription pricing. A price change applies only to future billing periods, and we will give notice before it affects you. Where Apple requires your consent to a price increase, your subscription will not renew at the higher price unless you give that consent through Apple.

You are responsible for any taxes associated with your purchase that Apple does not collect.

4. Plan Limits and Changes to the Service

The free plan includes a limited allowance of AI features. Plan allowances, usage limits, rate limits, and the boundary between free and paid features may change at any time. Free allowances are a courtesy, not a purchased entitlement, and we may reduce, meter, or remove them without notice.

For paid subscriptions, we will not materially reduce the core paid features for a billing period you have already paid for. Beyond that, we may add, change, suspend, or discontinue any part of Iron & Grits, including individual features, AI models, third-party integrations, or the app as a whole, at any time and without liability to you.

We may apply reasonable quotas, rate limits, and abuse protections to AI features to keep the service reliable and its costs sustainable.

5. License

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to use the Iron & Grits app on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, for your personal, non-commercial use, and subject to the Usage Rules in the App Store Terms of Service. You may not copy, modify, distribute, or create derivative works based on Iron & Grits without our written permission. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

6. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source code, prompts, model instructions, or training logic behind Iron & Grits
• Use bots, scrapers, or automation to access the app, or attempt to bypass usage limits, paywalls, entitlements, or authentication
• Resell, sublicense, or use the app or its AI output to provide coaching or other services to third parties
• Upload unlawful, infringing, or harmful content, or submit photographs of any person who has not consented
• Interfere with, overload, probe, or attack our systems or those of our service providers
• Use Iron & Grits to build a competing product, or to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or benchmark any machine learning model
• Misrepresent your age, identity, or eligibility

We may investigate suspected violations and take any action we consider appropriate, including limiting features, suspending access, or terminating your account.

7. Your Content and Data

You keep ownership of the workouts, nutrition logs, photos, notes, and other content you create in Iron & Grits ("Your Content").

You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, transmit, process, and display Your Content solely to operate, secure, support, and improve Iron & Grits and to deliver the features you use, including transmitting relevant content to the AI providers described in Section 12. This license ends when you delete Your Content or your account, except for copies held in routine backups for a limited period and anything we are required to retain by law.

We may create and use aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you, for any lawful business purpose.

You represent that you have the rights necessary to submit Your Content and that it does not violate any law or the rights of any third party.

8. Health, Medical, and Nutrition Disclaimer

IRON & GRITS IS NOT A MEDICAL SERVICE AND IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE. THE APP AND ITS CONTENT ARE FOR INFORMATIONAL AND FITNESS PURPOSES ONLY.

Nothing in Iron & Grits constitutes medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or professional dietary or nutritional advice. Always consult a qualified physician or licensed healthcare provider before beginning any new exercise program or making significant changes to your diet, especially if you have any medical conditions, injuries, allergies, or health concerns. You represent that you are medically cleared and physically able to perform the activities you choose to attempt.

Exercise involves inherent risks, including but not limited to injury, muscle soreness, joint strain, disc and tendon injury, cardiovascular stress, and, in rare cases, serious injury or death. By using Iron & Grits, you acknowledge and accept these risks. If you feel pain, dizziness, chest discomfort, shortness of breath, faintness, or any other warning sign, stop immediately and seek medical attention. Iron & Grits cannot detect a medical emergency and is not an emergency service. In an emergency, call 911 or your local emergency number.

Iron & Grits also provides nutrition and food-tracking features, including calorie and macronutrient estimates and AI-assisted food recognition from text, barcodes, or photos. These features are for general informational purposes only. All calorie, macronutrient, portion, and micronutrient values, including those generated by scanning or photographing food and those retrieved from crowd-sourced food databases, are approximations, may be materially inaccurate or incomplete, and must not be relied upon for medical, clinical, allergen-avoidance, or therapeutic purposes. Never rely on Iron & Grits to determine whether a food is safe for you to eat.

Calorie targets, macro targets, and tracking streaks are not appropriate for everyone. If you have, or are predisposed to, a history of disordered eating, consult a qualified professional before using calorie or macro tracking. You are not required to use the nutrition features in order to use Iron & Grits. If you are experiencing an eating disorder or related distress, please discontinue use of these features and seek professional help. In the United States, you can reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.

9. Assumption of Risk and Release of Claims

You voluntarily assume all risks associated with physical exercise, strength training, equipment use, and any dietary or nutritional choices you make while using Iron & Grits, whether those risks are known or unknown, foreseeable or unforeseeable.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you hereby RELEASE, WAIVE, AND FOREVER DISCHARGE the Vylon Parties, as defined in Section 1, from any and all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, causes of action, and losses of any kind, whether known or unknown and whether now existing or arising later, including those arising from the Vylon Parties' own ordinary negligence, that arise out of or relate to your use of the app, your reliance on any information, recommendation, estimate, target, or AI-generated content it provides, your participation in any exercise or dietary activity, or any injury, illness, or harm resulting from any of the foregoing.

You expressly waive the benefit of any law that limits a general release to claims you know or suspect to exist at the time of the release.

This release is intended to be as broad and inclusive as applicable law permits and is binding on you, your heirs, your spouse, and your legal representatives. Nothing in this section releases any liability that cannot lawfully be released, including gross negligence or willful misconduct where a waiver of it is prohibited. If any part of this release is held unenforceable, the remainder stays in effect and applies to the fullest extent allowed.

10. No Guaranteed Results

Iron & Grits does not guarantee any specific fitness, strength, weight, body-composition, or nutritional result. Individual results vary based on factors including genetics, diet, sleep, consistency, training history, and overall health. The app provides tools, estimates, and recommendations. Outcomes depend on your effort and your individual circumstances.

11. Atlas AI Coaching Disclaimer

Atlas is an automated AI coaching assistant. Atlas is not a licensed personal trainer, certified strength coach, physical therapist, registered dietitian, or medical professional, and no coach-client, provider-patient, or professional relationship of any kind is created by using it.

Atlas responses, training recommendations, load and rep prescriptions, and any nutrition or calorie guidance are generated automatically. They may be inaccurate, incomplete, unsafe for your situation, or out of step with current best practices, and they may be stated confidently while still being wrong. Atlas cannot see your form, cannot assess your equipment or environment, and knows nothing about your medical history beyond what you type into it.

Do not rely solely on Atlas for training or dietary decisions, particularly if you have injuries, medical conditions, dietary restrictions, or are new to strength training. Always apply your own judgment and consult qualified professionals when making decisions about your health, fitness, and nutrition.

12. AI and Automated Content

Atlas coaching and food-recognition features are powered by third-party AI providers, including OpenAI and Google. Your messages to Atlas, relevant workout and nutrition context, and any food descriptions or photos you submit for analysis are transmitted to these providers' APIs to generate responses and estimates. By using these features, you consent to this processing. Under these providers' current API data-usage policies, data submitted through their APIs is not used to train their models.

Voice control uses your device's speech recognition. Depending on your device, locale, and iOS settings, audio may be processed on-device or transmitted to Apple for transcription under Apple's privacy policy. The resulting text is then handled like any other command you type.

AI-generated content may contain errors, omissions, fabrications, and inaccuracies. You are solely responsible for evaluating and verifying any AI output before acting on it. Do not share sensitive personal, financial, or medical information with these features beyond what is relevant to your training and nutrition.

13. Intellectual Property

Iron & Grits, including its name, logo, design, software, written content, training and nutrition logic, and the Atlas persona, is owned by Vylon LLC or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. Nothing in these Terms transfers any ownership interest to you.

Your workout and nutrition data and the content you create remain yours, as described in Section 7.

If you send us feedback, suggestions, bug reports, or feature ideas, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free right to use and implement them without restriction, attribution, or compensation to you.

14. Third-Party Services

Iron & Grits relies on third-party services to operate, including Supabase (hosting, database, and authentication), OpenAI and Google (AI processing), Apple and Google (sign-in), Apple and RevenueCat (in-app purchases and subscription status), Apple (speech recognition for voice control), and Open Food Facts (crowd-sourced barcode and product data).

We do not control these services and are not responsible or liable for their availability, performance, accuracy, acts, omissions, security, or data practices. Data returned by crowd-sourced sources such as Open Food Facts is contributed by the public and is frequently incomplete or wrong. Interruptions, errors, delays, changes, or failures of third-party services are outside our control, and we disclaim all liability arising from them.

15. Apple's Role

These Terms are between you and Vylon LLC only, not with Apple. Vylon, not Apple, is solely responsible for Iron & Grits and its content.

Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for Iron & Grits. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app to you. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app.

Vylon, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claim by you or a third party relating to Iron & Grits, including product liability claims, any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, claims under consumer protection or privacy law, and any claim that the app infringes a third party's intellectual property rights.

You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a terrorist-supporting country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary. Questions, complaints, or claims about the app should be directed to support@ironandgrits.com.

16. Disclaimer of Warranties

IRON & GRITS IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE VYLON PARTIES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE APP, OR ANY INFORMATION, ESTIMATE, TARGET, RECOMMENDATION, THIRD-PARTY DATA, OR AI-GENERATED CONTENT IT PROVIDES, IS ACCURATE, RELIABLE, COMPLETE, SAFE, OR SUITABLE FOR YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES, OR THAT THE APP WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT YOUR DATA WILL NOT BE LOST. YOU USE THE APP ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from us or through the app creates any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

17. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE VYLON PARTIES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS, OR FOR ANY PERSONAL INJURY, ILLNESS, OR DEATH, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE APP, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE VYLON PARTIES TO YOU FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF IRON & GRITS SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (B) $100. THIS CAP IS AGGREGATE ACROSS ALL CLAIMS AND ALL VYLON PARTIES COMBINED, NOT PER CLAIM AND NOT PER PARTY.

Any claim you bring relating to Iron & Grits may be brought against Vylon LLC only, and you agree to look solely to the assets of Vylon LLC for any recovery. You will not seek to hold any member, manager, officer, employee, or contractor of Vylon LLC personally liable, and if any such claim is nonetheless permitted, it is subject to the same cap and exclusions stated above.

These limitations apply even if a limited remedy fails of its essential purpose, and they are an essential basis of the bargain between you and us. Without them, we could not offer Iron & Grits at these prices. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you. In that case, our liability is limited to the smallest extent permitted by law.

18. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Vylon Parties from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs of defense) arising out of or related to: (a) your use or misuse of the app; (b) your violation of these Terms; (c) your violation of any law or the rights of any third party; (d) Your Content; or (e) any injury, illness, harm, or damage arising from your physical activity, dietary choices, or reliance on any content, estimate, target, or recommendation provided by the app.

We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, at your expense, and you agree to cooperate with that defense. You will not settle any such matter in a way that imposes any obligation or admission on a Vylon Party without our prior written consent.

This obligation survives the termination of your account and of these Terms.

19. Termination and Suspension

We may suspend or terminate your access to Iron & Grits, in whole or in part, at any time and for any reason, including if we believe you have violated these Terms, if your use creates legal risk or cost we are unwilling to bear, or if we discontinue the service. Where it is practical and lawful to do so, we will give you notice.

If we terminate your account without cause while you hold an unused prepaid subscription period, you may request a prorated refund for the unused portion through Apple.

You may stop using Iron & Grits at any time and delete your account from Settings → Delete Account. Cancelling a paid subscription is a separate step and happens in your Apple Account settings.

On termination, your license to use the app ends immediately. Every provision that by its nature should survive does survive, including Sections 7, 8, 9, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, and 21.

20. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of South Carolina, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Before filing any claim, you agree to first contact us at support@ironandgrits.com with a written description of the dispute and to work with us in good faith for at least 60 days to resolve it informally.

Any dispute that is not resolved informally shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in South Carolina. You and Vylon consent to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts and waive any objection based on inconvenient forum.

You and Vylon each waive any right to a trial by jury, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

You and Vylon agree that any dispute will be resolved on an individual basis only. You waive any right to participate in a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action, or to act as a private attorney general. If this waiver is held unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim shall proceed in court, and the remaining claims remain subject to this section.

Any claim you bring arising out of or relating to these Terms or the app must be filed within one (1) year after the claim arises, or it is permanently barred.

21. General Terms

Entire agreement: these Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Vylon LLC regarding Iron & Grits, and they supersede any prior or contemporaneous agreements, marketing statements, or understandings on that subject.

Severability: if any provision is found unenforceable, it will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions stay in full force and effect.

No waiver: our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.

Assignment: you may not assign or transfer these Terms or your account. We may assign these Terms to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets.

No third-party beneficiaries, except that the Vylon Parties may enforce the provisions that protect them, and Apple may enforce these Terms as described in Section 15.

Force majeure: we are not liable for any delay or failure caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including outages at our hosting or AI providers, network failures, natural events, or acts of government.

Notices: we may give you notice through the app or by email to the address on your account. Send notices to us at support@ironandgrits.com.

Relationship: nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, employment, or agency relationship between you and Vylon LLC.

22. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will notify you of material changes through the app or by email, and we will update the "Last updated" date above. Changes take effect when posted unless we say otherwise. Continued use of Iron & Grits after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the app and delete your account.

Questions? Contact Vylon LLC at support@ironandgrits.com.