Terms of Use | AKA Label Studio

What this means in plain English

AKA Label Studio is a free tool that generates a complete nutrition label, ingredient list, and allergen statement from information you provide. We do our best to produce a label that is compliant, but no automated tool can replace a qualified regulatory expert.

Before you put any label on a real product, you must have it reviewed and signed off by a qualified regulatory expert. You are responsible for the final label, including its accuracy, its compliance with all applicable laws, and any consequences of using it. We are not.

The full terms below set out the legal framework around that. By creating an account or using AKA Label Studio, you accept these terms.

1. Who we are and what this is

In plain English: Who you are agreeing with, and what you are using.

AKA Label Studio (the "Service") is a free, web-based tool that generates draft food labels, including nutrition facts panels, ingredient lists, and allergen statements, from recipe and ingredient information you provide.

The Service is operated by AKA Foods Netherlands BV, a besloten vennootschap incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands, with registered office at Gondel 1, 1186 MJ Amstelveen ("AKA Foods," "we," "us," or "our").

These Terms of Use (the "Terms") form a binding agreement between you ("you" or "your") and AKA Foods. By creating an account, accessing, or using the Service, you confirm that you accept these Terms and agree to comply with them. If you do not accept these Terms, do not use the Service.

2. Your account

In plain English: You need an account to use the Service, and you are responsible for what happens on it.

To use the Service, you must create an account and provide accurate information including your name, email address, and (where requested) your company name and role. You must be at least 18 years old.

You are responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and for all activity that takes place under your account. Notify us immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized access to your account.

We may suspend or terminate your account at any time, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms or used the Service in a way that creates risk for us or for other users.

3. What AKA Label Studio does, and what it does not do

In plain English: The Service generates labels from your inputs. It is not a regulatory authority and it does not replace a regulatory expert.

What we produce

Based on the recipe, ingredient, supplier, and product information you enter, the Service generates a complete label that we believe to be compliant with applicable food labeling requirements at the time of generation. Output may include a nutrition facts panel, an ingredient declaration, an allergen statement, and related claims.

What our output is, and is not

Our output is a working label that reflects our best automated analysis of the inputs you provide and the applicable rules as we understand them. It is not:

an official regulatory determination;
legal, regulatory, nutritional, or medical advice;
a substitute for review and sign-off by a qualified regulatory expert, food labeling consultant, accredited laboratory, or counsel;
a guarantee that a label will be accepted by any regulatory authority or retailer in any market.

AI-assisted features

Certain features of the Service, including ingredient suggestions, allergen flags, and recipe-level tagging, may be generated, updated, or reviewed using AI-assisted analysis tools. AI-assisted output is provided for reference purposes only and does not constitute verified, certified, or regulatory-approved declarations. You are solely responsible for independently verifying all AI-assisted suggestions against your actual supplier specifications, recipes, and applicable regulations before relying on them.

Nothing in the Service constitutes, and nothing produced by the Service should be treated as, legal, regulatory, medical, nutritional, or other professional advice. Your use of the Service does not create a professional, advisory, fiduciary, or other relationship of any kind between you and AKA Foods. We are not your lawyer, regulatory consultant, dietitian, or any other professional advisor.

4. Your responsibilities

In plain English: This is the most important section. Every label generated by the Service must be reviewed by a qualified regulatory expert before you use it on a real product. You are responsible for that review and for the final label.

4.1 You must obtain regulatory expert sign-off before commercial use

You must have any label generated by the Service reviewed and signed off by a qualified regulatory expert (in-house, external counsel, or an accredited food labeling consultant) before you print, package, distribute, sell, or otherwise use that label on any product offered for human consumption. This applies to every label, every revision, and every market. The fact that the Service produced an output does not mean the label has been verified or approved.

4.2 Accuracy of inputs

You are solely responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and lawfulness of the information you provide to the Service. This includes (without limitation) ingredient lists, recipes, weights and yields, supplier specifications, nutritional values, allergen declarations from suppliers, country of origin information, manufacturing claims, and any other data you enter. Output is only as accurate as your inputs.

4.3 Final label and product compliance

You are solely responsible for the content, accuracy, and legal and regulatory compliance of any label you actually use on a product. You are the regulated party under applicable food law (which may include but is not limited to the U.S. FDA, USDA, FSIS, FTC, state agencies, EU Regulation 1169/2011, UK FSA, EFSA, and equivalent authorities in other markets). AKA Foods is not the regulated party and does not approve, certify, or endorse any label or product.

4.4 Allergens

Allergens are a particularly high-risk category. You must independently verify every allergen declaration on every label against current, supplier-issued specifications and your own manufacturing process (including shared-line and cross-contact controls). Do not rely on output from the Service as a sole basis for any allergen declaration.

4.5 Independent verification of claims

If you intend to make any nutrition claim, health claim, organic, non-GMO, kosher, halal, sustainability, country-of-origin, or any other regulated or marketing claim based on the Service output, you must independently validate the underlying values, ordinarily through accredited laboratory testing or a qualified certifying body, before using that claim.

5. The Service is provided "as is"

In plain English: We do not promise the Service will be perfect, complete, or compliant. You use it at your own risk.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service and all output are provided to you on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis, with all faults and without warranty of any kind.

AKA Foods expressly disclaims all representations, conditions, and warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including (without limitation) any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, title, accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, security, uninterrupted or error-free operation, and warranties arising from trade usage or course of dealing.

Without limiting the foregoing, AKA Foods makes no warranty that:

any label or output generated by the Service will comply with any applicable food labeling, advertising, consumer protection, or any other law or regulation in any jurisdiction;
the Service will be available, secure, uninterrupted, free of defects, or free of harmful components;
the data, databases, or reference materials underlying the Service are accurate, complete, or current;
any AI-assisted suggestion is accurate, appropriate, or fit for any purpose;
any defect, error, or omission in the Service or its output will be corrected.

You acknowledge that you are responsible for implementing your own procedures, controls, and verification steps appropriate to your business and to the regulatory environment you operate in.

6. Acceptable use

In plain English: Don't break the law, don't break the Service, don't misrepresent your output.

You agree not to:

use the Service in any way that violates applicable law or regulation, or that infringes the rights of any third party;
represent any output from the Service as having been certified, approved, endorsed, or verified by AKA Foods or by any regulatory authority;
remove, obscure, or alter any disclaimer, watermark, footer, or notice that appears on or with output generated by the Service;
scrape, crawl, reverse-engineer, decompile, or extract underlying data, databases, models, or source code from the Service;
attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Service, other users' accounts, or any related systems;
upload, generate, or distribute through the Service any content that is unlawful, fraudulent, defamatory, infringing, or that contains malware;
use the Service to develop a competing product or service;
use the Service to generate labels for products that are themselves unlawful in your jurisdiction.

7. Your content and how we use it

In plain English: You keep ownership of your data. We have a limited license to use it to run the Service and to improve it.

You retain all rights in the recipes, ingredient lists, product information, and other materials you submit to the Service ("Your Content").

You grant AKA Foods a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, copy, transmit, display, and process Your Content for the purposes of: (a) operating the Service and providing it to you; (b) generating and delivering output; (c) maintaining, securing, and improving the Service; and (d) generating aggregated, anonymized data that does not identify you or your products.

You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to submit Your Content to the Service and that Your Content does not infringe or misappropriate the rights of any third party.

We process personal data as a data controller in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) and our AKA Label Studio Privacy Notice, available at https://aka-food.com/label-studio-privacy/. The separate Website Privacy Policy at https://aka-food.com/privacy-policy/ covers personal data we collect when you visit our marketing website.

8. Our intellectual property

In plain English: The Service, our brand, and our underlying tech belong to us. The label output is yours to use (subject to these terms).

As between you and us, AKA Foods owns all right, title, and interest in and to the Service, including all software, models, data, designs, trademarks, logos, and other materials that make up the Service (other than Your Content). Nothing in these Terms grants you any rights in our intellectual property except the limited right to access and use the Service as set out here.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you may use labels generated by the Service for your own internal business purposes and, after obtaining the required regulatory expert sign-off described above, for use on your products. You may not resell or sublicense access to the Service itself.

9. Indemnification

In plain English: If someone sues us because of how you used the Service, you cover our costs.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless AKA Foods and its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, and contractors (each an "Indemnified Party"), from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, investigations, proceedings, losses, damages, liabilities, fines, penalties, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and disbursements) arising out of or relating to:

Your Content, including the accuracy, completeness, and lawfulness of any inputs you provide to the Service;
any label, statement, or claim you use, print, distribute, or display on or in connection with any product, including any nutrition facts panel, ingredient declaration, allergen statement, or marketing claim, whether or not generated by the Service;
any product you manufacture, distribute, sell, or offer for sale, including product liability, personal injury, recall, withdrawal, mislabeling, mis-advertising, or non-compliance claims;
any violation by you of any applicable law or regulation, including food labeling, food safety, advertising, and consumer protection laws;
any third-party claim that Your Content or your use of the Service infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates that party's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights;
your breach of these Terms or your fraud, willful misconduct, or gross negligence.

We may, at our option, assume the defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, with counsel of our choice. You agree to cooperate with us in the defense of any such matter.

10. Limitation of liability

In plain English: Our total liability to you is strictly limited. We are not on the hook for indirect or consequential damages.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law (for example, liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation).

Subject to the preceding paragraph, and to the maximum extent permitted by law:

(a) In no event shall AKA Foods or any of its affiliates be liable to you or any third party for any indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, opportunity, anticipated savings, business, contracts, data, or reputation, arising out of or in connection with the Service or these Terms, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, or any other legal theory, and whether or not we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

(b) AKA Foods' total aggregate liability to you for all claims, in the aggregate, arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms shall not exceed the greater of (i) ONE HUNDRED EUROS (EUR 100) or (ii) the total fees actually paid by you to AKA Foods for use of the Service in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim. Because AKA Label Studio is provided to you at no charge, item (ii) will ordinarily be zero, and the cap will be EUR 100.

(c) You acknowledge that the limitations of liability in this section are a material basis on which AKA Foods provides the Service to you on a free basis, and that without these limitations we would not be willing to provide the Service free of charge.

11. Termination

In plain English: Either of us can end this arrangement. Some terms keep applying after that.

You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time, with or without notice, including (without limitation) if we believe you have breached these Terms, if continued provision would create legal or commercial risk for us, or if we decide to discontinue the Service.

Upon termination, your right to access the Service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including (without limitation) Sections 4 (Your responsibilities), 5 (As is, no warranty), 7 (Your content), 8 (Our IP), 9 (Indemnification), 10 (Limitation of liability), 13 (Disputes), and 14 (Other terms).

12. Changes to the Service and to these Terms

In plain English: We can change the Service and the terms. If you keep using it, you accept the changes.

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, with or without notice. We may also update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will let you know by posting a notice in the Service or by emailing the address associated with your account. Updated Terms take effect on the date stated in the updated version. If you continue to use the Service after the effective date, you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept them, you must stop using the Service.

13. Disputes, governing law, and jurisdiction

In plain English: How we deal with disagreements. Try to talk to us first. If that fails, the rules below apply.

13.1 Informal resolution first

Before bringing any formal claim, you agree to contact us at marketing@aka-food.com with a written description of your concern and a proposed resolution, and to attempt in good faith to resolve the matter informally for at least thirty (30) days.

13.2 Governing law

These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the laws of the Netherlands, to the exclusion of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and any conflict-of-laws rules that would result in the application of the laws of another jurisdiction.

13.3 Jurisdiction

Subject to the informal resolution requirement above, you and AKA Foods agree that the District Court of Amsterdam (Rechtbank Amsterdam), the Netherlands, has exclusive jurisdiction in the first instance to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms or the Service, including any non-contractual dispute. Each party waives any objection to such jurisdiction on the grounds of venue or forum non conveniens.

13.4 No class actions

You agree that any claims will be brought solely in your individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, or representative action.

13.5 Time limit

Any cause of action arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms must be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues, or it is permanently barred.

14. Other terms

In plain English: Standard small print at the end.

Entire agreement. These Terms (together with any documents referred to in them) constitute the entire agreement between you and AKA Foods in respect of the Service and supersede any prior agreement or understanding on the same subject.
Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or, if it cannot be modified, severed; the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.
No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that provision or any other provision.
Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights under them without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms and any rights under them at any time without your consent.
No agency. Nothing in these Terms creates any partnership, joint venture, agency, fiduciary, or employment relationship between you and AKA Foods.
Force majeure. We will not be liable for any failure or delay in performing our obligations under these Terms that is caused by events outside our reasonable control.
Notices. We may give notice to you by email to the address associated with your account or by posting a notice in the Service. You must give notice to us at marketing@aka-food.com (with a copy by post to our registered office address).

15. Contact us

Questions about these Terms or about the Service can be sent to:

AKA Foods Netherlands BV
Gondel 1
1186 MJ Amstelveen
The Netherlands
Email: marketing@aka-food.com

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