1. Who we are and what this covers #
These Terms are an agreement between you and Clean Label Project Foundation, a Colorado nonprofit corporation ("Clean Label Project", "we", "us"). They govern your use of the Clean Label Project mobile application (the "App").
The App is a consumer information tool. It lets you search a catalog of products, scan product barcodes, view Clean Label Project certification and award information, and save products to favorites and custom lists.
The App is available worldwide.
Your use of the App is also subject to our Privacy Policy, which explains what data we collect and why. By using the App you accept both documents.
2. Accepting these Terms #
You accept these Terms by creating an account or using the App. If you do not agree, do not use the App.
3. Eligibility and age #
You must be at least 16 years old to create an account. The App is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, contact us at geo.ortiz@cleanlabelproject.org and we will delete it.
4. Your account #
You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide, for keeping your password confidential, and for activity under your account. Tell us promptly at geo.ortiz@cleanlabelproject.org if you believe your account has been compromised.
You may delete your account at any time from Profile → Account in the App. Deletion is immediate and permanent: it removes your profile, your profile photo, your favorites, and your lists. See the Privacy Policy for the narrow categories of data that survive account deletion.
5. What the App is — and what it is not #
The App provides general consumer information. It is not medical, health, nutritional, or safety advice, and it is not a substitute for professional advice or for reading a product's own label and packaging.
Specifically:
- Certifications and awards shown in the App reflect Clean Label Project's own testing and certification programs as of the date that data was published. They are not a guarantee about any individual unit of a product, and they are not an endorsement by any government body.
- The absence of a product from the catalog means only that we do not have data for it. It is not a statement that the product is unsafe or uncertified.
- Product records may be incomplete or out of date. Formulations, suppliers, and packaging change. Always read the actual product label.
- Barcode scan results may be wrong or absent. A scan that returns no match means we could not identify the product, nothing more.
- Not every record in the App is ours. When a scan finds no match in our catalog, the App may show a record drawn from a third-party community database (§6). Those records carry no Clean Label Project testing, certification, or award, and nothing about the way they are displayed should be read as a Clean Label Project endorsement. Only a record that explicitly shows a Clean Label Project certification or award has been through our programs.
If you have a health concern about a product, consult a qualified professional.
6. Third-party data in the App #
Some information in the App does not come from us:
- Barcode lookups. When a scan finds no match in our catalog, we query the Open Food Facts family of databases (Open Food Facts, Open Beauty Facts, Open Pet Food Facts, Open Products Facts). These are independent, community- maintained, openly editable databases. We do not control, verify, or endorse their contents, and a product shown from these sources has not been tested or certified by us. Their database is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 and its individual contents under CC BY-SA 3.0. Our use of that data does not make it ours: it is excluded from what §9 claims, and the restrictions in §8 do not apply to it.
- External links. The App links to cleanlabelproject.org and to other third-party websites — including a brand's or retailer's own page reached from a product record. Those sites have their own terms and privacy policies.
We are not responsible for third-party content, and we make no warranty about its accuracy.
7. What you may do #
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the App for your own non-commercial purposes, on devices you own or control, in accordance with these Terms and the app store's rules.
8. What you may not do #
You agree not to:
- Copy, scrape, harvest, or systematically extract the product catalog, certification data, brand data, or images, by any automated or manual means;
- Use the App or its data to build a competing product or dataset, or resell or redistribute the data;
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive source code, except where that restriction is unenforceable under applicable law;
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the App, our servers, our APIs, or another user's account, or probe or test our security;
- Interfere with the App's operation, or impose an unreasonable load on our infrastructure;
- Use the App to violate any law, or to infringe anyone's rights;
- Remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary notice.
These restrictions cover our own data. They do not restrict what you may do with third-party data the App displays under an open license — see §6.
We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach this section. Our catalog and certification data are central to what we do, so you also agree that a breach of the first two bullets above would cause us harm that money damages alone cannot remedy, and that we may seek injunctive or other equitable relief without posting a bond, in addition to any other remedy available to us.
9. Our intellectual property #
The App, the Clean Label Project name and logo, the certification marks and award badges, the product catalog and its arrangement, and all associated software are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property law. These Terms grant you no rights in them beyond the license in §7.
This section covers our own material. Records the App displays from the Open Food Facts family of databases are not ours, we claim no ownership of them, and they remain governed by the licenses described in §6.
You may not use the Clean Label Project name, logo, or certification marks — including in any claim that a product is certified — without our prior written permission.
10. Content you provide #
The only content you create in the App is your profile information, your profile photo, and your favorites and lists. That content is yours. You grant us a limited license to store, process, and display it back to you for the purpose of operating the App.
Your favorites and lists are private to your account and are not shown to other users. Your profile photo is readable only by your own account.
You are responsible for having the right to upload any photo you choose, and for it not being unlawful or infringing.
11. Disclaimers and limitation of liability #
The App is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the App will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that its data is complete or current.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of the App.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages. Where that is the case, the exclusions and limitations above apply only to the extent permitted, and nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including, in many jurisdictions, liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.
12. Indemnity #
If you breach §8, you will indemnify and hold harmless Clean Label Project Foundation and its officers, directors, employees, and agents against any third-party claim, loss, liability, and reasonable legal fees arising from that breach. We will notify you promptly of any such claim, and you may control its defense with counsel reasonably acceptable to us — provided that no settlement imposing any obligation, payment, or admission on us is agreed without our prior written consent.
This section does not apply to ordinary personal use of the App, and nothing in it limits any right you have under mandatory consumer-protection law.
13. Changes to the App and to these Terms #
We may add, change, or discontinue features at any time. We may also update these Terms. When we make a material change we will update the "Last updated" date above and post the revised Terms at the address where you are reading them before the change takes effect. Continuing to use the App after that means you accept the updated Terms. If you do not accept them, delete your account.
14. Termination #
You may stop using the App and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, or if we discontinue the App. Sections 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 15, 16, and 17 survive termination.
15. Governing law and disputes #
These Terms are governed by the laws of Colorado, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.
The state courts located in the City and County of Broomfield, Colorado, and the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, and you consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.
Nothing here deprives you of the protection of mandatory consumer-protection law in your country of residence. In particular, if you are a consumer resident in a jurisdiction whose law gives you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts, or to require that your local law apply, nothing in this section removes that right.
16. Apple and Google #
These Terms are between you and us, not with Apple or Google. Neither is responsible for the App or its content.
If you obtained the App from the Apple App Store, you additionally acknowledge that Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support; that Apple is not responsible for any product warranty claim, product liability claim, or third-party intellectual-property claim relating to the App; and that Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.
You represent that you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
You agree to comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App.
17. General #
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between us regarding the App. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
18. Contact #
Clean Label Project Foundation
280 E. 1st Ave. #873
Broomfield, CO 80038-0873
United States
General, support, and privacy: geo.ortiz@cleanlabelproject.org