Legal

Terms of Use

Last updated: 2 September 2026

These terms are the agreement between you and Mads Petersen, Copenhagen, Denmark (“we”, “us”) for the Find Me Matcha app and this website (together, “the Service”). They also serve as the end-user licence agreement for the app. By creating an account or using the Service you agree to them.

TODO: confirm the legal name above is the entity that should be named as the provider of this app, and that Denmark is the intended governing law (section 13). Both are carried over from the project’s shared configuration and have not been independently confirmed for Find Me Matcha.

1. What the Service is

Find Me Matcha is a map of cafés and what the matcha is like at each one. Some of what you see comes from people who went; some of it comes from us reading a café’s own website; some of it comes from OpenStreetMap. The app always shows which. It is provided “as is”, and we may change, add or remove features over time.

2. Your licence to use the app

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial use, in line with these terms and the App Store Terms of Service. You may not copy, modify, sell, sub-licence, reverse-engineer or attempt to derive the source of the app, except where the law says you may despite this clause.

3. Your account

You need an account to post, save and follow. You must be at least 13 years old. Keep your credentials to yourself — you are responsible for what happens on your account. You can delete it at any time from Settings → Delete account; what that does is set out on the account deletion page.

4. What the Service costs

Nothing. There is no subscription, no in-app purchase and no advertising in the app today. If that ever changes, we will say so in the app before it does, and these terms will be updated first.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• report things you did not observe, or answer the app’s questions dishonestly — the whole map rests on the answers being real;
• post content that is unlawful, infringing, abusive, hateful, or that impersonates somebody else;
• post photographs of identifiable people who have not agreed to it, or anything you do not have the right to publish;
• use the Service to advertise, or to promote a café you have an interest in without saying so;
• scrape, bulk-export or resell the app’s data;
• probe, disrupt, overload or reverse-engineer the Service, or use it in a way that interferes with other people.

We may remove content and suspend or close accounts that break these rules.

6. What you post

You keep ownership of your reviews, photos, notes and captions. You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to store, display and distribute them as part of the Service, including on café pages, in the app’s feed, and on this website. You confirm you have the right to give us that licence.

Reviews and confirmed facts outlive your account. When you delete your account, your reviews and the café facts you contributed stay, with your name, handle and every link back to you removed. They stay because what the app says about a real place is built out of what people reported, and pulling one person’s reports out changes what it says about cafés other people are relying on. Everything else — your profile, your photos, your lists, your follows, likes and comments — is deleted. The full breakdown is on the account deletion page.

7. Reporting and moderation

Every report goes to a person. Nothing disappears the moment you tap, and a correction may be decided against you — a moderator can conclude the original claim was right. We aim to look at reports promptly, but we do not promise a deadline or an outcome.

8. Accuracy, and what you should check yourself

The map is built from crowdsourced reports, from public map data, and from what we read on cafés’ own websites. The app shows how sure it is about each claim, and a claim nobody has confirmed is marked as one. Even so, we cannot promise that any café’s opening hours, prices, menu or matcha are accurate or current. Check with the café before travelling somewhere specifically for it, and ask them directly about ingredients, allergens or anything else that matters to your health. Nothing in the app is dietary, medical or professional advice.

9. Map data

Café locations and practical details come from OpenStreetMap. That data is © OpenStreetMap contributors and is made available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). Your use of it through the Service is subject to that licence.

10. Our intellectual property

The Service, its name, its design and its software are ours or our licensors’. These terms do not give you any right to our trademarks or branding.

11. Liability

To the maximum extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits or lost data arising from your use of the Service. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing in them affects the rights you have as a consumer in the country you live in.

12. Ending it

You can stop using the Service and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms, with notice where that is reasonable.

13. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Denmark, without affecting any mandatory consumer protections of the country you live in.

14. Changes to these terms

If we make a material change we will say so in the app before it takes effect. Carrying on using the Service after that means you accept the updated terms.

15. Apple

These terms are between you and us, not with Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app. If the app fails to conform to any warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any; to the maximum extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim you or a third party has about the app, including product-liability, regulatory and intellectual-property claims. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you. You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a “terrorist supporting” country, and that you are not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

16. Contact

Questions about these terms: support@matcha.smedje.com. How we handle your data is covered by the privacy policy.