Terms of Use
These terms govern your use of the MyCheese application, published by ShadowLink Digital. By installing the app you accept them. If you do not, uninstall it: it keeps nothing on our servers.
1. What MyCheese is, and what it is not
MyCheese is a guide to home cheesemaking. It offers recipes, quantities calculated per litre, timers, ageing tracking and reference sheets.
It replaces neither training, nor health inspection, nor the judgement of the person doing the making. The temperatures, timings and quantities it offers are landmarks drawn from cheesemaking practice, not prescriptions verified for your milk, your equipment and your kitchen.
Food safety
You are making food, from milk, that people will eat. This carries a real risk of bacterial contamination, particularly with raw milk, and particularly for anyone pregnant, elderly, immunocompromised or very young.
You alone are responsible for what you make and for what you give people to eat. Follow the hygiene rules described in the app, discard any cheese showing a sticky pink or orange surface, a putrid smell or early swelling, and never eat a cheese you have doubts about. For any medical concern, consult a health professional, not this application.
MyCheese cannot see your milk, your worktop or your cellar. None of its guidance amounts to certifying that something is safe to eat.
Photo analysis, if enabled
This feature is not offered in the current version: it appears nowhere in the app. The paragraph below will only apply once it opens, and is written in advance so you know where you stand.
Photo analysis would produce a visual appraisal assisted by an artificial intelligence model. It would be an aid to a decision, not a diagnosis. It could be wrong, including about a contaminated cheese it declared sound. Never base a decision to eat something on such a verdict alone.
2. Licence
We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the app on devices you own or control, within the rules of the store you obtained it from. You may not resell it, rent it, decompile it beyond what the law allows, or extract its content for republication.
The recipes, reference texts, illustrations and the MyCheese name remain ours. Your making data — batches, readings, tasting notes — is yours, stays on your device, and you can export it at any time.
3. The MyCheese Premium subscription
The app is usable for free: one complete recipe, the equipment checklist and the reference sheets, with ads (a banner on the navigation screens, and now and then a full-screen ad between two steps of a recipe). The subscription unlocks the full catalogue, quantities adjustable to volume, the variant lab and the virtual cellar, and removes ads.
No ads is a one-time purchase, separate from the subscription (reference price: €1): it removes ads for good, can be restored on your other devices with the same store account, and does not unlock Premium content.
| Plan | Length | Reference price |
|---|---|---|
| MyCheese Premium — monthly | 1 month, renewing | €2.99 |
| MyCheese Premium — yearly | 12 months, renewing | €19.99 |
The effective price is the one shown in the app before purchase, in your store account's currency. The figures above are for reference and may vary by country and applicable tax.
Renewal and cancellation
- The subscription renews automatically at the end of each period unless cancelled.
- To avoid renewal, cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
- Cancellation happens in your App Store or Google Play account settings. We cannot cancel on your behalf: the app points you there and does not pretend to do it itself.
- Cancelling stops renewal but does not refund the current period: you keep access until it ends.
Payment, refunds, right of withdrawal
Payments are collected by Apple or Google, never by us: we see no payment details. Refund requests and the exercise of any right of withdrawal are therefore a matter for the store you subscribed through, under its own terms. We cannot refund a payment we never received.
Because access to the content is immediate on purchase, you agree that performance of the service begins without waiting for the fourteen-day withdrawal period.
Restoring
An active subscription can be restored on another device with the same store account, from the app's Premium screen. No MyCheese account is needed, and you do not pay twice.
4. Changes to the app
We may change, add or remove features. If a feature included in the subscription were removed for good, you could cancel under the terms above. Conversely, a feature we add costs nothing extra on a running subscription.
5. No warranty, and limits of liability
The app is provided as is. We do not warrant that it is free of errors, that its quantities and timings are accurate for your particular situation, or that any given batch will succeed.
To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for a failed cheese, a wasted ingredient, damaged equipment, any health problem following consumption of something you made, or any indirect loss. Nothing in these terms sets aside the rights that consumer law grants you and which cannot be waived.
6. The role of the app stores
Apple and Google are not parties to these terms. They have no obligation whatsoever to provide maintenance or support for MyCheese. Any claim relating to the app should be addressed to us, at the address below, and not to them. These terms apply only to the extent they are consistent with those of the store you obtained the app from.
7. Personal data
The app works without an account and, for the most part, without a network. What leaves your device, and under what conditions, is described in the privacy policy, which forms part of these terms.
8. Governing law
These terms are governed by French law. In the event of a dispute, an amicable resolution will be sought in writing before any action; failing that, the French courts have jurisdiction, without prejudice to the protective rules applicable to consumers residing in another European Union country.
9. Contact
ShadowLink Digital — shadowlinkdigital@gmail.com