Terms of Service

Acceptance and eligibility

These terms apply when you use the Prism Scan website, browser extension, backend-powered features, contact form, and issue reporting tools.

Prism Scan is operated by Adriano Barbet, a sole trader in Ireland trading as Prism Scan. By using Prism, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use Prism.

Prism is not directed to children under 16. If you are under 16, use Prism only with appropriate permission from a parent or guardian.

What Prism does

Prism is an informational tool that helps shoppers inspect product pages for food and cosmetics. It may detect product evidence, look up public product datasets, show score signals, hydrate ingredient or additive information, and provide AI-assisted product analysis.

Prism does not provide medical, nutritional, legal, regulatory, safety, allergy, or other professional advice. It does not diagnose conditions, treat conditions, certify product safety, or replace advice from qualified professionals.

You are responsible for deciding whether a product is right for you and for checking important information with the manufacturer, seller, packaging, label, or other authoritative source before buying or using a product.

Manual scans and acceptable use

Prism is built around manual product checks. You should use it only for lawful, personal, and reasonable product research and support purposes.

You must not misuse Prism, interfere with its security or operation, attempt to extract secrets or backend keys, overload the service, scrape the backend, submit malicious content, or use Prism to harm others.

You are responsible for the information you submit through preferences, reports, contact forms, and custom notes. Do not submit unlawful content or personal data about other people unless you have a lawful basis to do so.

Third-party data and services

Prism relies on product-page evidence, ecommerce website structure, Open Food Facts, Open Beauty Facts, browser platform services, infrastructure providers, and AI providers. These services are not controlled by Prism Scan.

Open Food Facts and Open Beauty Facts data is community-based and may be licensed under open-data terms. Where Prism displays their data, Prism should attribute it as required by those projects and their applicable licenses.

Third-party data, APIs, product pages, images, ingredients, scores, and search results may be incomplete, delayed, incorrect, unavailable, or changed without notice.

AI features

AI-assisted product analysis can be useful for summarising product evidence, but it can also be wrong, incomplete, or overconfident. AI output should be treated as informational only.

Do not rely on Prism AI output for medical, allergy, safety, legal, or purchasing decisions without checking the underlying product label and appropriate expert or manufacturer information.

Prism Scan may change, limit, pause, or remove AI features at any time, including for cost, safety, reliability, provider, or legal reasons.

Intellectual property and feedback

Prism Scan owns or licenses the website, extension, backend code, design, branding, text, and service materials, except for third-party data, open-source software, and third-party content used under their own terms.

You may not copy, reverse engineer, resell, or redistribute Prism except where allowed by law or by an applicable open-source license.

If you send feedback, reports, suggestions, or contact messages, Prism Scan may use them to operate, debug, improve, and communicate about Prism without owing compensation, while respecting applicable privacy law.

Availability and changes

Prism may change, pause, limit, or discontinue website, extension, backend, AI, lookup, or reporting features at any time.

Prism may update these terms when the product, providers, law, or business requirements change. The date at the top shows when the terms were last updated.

Warranty and liability

Prism is provided on an as-is and as-available basis to the fullest extent permitted by law. Prism Scan does not promise that Prism will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or accurate.

To the fullest extent permitted by Irish and EU law, Prism Scan will not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or loss-of-profit damages arising from your use of Prism or reliance on product information.

Nothing in these terms limits rights that cannot be excluded under applicable consumer law, or liability that cannot legally be limited.

Governing law and contact

These terms are governed by the laws of Ireland, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer protection rights that apply in your country of residence.

Questions about these terms can be sent through the contact form on the Prism website.