StirHour

Terms of Service

Effective date: 30 September 2026 Service provider: BRIGHTSIDE TECHNOLOGY SDN. BHD.

Welcome to StirHour ("StirHour," "Service"), operated at https://www.brightsidetechltd.com/stirhour/. These Terms apply to your use of the StirHour mobile web application, AI Bartender, bottle-label scanner, shelf, recipes, favorites, tasting log, and related pages. Read these Terms together with the StirHour Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, stop using the Service.

1. Acceptance and Changes

These Terms govern use of the Service after they have been made available to you and validly accepted under applicable law. You must have legal capacity to enter into them. The Privacy Policy explains information handling; accepting these Terms does not itself provide consent to optional processing, unrelated AI training, or marketing. We will give reasonable notice of material changes and obtain renewed acceptance where required. You may stop using the Service if you do not accept an update; changes do not remove rights already accrued.

2. Age, Eligibility, and Responsible Use

Minimum age and service eligibility: You must be 18 years of age or older to use the Service. Do not use the Service if you do not meet those rules. Before showing alcohol-related recipes, the Service asks whether you meet the legal drinking age where you are located. The answer only filters content; it is not identity verification. The no/not-sure route shows recipes labelled 0% ABV and does not override service eligibility or children’s-data rules.

Indian alcohol laws differ by state or union territory, beverage category, and local prohibition or permit rules. Being 18 or over does not mean alcohol consumption is lawful everywhere. Do not bypass the content filter or use the Service to evade those laws.

Drink alcohol only when lawful and when you meet the applicable age requirement. Never drink and drive or operate dangerous equipment. Hydration does not reverse impairment. If you are pregnant, taking medication, have a relevant health condition, or are allergic or sensitive to an ingredient, avoid unsafe consumption and seek qualified advice. Check labels before serving others.

3. The Service and Its Limitations

StirHour helps you browse drink recipes, organize a personal shelf, save recipes, record preparation, and explore drink suggestions. The Service provides bottle recognition and AI chat locally. It does not provide live camera recognition, a live model service, user accounts, or cloud synchronization. Displayed figures, confidence values, “Ready now,” and shelf-matching claims may not reflect your actual ingredients. StirHour does not sell or deliver alcohol, verify permission to buy or drink, or provide a licence to conduct alcohol-related business.

Availability may be affected by maintenance, errors, network conditions, or changes to the Service. The Service also includes an offline mode. We may change or withdraw features for a reasonable operational, safety, or legal reason, with notice where required. Mandatory consumer rights remain unaffected.

4. Recipe, Recognition, and AI Limitations

Recipes, measures, ABV, substitutions, recognition names, categories, stock levels, and AI output are general information and entertainment aids:

  • Recognition may be wrong; a confidence value is not a measured accuracy or safety guarantee. Check the name, category, ABV, and level before saving a shelf item.
  • AI or generated replies can misunderstand requests, invent details, omit ingredients, or recommend something unavailable. Do not use unverified ratios or assume a recommendation is suitable.
  • “Ready now,” “100% makeable,” and “1 ingredient away” depend on available data and matching rules. They do not establish actual availability or safety.
  • Check labels, brand differences, ABV, quantities, allergens, food safety, ice, equipment, and local law. A preference such as “No egg white” or “Low sugar” does not certify absence of allergens or a health benefit.
  • StirHour is not a medical, nutrition, sobriety, diagnostic, treatment, emergency, or professional advisory service. An “alcohol-free” label is not a guarantee about every brand or substitute, and the Service cannot determine fitness to drive.

Report a suspected recipe, allergen, ABV, or safety error to service@brightsidetechltd.com and stop relying on the affected recommendation until checked.

5. Guest Use and Accounts

The Service supports guest use without registration. Browser storage retains shelf items, preferences, favorites, tasting records, and age-mode settings. Clearing site data, storage limits, browser changes, or an app-version reset can remove this information. It is not synchronized or guaranteed recoverable across devices.

If a later release introduces accounts, it will explain registration, access security, recovery, and deletion at that time. Protect any credentials you create and report suspected unauthorized access. Optional account features and additional charges require the applicable disclosures and authorization before use.

6. User Content

You may submit bottle-label photos, shelf fields, preferences, and AI messages ("User Content"). You retain rights in User Content and confirm that you may submit it without violating another person’s privacy, image, copyright, trademark, or other rights.

You grant us only the non-exclusive, royalty-free permission needed to process, store, and display User Content for the Service you request and for the period needed for that purpose. Where processing occurs only in your browser, this permission does not grant us remote access to it. Any permitted service provider receives only the rights needed for that task. This permission does not authorize public publication, unrelated advertising, or general model training. Additional processing requires the applicable notice and legal basis, including separate consent where required. Personal-data rights and deletion under the Privacy Policy take precedence over this licence.

Submit only material you have the right to use. Avoid images of people, identity documents, addresses, payment details, medical information, or other unrelated personal data. Responsibility for unlawful User Content is determined by applicable law; these Terms do not make you responsible for loss caused by our own breach or misconduct.

7. Acceptable Use

You must not:

  • violate age, alcohol, food-safety, privacy, intellectual-property, export, or other applicable law;
  • bypass age routing, access controls, rate limits, or security measures;
  • use the Service for driving, dangerous equipment, medical, or emergency decisions;
  • upload malware, probe vulnerabilities, disrupt the Service, scrape at scale, or reverse engineer models or security controls;
  • impersonate someone, submit fraudulent reports, abuse support, or access another person’s shelf, account, or admin data; or
  • use recipes, images, model output, or store content to infringe rights, conduct unlawful sales, or mislead others.

We may investigate, restrict, remove content, or suspend access where reasonably necessary for safety, security, misuse, or legal compliance.

8. Intellectual Property

The Service’s interface, code, text, images, branding, and database arrangement are protected to the extent applicable intellectual-property law provides. Rights belong to StirHour or the relevant rights holders. You may use the provided features for your personal, non-commercial purposes, including making drinks, saving recipes, and managing your shelf. Do not reproduce protected material for resale or unlawfully extract the service database. These Terms do not claim ownership of unprotected recipe facts, your original content, or third-party trademarks.

You may save favorites, view recipes, and manage your personal shelf through the normal Service features. Nothing here limits a right that cannot legally be waived.

9. Third-Party Services and Links

Browsers, device platforms, app stores, and external sites have their own terms for their separate services. Actual providers that process information for StirHour are identified in the Privacy Policy. Their involvement does not remove StirHour’s legal responsibility for its own service or processors. External links do not imply endorsement or a guarantee of availability or accuracy.

10. Fees, Subscriptions, and Refunds

The Service currently has no checkout, paywall, subscription, or auto-renewal. Using it does not authorize a charge by StirHour. Your internet or device provider may charge its usual fees.

Before any paid feature is introduced, you will receive the price, currency, applicable tax, billing period, any trial and automatic renewal terms, cancellation method, and refund rules, and must authorize the purchase. Store billing, cancellation, restoration, and refund processes apply only to an actual store purchase. Nothing here limits a mandatory consumer refund right or authorizes a future subscription.

11. Suspension, Termination, and Deletion

You may stop using the Service at any time and manage or request deletion as described in the Privacy Policy. We may restrict or suspend access where reasonably necessary for a material breach, safety or security, legal obligations, or discontinuation. Where practicable and lawful, we will explain the reason and offer a way to contact us about an error. Urgent protective action may be taken without advance notice.

After termination, provisions about intellectual property, accrued obligations, lawful liability limits, and dispute resolution continue only as their nature requires. Termination does not cancel privacy rights. Stopping use or uninstalling a browser does not itself delete information separately held by us or support providers; deletion and lawful retention are described in the Privacy Policy.

12. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available.” We do not warrant that the Service or content is accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted, secure, free of malicious code, or suitable for your ingredients, equipment, health, local law, or purpose. We do not warrant that recognition or AI output is safe, allergen-free, alcohol-free, or a particular ABV, or that a recipe will work.

These limitations do not override an express commitment we make or any warranty or consumer remedy that cannot legally be excluded. You should still verify ingredients, labels, measures, and legal requirements before relying on a recommendation.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the extent permitted by law, StirHour is not responsible for indirect or consequential losses that are legally excludable. Any limitation is subject to applicable consumer law and the circumstances of the loss. It does not excuse our legal responsibilities merely because a recipe, AI feature, or third-party provider is involved.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, intentional misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury where limitation is prohibited, or any non-excludable consumer or statutory right. No cap applies where the law prohibits it.

14. Responsibility for Misuse

You are responsible under applicable law for loss caused by your unlawful conduct or material breach. We may seek a lawful remedy proportionate to the loss. These Terms do not impose an automatic duty to fund our legal defence or indemnify us for our own negligence or misconduct.

15. Governing Law and Disputes

You may contact service@brightsidetechltd.com to seek an informal resolution. This invitation does not require you to waive a consumer forum, statutory complaint, urgent remedy, or other non-waivable right. These Terms do not establish mandatory arbitration.

16. App-Store Terms

If the Service is distributed through an app store, the relevant store’s download, licence, and purchase terms also apply to that transaction. StirHour remains responsible for its service, support, and applicable legal obligations. Nothing in these Terms excludes a platform’s own obligations or any refund or remedy required by its terms or applicable law. Any additional platform-specific licence terms will be provided with that version.

17. General Terms

If a provision is invalid, the remaining provisions continue so far as permitted by law. Not enforcing a right immediately does not waive it. An assignment or business transfer must respect applicable law and your mandatory rights, with notice where required. These Terms govern use of the Service; separate purchase terms apply only to a purchase you authorize. The Privacy Policy describes processing and does not substitute for any consent required by law.

18. Contact and Reports

Service provider: BRIGHTSIDE TECHNOLOGY SDN. BHD. Website: https://www.brightsidetechltd.com/stirhour/ Support: service@brightsidetechltd.com Privacy: service@brightsidetechltd.com Security or recipe reports: service@brightsidetechltd.com

When reporting a recipe, ABV, allergen, or safety issue, include the recipe name or ID, a description, and only the information needed to reproduce the issue. Do not send another person’s personal information.