Terms of Service

Last updated: July 5, 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Ion Mesca, operating Buna from California, USA (“Buna”, “we”). They apply when you use the Buna app or heybuna.com. Please read them; by creating an account or using Buna, you accept them.

Contact: support@heybuna.com

1. The service

Buna helps households plan meals: recipes, weekly plans, shopping lists, a pantry, and an AI assistant. You need a Google or Apple account to sign in, and you must be at least 13 years old to have an account.

We may add, change, or remove features, and we may modify or discontinue the service itself. If we discontinue the service or remove something significant, we will give reasonable advance notice so you can export your data.

2. Your content

Recipes, photos, plans, notes, and everything else you add remain yours. You grant us permission to store, process, and display that content, including sending relevant parts to our AI providers, solely to operate Buna for you and your household. We claim no other rights to it.

You are responsible for the content you add. Do not add content you have no right to use, such as another person’s copyrighted photos.

3. Households

Households are shared spaces. Members can see and edit household content, and content you contribute stays with the household if you leave. The Privacy Policy describes exactly how sharing, leaving, and deletion work. Household owners can invite and remove members, hand off ownership, and delete the household. Invite people you trust.

4. The AI assistant

The assistant generates suggestions, such as recipes, plans, and substitutions, using AI. AI output can be wrong. You must verify anything that matters, in particular ingredients and preparation where allergies, intolerances, or medical diets are involved. Buna does not provide medical, nutritional, or dietary advice, and food data such as nutrition estimates may be inaccurate or incomplete.

5. Subscriptions

Parts of Buna may require a paid plan. Payments are handled by our merchant of record, Polar, under their checkout terms. Prices and what is included are shown before you pay. Subscriptions renew until cancelled; you can cancel at any time, effective at the end of the paid period. If you delete your account, any subscription you pay for is cancelled on the same schedule. Where the law gives you refund rights, we honor them; otherwise refunds are at our discretion.

6. Acceptable use

Do not misuse the service. In particular: no unauthorized access, no collecting other users’ data, no using the assistant or the APIs to spam or overload the service, and no unlawful content. Rate limits and plan quotas apply to assistant and API usage. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate this section.

7. Termination

You can delete your account at any time, in the app or on the web. We may suspend or terminate your account if you violate these terms, with notice unless the violation is severe. On termination, the Privacy Policy’s deletion rules apply. Sections 8 through 10 survive termination.

8. Disclaimers and liability

Buna is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, to the maximum extent permitted by law. We do not guarantee uninterrupted service, error-free results, or that stored data will never be lost; you can export your data at any time and should do so if it is important to you.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

9. Indemnity

If a third party brings a claim against us arising from your content or your violation of these terms, you agree to cover the reasonable costs and damages of that claim.

10. Disputes, governing law, assignment

If you have a dispute with us, contact support@heybuna.com first and give us a chance to resolve it informally. Any dispute that cannot be resolved that way will be handled in the state or federal courts of California, USA, and these terms are governed by California law. You may bring qualifying claims in small claims court instead.

We may assign this agreement, including to a company that takes over the operation of Buna; it will honor these terms and the Privacy Policy. You may not assign it.

11. Changes

We may update these terms. If a change is material, we will give notice in the app or by email before it takes effect, and continued use after that constitutes acceptance. The current version is always at heybuna.com/terms.