Terms of Use

Effective date: 23 August 2026 Last updated: 31 August 2026

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you ("you", "your", "User") and Egglaxy, an independent app developer based in Ukraine ("Egglaxy", "we", "us", "our"), concerning your access to and use of the Egglaxy mobile application for iOS, including any updates, in-app purchases and accompanying materials (the "App").

By installing, opening or using the App, you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not install or use the App.

1. Important notice — Egglaxy is a timer, not a food-safety device

Please read this section carefully. It is the most important section in this document, and it defines what the App is and what it is not.

Egglaxy is a kitchen timer with cooking suggestions. It counts down a period of time and then makes a sound. That is the entirety of what it does.

The cooking times the App suggests are estimates. They are calculated from a physical model — surface-to-volume heat transfer, starting temperature, and the drop in boiling point with altitude — and cross-checked against published cooking references. They are a good starting point, and they are not a guarantee of any outcome, and specifically not a guarantee that food will be safe to eat.

1.1 The App cannot know your kitchen

The result of cooking an egg depends on many things the App has no way of measuring:

• the true size, weight, shell thickness, freshness and internal temperature of your egg;
• how the egg was stored, transported and handled before it reached you;
• the volume of water, the size and material of your pan, and whether the lid was on;
• the actual power of your stove, and whether the water was genuinely at a rolling boil when you started;
• your true altitude and local atmospheric pressure — the App's reading is an approximation from your device's sensors, which have significant error margins;
• how quickly you lowered the eggs in, whether they cracked, and how promptly you removed them;
• the accuracy of your device's clock, and whether iOS delayed, suppressed or failed to deliver the alarm.

You are the cook. The App is a stopwatch with an opinion. Judging whether food is properly and safely cooked is your responsibility, and you should verify it yourself — by cutting an egg open, by checking a temperature, or by using your own experience — rather than relying on a number the App displayed.

1.2 Undercooked eggs and Salmonella — read this

THE APP IS DESIGNED, IN LARGE PART, TO PRODUCE SOFT AND RUNNY EGGS. A SOFT OR RUNNY YOLK IS, BY THE STANDARDS OF FOOD-SAFETY AUTHORITIES, AN UNDERCOOKED EGG.

RAW AND UNDERCOOKED EGGS MAY CONTAIN SALMONELLA, WHICH CAN CAUSE SERIOUS AND SOMETIMES FATAL FOODBORNE ILLNESS. THE UNITED STATES FDA AND USDA ADVISE COOKING EGGS UNTIL BOTH THE YOLK AND THE WHITE ARE FIRM, AND COOKING EGG DISHES TO AN INTERNAL TEMPERATURE OF 71 °C (160 °F). MANY OF THE DONENESS LEVELS THIS APP OFFERS DO NOT REACH THAT STANDARD, AND ARE NOT INTENDED TO.

INFANTS, YOUNG CHILDREN, PREGNANT PEOPLE, ADULTS OVER 65, AND ANYONE WITH A WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEM OR A CHRONIC ILLNESS ARE AT SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER RISK AND SHOULD EAT ONLY THOROUGHLY COOKED OR PASTEURISED EGGS. IF YOU ARE IN, OR ARE COOKING FOR SOMEONE IN, ANY OF THOSE GROUPS, DO NOT USE THE SOFT OR MEDIUM DONENESS SETTINGS.

BY USING THE APP YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THIS RISK AND THAT YOU ACCEPT IT VOLUNTARILY. THE CHOICE OF HOW DONE YOU WANT YOUR EGG IS YOURS ALONE, AND SO IS THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.

Guidance from the relevant authorities is public, and we encourage you to read it:

• FDA — What You Need to Know About Egg Safety: https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/what-you-need-know-about-egg-safety
• USDA FSIS — Shell Eggs from Farm to Table: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/eggs/shell-eggs-farm-table
• FoodSafety.gov — Salmonella and Eggs: https://www.foodsafety.gov/blog/salmonella-and-eggs

1.3 Allergies and dietary restrictions

Eggs are a major allergen. The App does not know your allergies, your diet, your medical conditions or your medications, and it makes no claim of nutritional or medical suitability. Anything the App shows is general culinary information only and is not dietary, nutritional or medical advice. If you have an egg allergy or intolerance, or any medical condition affected by diet, consult a qualified professional — not a timer. Checking this before you eat, and before you serve anyone else, is yours to do: the App has no way to know who is at the table.

1.4 Physical hazards in the kitchen

Cooking eggs involves boiling water, steam, hot pans and hot surfaces, all of which can cause severe burns and scalds. Steam burns are particularly dangerous. Hot pans left unattended are a fire hazard.

Never leave cooking food unattended. The App is not a supervisor, not a smoke alarm and not a safety device. You remain responsible for the safe operation of your stove and your kitchen at all times, and for keeping children and animals away from it.

1.5 You assume the risk of the food you make

Read together, the four sections above come to one thing, and it is fairer to state it plainly than to leave it implied:

YOU PREPARE AND EAT THIS FOOD AT YOUR OWN RISK. BY USING THE APP YOU VOLUNTARILY ASSUME ALL RISK OF FOODBORNE ILLNESS, ALLERGIC REACTION, BURNS, FIRE, PROPERTY DAMAGE AND ANY OTHER HARM ARISING FROM FOOD YOU PREPARE OR SERVE WHILE USING IT — INCLUDING FOOD YOU SERVE TO OTHER PEOPLE.

You are solely responsible for:

• deciding whether an egg is safe for you, and for anyone you are cooking for, to eat — including checking for egg allergy or intolerance before serving;
• checking that food is cooked the way you intended, by cutting it open, measuring its temperature, or using your own judgement, rather than by trusting a timer that ran out;
• the safe handling of raw eggs, hot water, hot equipment and your stove.

We are not present in your kitchen and can verify none of it.

2. The alarm may not reach you — do not rely on it alone

The App does its best to alert you: it schedules a local notification, it can register a system alarm, and it plays audio in the background. None of that is guaranteed.

The alarm may be delayed, silenced, or fail entirely for reasons that are outside our control, including:

• your device being in Silent mode, with Focus or Do Not Disturb active, or with the volume down;
• notification, alarm or background-audio permissions being declined or later revoked;
• Low Power Mode, a low or empty battery, or the device switching off;
• iOS terminating the App in the background to reclaim memory, or you force-quitting it;
• the device restarting, the clock changing, headphones or a Bluetooth speaker being connected, or a call arriving;
• any bug, in the App or in iOS.

DO NOT USE THE APP AS YOUR ONLY MEANS OF KNOWING THAT COOKING FOOD NEEDS ATTENTION. STAY WITHIN SIGHT OF YOUR STOVE. IF A MISSED ALARM WOULD MATTER, SET A SECOND, INDEPENDENT TIMER.

THE APP IS NOT A SAFETY-CRITICAL SYSTEM. IT MUST NOT BE USED IN ANY SITUATION WHERE A FAILURE TO ALERT COULD CAUSE INJURY, ILLNESS, FIRE OR PROPERTY DAMAGE.

We are not liable for any outcome resulting from an alarm that did not sound, sounded late, or was not heard. You accept that risk when you use the App.

3. Eligibility

• You must be at least 13 years old, or the higher minimum age set by the law of your country (16 in several EEA member states), to use the App.
• If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the App only with the involvement and consent of a parent or legal guardian, who accepts these Terms on your behalf.
• You must be legally capable of entering into a binding contract, and not barred from doing so under any applicable law.
• You represent that 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 listed on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Children must not operate a stove unsupervised. Nothing in the App should be read as encouraging that.

4. The licence we grant you

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to download and use one copy of the App on any iOS device that you own or control, for your personal, non-commercial use.

You may not:

• copy, modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works of the App;
• reverse-engineer, decompile or disassemble the App, or attempt to derive its source code, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
• rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, distribute or otherwise transfer the App;
• remove, obscure or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice;
• use the App in a commercial food-service setting, or in any regulated food business, as a means of demonstrating compliance with food-safety rules — it is not suitable for that and is not certified for it;
• use the App for any unlawful purpose, or in any way that breaches these Terms.

All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

5. Your data

What the App collects, where it goes and what choices you have is set out in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms and is the authoritative description. This section states only what follows from it as a matter of agreement between us:

• Your recipes, timers and preferences are held on your device and never reach us. We therefore cannot restore them for you, and we accept no obligation to try. If they matter to you, back up your device.
• Uninstalling the App deletes them permanently. There is no copy anywhere and the deletion cannot be undone.
• Where the Privacy Policy and this section differ on a question of fact, the Privacy Policy governs.

6. Advertising

The App is free and is funded by advertising, served by Google AdMob.

• By using the App without purchasing Remove Ads, you agree that ads may be shown — as banners, as full-screen interstitials at certain moments, as an ad when the App opens, and as optional rewarded videos.
• The App applies its own limits on how often full-screen ads appear: a grace period for new users, cooldowns between ads, daily caps, and a rule that no interstitial is ever shown while a cook is running or immediately after the alarm sounds. These limits are a design choice on our part, and we may adjust them.
• We do not control the content of the ads. They are selected and delivered by Google and its advertising partners. We do not endorse any advertised product, service or claim, and we are not responsible for advertisers' content, websites, offers or conduct. Any dealing you have with an advertiser is solely between you and them.
• If you see an ad that is illegal, offensive or deceptive, please tell us at ancoapps.support@gmail.com — we can report it to Google, which is the party able to act on it.
• In the EEA, UK and Switzerland, ads are personalised only with your consent, collected through Google's consent form. See the Privacy Policy, Sections 3.2 and 13.

Links out of the App. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and the App may link to third-party websites — food-safety authorities, Google, Apple. We do not control them, do not check them, and are not responsible for their content, accuracy or availability. Opening one takes you outside the App, and what happens there is between you and that site.

Rewarded ads. You may choose to watch a rewarded video in exchange for a temporary ad-free period. This is entirely optional. The reward is granted only if the video is watched to the end; closing it early grants nothing. The ad-free period is temporary, tracked on your device, and lost if you uninstall the App.

7. Purchases

7.1 Remove Ads — a one-time purchase, not a subscription

The App offers a single in-app purchase, Remove Ads.

REMOVE ADS IS A ONE-TIME, NON-CONSUMABLE PURCHASE. IT IS NOT A SUBSCRIPTION. NOTHING RENEWS, NOTHING RECURS, AND YOU WILL NEVER BE CHARGED AGAIN FOR IT. THERE IS NOTHING TO CANCEL.

• It permanently disables advertising in the App for your Apple Account.
• The price is shown in the App in your local currency before you confirm, and is set by us within Apple's pricing tiers. Prices may change for future purchasers; a change never affects a purchase already made.
• The purchase is tied to your Apple Account, not to a device. It works on your other devices signed in to the same account, and after a reinstall, via Restore Purchases in Settings.
• Family Sharing is not enabled for this purchase.

7.2 Payment, refunds and cancellation

• All payments are processed by Apple, through the App Store. We never receive your payment details.
• Refunds are handled by Apple, not by us. We have no technical ability to issue, approve or refuse a refund. Request one at https://reportaproblem.apple.com, under Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions.
• EU / UK / EEA right of withdrawal. Consumers normally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract. For digital content supplied immediately, that right is lost once supply begins with your express consent and acknowledgement — which is what confirming the purchase does. Regardless, Apple's own refund process remains available to you, and your mandatory statutory rights are not affected by these Terms.
• If the purchase does not unlock after payment, first use Restore Purchases. If that does not work, write to ancoapps.support@gmail.com and we will help you resolve it with Apple.

7.3 Future changes to pricing and features

The App is currently free with a single one-time purchase. If we ever introduce new paid features or a subscription, we will:

• state the price, the billing period and the renewal terms clearly before you commit;
• never convert an existing one-time purchase into a recurring charge; and
• never remove a feature you have already paid for in order to charge for it again.

8. Permissions on your device

The App may ask for Notifications, Location (When In Use, for altitude only), Alarms and App Tracking Transparency. Each is requested in context, with an explanation, and each can be refused. Refusing any of them leaves the core timer fully functional; the effects are set out in the Privacy Policy, Section 5. You can change any permission at any time in iOS Settings → Egglaxy.

9. Updates, changes and availability

• We may release updates, and may add, change or remove features at any time. Some updates may be required for the App to keep working.
• We may suspend or discontinue the App, in whole or in part, at any time. If we discontinue it entirely, we will give reasonable notice through an App update and a notice on the page carrying these Terms, where practical.
• The App requires iOS 17 or later. We do not guarantee it will work on future iOS versions, on beta versions of iOS, on jailbroken devices, or on hardware we have not tested.
• We do not guarantee the App will be available without interruption or free of errors.

10. Intellectual property

The App and everything in it — its source code, design, layout, illustrations and egg characters, typography, sounds, animations, text and the Egglaxy name and logo — are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual-property laws.

Cooking times and the underlying physical formulas are facts and methods, not our property, and we make no claim to them. The particular expression of them in the App — the wording, the artwork and the presentation — is ours.

Third-party components (including the Google Mobile Ads SDK and the fonts shipped with the App) remain the property of their owners and are used under their respective licences.

11. Prohibited conduct

You agree not to:

• interfere with, disrupt or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the App or any system it connects to;
• attempt to generate invalid ad traffic — including clicking or viewing ads through automated means, incentivising clicks, or any other click fraud. This harms us directly and violates Google's policies;
• attempt to circumvent the advertising or unlock Remove Ads without paying, including by tampering with the App binary, its stored preferences or its network traffic;
• use the App to break any law, or in any way that could damage, disable or impair it;
• misrepresent the App's output as a professional food-safety assessment or certification.

If you breach this Section, your licence terminates immediately.

12. Apple-specific terms

These Terms are between you and Egglaxy, not Apple Inc. Apple is not responsible for the App or its content. The following terms apply and prevail over any inconsistent provision elsewhere in these Terms:

• Scope of the licence. The licence granted to you in Section 4 is limited to a non-transferable licence to use the App on any iOS device that you own or control, as permitted by the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
• Maintenance and support. Egglaxy is solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for the App. Apple has no obligation whatsoever to provide maintenance or support.
• Warranty. In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price of the App (if any) to you. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App.
• Product claims. Egglaxy, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claims you or any third party may have relating to the App, including (i) product liability claims; (ii) any claim that the App fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy or similar legislation.
• Intellectual property. In the event of any third-party claim that the App or your possession and use of it infringes a third party's intellectual property rights, Egglaxy, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of any such infringement claim.
• Compliance with laws. You repeat the representations in Section 3 regarding embargoed countries and restricted-party lists.
• Third-party beneficiary. You acknowledge that Apple, and Apple's subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and that upon your acceptance of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.

13. Disclaimer of warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the App is provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement.

Without limiting the above, we do not warrant that:

• the cooking times the App suggests will produce any particular result, or any safe result;
• food prepared using the App will be free of pathogens, safe to eat, or suitable for any person;
• the alarm will sound, will sound on time, or will be heard;
• the altitude reading, or any calculation derived from it, will be accurate;
• the App will meet your requirements, be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free;
• defects in the App will be corrected.

You use the App entirely at your own risk, and you are solely responsible for the food you prepare and for the safe operation of your kitchen.

Where a warranty cannot be excluded under applicable consumer law, our liability for breach of it is limited, to the extent permitted, to the re-supply of the App or the cost of re-supply.

14. Limitation of liability

Please read this section — it limits what we can be held responsible for.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event will Egglaxy, the individual who owns and operates it, or any affiliate, licensor or agent, be liable to you for any:

• foodborne illness, food poisoning, allergic reaction, or any other illness or personal injury arising from food you prepared while using the App;
• burns, scalds, fire, or damage to property arising from cooking;
• loss or damage caused by an alarm that did not sound, sounded late, or was not heard, including ruined food and unattended cooking;
• loss or spoilage of food, ingredients or equipment;
• indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages;
• loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, data or use;
• loss of your settings, custom timers or preferences, however caused, including by uninstalling the App, resetting your device, losing it, or failing to keep a backup;
• any act, omission, content or offer of a third-party advertiser,

even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages, and regardless of the legal theory on which the claim is based.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our total cumulative liability to you arising out of or relating to the App or these Terms will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you actually paid us for the App in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the liability, or (b) USD 50.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes: (i) liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence; (ii) liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; (iii) liability under any applicable product liability regime that cannot be limited; or (iv) any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded, including the mandatory consumer rights described in Section 17.3.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or the limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so parts of the two preceding sections may not apply to you. In those jurisdictions our liability is limited to the smallest amount permitted by law.

15. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Egglaxy and the individual who owns and operates it from and against any claim, liability, damage, loss or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in connection with: (a) your misuse of the App; (b) your breach of these Terms; (c) your violation of any law or of the rights of any third party; or (d) food you prepared and served to another person while using the App. This Section does not apply where it is prohibited by applicable consumer law, and does not apply to the extent the claim arises from our own negligence.

16. Termination

• By you. Stop using the App and uninstall it at any time. Uninstalling deletes all local data.
• By us. We may terminate or suspend your licence if you materially breach these Terms — in particular Section 11. Where reasonably possible we will give notice first.
• Effect. On termination your licence ends and you must stop using the App. Termination does not entitle you to a refund, except where a refund is required by law or granted by Apple.
• Survival. Sections 1, 2, 5, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 18 survive termination.

17. Governing law and dispute resolution

17.1 Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Ukraine, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles, and any dispute will be brought before the competent courts of Kyiv, Ukraine — except as provided in Section 17.3.

17.2 Individual basis

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree that any dispute will be resolved on an individual basis, and that you waive any right to participate in a class action or class-wide arbitration. This waiver does not apply where it is unenforceable under the law that applies to you.

17.3 Consumer protection — your mandatory rights are preserved

If you are a consumer resident in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or any other jurisdiction whose law grants you the benefit of mandatory consumer-protection rules:

• those mandatory rules continue to apply in full, and nothing in these Terms deprives you of them;
• you may bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence, and we may bring proceedings against you only in the courts of your country of residence;
• EU consumers may also use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform.

17.4 Informal resolution first

Before starting formal proceedings, you agree to try to resolve the dispute informally by writing to ancoapps.support@gmail.com. We will try in good faith to resolve it within 60 days of your notice. If we cannot, either party may proceed as set out above. Nothing here prevents either party from seeking injunctive relief to protect intellectual property.

18. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the App, and supersede any earlier understanding.
• Changes. We may update these Terms. When we do, we will update the "Effective date" and "Last updated" above and publish them at this URL. For material changes — new paid features, a new jurisdictional clause, or any change that materially reduces your rights — we will present the updated Terms on the Consent screen at the next App launch and require you to accept them before continuing. Continued use after a non-material update constitutes acceptance.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is severed and the rest remains in full force.
• No waiver. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not assign your rights under these Terms. We may assign them in connection with a sale or transfer of the App, on notice to you.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for any delay or failure caused by events beyond its reasonable control.
• Language. These Terms are provided in English, Ukrainian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Turkish. The English version prevails in case of inconsistency, except where local law requires otherwise.
• Headings are for convenience and do not affect interpretation.

19. Contact

• Email: ancoapps.support@gmail.com

We aim to acknowledge enquiries within 5 business days.

These Terms of Use were last updated on 31 August 2026. The current version is always available at https://egglaxy-prod.web.app/en/terms and from the App's Consent screen and Settings → Terms of Use.