IronRated — Terms of Service

Effective date: to be filled in on publication Last updated: to be filled in on publication

By signing up for IronRated, you agree to these terms. They're short. Read them.

1. The deal in one paragraph

IronRated is a free iOS app where you rate and review gym food — supplements, energy drinks, bars, powders, pre-workout, the lot. You write the reviews. You vote on other people's reviews. We host the platform and try not to mess it up. We don't sell anything you review, we don't take brand money, we don't pay influencers. Use it honestly and we're good.

2. Who can use IronRated

• You must be at least 13 years old.
• You must use a real email address (or Sign in with Apple's relay).
• You must keep your sign-in credentials private.
• One account per person.

If you're a brand, employee of a brand, paid promoter, or affiliated with a supplement company, you can still use the app — but you can't post reviews of products you're paid to promote. Disclose affiliations in your review text or expect a strike.

3. The content you post

You keep ownership of every review, comment, photo, and vote you post. By posting it, you grant IronRated a worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to display, store, distribute, and moderate it inside the IronRated service. We need this license to show your review to other users.

You don't grant us the right to sell your content, license it to advertisers, or use it for any purpose outside running the app.

You can delete any post at any time. Once you delete it, our license to that piece ends except for the soft-delete grace window described in the Privacy Policy.

4. Things you can't do

If you do any of the following, your post gets removed and you may get a strike (see §5):

• Post content you don't have rights to. Including stolen photos, copyrighted images, someone else's review.
• Impersonate someone else. No fake celebrity / brand / employee profiles.
• Run a vote ring or sockpuppet accounts. Each person gets one account. Coordinated mass voting is detectable; we will catch it.
• Spam. Posting >10 reviews per day, low-effort one-word reviews, identical reviews on different products, links to external sites in review text.
• Threaten, harass, dox, or sexually solicit other users. Zero tolerance.
• Market illegal substances. No reviews of controlled substances, drugs sold outside their legal market, or anything with health claims unsupported by US regulatory bodies.
• Promote products you're paid to promote without disclosing it. Brand partnerships are not banned; hiding them is.
• Scrape, reverse-engineer, or auto-post to IronRated. No bots, no API hammering, no headless-browser farms.
• Upload NSFW imagery. The moderation pipeline catches these but if you submit them deliberately you get a strike on the first one, banned on repeats.

5. Strikes and suspension

We use a simple progressive system:

Suspensions and bans are visible to you on your profile. We log every admin action in an append-only audit table — both for our accountability and yours.

You can appeal a strike by emailing appeals@ironrated.app. Appeals are reviewed by a human (Philip or Vinny), not an algorithm. We aim to respond within 7 days.

6. Your product reviews ≠ medical advice

Reviews on IronRated are personal opinions of consumer products. They are not:

• Medical advice.
• Dietary advice.
• A substitute for talking to your doctor before starting a supplement.
• A claim that any product is safe for everyone, effective for everyone, or legal in your jurisdiction.

Supplements are regulated as food, not drugs, in the United States. Effects vary by individual. Talk to a healthcare provider if you have any medical condition or are pregnant/nursing.

We're not liable for what you do with information you read on IronRated.

7. Our role as a platform

IronRated hosts user content. We moderate it according to the rules above. We don't manufacture, sell, or distribute any of the products reviewed. Brand pages and product entries are factual catalog records — they're not endorsements.

If a brand or product owner wants a review removed, they can submit a content report inside the app (long-press → "Report"). We'll review it. We don't remove negative reviews because they're negative — we remove content that violates §4.

8. Service availability

IronRated is best-effort. We don't guarantee uptime, data preservation in the face of catastrophic infrastructure failure, or that any specific feature continues to exist. We back the database up nightly but you should not rely on IronRated as the canonical store of your review history — it's a community platform, not a journal.

We may add features, change features, or remove features. We'll announce material changes inside the app.

9. Termination

You can delete your account at any time (see Privacy Policy §7). We can suspend or terminate your account if you violate §4 (see strike system in §5). If we terminate for cause we'll tell you why.

If the app shuts down entirely (not the plan, but listed for completeness), we'll give 30 days' notice and provide a way to export your reviews.

10. Disclaimers + liability

IronRated is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Philip and Vinny aren't liable for indirect, consequential, or incidental damages from your use of the app. Our maximum liability to you, for anything related to IronRated, is capped at the amount you've paid us — which, since IronRated is free, is $0.

This doesn't limit your statutory rights as a consumer, which vary by jurisdiction.

11. Governing law + disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of [Philip's state], USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute that can't be resolved over email at the address in §13 will be resolved in the state or federal courts of that state.

You can opt out of class arbitration: disputes against IronRated must be brought individually. Class actions are waived.

Philip — fill in your state of residence here before publication.

12. Changes

If we change material terms, we'll update the Last updated date and notify you in-app before the change takes effect. Continued use after the effective date counts as acceptance. If you don't agree, delete your account before it kicks in.

13. Contact

For ToS questions, content reports beyond what the in-app flow handles, appeals, or anything else:

📧 support@ironrated.app 📧 appeals@ironrated.app (strike / suspension appeals only)

IronRated is an indie iOS app. Two people built it. We answer our own emails.