Terms
Last updated: 2026-10-08
These terms cover the Hello Pantry Telegram bot (@hello_pantry_bot)
and its Mini App at https://hello-pantry-tg.gpm.name. Using either means accepting them.
What Hello Pantry is
A bot that keeps track of what is in your fridge, freezer and cupboards and warns you before it expires. It is a record of what you tell it. Expiry dates, and the estimated expiry of frozen food, are estimates and reminders, not food-safety advice: whether something is safe to eat is your judgement, not the bot’s, and a product that is not on the list can still be off.
What it costs
The bot is free to use within the limits listed on the home page. Pro removes those limits, adds sharing, and is paid in Telegram Stars, either 150 Stars a month or 1500 Stars for twelve months.
The monthly plan is a subscription: it renews itself until you cancel it, and cancelling is done in Telegram’s settings rather than here. The yearly plan is not a subscription and does not renew: it is one payment for twelve months, after which the account goes back to the free plan on its own. Buying a year while a month is still running adds the twelve months on top of what is left rather than replacing it.
Stars are Telegram’s, not mine: they are bought from Telegram and the charge is Telegram’s. Pro purchases are recorded in apps-management under the Telegram payment identifier. Refunds are possible while Telegram allows them for a given payment; ask at apps@gpm.name.
Cancelling stops the renewal. Pro runs until the date it was paid up to.
No warranty
The bot is provided as it is, without warranty of any kind. It is run on one server by one person; it can be down, and a message can be lost.
Keep your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose. Pro includes an export of your data.
Your data is yours
You keep everything you write down. It is not sold, not shared and not used to train anything. What is stored and what is not is in the privacy policy.
Shared pantries
If you invite people to a pantry, you are the one who decides who they are. Owners can invite and remove members and delete the pantry for everybody, and a pantry always keeps at least one owner. Do not invite anybody who has not asked to be there.
Acceptable use
Do not use the bot to break the law, and do not try to reach data that is not yours or to knock the service over. Automated use that degrades it for other people is not allowed.
Access can be withdrawn where one of those happens. Where that leaves a paid subscription unused, the unused part is refunded.
Limitation of liability
To the extent the law allows, I am not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost profit, or for a decision taken on the basis of what the bot showed you. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited — death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, and the rights you have as a consumer.
Availability and changes
Features can change and the service can be discontinued. If it is discontinued, notice will be given in the bot and on this site with enough time to export your data, and any subscription running at that point is refunded for its unused part.
Governing law
Italian law, and the courts of Rome, Italy. If you are a consumer this does not take away the protection of the mandatory rules of the country you live in.