Terms of Service.
Last updated: 8 June 2026.
These Terms describe the deal between you and Capsi when you use the app. By signing in you accept them. If you don't, please don't use the app. Plain-English version below — no surprises.
Who we are
Capsi is operated by the developer behind this app. Contact: privacy@thecapsi.app.
Who can use the app
You need to be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age for online services in your country, whichever is higher (16 in some EU member states). One person, one account — don't share your sign-in with someone else.
Your account
Sign in by magic link (we email you a one-time link) or Sign in with Apple. You're responsible for keeping the device you use logged in secure. Tap Sign out to end your session, or Delete account to remove the account entirely.
What you can post
You can submit photos of peppers for the community catalog, post in the feed, reply to others, like content, track your own peppers in your private garden, report content that breaks the rules, and block other users.
You may not post: content that breaks our community rules; content you don't own or don't have permission to use; illegal content, harassment, spam, or hate speech; photos of minors in any sexual context (these are removed and reported immediately); NSFW content, gore, or anything designed to shock or harm; bot, scraper, or automated abuse.
We may remove anything that breaks these rules without warning. Repeat or severe violations end the account.
Your content
You keep ownership of whatever you post. To run the app we need permission to host and show it — by submitting content you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store it, display it inside the app, generate thumbnail variants of it, moderate it, and — once approved — keep it in the public pepper catalog. This licence lasts as long as the content is in the app.
If you delete your account: we delete your posts, comments, feedback, garden, and pending photo submissions. Approved pepper photos stay in the public catalog as anonymous community contributions — your name is removed but the photos remain so the catalog stays useful. You can always ask us to take down a specific photo before or after deleting your account.
Reporting and removal
If something breaks the rules, use the Report option in the menu on any post, comment, or photo. We aim to review reports and remove violating content within 24 hours. You can also block any user — that hides their content from you and stops them interacting with yours.
The admin team can remove individual posts, comments, or photos; reject photo submissions in the review queue; suspend or ban accounts for repeat or severe violations; and set a rate limit on a user flooding the app.
Photo submissions
When you submit a pepper photo it goes into a review queue — it's not visible to anyone else until an admin approves it. The app runs an on-device sensitivity check before upload. If your device has Sensitive Content Warnings turned off in iOS Settings, the check is skipped and the photo still goes to the queue for human review.
You confirm at submission that the photo is your own work — don't submit photos you don't own. Approved photos appear in the variety gallery with a Photo by … credit. Rejected photos are kept briefly for audit and then deleted.
Our content
The pepper catalog (variety names, descriptions, Scoville ranges, growing notes, hero photos curated by the admin team), the app icon, the app name, and the design are ours.
Pepper information in the catalog is for general interest only. Don't make safety, dietary, or growing decisions purely on what the app says — cross-check with an expert source when it matters.
Where our pepper info comes from
We curate the pepper catalog from a mix of public horticultural references, seed catalogs, academic sources, and contributions from this community. Where a photo or a specific piece of information has an identifiable source, we credit it visibly inside the app — the source and licence lines on a gallery photo, for example. The editorial selection, layout, and curation are ours; the underlying horticultural facts aren't anyone's exclusive property.
If you spot something that's wrong, miscredited, or missing a source we should add, let us know.
Push notifications
The app can send push notifications about activity on your content (replies, likes, photo decisions) and important account updates. You can turn these off in iOS Settings → Notifications → Capsi at any time.
Termination
You can stop using the app whenever you like, and delete your account from Settings → Delete account. We can suspend or terminate your account if you break these Terms or the community rules, or if your behaviour puts other users at risk. We'll usually warn you first for minor things and skip warnings for serious ones.
"As is"
The app and the catalog are provided as is. We do our best to keep things working, accurate, and safe — but we can't guarantee uninterrupted availability, that every Scoville value is precise, or that every photo in the gallery is exactly what the label says. Statutory rights you have as a consumer in your country are not affected by anything in these Terms.
Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we're not liable for indirect or consequential losses caused by your use of the app. Nothing in these Terms limits liability for things the law won't let us limit — gross negligence, fraud, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or statutory consumer rights in your country.
Intellectual property complaints
If you believe content in the app infringes your copyright or other IP rights, email privacy@thecapsi.app with: a description of the work you say is infringed; a link to the content in the app; confirmation that you're the rights holder or authorised to act for them; and your contact details. We'll act on the report within a reasonable time. If we take something down and you think we shouldn't have, you can reply with a counter-notice.
Changes to these Terms
If we change something material, we'll surface it in the app the next time you open this page. The Last updated date at the top is the source of truth. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept it.
Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the operator's home jurisdiction. If you're a consumer in the EU/UK, your local consumer protection law still applies and you can bring proceedings in your local courts.