Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms & Legal Binding

Welcome to Maintenance Calories Calculator ("Platform," "we," "our," or "us"), accessible via maintenancecaloriescalculator.org. By accessing, browsing, interacting with any of our 29 bioenergetic calculators, or utilizing our educational resources, you ("User" or "you") enter into a legally binding agreement governed by these Terms of Service ("Terms").

If you do not agree to every provision contained within these Terms, you must immediately terminate access to and cease all use of this Platform. Your continued use constitutes ongoing acceptance of these Terms and any modifications we publish herein.

3. Computational Accuracy & Estimation Variances

While our calculators utilize peer-reviewed, empirically validated formulas—such as the Mifflin-St Jeor (1990), Katch-McArdle, Cunningham, and 2024 Ainsworth Compendium of Physical Activities MET ratings—all bioenergetic formulas are statistical approximations based on population cohorts.

In published exercise physiology literature, predictive metabolic equations carry an inherent standard error of estimate (SEE) of approximately ±10% to ±15% relative to laboratory-grade indirect calorimetry (metabolic cart testing).

Your actual daily energy expenditure can fluctuate significantly based on individual variables that cannot be fully captured by mathematical models, including:

• Adaptive thermogenesis and metabolic downregulation during sustained caloric deficits;
• Subconscious variations in Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT);
• Endocrine hormone variations (thyroid T3/T4, cortisol, leptin, testosterone, and estrogen);
• Gut microbiome energy extraction efficiency and individual digestive thermic effects.

Users must treat calculated figures as baseline experimental starting points to be calibrated against real-world scale weight trends and performance markers over a 2 to 4 week observation period.

4. Intellectual Property & Permitted Personal License

All intellectual property on this Platform—including software algorithms, mathematical transformation scripts, interface designs, color palettes, graphics, logos, charts, typography, articles, and textual documentation—is the exclusive proprietary property of Maintenance Calories Calculator Inc. and protected under international copyright, trademark, and trade secret laws.

• Limited License: We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and utilize the Platform for your personal, non-commercial fitness and educational planning.
• Prohibited Actions: You may not copy, reproduce, mirror, republish, decompile, reverse-engineer, frame within an iframe, create derivative works from, or commercially exploit any calculator engine, formula implementation, or article without prior explicit written authorization from Maintenance Calories Calculator Inc..

5. Acceptable Use Policy

When accessing our Platform, you explicitly agree not to:

• Deploy automated web scrapers, spiders, crawler bots, or data harvesting scripts against our endpoints;
• Interfere with, disrupt, or launch denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against our edge server infrastructure;
• Transmit malicious payloads, automated spam, or deceptive submissions through our contact forms;
• Circumvent security headers, content security policies, or rate-limiting protocols;
• Misrepresent your identity or imply that your dietary recommendations are officially certified or endorsed by Maintenance Calories Calculator.

6. Disclaimer of Warranties ("As-Is" & "As-Available")

To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, Maintenance Calories Calculator and all services, software, calculators, and materials are provided strictly on an "AS-IS" and "AS-AVAILABLE" basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied.

We expressly disclaim all warranties, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular physical objective, non-infringement, server uptime, computational error-free status, or accuracy of predictive mathematical outputs.

7. Limitation of Liability & Indemnification

Under no circumstances—including negligence—shall Maintenance Calories Calculator Inc., its directors, researchers, content contributors, software engineers, or agents be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages (including personal injury, physiological distress, health complications, muscle loss, metabolic slowing, or loss of athletic performance) arising out of the use of, or inability to use, the calculators, recommendations, or materials on this Platform.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Maintenance Calories Calculator Inc. and its affiliates from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, or expenses (including reasonable attorney fees) resulting from your violation of these Terms or your implementation of any diet or exercise changes based on Platform figures.

8. Governing Law, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the applicable legal jurisdiction, without regard to its conflict of law principles. Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation, or validity thereof shall be resolved through confidential, binding individual arbitration rather than in court.

You explicitly waive any right to initiate, join, or participate in any class action lawsuit, collective arbitration, or representative action against Maintenance Calories Calculator Inc..