Terms of Service

The deal, in plain language

Burrow Budgie helps your burrow (your household group) plan dinners together: members suggest and vote, organizers veto and schedule, and the winning meals become a priced shopping list you can send to a Kroger cart. By creating an account or using the app you agree to these terms. Burrow Budgie is currently a free pilot. Things will change, occasionally break, and improve quickly.

Accounts

You must be at least 13 to use Burrow Budgie. A burrow is started by an adult responsible for it. Every member holds their own account and signs in with their own email. Nobody shares a login and nobody acts on anyone else's behalf. Members aged 13 to 17 can join only by redeeming a single-use invite code an organizer generated, confirming at that moment that the invitee is at least 13. We never ask for or verify anyone's date of birth. You're responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping access to your email secure, since sign-in links go there.

What you can do depends on your role, not your age. An organizer plans the week, vetoes and schedules meals, sets the budget, builds the shopping list, and connects a Kroger account. A member suggests meals, votes, adds recipes, and edits the shopping list. An organizer can give a member organizer powers, or take them back, at any time. If you started the burrow, deciding who holds those powers is your call.

Prices are estimates

Prices in Burrow Budgie come from the Kroger public API and from prices families log by hand. They can be stale, regional, or wrong, and the budget bar is a planning picture, not a quote, invoice, or guarantee. The price you pay at a store is always whatever the store actually charges.

No money moves

Burrow Budgie never holds, transfers, or collects money and stores no payment methods. Checkout, payment, and order fulfillment happen entirely in Kroger's own app or site under Kroger's terms.

Your Kroger account

Linking Kroger is optional. It uses Kroger's own sign-in and permission screen, and Burrow Budgie only ever adds the items you choose to your cart. It cannot read your cart, orders, or payment details. Your relationship with Kroger, including their handling of your data, is governed by Kroger's own terms and privacy policy. Burrow Budgie is an independent app, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The Kroger Co.

Fair use

Don't misuse the app: no attempting to access other burrows' data, no deliberately polluting the shared price book, no reverse-engineering the service to harvest data, and nothing unlawful.

The pilot disclaimer

Burrow Budgie is provided as-is and as-available, without warranties of any kind. To the fullest extent the law allows, Burrow Budgie and its builder aren't liable for indirect or consequential damages from using the app. And given that the app is free, total liability for anything else is capped at $0. If something goes wrong, tell us and we'll do our best to fix it.

Ending things

You can stop using Burrow Budgie anytime and ask for your data to be deleted (see the Privacy Policy). We may suspend accounts that break these terms or end the pilot with notice to every burrow by email.

Changes and contact

If these terms change materially during the pilot, every burrow gets an email first. These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA, without limiting any rights you have under the consumer protection laws where you live. Questions: hello@burrowbudgie.com.