These are the terms for contributors who record cooking sessions through Fridget Labs. They cover what you agree to record, what we do with it, how you get paid, and how either of us can end the arrangement.
1. Who these terms are between
These Operator Terms (the “Terms”) are an agreement between MnM Labs (“Fridget,” “we,” “us”) and you, the individual who accepts them (the “Operator” or “you”). They govern your use of the Fridget Labs iOS app and the surrounding workflow — onboarding, task selection, recording, review, upload, quality control, and payout (together, the “Platform”).
Three other documents work alongside these Terms. The Privacy Policy explains how we handle personal information and recordings. The Platform Terms govern general use of our website and platform. The instructions shown for a particular task tell you what that task requires; where a task carries additional terms, those terms control for that task to the extent they conflict with these.
The in-app consent is separate, and it is not replaced by this page. Before you record, the app presents a versioned consent describing exactly what is captured and what happens to it, and you accept it there. That consent stands on its own. Accepting these Terms is not a substitute for it, and nothing on this page waives it or overrides it. See Section 5.
2. Eligibility and your account
You must be at least 18 years old. Fridget Labs is invite-only; you may use it only under an invitation issued to you, and you may not share your access with anyone else.
Give us accurate registration information, keep it current, and keep your credentials secure. You are responsible for what happens under your account. If you think your credentials have been compromised, tell us promptly at joe@mnm-labs.com.
We may ask for reasonable documentation of your identity, residency, tax status, or payment details where we need it to pay you or to meet a legal obligation, and you agree to provide it within a reasonable time.
3. The program and our relationship
Fridget Labs offers tasks (“Tasks”): recording yourself cooking a real meal in your own kitchen, reviewing the result step by step, and submitting it. What is available varies by project and by what our partners need at the time.
You take part as an independent contributor. Nothing here creates an employment, partnership, joint-venture, or agency relationship between us. Participation is project-based and non-exclusive. We do not guarantee any minimum number of Tasks, any volume of work, or any level of earnings, and you are free to accept or decline any Task. You decide when you cook, what you cook within the Task's requirements, and how you work in your own kitchen.
Both of us intend an independent-contractor relationship. How an engagement is classified under mandatory employment or social-security law ultimately depends on how it is performed in practice, and nothing in this section displaces a mandatory rule that applies to you.
4. Your equipment
You record on your own iPhone, worn on your body — on your chest or on a lanyard — so the camera sees what you see. You are responsible for your device, for its condition and charge, for having enough storage to hold a session, and for any mobile data or other costs you incur.
Your device must meet the requirements shown in the app, including the depth-sensing hardware a Task needs. Follow the instructions on mounting, positioning, and stabilisation. A recording made on equipment or in a configuration that does not meet the stated requirements may not be usable, and may be rejected.
We do not ship hardware. If we ever lend you something — a mount, a strap, or similar — it remains our property, must be used only as instructed, and must be returned on request or when you stop taking part.
5. The in-app consent
Before any recording, the app shows you a consent describing what is captured, what we do with it, and who it may be licensed to. You accept it in the app, and no recording begins until you have.
That consent is versioned. If we change what it says, you will be asked to read and accept the new version before you can record again. The record of which version you accepted, when, and under which account is kept by us and may be used to evidence your consent.
These Terms sit alongside that consent; they do not replace it, summarise it exhaustively, or reduce it. If something in these Terms conflicts with the consent you accepted in the app about what is captured or how it is used, the in-app consent controls.
6. Recording rules
A Task records your first-person view of a real cook: your hands and arms, your body and clothing as they appear in frame, the ingredients and tools, and your kitchen and its contents. It captures video, LiDAR depth, and device motion, aligned to the steps you tap through. It never captures audio. You understand that this material becomes training data for robotics and AI and is licensed to our partners, as described in the Privacy Policy.
When you record, you agree to all of the following:
- Record only in a kitchen that is yours, or one you are entitled to record in, with the agreement of anyone whose permission is needed.
- Record a real cook that you actually perform. Do not stage, fake, re-use, splice, synthesise, or otherwise fabricate a session, and do not submit anyone else's footage as your own.
- Never record covertly, deceptively, unlawfully, or in a way that harasses or demeans anyone.
- Never record another person — see Section 7.
- Keep sensitive things out of frame: identity documents, bank or payment cards, passwords, screens showing private information, prescriptions or medical items, mail and paperwork, and anything else you would not want a stranger to see.
- Follow the Task instructions on framing, lighting, mounting, and the steps to record.
- Stop recording immediately if continuing would be unsafe, unlawful, would breach someone else's rights, or would conflict with these Terms or the Task instructions.
You can pause or end a recording at any time, for any reason, and you never have to explain why.
7. Keeping other people out of frame
This one gets its own section because it matters most.
You are responsible for making sure nobody else appears in your recording. Before you start, make sure the kitchen is yours alone for the session, and that other people in your home — family, flatmates, guests, children — stay out of the camera's view for its duration. If someone comes in, pause or stop.
The app detects faces and automatically pauses recording when it sees one. That safeguard exists to catch accidents. It is not permission to film other people, and it does not move the obligation from you to us. Relying on it deliberately — carrying on while someone is in the room and letting the app sort it out — is a breach of these Terms.
Never record children. Never record anyone in a state of undress, in a medical situation, or in any circumstance where being filmed would be an intrusion.
8. Reviewing and submitting a session
Nothing uploads on its own. When a recording ends, you step through it step by step and either confirm each step or flag it. Only after you have completed that review is the session submitted to us.
Use the review honestly. Confirm a step because it is what it claims to be, and flag anything that is wrong, unusable, mislabelled, or that captured something it should not have. If a recording caught something private or caught another person, flag it or discard the session rather than submitting it — that is exactly what the flag is for, and you will not be penalised for using it.
9. Acceptance and quality
Your submissions must meet the Task instructions, the acceptance criteria, and the quality requirements shown in the app (together, the “Requirements”). We may review any submission for completeness, quality, adherence to the Requirements, duplication, manipulation, policy compliance, or fraud. We are not obliged to review everything.
Whether a submission is accepted is our decision. We may accept a submission, reject it, ask you to re-record, or remove content that does not comply. We will tell you the outcome, and where a submission is rejected we will give you a reason so you can do better next time. Acceptance decisions are made in good faith against the published Requirements, but they are ours to make.
Do not interfere with quality control, rate limits, device checks, or anti-abuse measures, and do not use any tool to extract data from the Platform or introduce harmful code into it.
10. Compensation and taxes
You are compensated for recordings we accept. The compensation for a Task is shown to you in the app before you take it on. Compensation is earned only on acceptance under Section 9 — a submission that is rejected, withdrawn, deleted before acceptance, duplicated, fabricated, or found to breach these Terms earns nothing, and we may recover any amount already paid for it.
We pay through our payment provider to the account you designate, on the schedule shown in the app. We may withhold or offset payment where a submission is fraudulent or in breach, and we may require the tax or payment information we need in order to pay you lawfully.
You are responsible for your own taxes, social-security contributions, and any registration your own situation requires. We do not withhold on your behalf unless the law obliges us to. Compensation under these Terms is consideration for accepted submissions and for the rights granted in Sections 11 and 12; it is not a wage, and it carries no entitlement to employment benefits.
Any mandatory statutory entitlement that applies to you despite the arrangement in Section 3 remains unaffected.
11. Rights you grant us
“Submissions” means everything you create and submit through the Platform: recordings, video, depth and motion data, frames, annotations, labels, confirmations, flags, metadata, and any related material.
You assign to us, on creation and without consideration beyond the compensation stated for the Task, all right, title, and interest in the Submissions worldwide, including all copyright and related rights. To the extent any right cannot be assigned by law, you instead grant us an exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free and fully paid-up licence to use it.
The rights we hold let us reproduce, adapt, modify, combine, annotate, distribute, publicly display and make available the Submissions, and use them to build datasets, train and evaluate models, run research and benchmarks, deliver datasets to partners, develop and improve our products, and meet legal and audit obligations. We may sublicense and transfer these rights to our partners under written agreements, and to any successor to our business.
Showing the work. We may also use short excerpts of your Submissions to demonstrate and promote the program — on our website, in presentations to prospective partners and investors, and in short-form video and social content. This use is included in the rights granted above and requires no further payment.
Moral rights. Rights that the law says stay with you as author stay with you. To the extent the law permits, you agree not to exercise them in a way that would prevent or unreasonably impair the uses described here, and you waive any requirement to be credited by name.
Cooperation. If we reasonably need your help to establish or enforce the rights granted in this section — a signature, a confirmation, a document — you agree to provide it.
12. Likeness and appearance
You consent to our use of your appearance as it is captured in the Submissions and for the purposes described in Section 11.
Scoped to what is actually captured, that means your hands, arms, and body as they appear in the first-person frame, your clothing, jewellery and any visible marks or tattoos, your movement, and your kitchen and its contents. Because no audio is ever recorded, your voice is not captured and this consent does not extend to it. Your face is normally excluded by the automatic face-detection pause; to the extent it is nonetheless incidentally captured, this consent covers that too.
You acknowledge that the compensation for the Task is the consideration for this consent and that nothing further is owed. This consent lasts for as long as we hold rights in the relevant Submission. It cannot be withdrawn once a session has been accepted and delivered to a partner, except where the law that applies to you requires otherwise; before that point, Section 15 applies.
This consent covers you and no one else. It does not, and cannot, cover anyone else who appears in a recording — which is why Section 7 exists.
13. Confidentiality
Keep confidential the non-public information you encounter through the Platform: Task instructions and acceptance criteria, partner and customer names, quality rules, compensation structures, unreleased product information, security details, and internal communications. You may disclose where the law requires it.
Do not download, copy, publish, sell, scrape, reverse engineer, or otherwise misuse Platform materials or any data you encounter through your Tasks, except as necessary to carry out a Task in the approved workflow. This obligation continues after you stop taking part.
14. Safety in the kitchen
You are cooking with knives, heat, hot oil, boiling liquids, glass, and electrical appliances, on a floor that can get wet, while wearing a phone. Take that seriously.
- Cooking comes first, the recording second. Never let framing a shot, keeping a step going, or reaching for the phone take your attention away from what your hands are doing. If the two conflict, stop recording.
- Mount the phone so it cannot hurt you. The device and its strap must not restrict your movement or your view, must not dangle over a flame, a hot surface, or a pan, and must not be something you have to reach across a hazard to adjust.
- Keep the kitchen safe. Clear your work surface, wipe up spills as they happen, and keep the floor and walkways clear.
- Do not record while impaired — by illness, injury, exhaustion, alcohol, drugs, or medication that affects your attention or coordination.
- Stop rather than risk it. No Task is worth an injury. Pausing, abandoning a session, or discarding a recording is always an acceptable outcome, and you will never be penalised for stopping on safety grounds.
You are solely responsible for your own safety, for the condition of your kitchen, and for the safety of anyone else in your home while you record. Nobody at MnM Labs watches your recording live. There is no live feed and no one supervising a session as it happens, so there is no one who could notice a problem and intervene. We do not inspect your kitchen, assess your equipment, or evaluate whether you are fit to cook on any given day. Recognising when to decline, pause, or stop is yours alone.
15. Deleting a session or leaving
You can ask us to delete any session you recorded, and you can stop taking part at any time. Email joe@mnm-labs.com, or use the deletion option in the app where one is available.
Before a session has gone into a dataset delivered to a partner, we delete it outright. Afterwards our reach is limited: we delete our own copies and stop using it in anything new, but we cannot retrieve it from a dataset already in a partner's hands, nor remove its influence from a model already trained. We will tell you which applies to your request. This is explained in the same terms in Section 10 of the Privacy Policy.
If you withdraw a submission before it is accepted, no compensation is owed for it. Withdrawing a session already accepted and paid for does not, on its own, entitle you to keep the payment where the withdrawal makes the submission unusable.
16. Suspension and termination
We may suspend, restrict, or end your access, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms or the Requirements, broken the law, created a safety or privacy risk, filmed another person, submitted fabricated, recycled, or fraudulent material, or exposed us or anyone else to serious legal, operational, or reputational risk. We may also end the program, or your participation in it, for our own business reasons on reasonable notice.
You may stop using the Platform whenever you like. On termination by either of us, return anything we lent you (Section 4) if we ask for it. Compensation already earned for accepted submissions remains payable unless it was earned in breach of these Terms.
Sections that by their nature should survive do survive — including Sections 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 23.
17. Your promises and indemnity
You represent and warrant that: you are at least 18; your Submissions are genuine recordings that you personally made in accordance with these Terms and the Requirements; you are entitled to record where you recorded; no one other than you appears in them; and they do not infringe anyone's rights or breach any law or obligation that binds you.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you will indemnify MnM Labs and its officers, employees, contractors, and agents against claims, investigations, losses, damages, fines, liabilities, settlements, and reasonable costs (including legal fees) arising from your fraud or wilful misconduct, unlawful or covert recording, recording of another person in breach of Section 7, infringement of a third party's rights, or your breach of these Terms.
18. Disclaimer of warranties
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE PLATFORM, THE TASKS, AND ANY EQUIPMENT WE LEND ARE PROVIDED “AS IS,” “AS AVAILABLE,” AND “WITH ALL FAULTS.” WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ABOUT THE PLATFORM, ITS CONTENT, THE TASKS, THE AVAILABILITY OR VOLUME OF WORK, OR THE SECURITY OF TRANSMISSIONS.
WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE PLATFORM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT A RECORDING WILL UPLOAD OR PROCESS SUCCESSFULLY, OR THAT IT IS FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND TITLE, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
Nothing in this section affects a statutory right you have that cannot be excluded.
19. Limitation of liability
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, MNM LABS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGE, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST EARNINGS, LOST OPPORTUNITY, OR LOST OR CORRUPTED DATA, ARISING FROM: (A) THE PLATFORM OR THE TASKS; (B) YOUR SUBMISSIONS OR ANYONE ELSE'S; (C) YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE PLATFORM; (D) A DECISION TO REJECT, REMOVE, OR SUSPEND; (E) TECHNICAL FAILURES OR OMISSIONS; OR (F) EVENTS BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL.
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE PLATFORM WILL NOT EXCEED THE TOTAL COMPENSATION WE PAID YOU IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
These limits do not apply to liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, for our wilful misconduct or gross negligence, or to any other liability that the law does not allow to be limited or excluded. Where any part of this section is unenforceable, our liability is limited to the greatest extent the law does allow.
20. Changes to these terms
We may update these Terms. We will post the updated version here with a new effective date and version number, and where the change is material we will notify you in the app or by email before it takes effect. If you do not agree to a change, stop using the Platform; continuing to take on Tasks after the effective date means you accept the updated Terms.
A change to these Terms does not, by itself, change the in-app consent. Changing that requires a new consent version and your fresh acceptance (Section 5).
21. Apple and the iOS app
Fridget Labs is an iOS app. These Terms are between you and MnM Labs only, not Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app. If the app fails to conform to a warranty that has not been disclaimed above, you may tell Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app, if any; beyond that refund, Apple has no warranty obligation. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim that the app or your use of it infringes a third party's intellectual property rights, or any claim arising under consumer-protection or similar law. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you. Any question about the app should come to us at joe@mnm-labs.com.
22. Governing law and disputes
These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or in connection with them or the Platform, are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to conflict-of-law rules and excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The competent courts of Tel Aviv-Yafo have exclusive jurisdiction.
There is no arbitration agreement here, no class-action waiver, and no jury-trial waiver. Mandatory rules that give you the protection of the courts or the law of your own country of residence remain unaffected.
23. General
These Terms, together with the in-app consent, the Privacy Policy, and the applicable Task instructions, are the entire agreement between us about the program, and replace any earlier understanding about it. No amendment or waiver is effective unless we make it in writing; a delay in enforcing a right is not a waiver of it. We may assign these Terms in connection with a transfer of our business; you may not assign yours without our written agreement. If a provision is found unenforceable, it is narrowed to the extent needed or severed, and the rest remains in force. Headings are for convenience only, and these Terms will not be read against us merely because we drafted them.
24. Contact
Questions about these Terms, your account, a submission, or a deletion request:
MnM Labs
joe@mnm-labs.com
25. Electronic acceptance
By checking the acceptance box in the app, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms electronically. Our record of that acceptance — the version presented, the timestamp, and your account identifier — may be used to evidence it. The same applies to each version of the in-app consent you accept.