Terms of Service

Welcome to Halfy. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and Halfy (“Halfy”, “we”, “us”) governing your use of our mobile applications, this website, and any related services (together, the “Service”). By downloading, installing or using Halfy you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, don’t use the Service.

Our Privacy Policy forms part of these Terms and explains how we handle your information.

1. What Halfy does

Halfy is a deal-discovery app that surfaces publicly advertised half-price and other promotional specials from Australian grocery and pharmacy retailers — including Coles, Woolworths, Chemist Warehouse and Harris Farm — and lets you set up personalised notifications for the products you care about. Halfy collects this deal information by aggregating publicly available data from each retailer’s own public-facing catalogues, specials pages and product listings. We do not receive any data feed, API access, commercial arrangement or other cooperation from any retailer.

2. Independence from retailers — no affiliation of any kind

Halfy is a wholly independent, third-party service. We are not associated with Coles, Woolworths, Chemist Warehouse, Harris Farm or any other retailer whose data appears in the app in any way. Specifically, Halfy is not:

• affiliated with, owned by, controlled by, or a subsidiary of any retailer;
• sponsored by, endorsed by, partnered with, licensed by, or authorised by any retailer;
• an agent, representative, reseller or distributor of any retailer;
• approved, reviewed or otherwise sanctioned by any retailer; or
• a source of official pricing, stock, promotional or product information for any retailer.

Any reference in the app or on this website to Coles, Coles Group Limited, Woolworths, Woolworths Group Limited, Chemist Warehouse, My Chemist/Chemist Warehouse Group, Harris Farm Markets, or any other retailer, and any use of their names, logos, trade marks, store layouts, product photography or similar, is made solely to identify the retailer that is offering a publicly advertised deal — i.e. for descriptive and nominative-identification purposes only. All such names, logos and trade marks remain the property of their respective owners. Nothing in the Service should be read as suggesting a commercial relationship, endorsement or partnership that does not exist.

If you are a rights-holder and believe Halfy has displayed your content in a way you’d like us to change or remove, please contact us at halfy@deucks.com and we will respond promptly.

3. Eligibility

• You must be at least 13 years old to use Halfy. If you’re between 13 and 18, you confirm that a parent or guardian has reviewed and accepted these Terms on your behalf.
• You must have the legal capacity to enter into this agreement in the place where you live.
• The Service is designed and tested for Australia. Using it outside Australia is at your own risk and some features (such as localised deals) may not work as expected.

4. Your account

Using Halfy requires an account. You create one by signing in with Sign in with Apple or Google Sign-In the first time you open the app. By using Halfy you agree that:

• You’re responsible for maintaining the security of the Apple ID or Google account you use to sign in, and for activity under your Halfy account.
• You must provide accurate information during onboarding. Lying about your household to game personalised alerts is on you, not us.
• One person, one account — don’t share your sign-in with others or use someone else’s.
• You can delete your account at any time from inside the app. Deletion is handled as described in the Privacy Policy.

5. Subscriptions (Halfy Plus)

• Pricing. Halfy Plus is AUD $9.99 per month or AUD $49.99 per year. Prices include GST where applicable and may change from time to time in line with the Price changes clause below.
• Billing. Halfy Plus subscriptions are sold through the Apple App Store or Google Play and billed by them under their own terms. Halfy never sees your payment card details.
• Auto-renewal. Subscriptions auto-renew at the end of each billing period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends.
• Cancelling. You can cancel any time from your platform’s subscription settings (Apple ID → Subscriptions, or Google Play → Subscriptions). Cancelling stops future renewals — it does not refund the current period.
• Free trials. If we offer a free trial, you must cancel before the trial ends to avoid being charged.
• Refunds. Refund requests are handled by Apple or Google under their refund policies. We can help you open a request but we can’t issue platform refunds ourselves.
• Price changes. If the price of Halfy Plus changes, we’ll notify you in advance. If you don’t accept the new price, you can cancel before it takes effect.
• Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot be excluded, restricted or modified by agreement.

6. Ads in the free tier

The free tier of Halfy is supported by advertising served through the Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) network. On iOS we ask your permission through App Tracking Transparency before enabling personalised ads; if you say no, you’ll still see ads, but they won’t be personalised. Halfy Plus subscribers do not see ads.

7. Deal data — accuracy, not guarantees

We take reasonable care to keep Halfy’s deal information accurate, but we can’t guarantee it. Prices, promotions, availability, eligibility and participating stores are set by each retailer — not by us — and can change without notice. In particular:

• Deals shown in Halfy may sell out, be withdrawn, or be corrected by the retailer at any time.
• Some promotions are limited to particular stores, regions or customer groups (e.g. rewards members). Check the retailer’s conditions.
• The final price you pay is always the price that rings up at the till. You are responsible for checking the in-store label before you buy.
• We may remove or correct deal listings that we believe are inaccurate, outdated or in breach of a retailer’s terms.

Halfy is a discovery tool, not a price guarantee, coupon, or voucher.

8. Acceptable use

When you use Halfy, you agree not to:

• Use the Service in any way that breaks the law or infringes someone else’s rights.
• Scrape, crawl, mirror, frame, or otherwise extract data from Halfy except via features we expressly provide.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of the app, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
• Interfere with, disrupt, overload or probe the Service, our servers, or our providers’ infrastructure.
• Create fake or automated accounts, or manipulate reactions, save counts, or other social features.
• Use Halfy to send spam, malware, or harassing content.
• Resell, rebrand or commercially exploit the Service without our written permission.

9. Intellectual property

Halfy and all its content — the software, user interface, brand name, logo, illustrations, text, and selection and arrangement of deal data — are owned by Halfy or our licensors and protected by Australian and international intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use the app on devices you own or control, solely for your personal, non-commercial use and subject to these Terms.

You retain ownership of any content you submit (for example, feedback or saved lists). By submitting feedback, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable licence to use it to improve the Service. You’re responsible for making sure anything you submit is yours to share and doesn’t infringe anyone’s rights.

10. Third-party services

Halfy relies on third-party platforms and services, including Apple’s App Store, Google Play, Firebase, Supabase, RevenueCat, Google Mobile Ads, and Sign in with Apple / Google Sign-In. Your use of those services is also subject to their own terms and privacy policies, and we’re not responsible for their conduct.

Halfy may contain links to third-party retailer websites or apps. We don’t control, endorse, or take responsibility for those external sites or their content.

10.1 Apple-specific terms

If you download Halfy from the Apple App Store, you acknowledge that: (a) these Terms are between you and Halfy, not Apple; (b) Apple has no obligation to provide any support for the app; (c) Apple is a third-party beneficiary of these Terms and may enforce them against you; and (d) you will comply with the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions and any Usage Rules set out in them.

11. Notifications and communications

When you use Halfy we may send you push notifications (if you’ve opted in) and transactional emails related to your account or subscription. You can turn off push notifications at any time in the app or your device settings. We won’t send you marketing emails unless you’ve asked for them, and you can unsubscribe with one click.

12. Changes to the Service

We’re constantly improving Halfy. We may add, change or remove features at any time. If we make a change that materially reduces the functionality of a paid subscription you already hold, we’ll give you reasonable notice and let you cancel for a pro-rata refund of the remaining period.

13. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to all or part of the Service if we reasonably believe you’ve breached these Terms, if we’re required to by law, or if doing so is necessary to protect the Service or other users. Where practical we’ll tell you first. You can stop using Halfy at any time by uninstalling the app and, if you want, deleting your account from within it.

14. Disclaimers

Except as set out in these Terms and to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. We don’t warrant that Halfy will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free from viruses or other harmful components, or that deal data shown in the app is complete or accurate at any moment in time.

Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or modified by agreement. Where a statutory guarantee applies and can be limited, our liability is limited, at our option, to repairing or replacing the service, or paying the cost of having it repaired or replaced.

15. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Halfy’s total liability to you in connection with the Service, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), statute or otherwise, is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) AUD $100.

Halfy will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, business, savings, data or goodwill, including (without limitation) losses arising from stock-outs, pricing differences at the till, missed deals, delayed or failed notifications, or reliance on deal data shown in the app.

16. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold Halfy harmless from any claim, loss, damage, liability or cost (including reasonable legal fees) arising from (a) your misuse of the Service, (b) your breach of these Terms, or (c) your infringement of a third party’s rights.

17. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. You and Halfy submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales and the Commonwealth of Australia. If you’re using Halfy as a consumer, this doesn’t affect any mandatory protections you have under the consumer-protection laws of the country you live in.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If the changes are material we’ll update the “Last updated” date above and give you notice in the app or by email before they take effect. Your continued use of Halfy after the new Terms come into force means you accept them. If you don’t, stop using the Service and delete your account.

19. Entire agreement, severability, assignment

These Terms together with our Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and Halfy regarding the Service and replace any prior agreement. If any part of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, that part will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest will stay in effect. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them as part of a sale, merger or reorganisation of our business.

20. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email us at halfy@deucks.com.