Terms of Service

Welcome. These are the rules for using BayCast. Read them. By using BayCast you agree to them. If you don't agree, don't use BayCast.

We've written these in plain English on purpose. No tricks.

1. What BayCast is, in one sentence

BayCast is a fishing trip planning toolkit you use at home before you go fishing. That's it.

2. What you're paying for (the tools, not the maps)

When you buy a BayCast Pro subscription, you are paying for access to BayCast's software tools. That includes:

• The pin-drop and GPS-coordinate-display tools
• Mark management (saving, naming, organising your marks)
• Bite forecast scoring
• Range and fuel-cost calculator
• The 3-point measure tool
• Plan-trip and photo catch log tools
• The verified report feed tools
• Squid-spots community pin tools
• Ongoing development, hosting, and updates of the BayCast software

You are not buying maps, charts, satellite imagery, bathymetry data, or any other underlying geographic data. The map data shown inside BayCast is sourced from publicly available datasets — including AusSeabed (Geoscience Australia), the Copernicus Sentinel programme, and OpenStreetMap — which are free and available to anyone who looks for them. We don't sell that data. We don't own that data. We render it inside our viewing tools so you can use our tools on top of it.

If a data source changes its terms, becomes unavailable, or is replaced, your subscription continues — because your subscription is for the tools, not for any specific data source.

3. BayCast is NOT a navigation app. NOT EVEN CLOSE.

BayCast is not a navigation app. BayCast must never be used to navigate a vessel, plot a course at sea, avoid hazards, or make any decision that affects safety on the water.

BayCast is for planning your fishing trip from home, on dry land, before you leave. You sit at your computer the night before. You look at structure. You drop pins. You save GPS coordinates. You then take those coordinates to a proper marine GPS plotter with approved nautical charts that you trust with your life — because your plotter is the tool you navigate with, not BayCast.

We say this because we mean it, and because the data sources we use say it. Quote from AusSeabed (Geoscience Australia), the source of the bathymetry data BayCast displays:

"The data sets are not suitable for use in marine navigation or in the creation of navigational products or any other purpose involving safety at sea."

That is not BayCast saying that. That is the official Australian government data source saying that. We agree. We pass it on to you in writing.

By using BayCast you accept that:

• You will not use BayCast as a navigation aid, primary or secondary
• You will use approved official paper or electronic nautical charts and a proper marine GPS unit for navigation
• You are solely responsible for the safety of your vessel, your crew, and yourself on the water
• BayCast, Reedy's Rigs Tackle Pty Ltd, and Brett Reed have zero liability for any incident, injury, damage, loss, or death arising out of any use of BayCast on the water or near the water

This isn't us being cute. This is the deal.

4. The verified report feed — what "verified" actually means

The Pro report feed tags each catch as verified. That word means one thing only:

"BayCast checked the photo's metadata and confirmed the photo was taken within 24 hours of being uploaded."

"Verified" does NOT mean BayCast has confirmed:

• Whether the catch was legal
• Whether the species is correctly identified
• Whether the size or weight is accurate
• Whether the location stated by the user is real
• Whether the angler holds a valid recreational fishing licence
• Whether any fishing rules, bag limits, size limits, closed seasons, marine reserves, or other regulations were complied with

Users are 100% responsible for the legality of their own fishing. BayCast does not police or vouch for compliance with any law or regulation. If a user uploads a catch that breaks any rule, that is between the user and the relevant authority.

5. What BayCast does NOT promise

Nothing in BayCast is a promise that you will catch fish, find fish, or have a successful trip. Bite forecasts are an algorithmic score from sun, moon, tide, and barometer data — they are not predictions and they are not guarantees. Marks shared on the feed do not guarantee fish at that location. Range calculations are estimates and rely on user-supplied fuel-cost figures. The whole app is a planning toolkit. Catching the fish is up to you.

6. Your account, your content

When you sign up:

• You give us a real, working email address
• You must be 18 or older to subscribe to BayCast Pro. Free use is permitted from age 16. (We don't knowingly collect data from anyone younger — see our Privacy Policy.)
• You're responsible for keeping your password safe

When you upload content (photos, marks, notes, catch logs):

• You keep ownership of your content
• You grant BayCast a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to display, store, and distribute that content within the BayCast service for the purpose of operating it
• You confirm that the content is yours to upload and doesn't break anyone else's rights
• We can remove any content for any reason, including content we believe is illegal, fake, defamatory, hateful, sexual, or just inappropriate

(See our Privacy Policy for how we store, secure, and delete your content and account data.)

7. Private marks stay private

Your private marks are private. We do not display them to other users, sell them, share them, or use them in marketing. We store them on our servers (currently Supabase) so they sync across your devices. If you delete your account, we delete your marks.

The only marks that are visible to others are marks you have explicitly chosen to share to the community feed or squid-spots layer. If you didn't tap "share," it isn't shared.

8. Subscription, billing, refunds

Pro subscriptions are billed via Stripe. Recurring billing happens automatically. You can cancel any time from the app or by emailing [email protected] — cancellation stops the next renewal but doesn't refund the current period unless Australian Consumer Law requires us to.

Under Australian Consumer Law you have rights that we cannot exclude. If BayCast has a major fault — it's broken, it doesn't do what we said it would do, or it isn't fit for purpose — you may be entitled to a refund or replacement. Contact us first and we'll fix it. We're not in the business of arguing about reasonable refunds.

We will not refund subscriptions because:

• You changed your mind
• Lack of fishing success or particular fish encounters during your subscription
• You found the underlying map data is freely available elsewhere (it is — that's not what you paid for; see Section 2)
• A specific data source changes, is updated, or is replaced (we may swap data sources at any time without notice)

9. We can change these terms

We can update these terms when we need to. For material changes that affect paid Pro subscribers, we will give you at least 30 days' notice in-app and by email before the change takes effect. You may cancel your subscription before the change applies. Continuing to use BayCast after a change takes effect means you accept the new version.

Non-material changes (typo fixes, clarifications, or changes that improve your rights) take effect immediately.

10. We can ban you

If you misuse BayCast — uploading fake catches, attempting to break the system, harassing other users, spamming the feed, scraping our data, attempting to copy our software — we can suspend or terminate your account without notice or refund. (Account deletion procedures and your remaining data rights are described in the Privacy Policy.)

11. Limitation of liability — read this

To the maximum extent allowed by Australian law:

• BayCast is provided "as is" and "as available"
• We make no warranties beyond those required by law
• We are not liable for any indirect, consequential, or special damages
• Our total liability to you for any claim is capped at the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim (which for free users is $0)
• We have absolutely no liability for navigation, safety, vessel damage, injury, or death

If a court decides any part of this section is unenforceable, the rest of it stands. Nothing in these Terms excludes any non-excludable consumer guarantee under the Australian Consumer Law.

12. Intellectual property

The BayCast brand, logo, code, design, and the rendering style of REEDY PRO HD 3D are owned by Reedy's Rigs Tackle Pty Ltd and Brett Reed. The underlying map data (bathymetry, satellite, charts) is owned by the respective data providers and used under their respective licences (see Data Credits). You may not copy, scrape, mirror, reverse engineer, or attempt to commercialise any part of BayCast.

13. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia. Any dispute will be resolved in Victorian courts. You agree not to take BayCast to court anywhere else.

14. Individual disputes only — no class actions

To the maximum extent permitted by Australian law, any dispute you have with BayCast must be brought individually, in your own name, and not as part of a class action, group proceeding, or representative claim. You waive any right to participate in a class action against BayCast where the law allows you to do so. (This clause does not affect any non-excludable rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law or Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).)

15. How to contact us

Reedy's Rigs Tackle Pty Ltd
ABN 86 688 571 913
Victoria, Australia
Email: [email protected]

If you've read this far, thank you. Now go fishing.