Terms of Service

By using MacrAU you agree to these terms. They're pretty straightforward.

What MacrAU does

MacrAU is a calorie and macro tracking app built for Australia. It gives you a food database, barcode scanner, food logging, and nutritional analysis — all designed around the foods Australians actually eat.

Heads up

Not medical advice

The nutrition info in MacrAU is for general information only. It's not dietary or medical advice. If you have allergies, intolerances, or health conditions, always check with a professional and verify against the actual product label.

Data accuracy

Our food database pulls from government sources, open data, and community submissions. We work hard to keep things accurate, but:

Nutrition data can contain errors or go out of date
Manufacturers change formulations without telling anyone
User-submitted foods go live immediately and get community-verified over time
Portion sizes and serving estimates are approximate

Pricing

Early access

MacrAU is currently free during early access. All features are available at no cost while we refine the app.

What happens after early access?

$0.99 AUD / month

When early access ends, MacrAU will include a 1-month free trial followed by a $0.99 AUD/month subscription billed through the App Store. We'll give you plenty of notice before any paid plan kicks in.

Cancellation

When subscriptions are introduced, you'll be able to cancel any time in your iPhone settings (Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions). Cancellation takes effect at the end of the billing period.

Refunds

Refunds are handled by Apple through their standard refund process.

Your contributions

Food submissions

When you submit a food to the community database, you're giving us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use that nutrition data to make the app better for everyone. All submissions are anonymised.

Play nice

Don't:

Submit fake or misleading nutrition data
Spam the database with junk
Try to access other people's data
Reverse-engineer, decompile, or extract assets from the app
Copy, scrape, or bulk-download the food database (in whole or in substantial part)
Redistribute, sell, or commercially use the database or data extracted from it
Use automated tools to access the app or its data
Attack, probe, or attempt to compromise our servers

We can remove dodgy submissions and suspend accounts that break these rules.

Our stuff

The MacrAU app, brand, and original content belong to us. The food database is built primarily from nutritional information we researched and curated ourselves, but also includes data from:

Australian Food Composition Database (AFCD) — CC BY 4.0, FSANZ
Open Food Facts — Open Database License (ODbL)
Community submissions

The database

The MacrAU food database — including its selection, arrangement, corrections, enrichments, and associated metadata — is our intellectual property as a compiled work, independent of the underlying factual nutrition data. You may not extract, reproduce, or redistribute the database or any substantial portion of it without our written permission.

This does not restrict your rights under the open-data licences listed above (ODbL, CC BY) for data originating from those sources.

The part of our database that comes from Open Food Facts, including the changes we have made to those rows, is available to download under the ODbL: macrau-openfoodfacts.csv.gz (read me). Attribution and share-alike apply to it, as the ODbL requires. That copy stays available whatever protection we put on the copy inside the app.

Availability

We do our best to keep things running, but can't promise 100% uptime. The good news is MacrAU is built offline-first — food logging, search, and barcode scanning all work without internet.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, MacrAU is provided "as is" without warranties. We're not liable for damages from using the app or relying on its nutrition data.

Australian Consumer Law

Nothing in these terms takes away your rights under the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2, Competition and Consumer Act 2010). If it can't be excluded by law, it's not excluded here.

Changes

We might update these terms. If anything significant changes, we'll let you know in the app. Continuing to use MacrAU after a change means you're cool with the new terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Australia. Any disputes go to Australian courts.

Get in touch

Questions about these terms: support@macrau.app