In short
These Terms of Use (“terms”) are an agreement between you and Luke Brehmer, trading as LabtechApps (“LabtechApps”, “we”, “us”, “our”). They cover the SquidSpot Android app (app.squidspot.eging), its forecast server and any related website (together, “SquidSpot” or the “app”). Contact: squidspotapp@gmail.com.
By downloading, installing or using SquidSpot, you agree to these terms and to the SquidSpot Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the app.
Google Play’s own terms also apply to your download and to any purchase. If these terms and Google Play’s terms conflict on a billing question, Google Play’s terms apply to that question.
You must be 18 or older to use SquidSpot. By using it, you confirm that you are 18 or older.
SquidSpot is designed for Australia. Spot information, references to rules and prices are Australian. If you use the app outside Australia, you are responsible for following the laws where you are.
SquidSpot is a planning companion for land-based squid fishing (eging) in Australia. It shows map pins at public piers, jetties, rock walls, boat ramps and similar places, a Squid score estimate, forecast wind and swell, predicted tide times, jig suggestions, a catch log kept on your phone, and a shareable spot card.
Pins are “checked public-report” spots. That means they are based on publicly available catch reports and community information, which we have checked against those reports. We do not visit, inspect, survey or verify spots. A pin is not a statement that a place is safe, open, legal to access or legal to fish, or that squid are there.
SquidSpot is not an official source. It is not run, approved or endorsed by the Bureau of Meteorology, any government or fisheries agency, any port or marine authority, or any land owner or manager.
Nothing in SquidSpot is legal, safety, navigation, marine or other professional advice.
Subject to section 15 (Australian Consumer Law), and to the maximum extent permitted by law, SquidSpot and all information in it are provided “as is” and “as available”.
We do not warrant or promise that SquidSpot, or any spot information, forecast, tide prediction, score, tip or other content, is accurate, current, complete or reliable, or fit for any particular purpose. We also do not promise that the app will always be available, uninterrupted, error-free or secure.
Information can change at any time without notice. Spots can close, be damaged, fenced off, restricted or become unsafe. Rules change. Forecasts change.
Wind and swell are computer-model forecasts from third-party weather providers such as Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), delivered through our forecast server. Tide times are predictions calculated on your phone from tide-gauge constants (TICON-4, CC BY 4.0), and in some places may come from modelled sea levels. Predicted tide times can differ from official tide tables by several minutes or more, especially far from a tide gauge.
The Squid score (also shown as the SquidSpot score), “Squid score tonight” tags, session windows, tide phase, water-clarity estimate and jig suggestions are SquidSpot’s own estimates. They are not official forecasts and not a prediction that you will catch anything.
Do not use SquidSpot for navigation, boating, safety or emergency decisions, to decide whether conditions are safe, or to decide whether fishing in a place or in a particular way is lawful. Always check official sources, including Bureau of Meteorology forecasts and warnings (bom.gov.au), official tide tables, and the fisheries rules for your state or territory.
Catches are never guaranteed.
Fishing and being near water is dangerous. Risks include drowning; being washed off rocks, rock walls or jetties by waves or swell; slippery, unstable or broken surfaces and falls; rising tides cutting off your way back; strong currents; sudden weather changes, lightning, heat and cold; boats and other vessels; stingers and dangerous marine animals; hooks and sharp gear; and poor visibility when fishing at night or in low light. Many of these are obvious risks.
You decide whether, where, when and how to fish, and you do so at your own risk. You are solely responsible for your own safety and for the safety of anyone with you, including children in your care.
Before and during every trip, check official Bureau of Meteorology forecasts and warnings, local conditions and signs, and follow directions from authorities, rangers, port operators and land managers. Do not fish from rocks or exposed structures in dangerous conditions. Wear suitable safety gear (for example a lifejacket and non-slip footwear on rocks), avoid fishing alone in risky places, tell someone your plans, carry a charged phone and a light at night, and leave if conditions turn.
SquidSpot does not monitor conditions at any spot and cannot warn you of hazards. In an emergency, call 000.
You must obey all laws and rules that apply where you fish. These include licence requirements; bag, size and possession limits; gear rules; seasonal and area closures; marine parks, aquatic reserves and protected zones; port and wharf security rules; and council by-laws.
A pin does not mean you are allowed to access a place or fish there. Some places may be on or reached across private property, commercial or port land, or may have restricted, seasonal or time-limited access. You must not trespass, and you must obey signs, fences, gates and directions.
Spots can change, close, or become unsafe or off-limits at any time, and SquidSpot may not show this.
You are responsible for checking the current rules with the relevant fisheries authority and land manager before you fish. Subject to section 15, we are not responsible for any fine, penalty, prosecution, or seizure of gear or catch.
SquidSpot has a free version. Premium is an optional paid subscription that unlocks more features (currently every pin and region, session windows, the full jig adviser and an unlimited catch log). The app shows what each includes before you buy. Features may change over time (see section 10).
Neither the free version nor Premium is a promise of fish, safe conditions or legal access.
Premium is sold only through Google Play Billing and is charged to your Google Play account. In Australia it currently costs A$9.99 per month or A$59.99 per year. Google Play shows the exact price in your currency, including any tax, before you confirm.
Free trial: new subscribers may be offered a 7-day free trial, where Google Play makes one available for the plan you choose and you are eligible under Google Play’s rules (usually one trial per person or account). If you don’t cancel before the trial ends, it automatically becomes a paid subscription and you are charged the price shown when you signed up.
Auto-renewal: your subscription renews automatically at the end of each period (monthly or yearly), and you are charged the current price, until you cancel. To avoid the next charge, cancel before the renewal date.
How to cancel: in the Google Play Store app, tap your profile picture, then Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions, then SquidSpot, then Cancel subscription. You can also use More, then Manage subscription in Google Play, in the app. Uninstalling the app does not cancel your subscription. Cancelling stops future renewals; you keep Premium until the end of the period you have paid for.
Price changes: we may change subscription prices. Google Play will tell you before a new price applies to your subscription, in line with its policies, and where Google Play requires it you will be asked to accept the new price. If you don’t want to pay the new price, you can cancel before it takes effect.
Refunds: payments, refunds and cancellations are handled by Google Play under its policies. You can ask for a refund through Google Play, and you can also email us; where appropriate, we can arrange a refund through Google Play. Except where the law or Google Play’s policies require otherwise, we don’t refund part-used subscription periods. Nothing in these terms limits any refund or other remedy you are entitled to under the Australian Consumer Law, for example if there is a major failure.
Restore purchases: Premium is linked to the Google account that bought it. Use Restore purchases to re-check it, for example on a new device.
The yearly plan costs about 50% less than paying the monthly price for 12 months (A$59.99 versus A$9.99 × 12 = A$119.88). That is a standing price comparison, not a limited-time discount.
We may update, change, suspend or stop SquidSpot or any feature, spot, region or data source, temporarily or permanently, for example for maintenance, legal, safety, licensing or technical reasons. Some updates may be needed to keep using the app.
If we stop offering Premium, or materially reduce its main features, during a period you have already paid for, email us and we will arrange a fair pro-rata refund through Google Play for the unused part of that period. You also keep any remedies you have under the Australian Consumer Law.
You are responsible for your device, its software and your internet connection. Some features need an internet connection, and saved (offline) information may be out of date.
You agree not to:
Your catch log, notes and the pins you drop are stored on your device. We don’t receive them, and they belong to you. You are responsible for keeping your own copies. Subject to section 15, we are not responsible if they are lost, for example when you uninstall the app or change devices.
The share feature creates an image on your device (the spot name, the Squid score estimate, forecast details and data credits) and passes it to the app you choose, such as a messaging or social media app. Sharing is your choice. You are responsible for what you share, where you share it, and any caption or comment you add. The other app’s terms and privacy policy apply.
When you share a card, keep the estimate disclaimer and data credits on it. Don’t edit it to look official, verified or guaranteed, and don’t share spot details in a way that encourages unlawful access or unsafe fishing.
If you send us feedback, suggestions or spot reports, you give us a free, worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual licence to use them to improve SquidSpot, with no obligation to you. Please don’t send anything confidential or anything you don’t have the right to share.
SquidSpot, including its software, design, name and logo, the spot catalogue (and how it is selected and arranged), the scoring method and the app’s text, is owned by or licensed to LabtechApps. Apart from the licence below, these terms don’t give you any rights in it.
We give you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to install and use the app on Android devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial use, in line with these terms and Google Play’s terms.
Third-party content is used under its own licences and belongs to its owners. This includes map data and imagery from Mapbox and its data providers (for example © Mapbox and © OpenStreetMap contributors), as credited on the map; weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0); and tide constants from TICON-4 (CC BY 4.0).
SquidSpot relies on services we don’t control. These include Google Play (downloads, billing and subscriptions), Mapbox (maps and place search), Cloudflare (which hosts our forecast server), Open-Meteo and other third-party weather and data providers, and your device, operating system and network provider.
Your use of those services is subject to their own terms and privacy policies. Subject to section 15 and to the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible or liable for their availability, accuracy, acts, omissions or data handling, or for any outage, error or change on their part.
Subscriptions, payments, refunds and cancellations are processed by Google under Google Play’s terms and policies.
Links to other websites are for convenience only. We don’t endorse them and aren’t responsible for them.
Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law (ACL). Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or changes any right or remedy, or any guarantee, warranty or other term or condition, given or implied by the ACL or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded, restricted or changed (“non-excludable rights”).
Where the law allows us to limit our liability for failing to meet a consumer guarantee, our liability is limited, at our choice, to supplying the services again or paying the cost of having them supplied again.
Every exclusion and limitation in these terms applies only to the extent the law permits.
Subject to section 15, and to the maximum extent permitted by law:
These limits do not apply to any liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law, or to liability for our fraud or wilful misconduct.
Our liability is reduced to the extent that you caused or contributed to the loss, for example by ignoring warnings, signs or conditions, or by breaching these terms or the law.
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify LabtechApps and Luke Brehmer against any claim, loss, damage, liability, cost or expense (including reasonable legal costs) arising from or in connection with:
Your obligation under this section is reduced to the extent the loss was caused or contributed to by our own negligence, breach of these terms or wrongful act.
You can stop using SquidSpot at any time by uninstalling it. If you have a subscription, cancel it in Google Play as well (see section 9).
We may suspend or end your access to SquidSpot or any feature (including access to our forecast server) if you breach these terms, if the law requires it, or to protect SquidSpot, our service providers or other people. Where reasonable, we’ll tell you first. If we end your access to a paid Premium subscription when you haven’t breached these terms, we’ll arrange a pro-rata refund through Google Play for the unused period.
Sections that by their nature should continue after these terms end will continue, including sections 4 to 7 and 12 to 21.
We may update these terms from time to time, for example to reflect changes to the app, our service providers or the law. We will change the “Updated” date and, for material changes, give reasonable notice in the app or on this page before they take effect.
Changes don’t apply to past events, and won’t reduce your rights for a subscription period you have already paid for. If you don’t agree with a change, you can stop using SquidSpot and cancel your subscription. If you keep using SquidSpot after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms.
If you have a problem or complaint, please email us first at squidspotapp@gmail.com with the details. We’ll try to resolve it informally and aim to reply within 30 days. We each agree to try in good faith to resolve a dispute this way for at least 30 days before starting court proceedings, except where urgent court orders are needed.
This doesn’t stop you from contacting the ACCC, your state or territory fair trading or consumer affairs agency, or the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (for privacy matters).
These terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia. You and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Queensland and the courts that hear appeals from them. If you live in another state or territory, you keep any rights under the laws of that place that cannot be excluded.
Entire agreement: these terms, the Privacy Policy and the in-app notices they refer to (such as the Fishing notice) are the whole agreement between you and us about SquidSpot, and replace earlier versions. Google Play’s terms separately govern your relationship with Google.
Severability: if any part of these terms is invalid or unenforceable, it is read down to the extent needed or, if that isn’t possible, removed, and the rest stays in effect.
No waiver: if we don’t enforce a right straight away, we have not given it up. A waiver must be in writing.
Events outside our control: subject to section 15, we are not liable for delay or failure caused by events outside our reasonable control, such as outages of third-party services, network failures or natural disasters.
Assignment: you may not transfer your rights under these terms. We may transfer our rights and obligations to someone who takes over SquidSpot, as long as your rights are not adversely affected.
Notices: you can contact us by email. We may give you notices in the app or on this page.
LabtechApps (Luke Brehmer), Australia. Email: squidspotapp@gmail.com.