Terms of Service

1 Agreement

These terms are between you and Origae (ABN 21 237 258 402), a business name registered to the sole trader who operates CattleScale from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ("Origae", "we", "us"). Anyone can confirm who holds that ABN on the Australian Business Register (abr.business.gov.au). By using the CattleScale app (iOS or Android) or website (the "Service") you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

The app is licensed to you, not sold. Section 8 says what that licence covers.

Who CattleScale is for. CattleScale is built for adults who run or work in a farming or livestock business. It is not directed at children. You must be 18 or older, or have the permission of a parent or guardian, to make a purchase.

2 What the Service does

You photograph an animal from up to four angles. To give the photographs a scale, print the CattleScale ruler sheet on A4 at 100%, not fit to page, and put it in the photograph, clipped to a rail or held flat against the animal's shoulder, in the same plane as the animal's side. The app reads the sheet. You can also mark a known length on a photo. The Service sends the photographs to an AI provider, which reads them several times. From those readings it produces an estimated live weight with a range, the measurements it inferred, an assessment of type and condition, a list of what limited the reading, and an indicative dollar value based on published market indicators.

The photographs are read by a third-party AI model. We use one provider by default and a second as a backup. Either may change without notice; the Privacy Policy names the current ones.

Part of each assessment is free: the breed, the photo check, the warnings, including any possible health or welfare concern, and how wide the range around the weight is. The price and the notice that this is an estimate, not a weigh scale, are shown before you pay. Your first weighing on an install shows the whole reading once you open it, and that opening is free. After that free weighing is used, the rest of the detail (sex, age, coat, horns, measurements, body condition, frame, muscling, fat depth, structural and health notes, how the figure was reached, and the value) stays hidden until you pay for that animal. One purchase unlocks one animal.

3 No account is required

There is no sign in. You do not create an account, and we hold no profile of you. See the Privacy Policy.

4 The estimate is not a weigh scale

A CattleScale Keepsake, sold in the iOS app only, is that same estimate, drawn on the phone. It is not a legal weight document, it is not a certificate, and it is not for sale or trade by weight. A refund of a keepsake goes through Apple, and that does not take away the rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law.A refund of a purchase made in the Android app goes through Google Play or us, and that does not take away the rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law.A refund of a keepsake goes through Apple, and that does not take away the rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law.

Plainly: the number is a statistical estimate produced by an artificial intelligence model reading photographs. Nothing is measured. The app infers dimensions from pixels, applies a published girth and length formula and breed averages to those inferences, and reports where two independent methods agree. It is an informed guess with its workings shown, and it should be treated as one.

5 Your photographs and scale weights

You keep ownership of your photographs. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive licence to do only what is needed to produce the assessment you asked for: to transmit the photographs to our AI provider, have them read, and return the result. We do not use your photographs to train any model, and the AI providers' developer terms say they do not either. We do not use them for anything else. We do not store them. They are read by an AI provider (Google's Gemini, or OpenAI as a backup) to produce the assessment, and that provider may keep them for a time set by its own terms.

After an assessment you can tell us what the animal actually weighed on a scale. If you do, you grant us a non-exclusive licence to keep that scale weight indefinitely, together with the signed record of what we estimated for that animal, to compare it with our estimate, and to use it with the others to review how our estimates perform. Nothing reads these records back to change an estimate today. If we ever publish results from such a review, they will be totals and averages; no single record is published. The record contains numbers and a one-way hash, never your photographs. Submitting a scale weight is optional.

You must have the right to upload what you upload. If a person appears in a photograph (for example because you used a person as your reference object) you are responsible for having their agreement.

6 Price and payment

Unlocking the weight for one animal is one purchase, and one only. Weighing packs of 10 to 500 weighings, and the optional PDF report, are separate purchases. Each is a consumable: nothing renews, nothing turns into a subscription, and there is nothing to cancel. Prices differ from country to country. The App Store shows the exact price in your local currency before you buy, and that figure governs.Google Play shows the exact price in your local currency before you buy, and that figure governs.The App Store or Google Play shows the exact price in your local currency before you buy, and that figure governs.

A CattleScale Keepsake, sold in the iOS app only, is a separate purchase. One purchase makes one keepsake. It is drawn on the phone from the photograph and the name you choose there, and that photograph and that name never leave the device. The keepsake is not a legal weight document and it is not a certificate. A refund of a keepsake goes through Apple, and that does not take away the rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law.A refund of a purchase made in the Android app goes through Google Play or us, and that does not take away the rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law.A refund of a keepsake goes through Apple, and that does not take away the rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law.

In the iOS app, purchases are made through Apple's In-App Purchase and are subject to Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions. Apple takes the payment; we never see your card details.In the Android app, purchases are made through Google Play and are subject to Google Play's terms. Google Play takes the payment; we never see your card details.In the iOS app, purchases are made through Apple's In-App Purchase and are subject to Apple's Media Services Terms and Conditions. Apple takes the payment; we never see your card details.

An unlock is valid for 90 days from purchase, or for a pack weighing, from when it is spent, and the assessment it unlocks is kept for 30 days from when it was taken. An unlock applied to one animal cannot be moved to another. A purchase you paid for but never used is recovered by the app and applied to your next animal.

Weighing packs never expire: a pack ends only when its weighings are used up or it is refunded. The 90-day limit applies to each unlock, counted from the moment a weighing is spent, not to the pack.

7 Acceptable use

You must not:

• attempt to obtain a paid assessment without paying for it, including by forging, replaying or sharing a purchase token or free weighing;
• upload anything unlawful, offensive or that you do not have the right to upload, or any photograph that is not of a farm animal for assessment;
• use bots, scripts or other automated means to access the app or its API, or to copy material from them, other than through the app itself;
• use the app or its API to train, fine-tune or otherwise develop a machine learning model;
• use the Service's API other than through the app, or build any product or service on top of it, without our written agreement;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decrypt or tamper with the app, its API, its security measures or the paywall, or try to derive its source code, prompts or model instructions, except to the extent the law allows regardless of this clause;
• copy, frame or mirror the app or the website, or present them as your own;
• remove or alter any copyright, trade mark or other notice;
• present output from the Service as a certified weight, a measured weight or one taken off a scale to anybody else.

8 Licence and intellectual property

8.1 Ownership. The Service, including the app, the website, their software (source and object code), design, text, graphics, logos, the printed ruler sheet and the report layout, is owned by Origae (ABN 21 237 258 402) and protected by copyright, trade mark and other laws. © 2026 Origae (ABN 21 237 258 402). All rights reserved.

8.2 Trade marks. CattleScale, Origae and the CattleScale cow head logo are trade marks of Origae. These terms give you no right to use them.

8.3 Licence. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence, which ends if you materially breach these terms or if we withdraw the Service under section 12, to use the app on Apple devices you own or controlon Android devices you own or controlon Apple or Android devices you own or control, for your own farming or livestock business, in line with these terms. The app is licensed, not sold. We keep every right we do not expressly grant.

8.4 Your assessments. The assessments and reports you generate are yours to use in your own business, subject to sections 4 and 7.

8.5 Confidential information. The prompts, model instructions, calibration constants and source code behind the Service are our confidential information.

8.6 Suggestions. If you send us suggestions, we may use them without obligation to you.

8.7 Copyright page. Our Copyright and intellectual property page explains this section in more detail. If it differs from these terms, these terms apply.

9 Australian Consumer Law

Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies those guarantees or any other right you have under that law, and where any part of this document is inconsistent with them, that law prevails.

For major failures with the service, you are entitled to cancel your service contract with us and to a refund for the unused portion, or to compensation for its reduced value. You are also entitled to be compensated for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. If the failure does not amount to a major failure, you are entitled to have problems with the service rectified in a reasonable time and, if this is not done, to cancel your contract and obtain a refund for the unused portion of the contract.

A weight estimate that turns out to differ from what a scale says is not, by itself, a failure of the service. The service is an estimate, section 4 says so, and the guarantee of due care and skill is about how the estimate is produced, not about it matching a scale.

10 Disclaimers and limits

Subject entirely to section 9, the Service is provided "as is". We do not warrant that any estimate is accurate, that the Service will be available or uninterrupted, that the AI providers we rely on will be available, or that market figures are current.

To the extent the law allows, our total liability for a claim arising out of the Service is limited, at our option, to supplying the assessment again or to refunding what you paid for the unlock, pack weighing or report the claim relates to. To the same extent, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost profit on a sale, the difference between an estimated and an actual weight, the cost of a treatment or withholding decision made on an estimate, or loss suffered by anyone you passed an estimate on to.

That limit is a deliberate consequence of what this product is: the price of one purchase cannot carry the risk of a livestock transaction or a treatment decision, which is precisely why section 4 tells you not to make one on it.

11 Your responsibility to us

You agree to reimburse us for any loss, claim or cost we suffer because you broke section 5 or section 7. In practice, that means one of three things: you uploaded a photograph you had no right to upload, somebody in a photograph had not agreed to be in it, or you presented an estimate from this app to another person as a certified or measured weight.

This is narrow on purpose. It covers things only you control and we cannot see. It does not apply to the estimate being wrong, to the app failing, or to anything we did. Those sit with us, and nothing in this section limits your rights under the Australian Consumer Law or makes you responsible for our own negligence.

12 Availability and changes

We make no promise about uptime. The Service depends on third-party AI providers and a market data feed, any of which may be slow, rate-limited or unavailable; when they are, an assessment may fail or be delayed. You are only asked to pay once an assessment has been produced, and an unlock that fails on our side stays with you to retry.

We may change, suspend or withdraw the Service, or any part of it, including the free first weighing. If we withdraw the Service altogether we will make a reasonable effort to say so in advance, and an unlock you have paid for and not used will be refunded through Applethrough Google Playthrough Apple or Google Play or, if that is not possible, by us.

We may update these terms. Each version carries its effective date at the top of this page, and we will send you the previous version if you ask at support@cattlescale.app. A change never applies to an unlock you bought before its effective date. If you do not accept a change, stop using the Service; continuing to use it after the effective date is acceptance.

13 General

Severability. If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable or unfair, that part is severed and the rest continues to apply.

No waiver. If we do not enforce something straight away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You may not transfer your rights under these terms. We may transfer ours if the business is sold, and we will say so on this page if that happens.

Entire agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the Service.

14 Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia, and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria and the federal courts of Australia.

If you have a problem, email us first (section 15) and we will try to sort it out within a reasonable time. Nothing in these terms stops you complaining to Consumer Affairs Victoria, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, or the consumer body where you live.

15 Contact

Origae (ABN 21 237 258 402)
Suite 329, 98-100 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia
support@cattlescale.app