Terms of Service

Last updated: 20 August 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Bryce Cox, trading as Deedchest ("we", "us"). By creating an account or using the Deedchest app or deedchest.app, you agree to them. You must be at least 18 and able to enter a contract.

What Deedchest is

Deedchest gives each of your investment properties its own email address and a single place where that property's correspondence, documents, and data live. It's an organisational tool.

It is not advice. Nothing in Deedchest — including yields, valuations, cash-flow figures, or anything derived from your data — is financial, investment, tax, or legal advice. Figures are computed from the information you and your correspondents provide and may be incomplete or out of date. Make investment and tax decisions with a qualified professional.

Your account

Keep your sign-in method secure; you're responsible for activity under your account. Give us accurate information and keep your contact email current — it's how we reach you about your account.

Subscriptions and billing

Deedchest is sold as an auto-renewing subscription in tiers, each with a stated limit of active properties. Billing is handled by the app store you purchased through (currently the Apple App Store), and their terms apply to payment, renewal, and refunds.

• Free trial: new accounts get an introductory free period (currently three months, limited to one active property) which begins when you create your account. It is provided by us, not by the app store, and no payment details are required for it. Nothing is charged when it ends and no subscription begins automatically — access to paid features is simply limited until you choose a plan. Subscribing does not add a further free period: a paid plan begins, and is charged, straight away.
• Cancelling: manage or cancel any time in your app store subscription settings. Cancellation stops future renewals; it doesn't refund the current period.
• Price changes: if prices change, the app store will notify you and, where required, ask you to consent before you're charged the new price.

Property limits and archiving

Each tier has a limit on active properties. Archiving a property frees a slot while keeping its data intact; you can unarchive it into a free slot at any time. If your subscription lapses, your data isn't deleted — but access to paid features is limited until you resubscribe.

Your content

Everything you put into Deedchest, and everything that arrives at your property addresses, remains yours. You give us the limited licence needed to host, process, back up, and display it — to you and the people you invite — so the service can function. We claim no other rights in it.

You're responsible for the legality of the content you store and for having the right to receive the correspondence you direct to your property addresses.

Property email addresses

Your property addresses exist to receive genuine correspondence about your properties. Don't use them to send or relay spam, to receive material that's illegal to possess, or as general-purpose anonymous inboxes. Addresses are tied to your account and may be reclaimed when the associated account is permanently deleted.

Invitations

When you invite someone to a property, you're choosing to show them that property's correspondence, documents, and data. That's your decision and your responsibility. You can remove access at any time.

Acceptable use

Don't attempt to breach, probe, or overload the service; don't access other people's data; don't use Deedchest for anything illegal. We can suspend or terminate accounts that do.

Ending things

By you: delete your account in the app at any time. Export your data first — deletion is permanent and cannot be undone by us or by you.

By us: we may suspend or terminate your account if you materially breach these terms. Except where the breach prevents it, we'll give you a reasonable opportunity to export your data.

Availability and changes

We work hard to keep Deedchest fast and available, but we don't guarantee uninterrupted service, and we may change, add, or retire features. If we ever discontinue the service entirely, we'll give you reasonable notice and time to export your data.

Liability

To the extent permitted by law, we're not liable for indirect or consequential loss, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.

Australian Consumer Law: nothing in these terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any consumer guarantee or right you have under the Australian Consumer Law that cannot lawfully be excluded. Where our liability for breach of such a guarantee can be limited, it is limited (at our option) to resupplying the service or paying the cost of resupply.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and disputes belong to the courts of that state.

Changes to these terms

If we make a material change, we'll notify you in the app or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use Deedchest after that means you accept the updated terms.

Contact

Questions: hello@deedchest.app

Additional terms for apps obtained through the Apple App Store

These terms apply where you obtained Deedchest through the Apple App Store, and prevail over anything inconsistent above in relation to that supply.

• Apple is not a party. This agreement is between you and us only, not with Apple. We, not Apple, are solely responsible for Deedchest and its content.
• Scope of licence. We grant you a non-transferable licence to use Deedchest on any Apple-branded product that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that Deedchest may be accessed by other accounts associated with you via Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
• Maintenance and support. We are solely responsible for providing any maintenance and support for Deedchest. Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance and support services.
• Warranty. We are solely responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied by law, to the extent not effectively disclaimed. If Deedchest fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any) for it; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to Deedchest. Nothing in this section limits your rights under the Australian Consumer Law set out above.
• Product claims. We, not Apple, are responsible for addressing any claims relating to Deedchest or your possession and use of it, including product liability claims, any claim that Deedchest fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.
• Intellectual property. If a third party claims Deedchest infringes their intellectual property rights, we, not Apple, are solely responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of that claim.
• Legal compliance. You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Third-party terms. You must comply with any applicable third-party terms of agreement when using Deedchest.
• Third-party beneficiary. Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this agreement, and upon your acceptance of it Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce it against you as a third-party beneficiary.
• Contact for questions, complaints, or claims. Bryce Cox, trading as Deedchest, New South Wales, Australia — hello@deedchest.app.

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