Terms of service

1. Who we are

DewBeetle is provided by Bruns Solutions LLC, a limited liability company registered in Wyoming, USA, trading as DewBeetle (“we”, “us”). Our address is 30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA. “You” means the person or farm business that creates an account. If you create an account for a farm business, you confirm you may bind it to these terms.

2. The service

DewBeetle is a web application that puts a farm's costs and sales on a satellite map of the farm, so that the profit of each camp can be seen. It is offered in tiers:

• Starter. Draw your farm and camps on the satellite map. Record your assets: camps, machines, the herd. Enter and allocate costs by hand. See profit per camp. Farms up to 500 ha included.
• Connected. Everything in Starter. Import costs from Xero (read-only) and allocate them. AI-suggested allocations. Farms up to 1,500 ha included.
• Advisor. Everything in Connected. The AI advisor. Farms up to 2,000 ha included.

What each tier includes and costs is on the pricing page, which forms part of these terms. DewBeetle is a tool to help you understand your farm; it is not accounting, tax, legal or agronomic advice, and the figures it shows depend on the data you and your accounting software give it.

3. Your account

You need an account to use DewBeetle. Keep your password to yourself and tell us at once if you think someone else has used your account. You are responsible for what is done under your account, and for the people you invite to your farm. You must be at least 18 years old.

4. Subscriptions and payment

Starter is free and needs no card. Connected and Advisor are paid subscriptions, billed in advance either monthly or annually, in South African rand or US dollars as you choose at checkout. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. Payments are taken by card through Stripe, our payment processor; we never see your card number. Prices exclude VAT; where VAT applies, it is added at checkout and shown on your invoice. An annual subscription is priced at ten months.

5. Price changes

We may change our prices. We will tell you by email at least 30 days before a change takes effect, and the new price applies from your next renewal after that date. If you do not want to pay the new price, cancel before the renewal. Founding pricing (the offer for the first 50 paying farms) is not changed while that subscription stays active; if a founding subscription lapses, the standard price applies on return.

6. Farm size and the large-farm add-on

Each tier includes a farm up to a stated size, measured as the hectares inside the camps you have drawn on the map. A farm above its tier's size pays the large-farm add-on shown on the pricing page. It is one flat amount per period, not an amount per hectare, and it is added to your subscription from the next period after your drawn camps exceed the limit.

7. Cancelling

You can cancel at any time from Settings in the app, or by writing to support@dewbeetle.com. Your plan stays active until the end of the month or year you have paid for, and then does not renew. We do not refund partial periods. Our refund policy has the detail. Nothing here affects rights you have under consumer protection law that cannot be excluded.

8. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use DewBeetle for anything unlawful, or to store data you have no right to store;
• try to get into another farm's account or data, or to get around our security;
• copy, resell or sublicense the service, or scrape it with automated tools;
• interfere with the service, for example by overloading it or introducing malware.

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these rules, after telling you where we reasonably can.

9. Your data is yours

Everything you put into DewBeetle — your map, your camps, your field data, your notes and the accounting data imported on your behalf — belongs to you. You give us only the licence we need to run the service for you: to store it, process it, show it to the people you invite, and back it up. You can export your data from the app at any time, and you can ask us to delete your account and data (see the privacy policy). We do not use your accounting data to train AI models.

10. Your accounting software

DewBeetle connects to Xero with read-only access, which you grant in Xero and can revoke there at any time. We never write to your books. Your use of Xero is governed by Xero's own terms; we are not responsible for Xero or for errors in the data it provides.

11. Availability and changes to the service

We work to keep DewBeetle available, but we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may take it down for maintenance, and we may change or improve features over time. If we withdraw a feature you pay for, we will tell you in advance and you may cancel.

12. Our responsibility to you

To the extent the law allows: DewBeetle is provided as is; we are not liable for loss of profit, loss of data, or indirect or consequential loss; and our total liability to you for anything arising from the service in any twelve-month period is limited to the amount you paid us in that period. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, including under the Consumer Protection Act of South Africa where it applies to you.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change matters to you, we will email the address on your account at least 30 days before it takes effect. The date at the top is the date of the current version. Continuing to use DewBeetle after a change takes effect means you accept it.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Wyoming, USA, and disputes are heard in the courts there, except that nothing in this clause takes away consumer rights you have in the country where you live.

15. Contact

Bruns Solutions LLC, trading as DewBeetle, 30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA. Email support@dewbeetle.com. More on the contact page.