Terms of Use

Last updated: 16 October 2026  ·  Effective: 24 October 2026 (signing in with Google: 12 October 2026)

1. Agreement to these terms

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and Miss Tech ("Westie", "we", "us") governing your use of the Westie mobile app, the westie.fyi website, and related services (together, the "Service"). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use the Service.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use Westie (16 if you're in the UK or EEA, or older where your country requires it). If you're under the age of majority where you live, you may only use Westie with the involvement of a parent or guardian, and you need their permission to buy a subscription. By using the Service you confirm you meet these requirements and that you're not barred from using it under applicable law.

3. Your account

You need an account to use Westie. You agree to provide accurate information, to keep your login credentials secure, and to be responsible for everything that happens under your account. Your handle is how other users know you; you can change it in Settings. You can create an account with an email address and password, or by signing in with Google. If you sign in with Google using an email address that already has a verified Westie account, you are signed in to that account. If you don't choose a handle, we assign one (for example "shopper-48213"). An account whose email address was never verified may be removed if the owner of that address later signs in with Google. Tell us promptly at jmfrankl@gmail.com if you believe your account has been compromised. You may close your account at any time — see Deleting your account.

4. What Westie provides

Westie lets you search and browse grocery items by name and category, compare prices at stores near you, and contribute prices yourself by photographing shelf tags, products and receipts, scanning barcodes or typing prices in. Photos you submit are analysed automatically to extract prices and product details, and new items are suggested a category automatically; you review both before anything is saved. You can also add a photo to any product, or to a price you logged, so others can see what it looks like.

You can also keep lists and saved searches, save a list's priced results to look at later, choose alternatives for items a store doesn't have, follow other shoppers and share prices, and earn and spend diamonds to see prices — or subscribe to Westie Premium to see every price without spending them. We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the Service at any time.

City waitlists. Westie is available in a limited number of areas. Outside them you can join your metro's waitlist. The published signup number is how we rank cities; reaching it does not guarantee that Westie will launch there or by any date.

5. Where prices come from — no guarantee of accuracy

This is the most important thing to understand about Westie. Prices, product details, sizes, units and store associations in the Service come from:

• users like you — including prices read from photographs using automated analysis that can make mistakes;
• retailers' publicly available online listings, which reflect the retailer's website and may differ from the shelf, and may be shown for every store in a region that the listing covers; and
• product databases such as Open Food Facts.

Consequently:

• Prices may be inaccurate, incomplete, misread or out of date.
• A price may have changed, expired or been a temporary promotion since it was recorded. A sale price taken from a retailer's listing doesn't say when the sale ends, so it can remain shown after the sale is over, until the listing is read again.
• Prices may vary between locations of the same retailer, and may not include taxes, deposits, fees, loyalty discounts or membership pricing.
• A product shown at a store may not be stocked there, or may differ in size or variety.

Westie is provided for informational purposes only. It is not an offer to sell, and it does not create any obligation on any retailer to honour a price shown. Always verify the price in the store before making a purchasing decision. We are not responsible for any loss arising from your reliance on information in the Service.

6. Diamonds

Diamonds (💎) are how Westie Free works. You receive a starting balance when you verify your email address, and you earn more by logging prices — the number earned for a price varies, sometimes with a larger bonus. You spend diamonds to see prices: in search results, in another user's price log, and on your lists — Find prices (the lowest price for each saved search) and One-Store Cart (the cheapest single store for the whole list). The amounts are shown in the app, and we may change how many diamonds anything earns or costs.

On a list, the cost is shown before anything is charged, and nothing is charged until you confirm. Every run you confirm is charged again, including for saved searches that find no price; a run that fails costs nothing.

• Diamonds have no monetary value. They can't be bought, sold, transferred, exchanged for money or anything else, or redeemed outside the Service, and they're not your property — they're a limited, revocable licence to use a feature of the Service.
• Earning diamonds involves no purchase and there's nothing of monetary value to win; varying rewards are just how logging is rewarded.
• We may correct a balance that's wrong, and remove diamonds earned through a breach of these Terms (for example, by logging prices you didn't observe).
• Diamonds end when your account is closed, for any reason.

7. Westie Premium

Westie Premium is an optional subscription that shows every price without spending diamonds. It's sold through Google Play, which takes payment; the price is shown before you buy.

• Auto-renewal. Your subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period, at the then-current price, until you cancel.
• Cancelling. Cancel at any time in your Google Play subscriptions (Settings → Plan → Cancel plan in Westie takes you there). You keep Premium until the end of the period you've paid for.
• Deleting your account doesn't cancel your subscription. Cancel it in Google Play first, or Google will keep billing you.
• Refunds are handled under Google Play's refund policy. If something's gone wrong, contact us and we'll help.
• Price changes are notified through Google Play, as its rules require, before they apply to you.
• We may change what Premium and Westie Free include. If we materially reduce what Premium includes, we'll tell you in advance.

8. Store names and trademarks

Westie displays the names and locations of grocery retailers so you know where a price was recorded. Westie is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or in any way officially connected to any retailer, store or brand named in the Service.

All product names, brand names, store names, logos and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. They're used in the Service only to identify the retailer or product a price relates to — nominative use for the purpose of accurate description. Their use does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by their owners. If you own a mark and have concerns about how it appears in the Service, contact us and we'll respond promptly.

9. Product data from Open Food Facts

Some product information in Westie — such as product names, brands and sizes found by barcode — comes from Open Food Facts, a free and open database of food products built by volunteers. That information is © Open Food Facts contributors and is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0, with its individual contents under the Database Contents License (DbCL) v1.0.

• Attribution. We credit Open Food Facts wherever the app shows its data — look for the "?" beside it, which explains where the data came from and its licence.
• Share-alike. The ODbL requires that a database derived from Open Food Facts data which is shared publicly is offered under the ODbL too. If Westie publicly shares such a database, we'll make it available on those terms.
• Your rights to it. Nothing in these Terms — including the restrictions in Acceptable use — limits any right you have to Open Food Facts data under its licence. Those restrictions apply to the Service, not to the open data itself, which you can get directly from Open Food Facts.

10. Your content

"Your Content" means anything you submit to the Service — photographs, prices, product details, corrections to items, category choices, lists, saved searches and saved results, alternatives you choose, reports, your handle, and any other material. You keep ownership of Your Content.

By submitting Your Content, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt, publish, display and distribute it in connection with operating, improving and promoting the Service. This licence lasts as long as the content is in the Service and continues for price records and item corrections that remain in the shared catalogue after your account closes (in a form no longer associated with you, as described in our Privacy Policy).

Items in the shared catalogue can be corrected by any signed-in user — a name, brand or size, for example. A correction you make becomes part of the shared catalogue for everyone, and others can correct it in turn.

Product photos. Any signed-in user can add a photo to any item in the shared catalogue. Everyone who looks at that item can see it — in search results, on the item's page and elsewhere in the app — without your handle, and the newest one is shown as the item's picture until someone adds a newer one. You can remove a product photo you added at any time, and they're deleted with your account. We give no diamonds for product photos.

Alternatives. When you choose something to buy instead of an item a store doesn't have ("Shop for Alternatives"), other users whose saved search is the same can see what was chosen and how many people chose it — never who. Please choose only what you'd really buy instead. Your choices are deleted with your account.

You represent and warrant that:

• You have the right to submit Your Content and to grant this licence.
• Your Content doesn't infringe anyone's intellectual property, privacy or other rights.
• Photographs you submit are of shelf tags, products, receipts or similar retail subjects — not of people, and not of anything confidential.
• A photo you add to an item shows that product — not a different product, an advertisement, or anything else.
• The prices and details you submit are, to the best of your knowledge, accurate and observed by you.

11. Following, sharing and finding others

You decide who sees what you log:

• When you let someone follow you, they can see the prices you log and your Interest List, including its saved searches. You can remove a follower at any time.
• A price you share can be seen by whoever you share it with.
• When you ask to follow someone, we email them your request, with your handle.
• A new account follows Westie's own account, @westie, so you see its starter shopping list. Following it shows you its Interest List and nothing else, and shows us nothing about you that we don't already have. You can unfollow it at any time.
• Let people nearby find me (Settings → Privacy) is on unless you turn it off. While it's on, other users using "Find others nearby" can see your handle and how far — to about 50 feet — the nearest store where you've logged prices is from a location they choose. That can suggest where you shop, so if you're not comfortable with that, turn it off; you're removed from those results straight away.

Our Privacy Policy describes exactly what's visible to others.

12. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Submit prices you haven't actually observed, or deliberately false, misleading or manipulated pricing information.
• Create multiple accounts, submit false prices or otherwise game the Service to earn diamonds or rewards, or get around diamonds or Premium (for example by sharing access or automating it).
• Use following, sharing or "Find others nearby" to track, stalk, harass or intimidate anyone, or to work out where someone is or shops without their consent.
• Republish another user's price log, Interest List or other content outside the Service without their permission.
• Upload content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, harassing, hateful, obscene, sexually explicit, or that depicts or targets any person without their consent.
• Upload photographs containing other people's personal information, payment card details or similar sensitive data.
• Impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or organisation.
• Scrape, harvest, bulk-download or systematically extract data from the Service, or use automated means to access it, without our written permission.
• Interfere with, overload, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service or its infrastructure.
• Reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the app, except where that restriction is prohibited by law.
• Use the Service to build a competing product or dataset, or resell or commercially redistribute its data.
• Use the Service in violation of any applicable law or these Terms.

13. Reporting content

If you see content in Westie that's inaccurate, offensive, infringing or otherwise breaches these Terms, report it with Report in the app — on an item in search results, on a price, on a photo, or on a user in Followers — or email jmfrankl@gmail.com with enough detail for us to find it. We review reports and may remove content or suspend accounts at our discretion. We aim to respond to reports promptly. Reported content isn't removed automatically — except a reported photo, which is hidden straight away until we've reviewed it, and then restored or deleted. The person you report isn't told who reported them.

14. Copyright complaints

If you believe material in the Service infringes your copyright, send a notice to jmfrankl@gmail.com (Attn: DMCA Agent, Miss Tech, 510 Sherwood Forest Pl, Cary, NC 27519-6353, USA) including: your contact details; identification of the copyrighted work; identification of the material you say is infringing and where it appears; a statement that you have a good faith belief the use isn't authorised; a statement that the information is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you're authorised to act; and your physical or electronic signature. We respond to valid notices and may terminate repeat infringers' accounts.

15. Our intellectual property

The Service — including the app, the website, our name, logo, design and the software behind it — is owned by Miss Tech and protected by intellectual property laws. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app for your own non-commercial use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted. Third-party data in the Service, such as Open Food Facts data, remains under its own licence.

16. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and how we handle it, and forms part of these Terms. Note in particular that prices you contribute are visible to other users, and that the people you allow to follow you can see your price log and Interest List.

17. Suspension and termination

You may stop using Westie and delete your account at any time — remember to cancel any Premium subscription in Google Play first (see Westie Premium). We may suspend or terminate your access — with notice where reasonable, and immediately where necessary — if you breach these Terms, if we're required to by law, or if continuing would create risk or liability for us or other users. When an account is closed, its diamonds end. If we close your account other than for a breach of these Terms, we'll refund the unused part of any Premium period you've paid for. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including sections 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 15, 18, 19, 20 and 21) do survive.

18. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, and any warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, completeness or timeliness of pricing or product information.

We don't warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, or that defects will be corrected. Some jurisdictions don't allow certain disclaimers, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

19. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Miss Tech and its owners, officers and contractors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or for any amounts you spent or failed to save, arising out of or relating to your use of — or inability to use — the Service, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, even if we've been advised of the possibility.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us (including for Westie Premium) in the twelve months before the claim, or US $50.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence or for fraud. Some jurisdictions don't allow these limitations, so they may not fully apply to you.

20. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Miss Tech and its owners, officers and contractors from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of Your Content, your use of the Service, or your breach of these Terms or of any law or third-party right.

21. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. You and we agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Wake County, North Carolina, and waive any objection to venue there.

If you're a consumer resident in a jurisdiction whose law grants you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts or to the protection of mandatory local consumer law, nothing here removes that right.

We encourage you to contact us first — most disputes can be resolved informally, and we'll try to do so in good faith.

22. App stores and payments

You obtained the Westie app through an app store, and your use is also subject to that store's terms.

Google Play. Google is not a party to these Terms and has no responsibility for the app or its content, and no obligation to provide support or maintenance for it. Purchases in the app, such as Westie Premium, are made through Google Play Billing and are also governed by Google Play's terms; Google processes the payment, and we don't receive your payment card details.

Apple. If you obtained the app from the Apple App Store: these Terms are between you and Miss Tech only, not Apple. Apple has no obligation to provide support or maintenance. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price (if any); to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim relating to the app, including product liability, legal or regulatory non-compliance, or intellectual-property claims. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may enforce them against you.

23. Changes to these terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We'll change the "Last updated" date above, and for material changes we'll give reasonable notice in the app or by email before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the updated Terms. If you don't agree, stop using the Service and delete your account.

24. General

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Service. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect and the unenforceable part is limited to the minimum extent necessary. Our failure to enforce a provision isn't a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, agency or employment relationship.

25. Contact us