Working draft — under counsel review. This document is a working draft intended as a starting point for legal review. It is not yet the final published version. The substantive product behaviour reflected here is accurate; the legal framing (especially limitation of liability, governing law, and dispute resolution) will be revised before public launch.
Coffier (formerly Merlin) updated these Terms on 2026-05-11 to reflect the rebrand from merlin.coffee to coffier.co. No substantive terms have changed in this update; the rewrite swaps the product name, domain, and contact addresses only.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Coffier application at coffier.co. By creating an account, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy.
Coffier is operated by [Legal entity to be confirmed] ("Coffier", "we", "us", "our").
1. Your account
You may create an account using an email address and password, or by signing in with Google. You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for all activity under your account. You must be at least 13 years old (or the minimum age in your jurisdiction) to create an account.
You can delete your account at any time from your account settings. Account deletion removes your personal data as described in our Privacy Policy.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms or that compromise the integrity of the service. We will notify you by email if we do so, except in cases where notification would interfere with an investigation or legal obligation.
2. Your data
You retain ownership of the brew logs and cupping data you create on Coffier. By using the service, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide licence to store and process this data solely for the purpose of providing the Coffier service to you (including delivering features such as analytics, search, and history that operate on your data on your behalf).
If you contribute entries to the shared product catalog (for example, by adding a new roaster, coffee, or recipe that does not yet exist in the catalog), those entries become part of the shared catalog and remain available to other users after your account is deleted, with the creator attribution removed. Brew logs and cupping notes that reference catalog entries remain owned by the user who created them.
3. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use automated systems to scrape, harvest, or extract data from Coffier beyond your own account data.
- Attempt to access another user's account, data, or session, or to interfere with the security of the service.
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of the service, except where this restriction is prohibited by applicable law.
- Submit content (in catalog entries, notes, or any free-text field) that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, or designed to disrupt other users' experience.
- Use the service in a way that imposes an unreasonable load on infrastructure, including but not limited to excessive automated requests.
We may remove content that violates these rules and may suspend accounts that repeatedly do so.
4. Free and paid plans
Coffier is currently free to use. We expect to introduce optional paid plans (including a Pro plan for individual users and a Roaster plan for businesses) in the future. When paid plans launch:
- Your existing account, brew logs, cupping data, and catalog contributions will not be retroactively charged for or migrated behind a paywall.
- Pricing, the feature differences between free and paid plans, and the terms of paid plans will be clearly disclosed before you are asked to subscribe.
- The free tier of the consumer brew diary is part of the long-term Coffier offering.
5. Service availability and changes
We work to keep Coffier available and functioning correctly, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted availability or that the service will be free of errors. We may modify, add, or remove features as the product evolves.
6. Intellectual property
The Coffier name, logo, design system, and the underlying software are owned by us. These Terms do not grant you any rights in our intellectual property other than the right to use the service as intended.
7. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms over time. Each version of these Terms carries a date-stamped version identifier (visible at the top of the page). When you registered, we recorded which version you accepted. Material changes will be communicated via email and you will be asked to re-accept the new version on next sign-in.
8. Australian Consumer Law
If you are a "consumer" under the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)) ("ACL"), certain statutory consumer guarantees apply to the service we provide and cannot be excluded, restricted, or modified by these Terms. Nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude, restrict, or modify any right or remedy you have under the ACL or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, where the ACL or any other applicable law permits us to limit our liability for breach of a non-excludable consumer guarantee, our liability is limited (at our option) to:
- supplying the service again, or
- the payment of the cost of having the service supplied again.
9. Disclaimer and limitation of liability
Counsel to review and revise this section before public launch. Standard SaaS disclaimer-of-warranties and limitation-of-liability language is required here, calibrated to the chosen governing law and the ACL carve-out in section 8.
Subject to section 8 (Australian Consumer Law) and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law:
- The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis, without warranties of any kind, express or implied.
- We are not liable for any indirect, consequential, special, or exemplary loss or damage arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the service.
- Our total aggregate liability for all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the service is limited to the amount you have paid us for the service in the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or AUD 100, whichever is greater.
10. Governing law and disputes
Counsel to confirm before public launch: the Australian state for the choice-of-law clause (default suggested: New South Wales) and the dispute-resolution mechanism.
These Terms are governed by the laws of [Australian state to be confirmed — e.g. New South Wales], Australia. Each party submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that state and the courts of appeal from them, except that nothing in this section limits any right you may have to bring proceedings in the state or territory where you reside, or any right granted to you by mandatory consumer protection law.
11. Severability
If any part of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in full force.
12. Contact
For questions about these Terms, contact us at hello@coffier.co. For privacy-specific concerns, see the contact details in our Privacy Policy.