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Last updated: 22 May 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Crowdify website, mobile applications, and related services (the "Platform"). By creating an account, accessing, or using the Platform, you agree to be bound by these Terms.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding contract between you and Crowdify Pty Ltd (ABN 47 692 719 305) ("Crowdify", "we", "us", "our"). They govern your use of the Crowdify website, mobile applications, and related services (the "Platform").
By creating an account, accessing, or using the Platform, you agree to these Terms, our Privacy Policy, our Refund Policy, our Acceptable Use Policy, and any other policy referenced or made available through the Platform. If you do not agree, you must not use the Platform.
These Terms incorporate by reference:
Where there is any conflict between these Terms and a specific incorporated policy, the specific policy prevails in respect of the subject matter it covers.
"Account" — a Crowdify user account. "Attendee" — a User who registers for, contributes to, or purchases a ticket to an Event. "Connected Account" — a Stripe Connect Express account held by an Organiser or other recipient of payouts. "Crowdfunded Event" — an Event where ticket purchases are pre-authorised and only charged if the Organiser's funding goal is reached by the funding deadline. "Event" — a real-world or in-person event listed on the Platform by an Organiser. "Free Event" — an Event with no ticket price (RSVP only). "Organiser" — a User who creates, lists, hosts, or operates an Event on the Platform. "Platform" — the Crowdify website, mobile applications, and related services. "Stripe" — Stripe Payments Australia Pty Ltd (ABN 88 600 314 140), holder of Australian Financial Services Licence No. 500105, the regulated payment service provider. "Ticketed Event" — an Event where ticket purchases are charged at the time of purchase, with payout to the Organiser after the event ends. "User", "you" — any person who accesses or uses the Platform, including Attendees and Organisers.
Crowdify is a technology platform that allows Organisers to list Events, accept ticket purchases or contributions, and communicate with Attendees. Crowdify also offers a community feature, a vendor marketplace, and related tools.
Crowdify is not:
Each Event listed on the Platform is created, operated, and delivered solely by the Organiser of that Event. The contract for the Event itself is between the Organiser and the Attendee. Crowdify is not a party to that contract.
To use the Platform you must:
Certain Events may impose additional age, identity, residency, or other eligibility requirements. You are responsible for meeting any such requirements before purchasing a ticket or attending.
Crowdify is intended for users in Australia. The Platform is not directed at, marketed to, or designed for users in the European Union, United Kingdom, or any other jurisdiction. Where individual users from those jurisdictions access the Platform, we will respond to lawful data-rights requests as a courtesy (see Privacy Policy), but the Platform is not held out as compliant with the GDPR, UK GDPR, or any non-Australian regulatory regime.
When you create an Account:
By signing up, you confirm that you have read and agree to these Terms and the Privacy Policy. Where the signup interface displays a separate checkbox for marketing communications, you consent to marketing only if you tick that checkbox.
We may refuse to register, suspend, or terminate an Account at our discretion where we reasonably believe an Account is being misused, holds inaccurate information, or has otherwise breached these Terms.
Crowdify supports three Event types. Each has a different payment flow. The full mechanics, refund pathway, and timing are set out in the Refund Policy and Payout Policy.
Free Events — RSVP only. No card is taken. No charge ever occurs.
Crowdfunded Events — Your card is pre-authorised (a temporary hold is placed) at the time of purchase. The hold is released automatically and no money moves if the Event does not reach its funding goal by the funding deadline. If the goal is reached, your card is charged and the Event proceeds. Pre-authorisation holds typically last up to 7 days under card scheme rules.
Ticketed Events — Your card is charged at the time of purchase. The Organiser receives funds 24 hours after the Event ends, subject to verification checks.
For all paid Events, Crowdify is the merchant of record for the payment transaction. Card statements will display "CROWDIFY" or a Crowdify-prefixed descriptor. Customer support for payment-related issues is handled by Crowdify; Event-delivery issues are the responsibility of the Organiser (see section 11).
Payment processing on the Platform is provided by Stripe Payments Australia Pty Ltd (AFSL 500105). Crowdify does not collect or store full card numbers, CVVs, or bank account details — card data is collected directly by Stripe via Stripe Elements / Stripe Checkout. Stripe is PCI-DSS Level 1 certified.
For paid Events, Crowdify charges a 12% platform fee on the gross ticket revenue, plus Stripe's published processing fee (currently 1.75% + A$0.30 per transaction for domestic Australian cards, higher for international cards). Where required, the GST status of these fees will be disclosed; Crowdify is currently not registered for GST, and the 12% is a flat service fee with no GST component until such registration occurs (this will be updated as the registration status changes).
By making a payment or receiving a payout through the Platform, you also agree to:
Stripe operates under its own privacy policy (https://stripe.com/privacy) and its Combined Financial Services Guide and Product Disclosure Statement (https://stripe.com/au/legal).
Crowdify does not provide, and is not licensed to provide, any financial product, financial service, payment service, or deposit-taking service. Crowdify does not give financial advice.
When you contribute to a Crowdfunded Event, the following occurs:
You may release a pre-authorisation before the deadline by cancelling your contribution through your Account, subject to the Refund Policy.
You agree to use the Platform only for lawful purposes. The Crowdify Acceptable Use Policy sets out the full list of prohibited content and conduct, and is incorporated by reference into these Terms.
In summary, you must not:
A material breach of the Acceptable Use Policy may result in Event removal, Account suspension or termination, withholding or reversal of payouts, and reporting to authorities.
Tickets purchased on the Platform may only be re-listed, transferred, or shared via the Crowdify resale mechanism. The mechanism limits re-listing to the original ticket price; the seller receives a refund of the original ticket price less applicable platform and processing fees once the ticket is successfully transferred.
Tickets sold, transferred, listed, advertised, or shared outside the Platform may be cancelled without refund. This rule protects all Users from scams, duplicate tickets, and breaches of state anti-scalping legislation.
Australian state and territory anti-scalping laws cap ticket resale prices for many events. These include the New South Wales Fair Trading Act 1987 (Pt 4A, ss 58D–58F), the Major Events Act 2009 (Vic), the Major Sports Facilities Act 2001 (Qld), the Major Events Act 2013 (SA), and the Major Events Act 2014 (ACT). Crowdify's "original price only" resale rule is designed to be compliant in every Australian state and territory, regardless of whether an Event is a "declared" or "major" event for the purposes of any of those Acts.
You warrant that you will not list any Crowdify ticket on any third-party resale site, social media marketplace, or other channel above the original ticket price, except where expressly permitted by law and by the Organiser.
If you create, list, host, or operate an Event on the Platform, you are an "Organiser" and the Organiser Agreement applies to you in addition to these Terms.
In summary, Organisers are solely responsible for:
Crowdify is not a co-organiser, partner, agent, or representative of any Organiser.
If you purchase or register for a ticket, you acknowledge that:
The Refund Policy sets out the full refund and cancellation pathway for each Event type. In summary:
Nothing in these Terms or in the Refund Policy excludes, restricts, or modifies any right or remedy that the Australian Consumer Law gives you and that cannot lawfully be excluded. If an Event is cancelled, is materially different from what was advertised, or is not supplied with due care and skill, you may be entitled to a refund, repair, or replacement under the Australian Consumer Law. The Refund Policy sets out the pathway to pursue those rights.
If you believe a charge is wrong, you must contact Crowdify support (hello@crowdify.com.au) before disputing the charge with your bank. Most disputes are resolvable directly with us within a few business days.
Where you initiate a chargeback through your card issuer, Stripe and the card network handle the dispute under their rules. Crowdify will respond to the chargeback on its own behalf and on behalf of the Organiser where applicable, may recover the disputed amount plus a chargeback fee from the Organiser, and may withhold funds pending the outcome.
A chargeback that is later determined to be invalid (for example, where the Event was delivered as described and the dispute was an attempt to obtain a free service) may result in Account suspension.
Crowdify provides a community feature that allows Users to create groups, post, comment, message, and (where the community admin has enabled it) charge a one-time or recurring membership fee.
Where you join a paid community:
Direct messages and community posts are User-generated content. Crowdify does not pre-screen community posts or direct messages but may remove them on report under the moderation procedure set out in section 17.
Crowdify operates a vendor marketplace where service providers ("Vendors") may list services that Organisers may book. Vendor-specific terms are being developed and will be published as a separate Vendor Agreement before bookings are operated at scale. Until those terms are published, Vendors and Organisers using the vendor marketplace do so on an informal-introduction basis only, with payment, contract terms, cancellation rights, and dispute resolution between them governed by their own direct agreement and by general law (including the Australian Consumer Law).
The Platform contains User-generated content (Event listings, community posts, comments, direct messages, profile content, and similar). Crowdify operates a reactive moderation model:
Crowdify will:
Crowdify is not a publisher of User-generated content and does not endorse, verify, or guarantee the truth, accuracy, or lawfulness of any User-generated content.
Crowdify and its licensors own all rights, title, and interest in the Platform, including its software, branding, trade marks, designs, and content created by Crowdify. Nothing in these Terms transfers any of those rights to you.
You retain ownership of any content you submit to the Platform (including Event listings, community posts, photos, and descriptions). By submitting content, you grant Crowdify a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicensable, transferable licence to use, host, copy, store, transmit, display, perform, publish, adapt, and distribute that content for the purposes of operating, promoting, and improving the Platform. This licence survives termination of your Account to the extent necessary to operate, archive, or comply with legal obligations.
You warrant that any content you submit does not infringe any third party's intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights, and is not otherwise unlawful.
If you believe content on the Platform infringes your intellectual property rights, send a notice to legal@crowdify.com.au with:
Crowdify will acknowledge IP notices within 24 hours of receipt where reasonably possible, and will investigate and act within a reasonable time. Crowdify may forward your notice to the Account that posted the material. Repeat infringers will have their Accounts terminated.
This procedure operates as Crowdify's safe-harbour notification process under s 116AH of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) and as a courtesy DMCA-equivalent procedure for notices originating from the United States.
The Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), "ACL") gives consumers a set of non-excludable guarantees, including that services must be supplied with due care and skill, be fit for any disclosed purpose, and be supplied within a reasonable time.
Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts, or modifies any consumer guarantee, right, or remedy under the ACL or any other law that cannot lawfully be excluded.
To the extent permitted by section 64A of the ACL (services not ordinarily acquired for personal, domestic, or household use), Crowdify's liability for breach of an ACL consumer guarantee in respect of its platform services is, at Crowdify's option, limited to:
This limitation does not apply where it would be unconscionable to rely on it, where the services are ordinarily acquired for personal, domestic, or household use, or where the law otherwise prohibits the limitation.
Subject to the consumer guarantees in section 20 and any other non-excludable rights, the Platform is provided "as is" and "as available". To the maximum extent permitted by law, Crowdify does not warrant that:
Crowdify holds public liability insurance for its own operations but does not insure any Event, any Organiser, any Attendee, any Vendor, or any community against any loss arising from Event delivery, Organiser conduct, or User-generated content.
Subject to section 20 (Australian Consumer Law) and any other non-excludable right:
(a) Crowdify is not liable for any loss arising from:
(b) Crowdify's aggregate liability to any Attendee in respect of any Event-related claim is limited to the amount that Attendee paid through the Platform for the affected ticket or contribution.
(c) Crowdify's aggregate liability to any Organiser in respect of any claim is limited to the platform fees Crowdify earned from that Organiser's Events in the twelve months immediately preceding the claim.
(d) Crowdify is not liable for any indirect, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of business, loss of opportunity, loss of data, or loss of goodwill, even if Crowdify has been advised of the possibility of such loss.
(e) Each Organiser indemnifies Crowdify against any claim, loss, expense, or damage (including legal costs on a full-indemnity basis) arising from or in connection with that Organiser's Event, that Organiser's content, or that Organiser's breach of these Terms.
You may terminate your Account at any time through your Account settings or by emailing hello@crowdify.com.au. Where you have outstanding obligations as an Organiser (including delivery of an upcoming Event, refund obligations, or chargeback exposure), termination may be deferred until those obligations are resolved.
Crowdify may suspend or terminate your Account at any time, with or without notice, where you:
Termination does not affect any right or obligation that accrued before termination. Sections 14 (Chargebacks), 18 (Intellectual Property), 19 (IP Notices), 20 (ACL), 21 (Disclaimers), 22 (Limitation of Liability), 24 (Indemnity), 25 (Privacy), 26 (Communications), 27 (Disputes), 28 (Governing Law), and 30 (Miscellaneous) survive termination.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Crowdify, its officers, employees, contractors, and agents from and against any claim, loss, expense, or damage (including reasonable legal costs) arising from or connected with:
This indemnity does not apply to loss caused by Crowdify's own negligence, wilful misconduct, or breach of the ACL.
Crowdify collects, uses, and discloses personal information in accordance with the Privacy Policy and the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), including the Australian Privacy Principles.
Where you are an Organiser, you will receive limited Attendee personal information for the purpose of Event management. You must not use that information for any purpose other than running the Event (including no marketing) unless the Attendee has given clear, specific consent to that other purpose. You must comply with the Privacy Act, the Spam Act 2003 (Cth), and all other applicable privacy and electronic-communications laws in respect of any contact you have with Attendees.
For full details — including the data we collect, the subprocessors we use, your rights, retention periods, and how to make a privacy complaint — see the Privacy Policy.
By creating an Account, you consent to receive:
We will only send you marketing communications (such as event recommendations, newsletters, or promotional offers) if you have opted in to marketing during signup or in your Account settings. You may withdraw marketing consent at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any marketing message or by updating your communication preferences in your Account.
We comply with the Spam Act 2003 (Cth): every marketing message identifies Crowdify as the sender, includes a working unsubscribe link, and is sent only with consent.
If you have a dispute with Crowdify, you agree to follow this process:
This clause does not limit:
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Victoria, Australia. The parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria and the federal courts of Australia for any dispute that proceeds to litigation.
Section 67 of the Australian Consumer Law ensures that the ACL applies regardless of the choice of governing law where the supply has the relevant Australian connection.
Where you use the Crowdify iOS application:
(a) These Terms are between you and Crowdify, not between you and Apple Inc. or any Apple subsidiary ("Apple"). Crowdify, not Apple, is solely responsible for the iOS application and its content.
(b) Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support in relation to the iOS application.
(c) If the iOS application fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price of the application (if any) to you. Apple has no other warranty obligation in respect of the iOS application; any further claim is the responsibility of Crowdify.
(d) Crowdify, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claim by you or any third party relating to the iOS application or your use of it, including product liability claims, claims that the application fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement, and claims under consumer-protection or similar legislation.
(e) Crowdify, not Apple, is responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement, and discharge of any intellectual-property claim concerning the iOS application.
(f) You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country and (ii) you are not listed on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
(g) You acknowledge and agree that Apple and Apple's subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and that, upon your acceptance, Apple has the right (and is deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary.
(h) Tickets, contributions to Crowdfunded Events, vendor bookings, and other purchases made through the iOS application are for goods and services delivered outside the app (in-person Events and related real-world experiences). They are not in-app purchases subject to Apple's In-App Purchase requirement.
Where you use the Crowdify Android application available through Google Play:
Crowdify is not liable for any delay or failure to perform any obligation under these Terms to the extent the delay or failure is caused by an event beyond Crowdify's reasonable control, including (without limitation) a fire, flood, earthquake, severe weather, pandemic, public-health order, war, civil unrest, strike, internet or hosting-provider outage, payment-network outage, government act, or court order.
Crowdify may update these Terms from time to time. Where the change is material — including any change to fees, refund rules, dispute resolution, or limitation of liability — Crowdify will:
Material changes do not affect Events that have already been listed and started accepting purchases under the previous version of these Terms — those Events complete under the version in effect at the time of listing.
Continuing to use the Platform after the change takes effect is acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to a change, you may terminate your Account before the change takes effect.
Minor non-material changes (typos, clarifications, link updates) may be made without notice; the "Last Updated" date at the top of these Terms will be revised.
Entire agreement. These Terms (together with the incorporated policies) are the entire agreement between you and Crowdify in relation to the Platform and supersede any prior agreement, representation, or understanding.
Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held by a court to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, the remainder continues in full force.
No waiver. A failure or delay by Crowdify in exercising any right does not waive that right.
Assignment. You may not assign your Account or any right under these Terms without our prior written consent. Crowdify may assign, novate, or transfer its rights and obligations under these Terms to an affiliate or to a successor in connection with a sale of business, merger, acquisition, or restructure, on notice to you.
No agency. Nothing in these Terms creates an employer-employee, agency, partnership, joint-venture, or franchise relationship between you and Crowdify.
Notices. Crowdify may give notice to you by email to the address linked to your Account or by an in-Platform message. You may give notice to Crowdify at legal@crowdify.com.au.
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