Effective date: 26 June 2026 · Last updated: 4 August 2026
These Terms are the agreement between you and Clippar Pty Ltd (ACN 701 393 277, ABN 69 701 393 277) (“Clippar”, “we”, “us”), an Australian proprietary company based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. They cover the Clippar iOS app and the website at clippargolf.com (together, the “Service”).
By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use the Service.
These Terms cover the app and the website. The physical Mount Kit — the mount, the Bluetooth clicker and the portable charger — is not currently on sale. When it becomes available it will be a separate purchase under its own terms, because goods work differently under the law from a software subscription.
You must be at least 13 years old to use Clippar. You can sign up with an email address and password, with Sign in with Apple, or with Sign in with Google.
Keep your login details to yourself. You're responsible for what happens under your account. Give us accurate details and keep them current. If you think someone else has got into your account, tell us through the contact form straight away.
You can delete your account at any time from Profile → Delete Account in the app. We'll ask you to sign in again first, because deletion is permanent and we'd rather be sure it's you.
Clippar records your golf shots, works out where the swing is in each clip, trims the clip down to it, and stitches the good bits into a highlight reel with music.
All of that happens on your iPhone. The swing detection, the trimming and the reel assembly run in the app itself, using your phone's own processing. Your footage is not sent to us or to anyone else to be edited. If you turn on cloud backup (a Clippar Pro feature, off unless you switch it on), copies of your clips are stored in our cloud storage so they survive reinstalling the app — but the editing still happens on your phone.
Some features need permissions you grant on your phone: the camera and microphone to record, location while you're recording a round to match shots to holes, and Bluetooth if you use a clicker. You can refuse or withdraw any of these in your iPhone settings. The app still works without the microphone or location — it just does less.
The automatic detection is good, not perfect. It will sometimes miss a swing, trim in the wrong place, or pick up a practice swing. You can always adjust a trim by hand in the editor. We add, change and remove features over time.
The videos you record are yours. You own them and you keep owning them.
So that the Service can work, you give us permission to store, copy and play back your content — but only where you've actually asked us to hold it. In practice that means: if cloud backup is off, your clips stay on your phone and we never receive them. If you turn cloud backup on, or you create a share link, we store the copies needed to do that job and nothing more. This permission exists to run the Service for you, it isn't exclusive, and it ends when you delete the content or your account, apart from copies sitting in routine backups until those roll over.
We don't use your golf footage to train AI models, we don't sell it, and we don't show it to anyone you haven't shared it with.
Keep your own copies of anything you'd hate to lose. Phones break, apps get deleted, and cloud backup is off by default.
This section matters more than it looks. Please read it.
A phone clipped to your bag on a golf course records more than your swing. It records the group behind you, the people on the next tee, and — if the microphone is on — what they're saying. Australian law treats those two things very differently, and the audio is the part that gets people into trouble.
In every Australian state it is a criminal offence to record a private conversation you're not part of, without consent. In Queensland that's the Invasion of Privacy Act 1971 (up to 2 years' imprisonment). In New South Wales and Victoria the equivalent laws carry heavier penalties again. A conversation isn't “private” if the people having it should reasonably expect to be overheard — ordinary chat across a fairway usually falls on the safe side — but a quiet conversation you've picked up from twenty metres away with a directional phone mic may not.
Sharing a recording can be a separate, more serious offence than making it. In Queensland, publishing someone's private conversation is an offence even if you recorded it perfectly lawfully. Posting the reel is a fresh decision with its own legal consequences.
If this is a concern for how you play, record with the microphone permission switched off in your iPhone settings. Clippar still detects and trims your swings without it.
Filming people who are simply visible outdoors on a golf course is, in most Australian states, not itself an offence — Queensland has no general video surveillance law at all, New South Wales' optical surveillance offence only applies if you trespassed to get the shot, and Victoria's excludes anything happening outside a building. That is not the same as it being fine.
Since 10 June 2025 there has been a national right to sue for a serious invasion of privacy. It applies to intentional or reckless conduct, it doesn't require the person to prove they lost money, and — unlike most of the Privacy Act — there is no exemption for doing it personally rather than commercially. Deliberately filming an identifiable stranger, capturing an embarrassing moment, or lingering on someone who has asked you not to, and then putting it online, is the kind of thing it exists for.
Clippar gives you a tool. What you point it at is your decision, and the legal responsibility for what you record and share is yours, not ours. We can't get consent on your behalf and we don't review your footage.
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If we reasonably believe you've broken these rules, we may remove content or suspend your access. Where it's practical and appropriate, we'll tell you why first.
Clippar Pro is an auto-renewing subscription bought through Apple's In-App Purchase. Our subscription provider RevenueCat manages what your account is entitled to.
Creating and exporting a highlight reel requires an active Clippar Pro subscription. Recording, trimming, editing and watching your clips do not.
We sometimes issue redemption codes that unlock Clippar Pro without a subscription. If you have one, you can redeem it in the app.
The usual way to share a reel is straight from the app using your iPhone's share sheet — that sends the video file to whoever you choose, and once it's left the app it's out of our hands. We can't recall a video you've sent to someone.
Clippar can also create a web link to a reel. A link is a long random string that isn't guessable, but anyone who has the link can view the reel — treat it like handing out a key. Don't post a link somewhere public unless you're happy for it to be public. If you want a shared reel taken down, tell us through the contact form and we'll remove it.
Web share links are still being finished, so a link may not work yet. Use the share sheet in the meantime.
The Clippar Mount Kit is a physical product that is not currently on sale. When it becomes available it will be sold separately, under its own terms covering delivery, returns, safety information for the battery, and your consumer guarantees for goods. It is not covered by these Terms.
The Mount Kit is currently not on sale. When it goes on sale, the Terms of Sale will apply to your order.
Clippar runs on services from other companies: Supabase (our database and file storage), Apple and Google (sign-in), Apple and RevenueCat (subscriptions), Stripe (payments for physical products), Sentry (crash reports), GolfCourseAPI (course search), and Expo (app updates). Our Privacy Policy explains exactly what each one receives.
Using features powered by these companies may also make you subject to their terms. We don't control them and aren't responsible for their services — but where a provider handles your personal information on our behalf, we remain accountable to you for it.
The Clippar app, website, design, name and logo belong to us and are protected by intellectual-property law. These Terms don't give you the right to copy, modify, distribute or resell the Service, or to use our branding.
The music tracks built into the app are licensed for you to use in reels you make with Clippar. You may post those reels wherever you like. You may not extract the audio files and use them separately. Note that social platforms run automated copyright matching, and while our tracks are licensed for this use, we can't guarantee a platform's system won't flag one — that's between you and the platform.
Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. For major failures with the service, you are entitled: to cancel your service contract with us; and to a refund for the unused portion, or to compensation for its reduced value. You are also entitled to be compensated for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. If the failure does not amount to a major failure you are entitled to have problems with the service rectified in a reasonable time and, if this is not done, to cancel your contract and obtain a refund for the unused portion of the contract.
Nothing in these Terms excludes, restricts or modifies those guarantees, or any other right you have under the Australian Consumer Law or any other law that can't be contracted out of. Where anything in these Terms conflicts with those rights, those rights win. If you buy the Mount Kit once it becomes available, the guarantees for goods will apply as well, under its own terms.
Subject to section 12, and to the extent the law allows, the Service is provided as it is. We don't promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, that every upload or export will succeed, or that shot detection and reel assembly will be accurate. Golf is unpredictable and so is automatic video editing.
We especially don't promise that a recording will happen. If your phone runs out of battery, overheats, gets knocked off the mount, or the clicker loses its Bluetooth connection, the shot isn't recorded. Back up anything that matters to you.
Section 12 comes first: nothing here limits the consumer guarantees or any other right you have that can't be excluded.
Beyond that, and only to the extent the law allows: we're not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost data, lost content, lost profits or lost opportunities, arising from your use of or inability to use the Service. Where our liability can be limited but not excluded, it's limited to re-supplying the service or paying the cost of having it re-supplied.
We're not liable for what you record, what you share, or the consequences of either — see section 4.
If someone brings a claim against us because of something you recorded or shared, because you broke these Terms, or because you misused the Service, you agree to cover our reasonable costs in dealing with it. This doesn't apply to the extent the problem was our fault, and it doesn't apply to anything you couldn't reasonably have avoided.
You can stop using Clippar whenever you like, and delete your account from Profile → Delete Account. That deletes your rounds, clips, reels, scores and profile for good. Remember to cancel your Apple subscription separately.
We may suspend or end your access if you seriously or repeatedly breach these Terms, if we have to in order to protect the Service or other users, or if the law requires it. If we do, and you've paid for a period you can no longer use, section 12 applies.
Sections that should outlast the account — intellectual property, the limits in sections 13 to 15, and your obligations under section 4 for footage you've already shared — continue after termination.
We may update these Terms. When we make a change that actually affects you, we'll update the “Last updated” date at the top and tell you in the app or on this page before it takes effect. Carrying on using Clippar after that means you accept the new version. If you don't, you can delete your account.
These Terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia, and you and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Queensland. If you live somewhere else, this doesn't take away the protection of the consumer laws where you live.
Questions about these Terms? Use the contact form and a human will answer.
Clippar Pty Ltd
ACN 701 393 277 · ABN 69 701 393 277
53 Franklin Street, Kelvin Grove QLD 4059, Australia