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These terms are the agreement between you and LiftBuddy Incorporated ("LiftBuddy", "we", "us") for use of the LiftBuddy app and this website. By creating an account or using the app, you accept them. If you don't accept them, don't use LiftBuddy.
The short version of the important part. LiftBuddy gives you training and nutrition guidance generated by software. It is not medical advice and it does not know your medical history. Talk to a doctor before starting, stop if something hurts, and use your own judgement about what weight you can safely lift. Section 3 spells this out.
1. Who can use LiftBuddy
You must be at least 13 years old to use LiftBuddy. If you are under 18, you may only use it with the involvement of a parent or guardian who agrees to these terms on your behalf. You must be able to form a binding contract where you live.
2. Your account
You need an account to use the app. You can create one with an email address and password, or with Sign in with Apple or Google Sign-In.
Give us accurate information, and keep your body stats and goals up to date — the app's calorie targets and program adjustments are calculated from them, so wrong inputs produce wrong outputs. Keep your login details to yourself. You are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us straight away at support@liftbuddyapp.com if you think someone else has access.
3. Health and safety
This section is the most important one in this document. Read it properly.
LiftBuddy is not medical advice
LiftBuddy is a fitness and nutrition tool, not a medical device and not a healthcare provider. Nothing in the app — programs, exercise selection, loads, rep targets, calorie and macro targets, check-in recommendations — is medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. It is generated by software from the information you give it, and the app does not know your medical history, injuries, medications or conditions.
Talk to a doctor first
Consult a physician or qualified healthcare professional before you start any new exercise or nutrition program, and particularly if you are pregnant or nursing, under 18, over 65, recovering from injury or surgery, or living with any heart, respiratory, metabolic, musculoskeletal or eating-related condition. If your doctor's advice conflicts with the app, follow your doctor.
Lifting carries risk
Resistance training can cause serious injury, including muscle and connective tissue damage, and in rare cases cardiac events. You are responsible for training safely: warm up, use good form, use collars and safety pins, use a spotter for heavy work, and choose loads you can actually control. The weights the app suggests are suggestions. You decide what to lift.
Stop if something is wrong
Stop immediately and seek medical attention if you feel chest pain, dizziness, faintness, shortness of breath, or sharp or unusual pain. Never train through pain because the app said to do a set.
Nutrition targets are estimates
Calorie and macro targets are estimates from formulas and the details you enter. They are not a prescription, are not suitable for treating any medical condition, and are not appropriate if you have or are recovering from an eating disorder. Food database entries come from third-party sources and may be inaccurate or incomplete.
By using LiftBuddy you accept these risks and agree that you use it at your own risk.
4. What it costs
LiftBuddy is currently free. There is no subscription, no trial and nothing to cancel, and we do not charge you for the features described on this site.
If we introduce paid features in future, we will update these terms and make the price and what it covers clear before you are asked to pay for anything. You will never be charged automatically under these terms as they stand.
5. Acceptable use
Don't:
- Break the law, or use LiftBuddy to harm anyone
- Share your account, or use someone else's without their permission
- Copy, scrape, resell or redistribute our exercise library, animations or food database
- Reverse engineer, decompile or tamper with the app, or try to get into parts of our systems you aren't meant to reach
- Attack the service — automated scraping, excessive request volume, attempts to disrupt availability, or probing for vulnerabilities without our written permission
- Upload anything unlawful, abusive, or infringing
6. Your content
Your workout logs, food logs, notes, photos and custom recipes stay yours. You give us a limited licence to store, process and display them so we can run the service for you — for example calculating your progression, syncing across your devices, and backing them up.
We may use aggregated and de-identified data — data that cannot reasonably be linked back to you — to improve LiftBuddy. We do not use Apple Health data for this, or for advertising. See the privacy policy.
7. Our content
The LiftBuddy app, website, name, logo, exercise library, 3D exercise animations, muscle charts, programming logic and everything else we provide are owned by LiftBuddy Incorporated or our licensors and protected by intellectual property law. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app for your own non-commercial training. That licence does not let you use our content for anything else.
8. Availability and changes
We aim to keep LiftBuddy available and working, but we don't promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may change, suspend or discontinue features, and we may need to take the service down for maintenance. If we discontinue LiftBuddy entirely, we will give you reasonable notice and a way to export your data.
We may update these terms. If a change is material we will notify you in the app or by email before it takes effect, and the "last updated" date above will change. Continuing to use LiftBuddy after that means you accept the new terms.
9. Ending this agreement
You can stop using LiftBuddy at any time and delete your account from inside the app, or by emailing us. Deleting your account deletes your data as described in the privacy policy.
We may suspend or terminate your account if you materially breach these terms, if we are required to by law, or if keeping it open would create a security or safety risk. Where it is reasonable to do so, we will tell you why and give you a chance to put it right.
10. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permitted by law, LiftBuddy is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the app will meet your requirements, that it will produce any particular fitness, strength, weight or body composition result, or that its programming, calculations or food data are accurate, complete or suitable for you.
11. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, LiftBuddy Incorporated and its officers, employees and suppliers will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, data, goodwill or other intangible losses, arising out of your use of or inability to use LiftBuddy.
Our total liability for all claims relating to LiftBuddy will not exceed one hundred US dollars (US$100) or the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, whichever is greater.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited — including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
12. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict of law rules, and you and we submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located there. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory laws of the country where you live, or of your right to bring proceedings in your local courts.
Before starting formal proceedings, please email us — most problems are faster to fix directly.
13. Apple App Store terms
You get LiftBuddy through the Apple App Store, so the following also applies. This agreement is between you and LiftBuddy, not Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Apple has no obligation to provide support or maintenance for LiftBuddy. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple may refund any purchase price; beyond that Apple has no warranty obligation. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim you or a third party has relating to the app, including product liability, regulatory compliance or intellectual property claims. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you. You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a US Government embargo or designated as terrorist-supporting, and are not on any US Government prohibited-party list.
14. General
These terms and the privacy policy are the entire agreement between us about LiftBuddy. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing a provision isn't a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger or acquisition.
15. Contact us
Questions about these terms: info@liftbuddyapp.com. Account and support: support@liftbuddyapp.com.
LiftBuddy Incorporated, United States.