LEGAL
Plain terms for using the app. The important paragraph is the one about health: this is a training tool, not medical advice.
These terms apply when you use the Barbell Bowl app or this website. If you do not agree with them, do not use the app. They are written to be readable; where a sentence is unclear, the reading a reasonable person would give it is the one that applies.
Barbell Bowl produces training plans and starting weights from the answers and history you give it. It is a fitness tool. It is not a medical device, it does not diagnose anything, and nothing it says is medical advice.
Lifting weights carries risk of injury. You are responsible for deciding whether a session is right for you, for using correct technique, and for stopping when something hurts. Starting weights and the weights the app suggests are estimates; change them whenever they do not fit. If you have a medical condition, are pregnant, are recovering from injury or surgery, or take medication that affects exercise, talk to a qualified professional before following any plan. If you have a symptom that worries you, that is a matter for a doctor and not for an app.
You can use the app without an account. If you turn on email backup, you sign in with a one-time code sent to your email. Keep access to that inbox secure, because anyone who can read codes sent there can reach your account. One account is for one person. You must be at least sixteen years old.
The app is free and has no ads. There are no paid features in this version. If paid features are ever added, these terms change first, and nothing is charged unless you choose to buy it.
Do not attempt to break the service, get at other people's data, resell access or copy the exercise catalog out in bulk. We can suspend an account that does any of these, and we will say why when we do.
Your workouts and answers remain yours. You give us permission to store and process them to run the app for you, and for nothing else. We do not use your data to train models. You can get a copy or have it deleted at any time.
The app, the exercise catalog, the engines and the written material on this site belong to us. You may use them through the app. Exercise photos come from the public-domain free-exercise-db project. Some blog photos are stock images used under their licences.
We aim to keep the service up and we do not promise it will never be down. Logging works without a network, so an outage on our side delays backup sync rather than stopping you from training.
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for injury arising from exercise you chose to perform, or for decisions you make on the basis of estimates the app produced. Nothing here excludes liability for fraud or for anything that cannot lawfully be excluded.
You can stop using the app and delete your data at any time. We can end the agreement if you break these terms, and we will tell you why. If we shut the service down, you get reasonable notice and a way to get your data first.
These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of India have jurisdiction over disputes arising from them. If you are a consumer in a country whose law gives you rights that cannot be contracted away, you keep those rights.
If these terms change materially, the date at the top changes and the change is explained here before it takes effect. Continuing to use the app after that means you accept the new version.
Write to support@barbellbowl.com. A person reads it. For anything about your data specifically, put "data request" in the subject line and it gets handled first.