LEGAL
Plain terms for using the app. The important paragraph is the one about health: this is a training and nutrition 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 programmes and nutrition targets from the profile 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 given session is appropriate for you, for using correct technique, and for stopping when something hurts. If you have a medical condition, are pregnant, are recovering from injury or surgery, or are taking medication that affects exercise or diet, talk to a qualified professional before following any plan the app produces. If you have a symptom that worries you, that is a matter for a doctor and not for an app.
The same applies to nutrition. Calorie and macronutrient targets are estimates produced from formulas and your own inputs. They are not a clinical prescription, and they are not suitable as a treatment for an eating disorder or any other medical condition.
You sign in with a phone number and a one-time code. Keep access to that number secure, because anyone who can receive codes on it can reach your account. One account is for one person. You must be at least sixteen years old.
Do not attempt to break the service, get at other people's data, resell access, scrape the catalog in bulk, or use the app to harass anyone in a group or league. We can suspend an account that does any of these, and we will say why when we do.
Logging workouts and food is free, and so is the league. Pro adds the programme that adapts weekly, voice logging, canteen mode, deep analytics and the coach. The features in each tier can change as the app develops; if something moves out of the free tier, existing users keep it.
Pro is billed monthly or yearly through Razorpay in India and Polar elsewhere, and renews automatically until you cancel. Prices are shown in your own currency before you pay and vary by market. Cancelling stops the next renewal and leaves your access in place until the end of the period you already paid for. Refunds are covered on the refunds page.
Your logs, measurements and photos remain yours. You give us permission to store and process them for the purpose of running the app for you, and for nothing else. We do not use your data to train models. You can export it or delete it at any time.
The app, the exercise and food catalogs, the engines and the written material on this site belong to us. You may use them through the app. You may not copy the catalog out in bulk or redistribute it.
We aim to keep the service up and we do not promise it will never be down. The app is built so that logging works without a network, so an outage on our side should mean sync is delayed rather than that you cannot train. Features that need a server, such as the coach, will not work while it is down.
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. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. Nothing here excludes liability for fraud or for anything that cannot lawfully be excluded.
You can stop using the app and delete your account 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 export 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 you are told in the app before the change 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.