Terms of Service

Who can use it

You need to be at least 13 to hold an account. If you are under 16, a parent or guardian should set the account up with you and accept these terms on your behalf — the platform is built for organised squads, and squads have juniors in them.

A coach or club administrator who invites athletes confirms they are entitled to do so, and that any athlete they add under 16 has a parent or guardian who knows about it.

Your account

• One account per person. Give us a real email address, because it is how we reach you about your account and how you recover access.
• Keep your sign-in credentials to yourself. Anything done from your account is treated as done by you.
• New accounts wait for approval by a coach, or clear that queue with an invite code. Approval is the squad’s decision, not ours.
• Tell us at support@locus.fit if you think someone else is using your account.

Squads, coaches and what they can see

Joining a squad means the coaches of that squad can see your profile, your sessions and their files, your reports and your training load — and your daily wellness metrics if you have connected Garmin. That is the product working as intended, not a side effect, and the privacy policy sets it out in detail. Leaving the squad ends that access.

Coaches can edit athlete profiles in their squad, prescribe workouts, correct how a session was matched, and remove an athlete from the squad. Coaches are responsible for how they use what they see. We are not a party to the coaching relationship, and we do not arbitrate disputes between an athlete and their club.

What this is not

Locus Fit is analysis software. It is not a medical device, and nothing in it is medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. It does not monitor you for a health condition and it will not tell you when to stop. If something feels wrong, talk to a doctor rather than to a dashboard.

The grades, matches, zones and written session reports are estimates derived from sensor data, and sensors are imperfect: GPS drifts, a boat-mounted watch cannot read your wrist heart rate, and an interval we detected may not be the interval you paddled. Reports are generated in part by automated language models and can be wrong. Treat all of it as one input to a coaching decision, and use your own judgement and your coach’s.

Training is physical activity with real risk. You are responsible for deciding whether you are fit to train and for training safely, and that responsibility stays with you and your coach whatever the app says.

Your training data stays yours

You keep ownership of everything you or your watch put into the platform: activity files, notes, photographs, results. You give us permission to store it, process it, and show it to you and to the coaches of squads you have joined — which is what is needed to run the service, and nothing more. We do not sell it and we do not advertise against it.

Using training data for research is a separate opt-in, recorded against your account and withdrawable at any time. Without it your data is never used for research.

If you upload something — a whiteboard photo, a schedule, a results file — you confirm you are allowed to, including where it contains other athletes’ names and times.

We own the software, the analysis, the site and the brand. Nothing here transfers that to you, and you get no right to copy, resell or reverse-engineer it.

Fair use of the service

Please do not:

• try to reach another athlete’s data, another squad’s data, or any part of the system you have not been given access to
• upload someone else’s training data as your own, or falsify results
• scrape, bulk-export or resell platform data, or use it to build a competing product
• attack, overload or probe the service, or work around its rate limits and access controls
• upload malware, or anything illegal or abusive

Security research is welcome if you tell us first and give us a reasonable chance to fix what you find. Email support@locus.fit.

Watches, sign-in and other services

Connecting a Garmin account, signing in with Apple or Google, or installing the watch app means also agreeing to those companies’ terms. We cannot control what they do, and if one of them changes an interface or withdraws access, a feature that depends on it may stop working.

Locus Fit is an independent developer and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Garmin, Apple or Google.

What it costs

Locus Fit is free while it is in early access. If we introduce paid plans we will say so clearly before anything is charged, and we will not start charging for an account you already hold without telling you first. Any hardware sold through the site is covered by the terms shown at the point of sale.

Availability, changes and backups

This is early software run by a small team. We do not promise a particular uptime, we will change and remove features as the product develops, and there may be outages and bugs. We aim to warn you before removing something you rely on.

We take backups, but you should not treat Locus Fit as the only copy of a training file that matters to you. Keep your own copies of anything irreplaceable.

Ending your account

You can stop using the service at any time, and you can have your account and data deleted by emailing support@locus.fit. What deletion covers is described in the privacy policy.

We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, that puts other athletes’ data at risk, or that we are required to act on. Where the situation allows it we will tell you why and give you a chance to put it right first.

Warranties and liability

The service is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, we make no warranties — express or implied — that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for a particular purpose, and we do not warrant the accuracy of any metric, grade or report.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for lost data, for lost performance or selection opportunities, or for injury arising from training decisions. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the greater of what you have paid us in the previous twelve months or CAD 50.

Some jurisdictions do not allow these exclusions, and nothing here removes a consumer right you have under the law where you live.

If your use of the service causes a claim against us — for example because you uploaded something you had no right to — you agree to cover the reasonable cost of dealing with it.

Buying through the App Store

If you got the iOS app from Apple’s App Store, the following also applies, and Apple requires us to state it plainly:

• This agreement is between you and Locus Fit only. It is not with Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its contents.
• Your licence to use the app is a non-transferable licence to run it on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as permitted by the App Store Terms of Service.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app. Support requests go to support@locus.fit.
• If the app fails to conform to any warranty that applies, you may tell Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price. Beyond that refund, Apple has no warranty obligation whatsoever, and any other claim, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense arising from a failure to conform to a warranty is our responsibility.
• Apple is not responsible for addressing any claim you or a third party makes about the app — including product liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, and consumer-protection or privacy claims.
• If a third party claims the app infringes their intellectual property, we, not Apple, are responsible for the investigation, defence, settlement and discharge of that claim.
• You confirm you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as terrorist-supporting, and that you are not on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this section and may enforce it against you.

Changes to these terms

We will update this page when the service changes and change the date at the top. If a change materially affects your rights we will email account holders. Continuing to use the service after a change means accepting the updated terms; if you would rather not, you can close your account.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Nova Scotia and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and the courts of Nova Scotia have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer elsewhere, this does not take away the protection of your local law.

If part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still stands.

Contact

Questions about these terms, or anything you think this page gets wrong:

support@locus.fit · locus.fit · Privacy policy