Terms of Service
These terms are the agreement between you and Zor ("the app", "we", "us") for using the Zor strength-training app and website. We have tried to write them in plain language, because terms you can actually read protect both of us. The short version is at the top; the details follow.
The service is operated under the name Zor; you can contact us about these terms, or send any legal notice, at support@zor.training.
The short version
- Zor gives you training information and tools, not medical advice. Talk to a doctor before you start, especially if you have a health condition.
- Lifting weights carries real risk of injury. You choose what to lift and how hard to push. The app's suggested weights and effort targets are calculated from your own logged data. They are suggestions, not a promise that a weight is safe for you today.
- Stop if something hurts. No app is worth an injury.
- The base app is free today. A paid AI coaching upgrade is planned; the billing terms below only apply once it exists.
- Your training data is yours. We only use it to run the app for you; see the privacy policy.
- Be a normal, honest user of the app and we'll get along fine.
1. Accepting these terms
By creating an account or using Zor, you agree to these terms and to the privacy policy, which explains how we handle your data. If you do not agree, do not use the app.
2. Who can use Zor
- You must be at least 18 years old to create an account.
- You must be able to form a binding contract where you live.
- You must not have been previously banned from the service.
3. Your account
- Give us accurate information and keep it up to date: the app's training guidance is computed from what you enter.
- Keep your password to yourself. Your account is for you personally; you are responsible for what happens under it. Tell us at support@zor.training if you think someone else has access.
- You can delete your account at any time in the app (Settings → Account → Delete account); deletion is immediate and permanent. See the account deletion page.
4. Health and safety: read this section
This is the most important section of these terms.
Zor is not medical advice
Zor provides general fitness and training information for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice, it is not a medical device, and it is not a substitute for the advice of a physician, physiotherapist, or other qualified health professional. Nothing in the app is a diagnosis, treatment, or prescription: not programs, not suggested weights, not effort (RPE) targets, not recovery scores, and not any other guidance.
Talk to a doctor before you start
Consult a physician before beginning this or any exercise program. This matters especially if any of the following applies to you (these mirror the standard pre-exercise screening (PAR-Q) questions):
- a heart condition, or you've been told you should only do physician-approved physical activity;
- chest pain during physical activity, or at rest;
- episodes of dizziness, loss of balance, or loss of consciousness;
- a bone, joint, muscle, or tendon problem that could be made worse by exercise;
- prescribed medication for blood pressure or a heart condition;
- pregnancy or recent childbirth;
- a recent injury or surgery, or any other medical reason to be careful with physical activity.
If you answered yes to any of these, get medical clearance first. If your health changes while you use Zor, stop and get checked before continuing.
You train at your own risk
Resistance training has inherent risks that no app can eliminate, including muscle and tendon injuries, joint injuries, dropped weights, and in rare cases serious injury or death. By using Zor you knowingly and voluntarily accept these risks.
Be clear about how the app works, because it defines where responsibility sits:
- You choose the exercises, the loads, and how hard to push. The app records what you did and suggests what you might do; the decision, and the barbell, is always yours.
- Suggested weights and RPE targets are estimates computed from your own logged training data. They are only as good as the data you enter, they cannot see your form, your fatigue that day, your sleep, or your injuries, and they are not a guarantee that a given weight is safe or appropriate for you. Treat every suggestion as a starting point to check against how you actually feel.
- When the app has been offline, suggestions can be stale. Zor works without a connection, but guidance computed before your recent training synced may not reflect it. Apply extra judgment.
- Use proper equipment and technique. Train with collars, safety pins/arms or a spotter where appropriate (especially on barbell squat and bench press), and do not attempt maximal lifts alone.
Stop if it hurts
If you feel pain, dizziness, faintness, shortness of breath, chest pain, or anything that feels wrong, stop training immediately and seek medical advice. In an emergency, call your local emergency number. Do not train through pain because a program, a suggested weight, or someone else told you to.
No guarantee of results
Training outcomes vary enormously with genetics, effort, consistency, sleep, nutrition, and much else. We do not promise that you will gain muscle, gain strength, lose weight, or achieve any particular result from using Zor; anyone who promises that is lying to you.
5. The service
Zor is a science-based strength-training app: structured training programs (your own or app-generated), workout logging, and recovery and training-load tracking.
- The base experience is free: self-coached programs, logging, and the recovery dashboard.
- The app works offline. Workouts and check-ins you log without a connection are stored on your device and synced to our servers when you are back online.
- The service will change. We add, improve, and occasionally remove features. If we ever discontinue the service entirely or remove something significant you rely on, we will give you reasonable notice in the app so you can export your data first.
6. Subscriptions and paid features
Not yet in effect. Zor currently has no paid features and no in-app purchases. This section describes the planned paid tiers and applies only if and when they launch; prices and billing details will be published in the app and on this page before then.
The planned paid upgrade is an optional layer on top of the free base app:
- AI coaching subscription: a subscription paid by you, which turns on intelligent automatic adjustment of your program. Pricing will be announced at launch.
When these launch, the following standard terms will apply:
- Billing through the app stores. Purchases made in the iOS app are billed by Apple through your Apple account and are also subject to Apple's terms; purchases in the Android app are billed by Google Play, likewise. We never see or store your card details.
- Auto-renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends.
- Cancelling. Manage or cancel in your device's subscription settings (iOS: Settings → your name → Subscriptions; Android: Play Store → Subscriptions); deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period.
- Refunds for store-billed purchases are handled by Apple or Google under their policies; request them through the store. Where consumer law gives you additional refund rights, those are unaffected.
- Price changes will be notified in advance and will apply from your next renewal, with the chance to cancel first.
- Cancelling a paid tier never deletes your data or your free-tier access: you keep your programs, history, and dashboard.
7. Your license to use Zor, and the rules
We give you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the app for your own training. In return, you agree not to:
- copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of the service, or reverse-engineer or extract source code except where the law expressly permits it;
- access the service by any means other than the app and interfaces we provide (no scraping, bots, or bulk/automated access), or probe, overload, or interfere with our systems;
- use the service to build a competing dataset or train a model on our content;
- misrepresent who you are, share or resell your account, or use another person's account;
- enter deliberately false training data to manipulate the service;
- use the service for anything unlawful.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that break these rules (see Termination).
8. Your content and your data
- Your training data is yours. Everything you enter or generate in Zor belongs to you: logged sets, check-ins, bodyweight, programs you author, custom exercises.
- You give us a limited license to store, process, and display that data solely to operate and improve the service for you: showing you your history, computing your recovery and guidance, and syncing across your devices. This license is not for advertising, not for resale, and it ends when you delete your data or your account, as described in the privacy policy.
- You are responsible for what you enter: name custom exercises like an adult, and don't put other people's personal data or anything unlawful in free-text fields.
- Health data (heart rate) is processed only with your consent. If you connect a heart-rate source for cardio sessions, you consent to us storing and processing your heart-rate data solely to compute your recovery and training-load figures, as set out in the privacy policy. You can withdraw that consent at any time by disconnecting the source and deleting the data in the app; withdrawal does not affect anything processed while the consent was in place.
- How we collect, store, and delete data is governed by the privacy policy; if these terms and the privacy policy ever conflict about data handling, the privacy policy wins.
9. Intellectual property
The app, the website, the Zor name and brand, the design, the software, and the training-science content and methodology in the product are ours or our licensors', and are protected by intellectual-property law. These terms give you the right to use them (Section 7), not to own or reproduce them. Your data remains yours (Section 8).
If you send us feedback or suggestions, we can use them freely without obligation to you; that's what makes it safe for us to read them.
10. Termination
- You can stop using Zor at any time, and can delete your account (and all of its data) in the app, immediately; see the account deletion page.
- We can suspend or terminate your account if you materially breach these terms (with notice and a chance to fix it where that's reasonable, and no notice where the breach is serious, e.g. abuse of other users' data or our systems), or if we are required to by law. If we terminate without your breach, we will give you reasonable notice and the chance to export your data.
- On termination, your license under Section 7 ends. Sections that by their nature should survive (4, 8, 9, 11–14) survive.
11. Disclaimer of warranties
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. We do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that guidance will be accurate or suitable for you (see Section 4), or that data will never be lost; keep your own records of anything critical. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions; where that's the case, this section applies to the fullest extent it lawfully can.
12. Limitation of liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, AND OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE IS CAPPED AT THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR (B) USD 50.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, and your statutory consumer rights.
13. Indemnity
If your breach of these terms or your misuse of the service causes a third party to bring a claim against us, you agree to cover the losses and reasonable costs we incur from that claim. This does not apply to the extent the claim results from our own breach or negligence.
14. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes, except that if you are a consumer, you keep any right to sue (and be sued) in the courts of the country you live in, and any mandatory consumer protections of that country.
Before going to court, email us at support@zor.training; almost everything can be sorted out faster and cheaper that way.
15. App store terms (Apple and Google)
If you downloaded Zor from the Apple App Store or Google Play:
- These terms are between you and us, not with Apple or Google. The stores are not parties to these terms, are not responsible for the app or its content, and have no obligation to provide maintenance or support for it; support comes from us (see Contact).
- Apple and Google (and their subsidiaries) are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you after you accept.
- Your use must also comply with the store's own terms, including the App Store Terms of Use and the Google Play Terms of Service, and (on iOS) the Usage Rules in Apple's Media Services terms.
- In the event of a claim relating to the app (including product-liability, legal-compliance, or intellectual-property claims), we, not the store, are responsible for handling it, to the extent required by the store's terms. Any App Store refund handling by Apple is limited to refunding the purchase price (if any); Apple has no other warranty obligation.
- You represent that you are not in a country under a U.S. government embargo and are not on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
16. Changes to these terms
If we change these terms, we will update the "Last updated" date and, for material changes (anything about payments, your data, liability, or the health-and-safety terms), tell you in the app before the change takes effect, with enough notice to stop using the service or delete your account if you don't agree. Continuing to use Zor after the effective date means you accept the new terms.
17. General
- These terms plus the privacy policy are the entire agreement between you and us about the service.
- If part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies.
- If we don't enforce a provision right away, we haven't waived it.
- You may not transfer your rights under these terms to anyone else. We may transfer ours as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of the business; your protections travel with them.
18. Contact
Questions about these terms: support@zor.training. See also our support page.
Operated by Zor.
These terms are pending legal review.