Terms of Service

1. Agreement to These Terms

By downloading, accessing, or using RunChoice, you agree to these Terms of Service and to the RunChoice Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use RunChoice.

"RunChoice," "we," "us," and "our" mean the operator of the RunChoice app, website, and related services. "You" means the person or organization using the service.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use RunChoice. If you are 13 to 17, you may use RunChoice only with permission from a parent or legal guardian who agrees to these Terms on your behalf. You may not use RunChoice if you are barred from using the service under applicable law.

3. Accounts and Security

Some features require a RunChoice account using email, Google, or Apple sign-in through Firebase Auth. You are responsible for keeping your credentials and devices secure and for all activity under your account.

You must provide accurate information and keep it current. We may refuse, reclaim, or remove usernames, profile content, rewards, or account access if we believe they violate these Terms, infringe rights, create security risk, mislead users, or harm RunChoice.

You can delete your account in the app where supported. Account deletion is intended to delete your Firebase Auth account and trigger server-side cleanup of associated cloud data, subject to legal, security, backup, fraud, accounting, partner, and operational retention described in the Privacy Policy.

4. Fitness, Safety, and Location

RunChoice is not medical advice, professional coaching, health care, insurance, or an emergency response service. You are solely responsible for deciding whether running or any activity is safe for you. Consult a qualified professional before starting or changing fitness activity, especially if you have health concerns.

GPS, motion, maps, cadence, pace, anti-cheat, streak, and reward calculations can be inaccurate, delayed, incomplete, or unavailable. Do not rely on RunChoice for navigation, emergency location, medical decisions, traffic safety, or hazardous conditions.

5. Subscriptions, Purchases, and RunChoice+

RunChoice may offer paid subscriptions, premium features, and other purchases. On iOS, purchases are processed by Apple through the App Store and validated through RevenueCat. Apple, not RunChoice, handles payment processing, cancellation, renewal, and refunds unless Apple rules or applicable law say otherwise.

• Subscriptions may automatically renew unless canceled through your Apple account before the renewal deadline shown by Apple.
• Prices, features, trials, eligibility, plans, and renewal terms may change as allowed by platform rules and law.
• Premium features may depend on device, platform, location permissions, motion permissions, network availability, and active entitlement status.
• We may suspend or revoke premium access if a purchase is refunded, reversed, fraudulent, unauthorized, or not validated.

6. Coins, Cosmetics, Streaks, and Rewards

Coins, cosmetics, streak freezes, achievements, offers, monthly physical rewards, and similar features are promotional and entertainment features. They are not money, property, stored value, cryptocurrency, or a cash account. They have no cash value, are not transferable, and may not be sold, traded, redeemed, or exchanged except as expressly allowed by RunChoice.

We may create, modify, rebalance, expire, revoke, withhold, or discontinue rewards, coins, cosmetics, streak rules, eligibility requirements, catalogs, prices, physical rewards, and redemption programs at any time. We may also review or reject activity that appears suspicious, vehicle-assisted, automated, abusive, mistaken, or inconsistent with program rules.

Physical rewards, if offered, may require additional eligibility, shipping information, geographic availability, inventory, fraud checks, tax forms, partner terms, and separate disclosures.

Monthly physical reward details

Where RunChoice+ includes a monthly physical reward, the following rules apply in addition to the general terms above:

• Only days covered by an active, trial, or paid-through RunChoice+ subscription count toward earning a reward.
• Earning requires two completed five-day blocks of consecutive covered qualifying days in one calendar month. Blocks can be adjacent, so one continuous ten-day streak completes both; partial blocks do not combine across a missed or uncovered day.
• You can earn a maximum of one physical reward per calendar month.
• An earned reward must be claimed within 14 days after the end of the calendar month it was earned in, or it expires unclaimed.
• Once a claim is approved, shipping estimates are 7 to 21 business days.
• Canceling your subscription after you submit a valid claim does not cancel that reward — fulfillment continues independently of your later subscription status.
• A refund, chargeback, or suspected fraud or abuse (including GPS or activity manipulation) can lead us to cancel an unshipped reward or to hold or deny future rewards.
• You are responsible for providing and maintaining an accurate shipping address. Rewards ship only within the continental United States and Washington, D.C.; we do not ship to Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. territories, or addresses outside the United States.
• A reward is considered fulfilled once carrier tracking shows it as delivered, though we may still review delivery issues you report.
• Reward availability, contents, and value may be substituted, adjusted, delayed, or limited due to inventory or service-area limitations.

7. User Content, App Data, and RunChoice Rights

You may provide or generate content and data through RunChoice, including profile information, avatar images, run notes, routes, activity history, feedback, support messages, and settings. As between you and RunChoice, you keep whatever ownership rights you have in content you submit, subject to the rights granted below and the rights we have in the service and derived data.

You grant RunChoice a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, analyze, create derivative works from, display, distribute, and otherwise use your content and data for the purposes described in these Terms and the Privacy Policy: operating the service, improving products, developing analytics, marketing RunChoice, running partner programs, safety, security, legal compliance, and business transactions such as a merger or acquisition. RunChoice does not sell your personal information; sharing is limited to the service providers and commercial partners described in the Privacy Policy.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, RunChoice owns all rights, title, and interest in the service, software, designs, logos, features, algorithms, analytics, diagnostics, scoring systems, reward systems, anti-abuse systems, models, inferences, segments, compilations, aggregated data, de-identified data, derived data, benchmark data, and other outputs or insights generated by or for RunChoice from use of the service.

You agree that RunChoice may use and share aggregated, de-identified, inferred, statistical, or derived information that does not identify you, without compensation to you, subject to applicable law.

8. Partner Programs

RunChoice may work with commercial partners to provide rewards, offers, analytics, infrastructure, research, and other product features. You authorize RunChoice to process and disclose information to those partners as described in the Privacy Policy.

Partner programs may involve sharing with the partners that power them the limited information each program needs — for example identifiers, app activity, fitness and running data, purchase information, segments, aggregated data, or de-identified data. RunChoice does not sell your personal information. Where applicable law requires consent, our Privacy Policy explains how to exercise your rights.

9. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Use RunChoice for illegal, harmful, misleading, unsafe, abusive, harassing, infringing, or fraudulent activity.
• Fake, automate, spoof, replay, manipulate, or sell runs, routes, GPS data, purchases, rewards, coins, streaks, accounts, or referrals.
• Access, scrape, reverse engineer, decompile, probe, or disrupt RunChoice except where the law expressly allows it.
• Upload malware, abuse APIs, bypass limits, evade security, or interfere with another user's access.
• Use RunChoice to build a competing product, data product, model, benchmark, or analytics service without our written permission.
• Misrepresent your identity, impersonate others, or violate third-party rights.

We may investigate, throttle, suspend, terminate, delete, or restrict accounts, data, rewards, and access if we believe these Terms have been violated or if needed to protect RunChoice, users, partners, or the public.

10. Third-Party Services

RunChoice integrates with third-party services such as Firebase, Google, Apple, RevenueCat, Mapbox, Photon/Komoot, OpenStreetMap data, email providers, notification services, payment systems, and share destinations selected by you. Third-party services may have their own terms, privacy policies, fees, limitations, outages, and data practices.

We are not responsible for third-party services, content, availability, errors, charges, policies, or decisions. Your use of third-party services may be governed by their terms in addition to these Terms.

11. Intellectual Property

RunChoice and its software, branding, design, interfaces, content, documentation, metrics, reward systems, and underlying technology are owned by RunChoice or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws. These Terms give you a limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right to use RunChoice for personal, lawful use according to these Terms.

No rights are granted except as expressly stated. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, lease, create derivative works from, or exploit the service unless we authorize it in writing.

12. Privacy

The RunChoice Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and otherwise process information — including our commitment not to sell your personal information. By using RunChoice, you acknowledge that we process information as described there.

13. Changes, Beta Features, and Availability

RunChoice is evolving. We may add, remove, test, limit, or change features, prices, plans, rewards, analytics, partner programs, maps, rules, and availability at any time. Some features may be beta, experimental, region-limited, invite-only, or temporarily unavailable.

We may update these Terms from time to time. If changes are material, we will provide notice as required by law. Continued use after updated Terms become effective means you accept them.

14. Termination

You may stop using RunChoice at any time and may delete your account where supported. We may suspend, restrict, or terminate access at any time if we believe you violated these Terms, created risk, infringed rights, abused rewards, caused harm, or if we discontinue the service.

After termination or deletion, provisions that by their nature should survive will survive, including data licenses, ownership, partner-program terms, disclaimers, limits of liability, dispute terms, indemnity, and payment obligations.

15. Disclaimers

RunChoice is provided "as is" and "as available." To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, accuracy, availability, security, reliability, and uninterrupted service.

We do not guarantee that RunChoice will be error-free, secure, available, accurate, compatible with every device, or that runs, maps, rewards, analytics, purchases, notifications, exports, cloud backups, or account deletion will always work perfectly.

16. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, RunChoice and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, licensors, service providers, and partners will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost goodwill, personal injury, property damage, service interruption, device failure, or loss arising from or related to RunChoice.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim relating to RunChoice will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid to RunChoice for the service in the 12 months before the claim or US $100.

17. Indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless RunChoice and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, licensors, service providers, and partners from claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising from your use of RunChoice, your content, your violation of these Terms, your violation of law, or your violation of another person's rights.

18. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, excluding conflict-of-law rules, unless applicable law requires a different governing law.

Before filing a claim, you and RunChoice agree to try to resolve the dispute informally for 30 days after written notice is sent to support@runchoice.app.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, disputes that cannot be resolved informally will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, except that either party may bring an individual claim in small claims court where available. You and RunChoice waive the right to a jury trial and the right to participate in a class action, class arbitration, private attorney general action, or representative proceeding.

You may opt out of arbitration within 30 days after first accepting these Terms by emailing support@runchoice.app with your account email and "Arbitration Opt-Out" in the subject.

19. Apple-Specific Terms

If you access RunChoice through an Apple platform, Apple is not a party to these Terms and is not responsible for RunChoice or its content. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of this section and may enforce it. Apple App Store rules may also apply to purchases, refunds, subscriptions, and app distribution.

20. Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to support@runchoice.app.

Postal address and additional entity information may be added here when RunChoice formalizes a public operating entity.