These terms are the agreement between you and Fatboy Fitness for using the app. By using it, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't use the app.
Important: exercise carries a risk of injury. Fatboy Fitness is not medical advice, and you use it and do its workouts at your own risk. Please read sections 3, 4, 13 and 14 carefully: they limit our responsibility and explain the risks you accept.
1. Who we are
Fatboy Fitness ("we", "us", "our") is a free workout timer web app, operated from South Africa. You can contact us at [contact email]. "You" means the person using the app.
2. What the app does
Fatboy Fitness gives you a collection of workouts, lets you filter, search, adjust and reorder them, builds new workouts from exercises you choose, and runs a timer with sounds, round tallies, a round counter and optional motivation audio. The app is free, has no accounts, and keeps your information on your own device, as explained in our Privacy Policy.
3. Health and safety, and no medical advice
- The app provides general fitness information and a timer only. It is not medical, health, nutritional or professional training advice, and it is not a substitute for advice from a doctor or qualified professional.
- Consult your doctor before starting any exercise programme, especially if you are pregnant or have recently given birth, have a heart condition, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma or another medical condition, have an injury, take medication, are older, or haven't exercised in a while.
- You are responsible for choosing workouts, weights, reps, times and intensity that suit your health and fitness. Warm up, use correct technique, and scale, modify or skip anything that doesn't feel right.
- Stop immediately if you feel pain, chest pain or tightness, dizziness, light-headedness, faintness, nausea, unusual shortness of breath or an irregular heartbeat, and seek medical help if you need it.
- Make sure your training space is safe and clear, your equipment is in good condition and used as its maker intends, and you have a spotter or supervision where that is sensible. When running outdoors, watch out for traffic and your surroundings.
- You must accept a health and safety notice every time the app loads. Accepting it confirms that you have read and understood this section.
4. You exercise at your own risk
Physical exercise can be strenuous and carries risks, including muscle strains, sprains, fractures, heart problems, and in rare cases serious injury or death. By using the app you confirm that you understand these risks and choose to accept them voluntarily. You are responsible for your own safety, and for the safety of anyone you train with or supervise.
5. Who may use the app
The app is intended for adults aged 18 and over. Anyone under 18 may only use it with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian, who accepts these terms on their behalf and is responsible for their use of the app.
6. Workouts and workout content
- Workouts in the app, and workouts it builds for you, are general examples. Built workouts are created automatically from patterns in the app's other workouts, and their reps, times and rounds are estimates. None of them is tailored to you, and some may not suit your fitness, health or equipment.
- Workout content may contain mistakes. We try to keep it accurate, but we don't promise that it is complete, correct or suitable for any purpose.
- Names of well-known benchmark workouts (for example "Murph") are used only to describe them. Fatboy Fitness is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by CrossFit or any other brand, gym or organisation.
7. Motivation audio
The optional motivation audio is "tough love" humour. It is deliberately blunt, uses sarcasm and teasing language, and calls you "fatboy". It is a joke among training friends and is not a comment on anyone's body. You choose whether to hear it each time you start a workout, and can switch it off at any time. It is never a reason to push through pain, exhaustion or injury. If you might find it upsetting, or you're around people who might, please leave it off.
8. Using the app properly
You agree not to:
- use the app for anything unlawful, or in a way that could harm you or others;
- try to hack, disrupt, overload or gain unauthorised access to the app, its hosting or its providers;
- copy, scrape, resell or redistribute the app, its workouts, text, logo or audio, except as allowed in section 9;
- remove or change any notices, including the health and safety notice;
- present the app or its content as your own, or suggest that we endorse you.
9. Intellectual property
The Fatboy Fitness name and logo, the app's design, code, text, workout collection and audio clips belong to us or to the people who licensed them to us, and are protected by copyright and other laws. We give you a personal, free, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the app for your own non-commercial training. All other rights are reserved.
10. Your information
The app stores your settings and your workout in progress on your own device, and uses a small number of outside services to deliver itself. How this works, and your rights, are explained in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these terms. You are responsible for your device and anyone who uses it.
11. Other websites and services
The app relies on outside services (Netlify for hosting, Google Fonts and the Tailwind CSS CDN) and may link to other websites, such as netflix.com if you decline the storage notice, and our online community, which runs on a separate platform. We don't control these services or websites and aren't responsible for their content, availability or practices. Your use of them is subject to their own terms and policies.
12. Availability and accuracy of the timer
We provide the app "as is" and "as available". We may change, suspend or stop any part of it at any time, and we don't promise that it will always be available, error-free or secure. Timers, sounds and saved workouts depend on your device and browser: a phone may lock, sleep, mute or reload the page, and a browser may slow or block timers and sounds. Don't rely on the app for anything where a timing mistake could cause harm.
13. Disclaimer
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we make no promises or guarantees about the app or its content, whether express or implied, including that it is fit for a particular purpose, accurate, reliable or will give any particular fitness result.
14. Limitation of our liability
Please read this carefully. The app is provided free of charge. To the fullest extent permitted by South African law, Fatboy Fitness, its creators, owners and contributors are not liable for any injury, illness, death, loss or damage of any kind, whether direct, indirect or consequential, that arises from or is connected with your use of the app, its workouts, its timer or audio, or your reliance on any of its content. This includes loss or damage caused by negligence, but not loss or damage caused by our gross negligence or intentional wrongdoing, or any liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.
15. Indemnity
To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify us against any claim, loss or cost (including reasonable legal fees) made by anyone else that arises from your breach of these terms, your misuse of the app, or your training, including training you supervise.
16. Your rights as a consumer
Nothing in these terms takes away any right you have that cannot lawfully be excluded, including under the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 and the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, where they apply. If any part of these terms conflicts with such a right, that right applies instead.
17. Stopping use
You can stop using the app at any time, and you can delete what it has stored by clearing this website's data in your browser. We may restrict access to the app for anyone who breaks these terms.
18. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time, for example when the app changes or the law requires it. We will show the date of the latest version at the top of this page. If you keep using the app after a change, you accept the updated terms.
19. Law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of South Africa, and the courts of South Africa have jurisdiction over any dispute about them. If you have a problem with the app, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it informally.
20. General
- If any part of these terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the rest remains in force.
- If we don't enforce a right under these terms straight away, we haven't given it up.
- These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the app.
- You may not transfer your rights under these terms to anyone else. We may transfer ours if the app changes hands.
21. Contact us
For questions about these terms, contact us at [contact email].
