Terms of use

hybrid.club is a free, invite-only club for everyday athletes who train running and strength, with its own app. It's run by Affilink Ltd, Bridge House, Riverside North, Bewdley, DY12 1AB. Affilink Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales, number 15848475. When these terms say we or us, that's who they mean.

These terms are the agreement between you and us for using hybrid.club: the app for iPhone and Apple Watch, the hybrid.club watch face for Garmin watches, and this website. The club rules are part of them, and our privacy policy explains what we do with your data.

When you join, the app asks you to accept these terms and the club rules, and to confirm you've read the privacy policy. You need to accept them to use the club. If you only use this website, the section on training, health and races applies to you too.

• You must be 18 or over. hybrid.club is for adults, and you can join from anywhere. The app asks your date of birth when you join, and closes the account of anyone under 18. Giving a false date of birth breaks these terms.
• It's free. There's no fee to join or to use the app, and we'll never charge you for anything without asking you first.
• It's invite-only. You apply on this website, or a member invites you, and we decide who joins, and when.
• One account each. Don't make a second account, share yours, or join again after we've removed you.
• Be who you say you are. Give accurate details, keep them up to date, and don't pretend to be anyone else.
• Keep your sign-in to yourself. Don't share your sign-in codes or let anyone else use your account. The codes come by email, so keep your email account secure too. If you think someone else has got into your account, email hello@hybrid.club straight away.

The club rules are part of these terms. In short: be decent, no spam or selling, post your own training, and earn points with real, tracked training.

There is no tolerance in the club for objectionable content or abusive members. That means no harassment, bullying, hate or threats, nothing sexual or graphic, and nothing illegal.

• Report anything that breaks the rules from the post, comment or profile. Only the admins see reports, and nobody is told who made one.
• Block a member and neither of you will see the other's posts, comments or reactions, or get notifications from each other. You can also hide a single post.
• An automatic filter checks posts and comments for certain words, and a new member's first few posts and comments for links, and holds anything it flags until an admin has looked at it. It also checks bios and race names, and asks you to change anything it flags.
• The admins look at every report. We remove anything that breaks the rules, and we can warn, suspend or remove the member who posted it.
• If something looks illegal, or someone may be in danger, we may tell the police or other authorities.

Don't misuse the club itself either. Don't try to get into accounts or parts of the club that aren't yours, fake your training or your GPS, copy members' details or posts in bulk, or use bots or anything else that gets in the way of the club working.

Nothing illegal is allowed in the club. When we see something that may be illegal, or someone tells us about it, an admin looks at it straight away. We take it down if it's illegal or breaks these terms.

• Terrorist content. We take it down as soon as we see it, remove the account and tell the police.
• Child sexual abuse material or grooming. We take it down as soon as we see it, remove the account and report it to the National Crime Agency.
• Other illegal content. This includes threats, harassment, stalking, hate, sharing intimate images without consent, sending unwanted sexual images, scams, and offers to sell drugs or weapons. We aim to decide within 24 hours of a report, and sooner if someone may be in danger. We can warn, suspend or remove the member who posted it.

Our automatic filter checks every post and comment for certain words, and a new member's first few posts and comments for links. It never removes anything by itself. It holds the post or comment until an admin has looked at it. Bios and race names it flags aren't saved, and you're asked to change them.

Anyone can complain to us, whether they're a member or not. You can complain about:

• something in the club you think is illegal or breaks the rules: report it from the post, comment or profile, or email hello@hybrid.club
• a decision we made about you or your content, such as holding or removing a post, or warning, suspending or removing you. This is an appeal
• our automatic filter
• how we meet our online safety duties, including how we protect free expression and privacy

We'll confirm we've received your complaint and tell you roughly how long it will take: usually 24 hours for reports, 7 days for appeals and 14 days for other complaints. If we got it wrong, we'll put it right, for example by restoring your post or your account. You can ask us not to send you updates about a report. If you think we've broken this agreement, you also have the right to bring a claim in court.

What you post stays yours: your sessions, routes, photos, comments and profile.

To run the club, you give us permission (a licence) to:

• store it, with the companies that run the club for us
• copy and adapt it, for example to hide the ends of a route, work out your stats or make a preview
• show it to members inside the club, as your settings allow: in the feed, on your profile, on the weekly board and recap, on race pages and roundups, on leaderboards and challenge tables, and in notifications

The licence is free, works wherever members are, and lasts until you delete the post or your account, apart from the few things our privacy policy says we keep, like copies of reported posts.

We don't use what you post outside the club, on this website or our social media for example, unless we've asked you and you've said yes.

You're responsible for what you post, so make sure:

• any training in it is your own
• you have the right to post it: photos you took, or have permission to use
• it doesn't share anything private about anyone else, like their address, their phone number or a photo they wouldn't want shared
• it doesn't break the club rules or the law

We can remove anything posted in the club. We don't check everything before it appears, so what members post is their responsibility, not ours, but we look at every report.

Points, tiers, patches and the rewards that come with them are part of the fun of the club. They aren't money.

• They have no cash value. You can't sell, swap or transfer them, or exchange them for cash.
• We decide how they're earned and what they bring, and we can change that, for example from one season to the next.
• We check training before it earns points. We can correct mistakes, and take away points that came from cheating or breaking the rules, along with anything they earned.
• A reward that comes as a code, like credit for the hybrid.club shop, is personal to you. Use it as it says, before it expires: it can't be swapped for cash.
• Partner perks come from other companies, on their own terms. Each partner is responsible for its offer and for what it sells you.
• If you buy from the hybrid.club shop, the terms of sale we show you before you pay apply to that order, along with your legal rights as a buyer.
• If your account is deleted, or we remove you from the club, your points, patches and unused codes go too.

Hard training has risks, so look after yourself.

• You train and race at your own risk: you decide what you do, and how hard you go.
• Nothing in the club is medical advice: not the app, posts, comments, articles, training plans or anything we say.
• If you have any doubts about your health, for example because of a heart condition, an injury or a pregnancy, see a doctor before you start a new kind of training or enter a race.
• Stop if you feel unwell, faint or dizzy, or have pain in your chest, and get help.
• Figures from phones and watches, including heart rate, distance, pace and calories, are estimates. They're not medical readings, so don't rely on them for your health.
• Training or racing with members you meet through the club is arranged between you, so take the care you would with anyone new.

Race details

Race details on this website and in the app are based on what organisers publish, or what members add, and they can be wrong or change. Check with the organiser before you enter, book or travel. Entering a race is between you and its organiser, on their terms.

The club works with services from other companies: Garmin Connect and Garmin watches, Apple Health and Apple Watch, and the apps you share to, like Instagram. Those companies run them, on their own terms and privacy policies.

• We're not responsible for those services, for how well they work, or for what they record or send us.
• Connecting them is up to you, and you can disconnect whenever you like: Garmin in the app under Settings, Connected apps, and Apple Health in the Health app on your iPhone.
• What we keep from them, and what disconnecting deletes, is in our privacy policy, under Garmin and Apple Health and Apple Watch.

• The club is free, and we provide it as it is. We work hard to keep it running well, but we can't promise it will always be available or free of bugs.
• We keep improving the club, so features can change, move or stop. Some changes need the latest version of the app, so keep it up to date.
• Test versions of the app, through Apple's TestFlight, can have rough edges and change often.
• We can pause the club, or part of it, to fix or improve things, or to deal with a problem.
• We can close the club. If we do, we'll tell members in the app or by email as far ahead as we can, so you can ask for a copy of your data first.
• The hybrid.club name and logo, the app, the patch designs and our other designs are ours. Use them to take part in the club, but don't copy them or use them for anything else without asking us.
• If you send us ideas or feedback, we're free to use them without owing you anything.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our responsibility for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law doesn't let us limit or exclude. Nothing in them takes away your legal rights as a consumer either. Apart from that:

• If we break these terms, or don't use reasonable care and skill, we're responsible for loss or damage you suffer that's a foreseeable result. Loss is foreseeable if it was obvious it would happen, or if you and we both knew it might when you accepted these terms.
• We're not responsible for loss that wasn't foreseeable.
• The club is for your own personal use, so we're not responsible for business losses, like lost profit, income or opportunities.
• We're not responsible for what other members post or do, for other companies' services (Garmin, Apple, partners and race organisers among them), or for problems caused by events outside our control.
• Because the club is free, our total responsibility to you for everything to do with the club is limited to £100.

You can leave whenever you like

Delete your account in the app, under Settings, Delete account. It erases your data, apart from the few things listed under what deleting your account does in our privacy policy.

We can suspend or remove you

We can do any of these if you break these terms or the club rules, if we need to in order to keep members safe, or if the law requires it:

• warn you
• suspend you for a set time: you can still read the club, but you can't post, comment or react until it ends
• remove you from the club: you lose access to it, your posts come down, and you can't join again unless we agree

We'll tell you why where we can. If you think we've got it wrong, see complaints. If we've removed you, you can still get your data: email hello@hybrid.club and we'll send you a copy, or delete your account for you.

We may change these terms, for example when we add features or the law changes. When we do, we'll update this page and the date at the top, tell members in the app, and ask you to accept the new terms before you carry on. You may need the latest version of the app to see them. If you don't want to accept them, you can delete your account.

If we only fix a typo, or make the wording clearer without changing what it means, we won't ask you again.

If something's wrong, email us first. Most problems can be sorted out quickly.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and disputes about them go to the courts of England and Wales. If you live anywhere else, you keep any protection the law where you live gives you, and you can bring a claim in your local courts instead.

A few more legal points

• We can pass these terms, and the club, to another organisation, for example if someone else takes over running the club. We'll tell you if we do, and your rights under these terms stay the same. If you're unhappy about it, you can delete your account.
• You can't pass your membership, or these terms, to anyone else.
• Nobody else has any rights under these terms.
• If a court decides part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.
• If we don't insist on something straight away, we can still insist on it later.

If you got the app from Apple's App Store, Apple's standard licence for apps also applies to the app itself. These terms cover the club: your membership, what you post and how we run things. If you test the app through Apple's TestFlight, TestFlight's own terms apply too.

Email hello@hybrid.club, or write to Affilink Ltd, Bridge House, Riverside North, Bewdley, DY12 1AB. We'll contact you in the app, or by email at the address on your account.

How members treat each other is in the club rules, and what we do with your data is in our privacy policy.