Terms of Service

Effective 27 September 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and the independent developer who runs Buddy (“Buddy”, “we”, “us”). They cover the Buddy mobile app and getgymbuddy.fitness (together, the “Service”). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you don’t agree, please don’t use Buddy.

1. Who can use Buddy

You must be at least 16 years old and able to form a binding contract. You must also not be barred from using the Service under the laws that apply to you. If you use Buddy on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you are allowed to accept these terms for it.

2. Your account

Give accurate information and keep your sign-in details secure. You are responsible for activity on your account. Tell us promptly at getgymbuddyhq@gmail.com if you think someone else has accessed it. A guest account exists only on the device that created it. If you delete the app or sign out before linking it to Apple, Google, or email, you may lose its clips. You can stop using Buddy at any time and delete your account in the app. Deletion takes effect 10 days after you ask unless you sign in again before then, as described in the Privacy Policy.

3. What Buddy does

Buddy lets you save links to workout videos from services such as Instagram and YouTube, and sorts them by exercise. Sorting is done automatically by AI, and AI can be wrong. It may label an exercise incorrectly, miss one, or suggest cues that don’t suit you. You can always change how a clip is filed. The Service is currently free. If we introduce paid features, we will show you the price and any extra terms before you pay.

4. Fitness and health

Buddy is not medical advice. The Service, including the exercise information, form cues, and saved clips, is for general information only. It is not a substitute for guidance from a doctor, physiotherapist, or qualified trainer. Talk to a medical professional before starting a new exercise programme, especially if you have a health condition, an injury, or are pregnant. Exercise can cause injury. You are responsible for choosing exercises that are safe for you and for doing them with proper form, supervision, and equipment. Stop if you feel pain, dizziness, or discomfort.

5. Clips and other people’s content

The videos you save belong to the people who created them and are governed by the terms of the services that host them. Buddy stores a link, basic details such as the title and thumbnail, and its own analysis. It saves them for your personal reference, and opening a clip takes you back to the original service. Buddy is not affiliated with or endorsed by Instagram, Meta, YouTube, Google, or any other service or creator whose content you save.

You keep ownership of what you add to Buddy, such as your profile photo, the names you give, and your sorting choices. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, copy, process, and display that content, and the clips you save, only as needed to run and improve the Service for you. This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies we are required to keep by law. When our AI finds an exercise that isn’t in the catalogue yet, it may add a general description of that exercise to the shared catalogue that all users see. That description never includes your video, photos, or account details.

You confirm that you have the right to save and use the content you add, and that doing so doesn’t break anyone else’s rights or the rules of the service it comes from. If you believe content on Buddy infringes your copyright, email getgymbuddyhq@gmail.com. Include the work, where it appears on Buddy, and your contact details, and we will respond promptly.

6. Acceptable use

Don’t use the Service to:

• break the law or the rights of others, including privacy and intellectual property rights;
• upload a profile photo or name that is unlawful, hateful, sexually explicit, or impersonates someone;
• gain unauthorised access to the Service, other accounts, or our systems, or probe or disrupt them;
• scrape, copy, or resell the Service or the exercise catalogue, or use it to build a competing product;
• reverse engineer the app, except where the law allows this despite this restriction;
• overload the Service with automated or excessive requests.

7. Our rights

Buddy, including the app, its design, the Buddy bear and name, the exercise catalogue, and its generated images, belongs to us or our licensors and is protected by law. We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the app on devices you own or control, for your own non-commercial use, under these terms. If you send us feedback, we may use it without owing you anything.

8. Changes and availability

We are always improving Buddy, so we may add, change, or remove features. We may also limit or stop the Service. We will give you reasonable notice of changes that significantly affect you where we can. We don’t promise that the Service will always be available or error-free. Content from other services may stop working if those services change or remove it.

9. Suspension and termination

You can stop using Buddy at any time. We may suspend or close your account if you seriously or repeatedly break these terms, if we must do so by law, or to protect users or the Service. Where appropriate, we will tell you why and give you a chance to respond. The sections that by their nature should continue, including 5, 7, 10, 11, and 13, survive termination.

10. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent the law allows, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”. We make no warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. Some jurisdictions do not allow these exclusions, so some of them may not apply to you.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages. Nor are we liable for any loss of data, profits, or goodwill, or for injury arising from exercises you choose to perform. Our total liability for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim and USD 50. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, and for fraud.

12. Indemnity

If you use the Service in breach of these terms or the law, you agree to cover our reasonable losses and costs arising from third-party claims about that use, to the extent the law allows.

13. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of India. The courts of India have jurisdiction over disputes arising from them. If you are a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you may bring claims in your local courts where those laws allow. Before starting any formal dispute, please email us so we can try to resolve it informally.

14. Apple App Store

If you downloaded Buddy from the Apple App Store, the following also applies:

• These terms are between you and us, not Apple. We, not Apple, are responsible for the app and its content.
• Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app.
• If the app fails to meet an applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund any purchase price. Apple has no other warranty obligation for the app.
• We, not Apple, are responsible for handling claims relating to the app. These include product liability claims, claims that the app fails to meet legal requirements, consumer protection claims, and intellectual property infringement claims.
• You confirm that you are not in a country subject to US government embargo and are not on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

Your use of the app must also comply with the App Store and Google Play terms that apply to you.

15. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If we do, we will change the date at the top of this page. If a change is significant, we will also tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. If you keep using Buddy after a change takes effect, you accept the updated terms. If you don’t agree to them, stop using Buddy and ask us to delete your account.

16. General

These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service. If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we don’t enforce a right, we have not waived it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms without our consent. We may transfer ours as part of a sale or reorganisation of the Service, and your rights will not be reduced as a result.

17. Contact

Questions about these terms: getgymbuddyhq@gmail.com.