Terms of Use

Draft. This text has been prepared but not yet reviewed by a lawyer. Items in square brackets will be completed before launch. The German version is legally binding; this translation is provided for convenience.

1. Scope and provider

These terms govern the use of the “Kadence” app (iOS) and the website kadence-app.com. The provider is the operator named above. The terms are shown to you in the App Store and in the app; they apply from the first launch of the app, and at the latest by taking out a subscription you confirm them. Deviating terms do not apply.

The app is aimed at consumers. Mandatory consumer protection law remains unaffected by these terms.

2. Service

Kadence is a training and nutrition app: timers for interval, Tabata, AMRAP, EMOM and for-time workouts, a strength log with programmes and progressions, an illustrated exercise library with curated workouts, a calorie diary with barcode search, and goals with automatic tracking. Use requires a subscription after a free trial; there is no restricted free tier, the subscription includes all features (section 8).

We develop the app continuously and may change, add or discontinue features as far as that is reasonable for you. Your locally stored data is unaffected; you can export it at any time.

3. Health notice and personal responsibility

Kadence is a training tool, not medical advice. The app makes no diagnoses, recommends no treatments and replaces neither medical advice nor physiotherapy. Exercises, workouts, programmes, heart-rate zones and nutrition values are general offerings for healthy adults and are not tailored to your personal situation.

Please note:

• Talk to a doctor before starting training if you have pre-existing conditions (in particular cardiovascular, joint, spine or metabolic), are pregnant, are recovering from an injury or surgery, take medication or have not trained for a long time.
• You decide on load, weight, pace and volume yourself. The app counts, measures and suggests; it knows neither your fitness level nor how you feel today. Choose exercises and weights you can perform safely and progress step by step.
• Stop immediately if you feel pain, dizziness, shortness of breath, chest pain or unwell and get help. Discomfort that gets worse is not progress.
• Warm up and pay attention to clean form. Illustrations and cues in the app show the target movement but do not replace instruction by qualified coaches, especially for technically demanding exercises such as Olympic lifts, plyometrics or heavy loads.
• Heart-rate and calorie values are estimates. They come from your device or from general formulas and are not medical measurements. Use them for orientation, not for diagnosis.
• Nutrition values come from public and commercial databases (Open Food Facts, the German Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel of the Max Rubner-Institut, FatSecret) and from your own entries. We are not responsible for the content or accuracy of this third-party data. They may be incomplete or wrong. If you have allergies, intolerances or a medically prescribed diet, do not rely on the app alone. The app does not provide dietary advice.
• Train in a safe environment. Make sure you have enough space, a stable footing, intact equipment, and avoid looking at the device during training when that would be dangerous. That is what the voice cues are for.

Using the app and training according to its guidance is at your own responsibility. This does not change our liability under section 7.

4. Account and minimum age

An account is voluntary and only needed for cloud backup and for feedback with a reply. You may only provide your own, accurate details and must not pass your account on to third parties.

You must be at least 14 years old to create an account. Younger persons may use the app without an account with their guardians’ consent; we recommend supervised training.

You can delete your account in the app at any time. We may suspend or delete an account if it is used to abuse the sharing or reporting features, to attack our services or in any other unlawful way. We will hear you first where that is reasonable.

5. Shared content

You can share your own exercises, workouts, programmes and units by link or QR code. For this content:

• You are responsible for what you share. You warrant that you hold the necessary rights to texts and images and do not infringe third-party rights.
• No dangerous instructions. Shared content must not describe exercises or loads that carry an evident injury risk when performed as intended, and must not contain claims of healing, diagnoses or medical treatment recommendations.
• No unlawful or offensive content, no advertising, no personal data of third parties.
• Licence. You grant us the non-exclusive, royalty-free right to store the shared content for the duration of the share, display it via the link and allow recipients to import it into their app. We take no further rights.
• Reporting and removal. Every shared page has a report function. We review every report and remove content that violates these rules or applicable law. We inform you of a removal and its reasons where we are able to reach you. If you disagree with a decision, write to the e-mail address given above; we will then review it again. Shared content also expires automatically after the period shown when sharing.

Recipients import shared content at their own responsibility and subject to the health notice in section 3.

6. Availability

The core of the app works without a connection to our servers. For online features (account, backup, food search, sharing, feedback, catalogue updates, version check) we strive for high availability but do not owe uninterrupted access. Maintenance, outages and changes to third-party services may temporarily restrict these features.

We may discontinue the online services with reasonable notice. In that case the app remains usable locally and we will give you the opportunity to download backed-up data beforehand.

7. Liability

For personal injury we are liable under the statutory provisions; this liability is not limited. Liability under the Austrian Product Liability Act (PHG) also remains unaffected.

For other damage, in particular damage to property and financial loss, we are liable only in cases of intent or gross negligence. Liability for slight negligence is excluded to the extent permitted towards consumers (§ 6 (1) no. 9 of the Austrian Consumer Protection Act, KSchG).

We are not liable for content shared by other users; we review it upon report and handle reports promptly. We are not liable for the loss of locally stored data to the extent you failed to make a reasonable backup. The app offers export and optional cloud backup for that purpose.

8. Subscription, prices and cancellation

Trial. From the first launch you can use the app free of charge and in full for 10 days. The trial starts automatically; it requires neither a subscription nor any action in the App Store, and it applies once per installation. After that a subscription is required. Without a subscription your data remains on the device and can be exported; the app’s features are not available until a subscription is taken out. Profile, data export, account and subscription management remain accessible.

Price. The subscription costs per month:

• €0.49 for everyone who subscribes on or before 31 January 2027 (introductory price),
• €0.99 for everyone who subscribes from 1 February 2027.

All prices include statutory VAT. The price is shown to you again in the App Store before you subscribe; the amount stated there is decisive.

Introductory price is protected. Anyone who subscribed at the introductory price keeps it after 31 January 2027 as long as the subscription continues without interruption. The change to €0.99 applies only to newly taken-out subscriptions. If a subscription is cancelled and later taken out again, the price current at that time applies.

Price changes. We may change the price for new subscriptions at any time; the price shown to you in the App Store when subscribing is decisive. We may change the price of a running subscription, for example if our costs rise. We announce such a change at least 30 days before it takes effect, in the app and via Apple. It only takes effect if you agree to it in the way provided by Apple; if you do not agree, your subscription ends at the end of the period already paid for, at no further cost to you. This also applies to subscriptions at the introductory price; the protection above shields you from the change to €0.99, not from a change under this paragraph.

Term and cancellation. The subscription runs for one month and renews automatically for a further month unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You subscribe via your Apple ID; Apple handles billing. You can cancel at any time in your Apple ID settings under “Subscriptions”. After cancellation the subscription remains active until the end of the paid period.

Right of withdrawal and refunds. Purchases in the App Store are concluded with Apple. Whether and how you can withdraw from a purchase (Austrian Distance and Off-Premises Contracts Act, FAGG) and whether you are entitled to a refund is governed by Apple’s terms for the App Store; Apple informs you about this before you subscribe. Requests go directly to Apple (reportaproblem.apple.com).

Deletion and subscription. Deleting your local data or your account does not end the subscription, because it is tied to your Apple ID. Cancel it separately with Apple.

9. Final provisions

Austrian law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the conflict-of-law rules of private international law. If you are a consumer habitually resident in another EU country, you retain the mandatory protection of that country’s law.

We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration body under the Austrian Alternative Dispute Resolution Act (AStG). For online purchases you may nevertheless contact the Internet Ombudsstelle (www.ombudsstelle.at).

Should any provision of these terms be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.

We may change these terms if the app, the law or our offering changes. We will inform you of material changes in the app; the current version is always available at this address.

These terms are available in German and English. In case of discrepancies, the German version prevails.