The agreement between you and the people who make VERA. We have tried to write it so that a person can read it. What we do with data about you has its own document — the Privacy Notice — which is shorter, and mostly a list of things we don't collect.
The short, human version. It is not the agreement — the numbered sections below are — but if the two ever seem to disagree, we would rather you had read this one.
1.1 These Terms of Service, together with the Privacy Notice they incorporate at clause 8 (together, the “Terms”), form a binding agreement between you (“you”) and Pointzone AB, a limited liability company registered in Sweden (“we”, “us”, “our”).
1.2 The Terms govern your use of:
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1.3 By using the Service you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Service. There is no account to delete and no subscription to cancel — closing the tab is a complete and effective withdrawal.
1.4 These Terms are written in English. If we publish a translation, the English version governs in the event of a conflict, except where mandatory local law requires otherwise.
2.1 What it is. VERA is an interval timer. You describe a workout in terms of sets, repetitions, work durations and pauses; VERA expands that into a timeline and counts it down, with optional sound cues, spoken announcements, vibration and background music. It can also run the same timeline in lockstep across several devices in the same room.
2.2 What it is not. VERA is not a medical device, a diagnostic tool, a fitness assessment, a personal-training service, or a source of medical, physiotherapeutic or nutritional advice. It does not know your age, your injuries, your heart rate, your training history or your limits. It counts seconds. Any exercise names, descriptions, images or reference pages in the Service are general information for orientation only, and are not instruction, prescription or supervision.
2.3 No professional relationship. Using the Service does not create a doctor-patient, trainer-client, or any other professional or fiduciary relationship between you and us.
Please actually read this one.
3.1 Consult a professional first. Physical exercise carries inherent risks, including muscle strain, joint injury, falls, dehydration, fainting, and — rarely but genuinely — serious cardiac events. Before beginning any new exercise programme, and particularly if you are pregnant, are recovering from illness, injury or surgery, have a cardiovascular, respiratory, musculoskeletal or metabolic condition, take medication that affects heart rate or blood pressure, or have not exercised in some time, consult a qualified medical professional.
3.2 You decide what you do. The Service will run whatever timeline you configure, including a timeline that is far too hard for you, far too long, or made up of exercises you shouldn't be doing. It has no way to know. You are solely responsible for choosing your exercises, your intensity, your technique, your equipment and your environment, and for deciding whether to continue.
3.3 Stop if something is wrong. Stop immediately and seek medical attention if you experience chest pain, pressure or tightness, dizziness, faintness, unusual shortness of breath, nausea, sharp or sudden pain, or any other symptom that concerns you. Do not “finish the round”. The round is not important.
3.4 Supervise minors. If a person under 18 uses the Service, a parent, guardian, teacher or coach is responsible for supervising them and for the suitability of the training.
3.5 Assumption of risk. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you voluntarily assume all risks associated with physical exercise undertaken while using the Service. Nothing in this section limits any liability that cannot lawfully be limited — see section 14.
4.1 The Service requires no registration, no login, no email address and no payment. There is nothing to subscribe to and no advertising.
4.2 Because the Service is provided free of charge, it is supplied “as available” and we do not guarantee any level of availability, performance or continuity. See sections 13 and 14.
4.3 We may in future offer optional paid features. If we ever do, we will say so clearly, the paid terms will be presented separately before you pay anything, and the features described in these Terms as free will not silently become chargeable.
5.1 You may use the Service for your own training and for training with others, personally or professionally (yes, coaches and gyms may use it with their clients — that's rather the point).
5.2 You agree not to:
5.3 We may, without notice, suspend or terminate access, drop connections, close live sessions or block traffic where we reasonably believe it is necessary to protect the Service, its users or third parties, or to comply with law.
5.4 Security reports are welcome. If you find a vulnerability, please tell us at hello@verapulse.app rather than demonstrating it in production. We will not pursue good-faith researchers who report privately, act proportionately, avoid accessing others' data, and give us a reasonable opportunity to fix the issue before disclosure.
6.1 How it works. One device creates a session and becomes the host. Other devices join by scanning a QR code or opening a share link. Every device runs the same timeline from a shared start clock; the host controls previous, pause, next and stop for everyone. Joiners' controls are read-only while they are connected to the host.
6.2 Sessions are unauthenticated by design. There are no passwords and no membership approval. Anyone who has the link or a photograph of the QR code can join the session. Treat a session link as you would treat an unlocked door: fine for a room full of people you invited, unwise to post publicly.
6.3 What other participants can see. Participants in a session can see the workout configuration and the display name you have set. Your display name is “Anonymous” unless you change it in My VERA. Please do not put anything sensitive in a display name or a workout name — the same applies to workout names shared via a link.
6.4 Sessions are ephemeral. Live sessions exist only in the memory of the server process. They are not written to any database. A session ends — and its contents are gone — when its participants leave, after an inactivity grace period, or when the server restarts or is redeployed. We keep no history of who trained with whom, or when.
6.5 The host is in charge, and responsible. If you host a session, you are responsible for whom you invite and for the workout you impose on them. Every participant remains responsible for their own body under section 3, and may leave at any time.
6.6 Degraded mode. If the connection to the live-sync server fails, devices continue running the workout locally from the clock in the link, and the app tells you sync is unavailable. This is intentional, so a dropped connection doesn't strand you mid-round.
7.1 They're yours. Workout configurations you create are your content. We claim no ownership of them. We could not sell them if we wanted to — we don't have them (see Privacy Notice, section 2).
7.2 Share links contain the workout. A share link encodes the workout itself in the URL fragment. URL fragments are, as a matter of how browsers work, not transmitted to the web server in the HTTP request — so sharing a workout link does not by itself send your workout to us. It does, of course, send it to whoever you sent the link to, and to any service you route it through (a messaging app, a screenshot, a printed QR code on a gym wall).
7.3 Untrusted input. Share links are just text and can be edited by anyone. The Service validates and clamps incoming links against its configured limits, but you should treat a workout link from a stranger the way you'd treat any other link from a stranger.
7.4 Limited licence to us. To the extent it is technically necessary to operate the live-sync feature, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to transmit the workout configuration and display name you choose to share to the other participants of your session, for the duration of that session and no longer. That is the entirety of the licence and it exists solely to make the feature work.
8.1 The Privacy Notice. What personal data the Service processes, why, on what legal basis, for how long, and what rights you have over it is set out in our Privacy Notice, published at verapulse.app/privacy. It is our notice under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and it is incorporated into these Terms by reference — it is part of this agreement, not a separate promise alongside it.
8.2 Why it is a separate document. It used to be clause 8 of these Terms. We moved it out because a privacy notice that can only be found inside a contract is a privacy notice most people never read, and because it needs to change on its own schedule — it carries its own version number.
8.3 The one-line version. There is no account, so there is no profile of you. Your workouts and settings stay on your device. Analytics are off until you switch them on, and even then we receive no name, no email and no IP address. We set no advertising or tracking cookies — only one that remembers the language you picked — and sell nothing to anyone. The Privacy Notice is where that is said properly, with the exceptions and the legal bases.
8.4 Controller. For any personal data processed through the Service, the controller is Pointzone AB, reachable at hello@verapulse.app.
9.1 The music. Background tracks are curated from Jamendo and are licensed under Creative Commons licences (CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA) that permit the use we make of them. We are not the authors and we claim no rights in them. Tracks under a no-derivatives (ND) licence are deliberately excluded from the pool, because the player trims and crossfades every track it plays and that is a derivative work.
9.2 Attribution is a condition, not decoration. The Service displays the track title, artist and licence while music plays. Those licences require that attribution. Do not remove, obscure, cover or alter it.
9.3 Your own use of the tracks. These Terms give you no rights in the music beyond listening to it through the Service. If you want to use a track in your own video, class recording, podcast or livestream, go to the track's page on Jamendo and comply with its licence directly — all of them require attribution, and the share-alike ones require you to license what you make on the same terms. That is between you and the artist.
9.4 Claims from rightsholders. If you are a rightsholder and believe a track is included in error, contact us at hello@verapulse.app with the track identifier and the basis of your claim. We will remove it from the pool promptly while we investigate. Removing a track is a small change to a JSON file, so there is no reason for this to be adversarial.
9.5 Exercise information. Exercise names, descriptions and reference pages are general information, compiled with care but without any warranty of correctness, completeness or suitability for you. See 2.2 and section 3.
9.6 Open-source components. The Service incorporates third-party open-source software under its respective licences, which continue to govern those components.
10.1 The VERA name, the caret mark, the wordmark, the tagline “Move. Repeat. Improve.”, the visual design of the Service, and its software, text and assets (other than third-party materials under section 9) are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual-property law.
10.2 We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service for its intended purpose, in accordance with these Terms. No other rights are granted, by implication or otherwise.
10.3 You may link to the Service freely and share workout links with anyone. You may not use our name or marks in a way that suggests we endorse, sponsor or are affiliated with you or your product without our prior written permission.
10.4 Feedback. If you send us suggestions, we may use them without restriction and without owing you anything. We would still like to hear them.
11.1 We may change, add to, suspend or remove features at any time. We aim not to break things that people rely on, but this is a free service maintained by a small team, and we make no commitment that any particular feature will continue to exist.
11.2 We do not guarantee uptime, and we may take the Service offline for maintenance, security or any other reason, with or without notice. There is no service-level agreement.
11.3 Because your workouts are stored on your own device (Privacy Notice, section 2), the installed web app and the Android app continue to run offline. A server outage stops live sync and new page loads; it does not stop your timer.
11.4 If we discontinue the Service permanently, we will try to give reasonable public notice on verapulse.app beforehand. As we hold no user data, there will be nothing for you to export — your workouts are already in your hands.
12.1 We may update these Terms. The version number at the top will change, and the current version will always be published at verapulse.app/terms.
12.1a The Privacy Notice carries its own version number and may be updated on its own schedule, on the same notice terms as 12.2. A change there is not a change to the version number of these Terms.
12.2 For material changes — those that meaningfully reduce your rights or expand our permissions — we will give reasonable prior notice through the Service before they take effect.
12.3 Continuing to use the Service after new Terms take effect means you accept them. If you do not, stop using the Service; as there is no account, that is all that is required of you.
13.1 To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement.
13.2 We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free; that timing will be accurate to any particular tolerance on any particular device (browsers throttle background timers, phones sleep, and audio stacks vary); that live sync will remain connected; that defects will be corrected; or that any information in the Service is accurate or complete.
13.3 Nothing in this section excludes any warranty or right that cannot be excluded under mandatory law, including the statutory rights of consumers.
14.1 Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for: death or personal injury caused by our negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; gross negligence or intentional misconduct; liability under mandatory product-liability law; or any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.
14.2 Subject to 14.1, and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for: indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages; loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill, or anticipated savings; loss or corruption of data (including workouts stored on your device); injury or harm arising from exercise you chose to perform (section 3); the acts or omissions of other participants in a live session; or the content, availability or conduct of third-party services in the request path (Privacy Notice, section 8).
14.3 Subject to 14.1, and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with the Service and these Terms is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you have paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim — which, the Service being free of charge, is normally zero — and (b) EUR 100.
14.4 These limitations apply regardless of the legal theory advanced, and they reflect a deliberate allocation of risk: the Service is provided at no charge, and it would not be viable to provide it at no charge on any other basis.
14.5 Consumers. If you are a consumer, nothing in this section affects your mandatory statutory rights, and 14.2 and 14.3 apply only to the extent permitted by the consumer-protection law of your country of residence.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, and except where you are a consumer acting outside your trade, business or profession, you agree to indemnify us against third-party claims, damages and reasonable legal costs arising from your breach of section 5 (Acceptable use), your infringement of a third party's rights, or your unlawful use of the Service.
16.1 You may stop using the Service at any time. Deleting the app or clearing your browser data ends the relationship completely and deletes everything we could conceivably be holding about you that is actually on your device.
16.2 We may terminate or suspend your access as described in 5.3.
16.3 Sections 7.1, 8 (and the Privacy Notice it incorporates), 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17 and 18 survive termination.
17.1 These Terms and any non-contractual obligations arising out of them are governed by the laws of Sweden, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
17.2 The courts of Sweden have jurisdiction over disputes arising out of these Terms.
17.3 Consumers. If you are a consumer resident in the European Union, 17.1 and 17.2 do not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of your country of residence, and you may bring proceedings in the courts of that country. Swedish consumers may also refer a dispute to the National Board for Consumer Disputes (Allmänna reklamationsnämnden, arn.se). The European Commission's online dispute-resolution platform is available at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.
17.4 We would much rather sort it out by email first. Try hello@verapulse.app.
18.1 Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed if that is not possible. The rest remains in force.
18.2 No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
18.3 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Notice incorporated at clause 8, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service, and supersede any prior understanding on the subject.
18.4 Assignment. You may not assign your rights under these Terms. We may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger, acquisition or transfer of the business, provided your rights under these Terms are not reduced.
18.5 Force majeure. We are not liable for failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
18.6 Headings and the TL;DR. Headings are for convenience. The TL;DR at the top is a good-faith plain-language summary and is not itself operative; where it and the numbered sections conflict, the numbered sections govern — though we would treat a genuine conflict as a bug in our drafting and fix it.
Pointzone AB
Email: hello@verapulse.app
For privacy requests, please put “GDPR” in the subject line, and read Privacy Notice, section 11 first so you know what we can realistically do.