These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of Ascend Fitness, including the website, mobile application, beta program, and related services. By accessing or using Ascend Fitness, you agree to be bound by these Terms.

You must be at least 13 years old to use Ascend Fitness. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account.

You agree to provide accurate account, profile, health, fitness, nutrition, and subscription information and to keep it reasonably current. Ascend Fitness may rely on the information you provide to calculate goals, estimates, recommendations, and app experiences.

Ascend Fitness provides tools, tracking features, AI-generated content, informational content, and product experiences for general fitness and wellness purposes only. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, physical therapy, or a substitute for professional healthcare, nutrition, or coaching advice.

You should consult a qualified physician or other licensed healthcare professional before beginning or changing any training, nutrition, recovery, injury-management, weight-loss, or health program, especially if you have a medical condition, injury, pain, or dietary restriction. Use Ascend Fitness at your own risk.

The app includes Health & Fitness Sources with citations for general training, nutrition, recovery, activity, and safety guidance. These sources are informational and do not make app content medical advice.

Calorie, macro, exertion, sleep, recovery, activity, and wearable estimates are estimates only and may be inaccurate or incomplete. You are responsible for deciding whether any workout, nutrition plan, AI response, or app suggestion is appropriate for you.

Ascend Fitness may use AI to generate advice, workout templates, recipes, meal estimates, summaries, and other draft actions. AI outputs may be incomplete, inaccurate, or inappropriate for your circumstances. You are responsible for reviewing AI outputs before relying on them or saving them into the app.

You agree not to use AI features to request or generate unlawful, harmful, harassing, abusive, or unsafe content. We may limit, suspend, or block AI usage to protect the service, manage costs, enforce usage limits, or comply with law.

If you connect Apple Health, Oura, or another connected app, you authorize Ascend Fitness to access the data you approve for app functionality. You can revoke connected app access through Ascend Fitness, iOS Health settings, or the third-party provider.

Activity tracking features may use location data while an activity is in progress, including background location if you start an outdoor activity and grant Always location access. Background tracking is used to keep route, distance, pace, and calorie estimates working when your phone locks or you switch apps. You are responsible for using activity tracking safely and lawfully, including avoiding distracted use while running, walking, cycling, or driving.

Premium features may require an App Store subscription. Purchases, renewals, cancellations, refunds, trials, and billing are handled by Apple under your Apple ID and Apple Media Services terms.

Subscription access may depend on Apple receipt validation and App Store subscription status. You can manage or cancel subscriptions through your Apple account settings. Unless otherwise required by law or Apple policy, subscription payments are non-refundable through Ascend Fitness.

Ascend Fitness may store data locally on your device and sync it when a network connection is available. Offline or cached data may be delayed, incomplete, or conflict with cloud data. We may attempt to resolve sync conflicts, but we cannot guarantee that all offline changes will be preserved in every circumstance.

You agree not to misuse the service, interfere with its operation, attempt unauthorized access, upload harmful code, violate applicable law, infringe intellectual property rights, or use Ascend Fitness to harass, abuse, or harm others.

Some parts of Ascend Fitness may be offered as alpha, beta, preview, or early-access features. These features may be incomplete, may change substantially, may contain errors, and may be discontinued at any time without notice.

You retain ownership of content you submit to Ascend Fitness, including profile information, logs, photos, AI prompts, AI drafts, and feedback. You grant Ascend Fitness a limited license to host, store, process, reproduce, display, and transmit that content as necessary to operate, secure, support, and improve the service.

You represent that you have the rights needed to upload or submit your content and that your content does not violate law or the rights of others.

Ascend Fitness and its related branding, design, software, and content are owned by Ascend Fitness or its licensors and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted, you may not copy, modify, distribute, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the service.

We may suspend or terminate access to Ascend Fitness at any time if we believe you have violated these Terms, created risk for users or the service, or if we discontinue the service. You may stop using the service at any time.

Ascend Fitness is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Ascend Fitness and its affiliates, founders, employees, contractors, and licensors will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, goodwill, or business opportunity arising out of or related to your use of the service.

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we may provide notice through the service or by other appropriate means. Your continued use of Ascend Fitness after updated Terms become effective means you agree to the revised Terms.

Questions about these Terms can be sent to support@ascendfitnessapp.com.