These Terms of Service ("Terms") are the agreement between you and Ringflect for your use of the Ringflect app and website. Read them. By creating an account or using the app, you accept these Terms.
If you do not agree, do not use the app.
1. Who these Terms are between
These Terms are between you ("you," "the athlete," "the user") and Alton Chase, an individual sole proprietor doing business as Ringflect ("Ringflect," "we," "us"). Ringflect operates the Ringflect app and the website at https://ringflect.com.
For privacy questions, see the Privacy Policy at https://ringflect.com/privacy.
A formal legal entity (likely an LLC) is planned before the V1.2 paid tier launches. When formed, these Terms will be updated to name the entity in place of the sole proprietor.
2. What Ringflect is
Ringflect is a self-calibration tool for serious individual athletes. It helps you review days after they happen, identify miscalibration between how you felt and how the data looks, track intentional experiments, and notice recurring patterns in your own performance history.
Ringflect is not:
- A medical device.
- A diagnostic tool.
- A substitute for medical advice, training advice, or coaching.
- A real-time training prescription system.
- A team, coach, or parent platform.
- An accurate predictor of performance, illness, or injury.
See Section 8 for the full medical and training disclaimer.
3. Eligibility
You may use Ringflect if:
- You are at least 16 years old. Ringflect is not designed for users under 16.
- You can form a binding contract under the laws that apply to you.
- You are not barred from using Ringflect under the laws of your country, including U.S. export control or sanctions laws.
If you are using Ringflect on behalf of an organization (a coaching practice, a club, a team), you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, but note: V1 of Ringflect is built for individual athletes. Coach- and team-facing features are not part of V1.
4. Your account
Ringflect requires an account. By creating one, you agree to:
- Provide accurate sign-up information.
- Keep your password and authentication credentials secure.
- Not share your account with anyone else.
- Notify us promptly if you suspect unauthorized access to your account.
- Be responsible for all activity on your account.
Ringflect authentication is handled by Clerk, Inc. By creating an account you accept Clerk's terms in addition to ours: https://clerk.com/legal/terms.
5. License to use the app
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Ringflect grants you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to install and use the Ringflect app on devices you own or control for your personal, non-commercial use.
This license does not give you the right to:
- Sell, rent, lease, sublicense, or transfer access to your account.
- Reverse-engineer, decompile, or disassemble the app (except as expressly permitted by law).
- Use the app to build a competing product or service.
- Use automated means (scripts, bots, scrapers) to access the app, other than for personal data export.
- Remove or alter any proprietary notices in the app.
- Use the app in a way that violates any applicable law.
We may suspend or revoke your license if you violate these Terms.
6. Your content
You retain ownership of the data you log into Ringflect, your daily logs, nightly reviews, experiment notes, and so on ("Your Content").
By logging Your Content into Ringflect, you grant us a limited license to store, process, and display it back to you, to generate insights from it, and to operate the service. This license is non-exclusive and ends when you delete the content or close your account.
We do not claim ownership of Your Content. We do not use Your Content to train third-party machine-learning models. We do not sell Your Content. The Privacy Policy describes the data flows in detail.
You are responsible for the content you log. Do not log:
- Other people's private information without their consent.
- Content that infringes someone else's intellectual property.
- Content that is unlawful, harassing, or defamatory.
We may remove content that violates these rules, though our normal posture is hands-off, Ringflect's data is private to your account by default.
7. Wearable, health, and calendar data
Ringflect reads data from Apple HealthKit (iOS) and Android Health Connect (Android) only with your explicit permission. The data types are listed in the Privacy Policy.
If you connect Google Calendar, Ringflect reads events from your primary Google Calendar only, read-only, under Google's calendar.events.readonly OAuth scope. Connecting Google Calendar is optional. Ringflect does not create, modify, or delete events on your Google Calendar. Ringflect does not share Google Calendar event data with any third party. The exact fields read, retention, and disconnect path are described in Privacy Policy Section 3.5.
Ringflect does not write to Apple Health or Android Health Connect. Ringflect does not share wearable-sourced or Google Calendar–sourced data with any third party. Ringflect does not use this data to train AI or machine-learning models.
Ringflect's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
You can revoke HealthKit and Health Connect permissions at any time from your device settings. You can disconnect Google Calendar at any time from Ringflect Settings → Integrations, or at https://myaccount.google.com/permissions.
8. Medical, training, and performance disclaimer
Ringflect is not a medical device. Ringflect does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or medical condition. Ringflect is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Ringflect is not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Ringflect does not provide medical advice.
The patterns Ringflect surfaces are statistical observations of your own historical data. They may be wrong. They are not predictions, not prescriptions, and not training recommendations.
Always consult a qualified medical professional if you have a health concern, are starting a new exercise program, are recovering from an injury, or are experiencing symptoms. Do not delay seeking medical advice because of something you read in Ringflect. Do not stop or change medications, training plans, or therapies based on Ringflect output.
You use Ringflect at your own risk. Athletic training carries inherent risk of injury and illness. Decisions about how hard to train, when to rest, what to eat, and when to compete are yours and should be made in consultation with appropriate professionals.
Ringflect's language is intentional. Ringflect uses words like "may," "appears," and "frequently" rather than "causes," "proves," or "guarantees", because the underlying patterns are correlational, not causal. If anywhere in Ringflect you read language that implies certainty about cause and effect, treat it as a bug and report it.
9. Subscription and payment
V1 of Ringflect is free during the launch period.
A paid tier may be introduced in a future release (currently planned for the V1.2 release). When paid features are introduced:
- We will notify you in-app and by email before any charge.
- You will be able to continue using V1 features without paying, if those features remain available.
- Subscription terms, refund policy, and pricing will be added to these Terms before the paid tier ships.
You will only be charged after you have explicitly consented to the charge, through an in-app purchase flow, a subscription confirmation, or a similar affirmative action.
10. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use Ringflect for any unlawful purpose.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of Ringflect's systems.
- Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of Ringflect's systems without prior written authorization.
- Interfere with other users' use of the app.
- Misrepresent your identity or impersonate another person.
- Use Ringflect to harass, threaten, or harm anyone.
Violations may result in account suspension or termination, and may be reported to law enforcement.
11. Third-party services
Ringflect uses third-party services to operate (Clerk for authentication, Neon for database hosting, Vercel for app delivery, Apple HealthKit, Google Health Connect, and — if you choose to connect it — the Google Calendar API). When you use Ringflect, you also interact indirectly with these providers under their own terms and privacy policies. Use of the Google Calendar API is governed by Google's API Services User Data Policy in addition to these Terms.
Ringflect is not responsible for the acts or omissions of these providers, though we choose them with care and have data-processing agreements with them.
If you use Ringflect on iOS, you also agree to Apple's End User License Agreement for licensed application use. If you use Ringflect on Android, you also agree to the applicable Google Play terms.
12. Intellectual property
Ringflect's app, source code, brand, logo, copy, design, and underlying technology are owned by us and protected by intellectual property law. The license in Section 5 does not transfer ownership of any of this to you.
If you submit feedback, suggestions, or feature requests to us, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use them without obligation to you.
13. Termination
13.1 You can terminate at any time
Delete your account from inside the app: Settings → Account → Delete account. Deletion is permanent and erases all of your data (see Privacy Policy Section 8 for details).
13.2 We may terminate
We may suspend or terminate your account if:
- You violate these Terms.
- You use Ringflect in a way that creates legal risk for us or for other users.
- We are required to do so by law.
- We discontinue the service (see Section 14).
If we terminate your account other than for cause, we will give you at least 30 days' notice and allow you to export your data first.
13.3 What survives termination
The disclaimers (Section 8), limitation of liability (Section 15), indemnification (Section 16), governing law (Section 19), and any unpaid fees survive termination.
14. Service availability and changes
We provide Ringflect "as is" and "as available." We do not guarantee that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or available at any specific time. We may add, remove, or change features without notice, though we try to give material notice for major changes.
We may discontinue Ringflect entirely. If we do, we will provide at least 60 days' notice and a data export option.
15. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law:
- Ringflect is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. We disclaim all implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
- We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages, including loss of profits, loss of data, loss of goodwill, training setbacks, missed competitions, or injury, arising from your use of Ringflect.
- Our total liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the use of Ringflect is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you have paid us in the 12 months preceding the claim, or (b) one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100).
- Notwithstanding the foregoing, this limitation of liability does not apply to claims for bodily injury, wrongful death, or willful misconduct, nor to any liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or limitation of liability for certain damages. To the extent these limitations cannot be enforced in your jurisdiction, they apply to the maximum extent the law allows.
16. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Ringflect and its officers, employees, and contractors from any claim, demand, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorney fees) arising from:
- Your use of the app.
- Your violation of these Terms.
- Your violation of any law or third-party right.
- Content you log into the app.
17. Dispute resolution
If a dispute arises, please contact us first at the address in Section 21. We aim to resolve disputes informally and quickly, most issues can be settled in a single email exchange, and you will hear back from us within 30 days.
If a dispute cannot be resolved informally within 60 days of your first contact:
- For users in the United States: disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in the state identified in Section 19 (Governing law), and you and Ringflect consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. You retain any rights you have under your state's small-claims procedure.
- For users outside the United States: disputes will be resolved in the courts of the jurisdiction identified in Section 19, subject to applicable consumer-protection laws in your country, which may give you the right to bring proceedings in your local courts regardless of this clause.
This Section 17 deliberately does not require binding arbitration and does not waive your right to participate in a class action. We may revisit this clause if and when Ringflect is operated by a formal legal entity; if we do, we will provide notice and the opportunity to terminate your account before the new clause takes effect.
18. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms when the app or our practices change. Material changes will be notified in-app and by email at least 14 days before the new version takes effect. The "Effective date" at the top reflects the current version. Continued use of the app after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the new Terms.
You can review prior versions in our public source repository (Git history of ringflect-v1/public/terms.md).
19. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles.
20. Miscellaneous
- Entire agreement: These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Ringflect regarding the app.
- Severability: If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest of the Terms remains in effect.
- No waiver: Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of the right to enforce it later.
- Assignment: You may not assign your rights under these Terms. We may assign ours in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
- Force majeure: We are not liable for failures or delays caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
21. How to contact us
Email: altonchase@ringflect.com
Mailing address: [Your mailing address, to be filled in before App Store submission, ~2026-06-16]
22. Your content (notes and logs)
This section governs the content you create inside Ringflect, including daily-log notes, nightly-review notes, experiment notes, and any other free-text or numeric entries you submit ("Your Content"). It complements Section 12 (Intellectual property) and Section 16 (Indemnification).
22.1 You own Your Content
You retain ownership of everything you write or submit in Ringflect. We do not claim ownership, copyright, or any other proprietary right in Your Content. Your daily-log notes are yours; your nightly-review reflections are yours; your experiment notes are yours. We hold a limited license to operate the service for you (see 22.2 below), and nothing more.
22.2 The license you grant Ringflect
For Ringflect to function, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, revocable license to:
- Store Your Content in our database for as long as your account exists.
- Display Your Content back to you in the Ringflect app.
- Process Your Content to generate the derived data that powers the product (readiness scores, gap calculations, insight cards, experiment outcomes).
- Back up Your Content as part of routine database backup procedures.
- Apply automated safety checks (e.g., the sensitive-notes heuristic that gates downstream insight display) that operate over Your Content without exposing it to any human reviewer.
The license is revoked when you delete your account or specific entries. We will not use Your Content for any purpose not listed above. In particular, we will not share, sell, license, or otherwise transfer Your Content to any third party except as required by valid legal process or to the limited extent described in our Privacy Policy and Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy.
22.3 Your representations about Your Content
By submitting Your Content to Ringflect, you represent that:
- The content is yours to submit. You wrote it, or you have the legal right to submit it.
- The content does not violate any third party's rights, including intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or rights of publicity.
- The content does not violate any law applicable to you or to Ringflect.
- If the content references another identifiable person, you have any consent required by law to write about that person in this context.
You retain all responsibility for the legality of Your Content. We do not pre-screen or review the contents of your notes; the product treats them as private to you, audience of one.
22.4 We may remove content that violates these Terms
If we become aware that Your Content violates these Terms or applicable law (for example, content that infringes another person's copyright, content that depicts illegal activity in a way that creates legal risk for us, or content that violates our acceptable use rules), we may remove it or suspend your account per Section 13.2 (Termination).
We will not remove Your Content for any other reason. We do not remove content based on its viewpoint, its emotional tone, its medical or psychological content, or its association with topics that might be sensitive to other audiences. Your private journal is private; we do not curate it.
22.5 No AI training and no aggregated research without your opt-in
We will not use Your Content to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models without your explicit, opt-in consent. We will not include Your Content in any aggregated research dataset without your explicit, opt-in consent. Opt-in is not the default state and will not become the default state.
If we add the option for you to opt in to AI training or research participation in a future version of Ringflect, the opt-in will be a clearly-labeled toggle in Settings, off by default, reversible at any time, and accompanied by a specific written description of what your data would be used for. See Section 10 of our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy for parallel language.
22.6 Feedback you send us is separate from Your Content
Section 12 already covers feedback, suggestions, and feature requests you send us. Those are treated differently from Your Content — when you send us feedback intended to improve the product (via email, support requests, or any feedback channel we offer), you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free license to use that feedback. This carve-out exists because feedback is meaningless if we cannot act on it. It applies only to communications you explicitly send us as feedback, not to your in-app journal entries.
22.7 What happens to Your Content when your account ends
When you delete your account, Your Content is erased from our active database within 24 hours per the GDPR Article 17 cascade documented in our Privacy Policy. Encrypted database backups retain Your Content for up to 30 days after deletion, after which the backups are overwritten in the ordinary course. We do not retain copies in any other system.
If we terminate your account under Section 13.2, the same cascade applies. We will not retain Your Content beyond what's necessary for the limited purposes specified in our Privacy Policy.
23. Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy
In addition to our general Privacy Policy at [privacy URL], we maintain a separate Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy at [consumer-health-data-privacy URL] that specifically describes how we handle "consumer health data" as that term is defined by the Washington My Health My Data Act (RCW 19.373) and similar state laws.
If you are a Washington resident, the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy is the authoritative description of how we handle your consumer health data, and you have rights under MHMDA that are described there. If you are not a Washington resident, the practices described in the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy apply to you anyway — we treat all users to the same standard.
Both documents are incorporated into these Terms by reference. By using Ringflect, you agree to both.
Document version 1.2 (DRAFT), last updated 2026-05-25 for Ringflect V1 pre-launch. Version 1.2 adds Section 22 (Your content) and Section 23 (Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy reference) pending counsel review. Version 1.1 updated Sections 7 and 11 to disclose the optional Google Calendar integration.
Important note to the founder before publishing: This is a working draft. Before going live on the App Store, run it past an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction. The most common issues with SaaS Terms drafted from templates: enforceability of the arbitration / class-action waiver, accuracy of the medical disclaimer for your specific health-app posture, and whether the limitation-of-liability cap will hold in your jurisdiction. Budget for one hour of attorney review, typically $300–$600 and worth it for a health-related app.