Terms of Use
The short version: CompeteCue gives general information about preparing for fitness events. It is not medical advice and does not know your body the way a clinician does. You decide whether you are fit to train and race, and you check event details with the organiser. Nothing in these terms takes away your legal rights as a consumer.
1. Who we are and what these terms cover
CompeteCue is run by Kourosh Sadr Momtaz, a sole trader in the United Kingdom ("we", "us"). These terms apply to this website and to the CompeteCue app (together, the "Service"). By using the Service you agree to them; if you do not agree, please do not use it. The privacy policy explains what happens to personal data.
If you obtained the app from Apple's App Store, Apple's standard licence terms for apps also apply to that copy. They cover your licence to install and run the app; these terms cover everything else about the Service. Section 15 sets out what you, we and Apple each agree about the App Store copy.
The Service is intended for adults aged 18 or over, and by using it you confirm you are. If you are under 18, please do not use it.
The Service is free today. If paid plans are introduced, the terms for them will be added here before anything is on sale, and nothing will be charged without your agreement through the App Store.
2. Not medical, dietary or coaching advice
CompeteCue provides general information about preparing for fitness events. It is not medical advice, is not a medical device, and is no substitute for the judgement of a qualified clinician, dietitian or coach who knows you.
Compiled from published guidelines by an athlete and coach, not reviewed by a clinician. General guidance, never medical advice.
Guidance in the app is drawn from published sporting and nutrition research and is generalised — it cannot account for everything about your health, training history or circumstances. If the app withholds guidance and shows a "discuss with your clinician" card, do exactly that.
Get advice first — from your GP or another clinician — before you change how you train, eat, drink or use caffeine if any of these apply to you: you have a heart, lung, kidney or metabolic condition, or high blood pressure; you have ever had chest pain, fainted or felt your heart race abnormally during exercise; you are pregnant or have recently given birth; you take medication for a long-term condition; you have, or have had, an eating disorder; or a doctor has told you to limit your activity.
Stop and get help if, while training or racing, you have chest pain or tightness, feel faint or dizzy, are unusually short of breath, or become confused. In an emergency call 999 or 112 in the UK, 112 in the European Union, or 911 in the United States, and tell the event's medical team.
3. Food, drink and caffeine
- Allergies and diet. Meal and food suggestions are chosen to leave out what you tell the app you are allergic to or do not eat, but they are general ideas, not checked products. Always read the label and allergen information of the food you actually buy or are served; we cannot know what a particular product contains.
- Drinking. Drinking far more than you need can be as dangerous as drinking too little. If you feel sick, have a worsening headache or become confused during or after a long event, get medical help and say how much you have drunk.
- Caffeine. Caffeine suggestions are for people who already use caffeine and have tried it in training. Count every source — coffee, gels, energy drinks and pre-workout products — and do not use the suggestion if you are pregnant or sensitive to caffeine, or have been advised to avoid it.
4. Your responsibility
Endurance and obstacle events are strenuous and carry inherent risk, including injury. You are responsible for deciding whether you are fit to train and compete, for building up your training sensibly, for verifying event details (dates, start times, rules, equipment requirements) with the organiser, and for how you act on any suggestion the app makes. Event organisers' own terms and safety rules always take precedence.
Reminders are a convenience, not a guarantee. Your phone's settings, Focus modes, a flat battery or the limits iOS places on scheduled notifications can delay or silence them, so do not rely on them alone for anything you cannot afford to miss, such as travel, registration or a start time.
5. Accuracy of information
We work to keep event data, protocols and calculations accurate and current, but we do not guarantee that any information in the Service is complete, correct or up to date. Event details can change at the organiser's discretion. Weather forecasts come from a third party and can be wrong; follow official weather warnings and the organiser's instructions on the day. Expected finish times and training paces are estimates worked out from what you enter or allow the app to read, and are only as good as that information.
6. Acceptable use
You may not misuse the Service — including attempting to disrupt it, scrape it at scale, reverse-engineer non-public components, or use it for unlawful purposes.
7. Intellectual property and other people's names
The CompeteCue name, logo, design and content are owned by Kourosh Sadr Momtaz, apart from third-party material credited in the app and on this site, which belongs to its owners and is used under their licences. The source code is available for viewing under a restricted licence — see the licence. No other rights are granted.
CompeteCue is independent: not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by HYROX, Spartan, Tough Mudder or any other event organiser. All trade marks belong to their owners. Event and series names are used only to say which race a plan is for. If you organise an event and want its listing corrected or removed, email us and we will act promptly.
8. Other people's services
The Service links to organisers' websites and draws on services we do not control, such as Apple Health and the weather forecast. We are not responsible for their content or availability, and their own terms apply to your use of them.
9. Our responsibility to you
We provide the Service with reasonable care and skill. If we fail to do so, or break these terms, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result. Loss is foreseeable if it was obvious it would happen, or if both of us knew it might happen when you started using the Service.
We do not exclude or limit liability where it would be unlawful to do so. That includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, under product-liability law, and your statutory rights as a consumer.
Subject to that:
- we are not responsible for loss that is not foreseeable;
- the Service is for personal use, so we are not responsible for any business loss, such as loss of profit, income or opportunity;
- our total liability to you for financial loss is limited to the greater of £100 or the amount you have paid us for the Service in the twelve months before the claim. This limit does not apply to anything listed in the paragraph above, and it does not reduce the remedies the law gives you if something you have paid for is faulty or not as described.
10. If you live outside the UK
European Union. You keep the benefit of the mandatory consumer protections of the country you live in, and you can bring a claim in its courts. If we ever need to bring a claim against you, we will bring it only in the courts of the country where you live.
United States. To the extent your state's law allows, the Service is provided without implied warranties, including those of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Some states do not allow these warranties or certain liabilities to be excluded or limited, so parts of section 9 and of this paragraph may not apply to you.
11. Changes and ending
We may update the Service and these terms to reflect changes in the law, in the evidence behind our guidance, in safety or security, or in how the Service works. When a change matters to you, we will date it on this page, and the app will ask you to accept the updated terms the next time you open it. If you do not accept a change, you can stop using the Service. We may suspend or discontinue the Service (or any feature) at any time. Because your data lives on your device, discontinuation of our servers does not delete your information.
12. Complaints
If something has gone wrong, email kourosh@kourosh.design and say what happened. We aim to reply within five working days and to put things right within a month. If we cannot resolve your complaint, we will tell you so in writing and explain what you can do next.
13. Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have non-exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, you keep the benefit of any mandatory protections of the country you live in and can bring a claim in its courts. If you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you can also bring a claim in your own courts.
14. General
Commitments we make about the Service elsewhere, such as the promises on our pricing page, are not overridden by anything in these terms. If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, that part is severed and the rest continues to apply. A delay in enforcing a term is not a waiver of it, and you may not transfer your rights under these terms to someone else.
15. If you got the app from the App Store
These terms are between you and us, not Apple, and we alone are responsible for the app and its content. Your licence is to use the app on Apple-branded devices you own or control, as Apple's usage rules allow, including Family Sharing. Apple has no duty to provide maintenance or support for it. If the app fails to meet a warranty that applies to it, you can tell Apple and Apple will refund any price you paid for it; Apple has no other warranty obligation. We, not Apple, deal with any claim about the app — including product-liability claims, claims that it fails to meet a legal or regulatory requirement, consumer-protection claims, claims connected with Apple Health, and claims that it infringes someone else's intellectual property. You confirm that you are not in a country subject to a US Government embargo and are not on a US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You must follow any third-party terms that apply when you use the app. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.
16. Contact
Questions about these terms: kourosh@kourosh.design.