Terms
These terms cover the RunTeaming website and the RunTeaming iPhone and Android apps. By using any of them, you agree to these terms.
What RunTeaming is
RunTeaming is a recreational running league. Your phone or watch records your runs, RunTeaming reads them, scores them, and puts you on a five-person team that competes each week. Only your best run in a week counts towards your score, and only the best four scores on a team count towards the team’s. Teams and handicaps are redrawn on the first of every month.
Run honestly
The league only works if the runs are real. A run must be run — not ridden, driven, or recorded by someone else.
RunTeaming checks every run and will not count one that fails. A run may be rejected for being under a mile, slower than a twenty-minute mile, recorded as something other than a run, faster than you have ever plausibly been, or showing a heart rate that says nobody was working.
A rejected run carries no penalty. It simply does not count, and you are free to go again. Deliberately submitting runs you did not run may end your membership.
Running is your responsibility
RunTeaming is a game, not a coach and not a medical service. Nothing in it is medical or training advice. You decide when, where and how hard to run, and you do so at your own risk. Speak to a doctor before starting or increasing exercise if you have any reason to.
Do not let the league push you into running somewhere unsafe, in unsafe conditions, or through an injury. No score is worth it.
Membership and payment
RunTeaming is free for now. If paid membership begins, your first two months will be free. After that it is $4 a month on Android and $7.99 a month on iPhone. The price is shown to you before you pay, and payment is handled by the app store you bought it through — we never see or store your card details.
On Android, every week your scoring run sets a personal best, one dollar comes back to you. One run scores each week, so that is up to four dollars in a month — a month of personal bests costs nothing. Each dollar is paid back to the account you paid from in the week you earn it, not held as credit against a later bill. The iPhone price is flat: Apple does not allow the rebate, so there is nothing to earn back and nothing to lose.
You can cancel at any time. Cancelling stops future charges; it does not refund the month in progress.
Your runs
Your runs are read from your phone, sent to the league to be scored, and stored there with your account. Your phone keeps its own copy so the app still works with no signal. What we do and do not collect is set out in our privacy policy.
Fair use
Do not attempt to break, overload or reverse-engineer the service, and do not use it to harass other runners. We may suspend or end an account that does.
Do not use RunTeaming, or anything you get out of it, as material for a competing product. That covers the league data, other runners’ results, scores the league produced, and bulk copies of any of it. You are free to go and build whatever you like of your own; you are not free to build it out of this.
Changes
RunTeaming is early, and scoring rules, handicaps and team sizes may change as the league grows. Material changes will be announced before they take effect. Continuing to use RunTeaming after a change means you accept it.
No guarantee of service
RunTeaming is provided as it is. We do not guarantee it will always be available, that every run will be read correctly, or that the league will run uninterrupted.
Contact
Questions about these terms can be sent to info@runteaming.com.