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Terms of Service

Effective November 12, 2026

These terms cover your use of the Alta app for iPhone and Apple Watch, the Alta pods, and this website (together, “Alta”). Alta is made by an independent developer (“we”, “us”). By using Alta you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use it.

1. Not medical advice

Alta measures reps, bar speed and heart rate and shows estimates such as one-rep max, speed drop and recovery. These are training aids, not medical devices, and they can be wrong. Nothing in Alta is medical advice, a diagnosis, or a substitute for a doctor, physiotherapist or qualified coach.

Talk to a doctor before starting or changing a training program, especially if you are pregnant, injured, have a heart, blood pressure or other medical condition, or take medication. Stop training and get help if you feel pain, dizziness, chest pain or shortness of breath.

2. Lifting is your responsibility

Weight training carries a real risk of injury, including serious injury. You choose what you lift and how, and you take on those risks. In particular:

  • Use good technique, collars, safeties or a spotter, and loads you can control. Don’t lift heavier because of a number in the app.
  • Don’t look at your phone or watch during a rep. Stay aware of the people and equipment around you.
  • Attach the pods securely and as described, check them before each set, and keep them away from children and pets (they contain magnets and a small battery). Don’t use pods that are damaged.
  • Follow the rules of your gym.

3. Who can use Alta

You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough in your country to agree to these terms (or have a parent’s or guardian’s permission). You may not use Alta if the law prohibits you from doing so.

4. Your account

Alta needs an account, created with Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google. You are responsible for what happens on your account and for keeping your Apple or Google account secure. Tell us right away at contact@altahealth.site if you think someone else is using it. You can delete your account at any time in the app (Settings, under Friends and account). How we handle your data is described in our Privacy Policy.

5. Friends and community rules

Your handle and display name can be seen by other Alta users, and your shared workouts by your friends. Keep Alta a good place to train. Don’t:

  • Pick a handle or display name that impersonates someone else (including Alta), is offensive, hateful or sexual, or infringes someone’s rights.
  • Harass, threaten, bully or spam other people, or keep sending friend requests to someone who doesn’t want them.
  • Post fake workouts or tamper with the leaderboard.
  • Collect other users’ information, or access Alta by automated means, except through the app as intended.
  • Try to break, overload or get around the security of the app, our server or the pods’ software, or reverse-engineer them except where the law allows.
  • Use Alta for anything illegal.

6. Reporting, blocking and enforcement

You can block anyone; you and they then can’t see each other. You can report a person or a workout in the app, or email contact@altahealth.site. We review reports and aim to act within 24 hours. If someone breaks these terms we may remove content, reset a handle or display name, limit features, or suspend or delete the account, with or without notice. If you think we got it wrong, email us.

7. Your content

Your workouts and data are yours. By sharing a workout or choosing a handle and display name, you give us permission to store them and show them to the people the app shows them to (described in the Privacy Policy), only to run Alta. This permission ends when you delete the content or your account.

8. Using the app

We give you a personal, non-transferable licence to use the Alta app on Apple devices you own or control, under these terms and Apple’s App Store terms. The app, its design, the Alta name and logo, and this website belong to us. Features may change, and we may add, remove or pause features (including the friends features) at any time.

9. Apple, Google and other services

Alta works with Apple Health, Apple Watch, Sign in with Apple, Sign in with Google and our hosting providers. Those services have their own terms, and we are not responsible for them.

If you got the app from Apple’s App Store: these terms are between you and us, not Apple. Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the app. If the app fails to meet any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple may refund the purchase price (if any); to the extent the law allows, Apple has no other warranty obligation. Apple is not responsible for handling claims about the app (including product liability, legal or regulatory claims, or intellectual property claims). Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them against you.

10. No warranty

Alta is provided “as is” and “as available”. We work hard to make it accurate and reliable, but we don’t promise that it will be error-free, uninterrupted, or that its counts, speeds, heart rate or estimates are correct. Bluetooth links can drop, and sensors can miscount. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

11. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost data, injury arising from your training decisions, or anything caused by other users or third-party services. Our total liability for any claim about Alta is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the app in the 12 months before the claim, or US$50.

Some places don’t allow these limits. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence where that rule applies, or your rights as a consumer that cannot be waived.

12. Ending your use

You can stop using Alta and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you break these terms, if we have to by law, or if we stop offering Alta (in which case we will try to give you notice). Sections 1, 2 and 10 to 14 keep applying after that.

13. Changes

We may update these terms. We will post the new version here and change the date at the top; for significant changes we will tell you in the app first. If you keep using Alta after a change takes effect, you accept the new terms.

14. General

These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about Alta. If a part of them can’t be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don’t enforce something right away, we haven’t given up the right to. You may not transfer these terms to someone else; we may transfer them if Alta is transferred to someone who will keep honouring them.

15. Contact

Questions, reports or support: contact@altahealth.site.