Last updated: July 26, 2026
Please read this before you train with anyone you meet here. This agreement is written in plain English on purpose. Two sections change your legal rights and deserve your full attention: Assumption of Risk and Release, which covers injuries from in-person training, and Dispute Resolution, which requires most disputes to go to individual arbitration instead of court and gives up your right to a jury or a class action. You can opt out of arbitration within 30 days.
By creating an account or using Training Partner, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, do not use the platform. These terms are a binding agreement between you and the operator of Training Partner ("Training Partner", "we", "us"). If you use Training Partner on behalf of a gym, club, or organization, you confirm you are authorized to bind that organization to these terms.
Training Partner currently accepts account creation only from adults who are at least 18 years old. You must provide accurate information, keep your credentials secure, and use only one account unless we explicitly approve otherwise. You are responsible for everything that happens under your account. If you learn your account has been used without your permission, tell us at legal@trainingpartner.app.
Training Partner helps users discover training partners, gyms, and open mats, and gives them tools to message each other, log sessions, and confirm that a session happened. That is the whole service. We are an introduction and scheduling tool, not a party to whatever you and another user decide to do once you have found each other.
We do not supervise training sessions, run background checks or criminal-history checks, verify identity documents, verify belt rank or competition record, verify gym affiliation or insurance, screen for communicable disease, or guarantee any user's skill, behavior, honesty, health, identity, or safety. Session verification confirms only that two accounts both marked the same session as having happened. It is not a safety rating, a vouch, or an endorsement, and it says nothing about how that session went.
Combat-sports training has inherent physical risk, and you train at your own risk. Use judgment. Meet first in a staffed gym or an established open mat rather than a private location. Tell someone where you are going. Confirm that the facility, the coach, and the insurance situation are what the other person says they are. Use the report and block tools whenever something feels wrong, and stop training if it does.
You acknowledge that Brazilian jiu-jitsu, wrestling, judo, MMA, striking, grappling, sparring, live rolling, drilling, strength work, and every other activity you may arrange through Training Partner are inherently dangerous. They involve deliberate physical contact, joint manipulation, chokes, throws, takedowns, impact to the head and body, and training at high intensity with people whose control and judgment you cannot know in advance.
You acknowledge that these activities carry a risk of serious injury, including sprains, fractures, dislocations, torn ligaments, damage to joints and spine, cauliflower ear, skin and blood-borne infection, cardiac events, concussion and other traumatic brain injury, permanent disability, paralysis, and death. These risks exist even with careful, experienced, well-intentioned partners in a well-run gym, and they cannot be eliminated. Injury can result from your own conduct, another user's conduct, a facility's condition, equipment, or ordinary accident.
You knowingly and voluntarily assume all of those risks, whether known or unknown, and you agree to release, waive, and hold harmless Training Partner and its operators, owners, employees, contractors, and agents from any claim, demand, loss, injury, or damage arising out of or relating to in-person training, meeting, travel, or any other physical contact with another user that was arranged, discovered, coordinated, or communicated through Training Partner. This release covers the conduct of other users, gyms, coaches, and facilities. It applies to you and to anyone who could bring a claim through you, such as a spouse, heir, or estate.
This release does not apply where the law does not allow it. In particular, it does not release liability for gross negligence, recklessness, willful or intentional misconduct, or fraud, and it does not release any liability that applicable law says cannot be released. If part of this section is unenforceable, the rest still applies to the fullest extent permitted.
You are responsible for deciding whether you are medically fit to train. We strongly recommend a medical evaluation before starting or returning to combat-sports training, and we strongly recommend carrying your own health insurance. You are also responsible for disclosing to your training partners anything they need to know to train with you safely, including injuries, recent concussion, and active skin infection.
Training Partner is not a medical provider, emergency service, law-enforcement service, insurer, coach, sanctioning body, or gym operator. Training logs, injury notes, generated training plans, session verification, and every other product feature are informational only. They are not medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, return-to-training clearance, concussion assessment, or a substitute for professional judgment.
Generated training plans are produced automatically from fixed templates based on the sport, goal, and experience level you select. They are not artificial intelligence, not individualized coaching, and not reviewed by a coach, trainer, or medical professional before you see them. Treat them as a starting suggestion and defer to a qualified coach or clinician who has actually seen you train.
If you face an emergency, immediate danger, serious injury, a suspected concussion, or a safety threat, contact emergency services, law enforcement, a qualified medical professional, or the facility staff directly. Do not rely on Training Partner, on a message to another user, or on a report submitted through the app to summon help.
You may not harass, threaten, stalk, intimidate, impersonate, defraud, scrape, spam, evade safety systems, submit false reports, or use the platform for unlawful conduct. You also may not misrepresent your rank, credentials, affiliation, age, or identity; solicit users commercially without our permission; use the platform to recruit for anything other than training; post another person's private information; reverse engineer, interfere with, or overload the service; or use automated tools to access it.
You are responsible for complying with the rules of any gym, facility, or event you attend, and for any agreement, waiver, or fee that facility requires of you. Your arrangement with a gym is between you and that gym.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that create trust, safety, fraud, or abuse risk.
There is no tolerance for objectionable content or abusive behavior on Training Partner. Objectionable content includes harassment, threats of violence, sexual content, sexual solicitation, hate speech or slurs, content targeting a person or group based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age, doxxing, content depicting real violence outside of legitimate training, and anything illegal.
Every profile, message, post, and photo can be reported from inside the app, and every user can be blocked. We review reports of objectionable content and abusive users and act on them within 24 hours, which may mean removing the content, removing the user, or both. Users who post objectionable content or abuse other users may be removed permanently and without notice.
You keep ownership of what you submit: your profile details, messages, community posts, photos, gym and event information, reviews, and training log entries ("your content"). You are responsible for its accuracy and legality.
You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, reproduce, adapt for formatting and display, publish, and distribute your content solely for the purpose of operating, securing, and supporting the service — for example, showing your profile to matched users, delivering your messages to their recipients, displaying open-mat listings you create, and keeping backups. We do not use this license to sell your content or to advertise using it. This license lasts as long as your content is on the platform, and it survives afterward only to the extent needed for backups, legal holds, and copies other users legitimately retained.
You represent that you own your content or otherwise have the rights to submit it and to grant this license, that it does not infringe anyone's intellectual property, privacy, or publicity rights, and that any person identifiable in a photo you post has consented to it.
We may remove content, block features, or preserve evidence when needed to investigate abuse, fraud, or legal complaints. We are not obligated to store or return your content, and you should keep your own copies of anything you care about.
We respond to notices of claimed copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe content on Training Partner infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent that includes: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the copyrighted work you claim was infringed; identification of the material you say is infringing and enough detail for us to locate it; your address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.
We will remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a valid notice and will make a reasonable effort to notify the user who posted it. If your material was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notice containing your signature, identification of the removed material and where it appeared, a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification, your name, address, and telephone number, and your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the district where you live (or, if you are outside the United States, the Northern District of California) and to accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice. We may restore the material after ten business days unless the original complainant tells us they have filed a court action.
Submitting a notice or counter-notice that materially misrepresents infringement can expose you to liability for damages. We terminate the accounts of repeat infringers.
Designated DMCA agent: Training Partner Copyright Agent, legal@trainingpartner.app. A postal address for the designated agent is available on request and is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.
Training Partner is free to use. There are no subscriptions, in-app purchases, or paid tiers. If that ever changes, any paid feature and its price will be disclosed before you are charged. You are responsible for your own device, data, and connectivity costs.
Our Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, retain, and disclose personal information. By using the service, you acknowledge that policy. Remember that anything you put in a profile, a message, or a community post is shared with other people, and that we cannot control what they do with it after they see it.
The platform is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, as well as any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.
We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, that matches will be suitable, that listings, gym details, schedules, or open-mat times are accurate or current, or that data will never be lost. We make no warranty whatsoever regarding the identity, background, honesty, rank, skill, health, conduct, or safety of any other user, or regarding the condition, staffing, insurance, or legitimacy of any gym or facility listed on the platform.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Training Partner and its operators are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost opportunity, or loss of goodwill, arising from your use of the platform or from in-person training arranged through it, even if we were advised such damages were possible.
Our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to these terms or the service is limited to one hundred United States dollars (US$100). This cap applies in the aggregate across all claims, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, statute, or any other theory, and it reflects the fact that Training Partner is provided to you free of charge. This allocation of risk is an essential part of the agreement between us.
Some jurisdictions do not allow limiting liability for death or personal injury, for gross negligence, for recklessness or willful misconduct, or for fraud. Nothing in these terms limits liability that applicable law says cannot be limited, and where the law forbids a limitation, that limitation does not apply to you.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Training Partner and its operators, owners, employees, contractors, and agents from any claim, demand, action, loss, liability, damage, judgment, settlement, cost, or expense, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to your content, your conduct on or off the platform, your breach of these terms or of any law, your infringement of anyone's rights, and any in-person meeting, training session, or other interaction between you and another user.
We may take over the defense of any matter subject to this indemnity at your expense, and you will not settle any claim in a way that imposes an obligation on us without our written consent. We will notify you of any claim we intend to tender to you.
Please read this section carefully. It changes how disputes between you and Training Partner get resolved.
First, talk to us. Before starting a formal proceeding, send a written description of the dispute and the relief you want to legal@trainingpartner.app. We will try in good faith to resolve it within 60 days. Most problems end here.
If that does not resolve it, you and Training Partner agree that any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the service will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration, not in court. The arbitration will be administered by a recognized arbitration provider under its consumer arbitration rules, before a single arbitrator, in English, and seated in San Francisco County, California, though you may elect to participate by telephone or video, or to have a documents-only proceeding where the rules allow. The Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this section.
You and Training Partner each waive the right to a trial by jury, and each agree to bring claims only in an individual capacity — not as a plaintiff or class member in any class, collective, consolidated, or representative action. The arbitrator may not preside over any form of class or representative proceeding and may award relief only in favor of the individual party seeking relief, and only to the extent needed by that party's individual claim. If this class-action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim, and only that claim, must proceed in court.
Small-claims carve-out: either of us may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies and stays there. Either of us may also seek injunctive relief in court to stop unauthorized use, infringement, or misuse of intellectual property.
You can opt out of arbitration. Send an email to legal@trainingpartner.app within 30 days of first accepting these terms, with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out", stating your name, the email address on your account, and that you are opting out of the arbitration agreement. Opting out costs you nothing, does not affect your account, and leaves the rest of these terms in force. If you opt out, disputes go to the courts described in Governing Law and Venue.
These terms and any dispute arising out of them or the service are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and by applicable United States federal law. For any dispute that is not subject to arbitration — because you opted out, because it qualifies for small claims, or because a court holds arbitration does not apply — you and Training Partner consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in San Francisco County, California, and waive any objection to that venue. Nothing here deprives you of the protection of mandatory consumer laws of the place where you live.
These terms apply to the iOS version of Training Partner, and the following applies if you obtained the app from the Apple App Store. This agreement is between you and Training Partner only, not with Apple, and Training Partner alone is responsible for the app and its content.
Apple grants you a non-transferable license to use the app on any Apple-branded product that you own or control, as permitted by the Usage Rules in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions, except that the app may be accessed by other accounts associated with you through Family Sharing or volume purchasing.
Apple has no obligation to furnish any maintenance or support services for the app. Apple provides no warranty of any kind for the app. If the app fails to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple and Apple will refund the purchase price, if any; to the maximum extent permitted by law, Apple has no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the app. Training Partner, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any claim relating to the app, including product liability claims, any claim that the app fails to conform to a legal or regulatory requirement, and claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation. Apple is not responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, or discharge of any third-party claim that the app or your possession and use of it infringes intellectual property rights.
You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a United States Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You agree to comply with all applicable third-party terms when using the app.
Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you. Training Partner enforces a zero-tolerance policy for objectionable content and abusive users, described above, and provides in-app reporting, blocking, and a 24-hour review commitment.
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate access when needed to protect users, enforce these terms, investigate abuse, comply with law, or reduce operational risk. Where it is reasonable and safe to do so, we will tell you why. You may stop using Training Partner and delete your account at any time, from within the app or by writing to legal@trainingpartner.app.
We may also discontinue the service, in whole or in part, at any time. Because the service is free, we have no obligation to keep it running, though we will give reasonable notice where we can.
If your account ends or the service shuts down, the following sections stay in effect: Assumption of Risk and Release, Your Content and the License You Grant Us, Disclaimer of Warranties, Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration, Governing Law and Venue, Apple and the App Store, Survival, and Severability, along with any other provision that by its nature is meant to survive.
We may update these terms as the product or the law changes. When we do, we will change the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. For changes that materially affect your rights or obligations, we will give at least 30 days' notice before they take effect, by in-app notice, by email to the address on your account, or both.
Continuing to use Training Partner after the changes take effect means you accept the updated terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the service and delete your account before the effective date. Changes do not apply retroactively to a dispute that arose before they took effect.
If any provision of these terms is held invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, that provision will be limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary, and the rest of these terms will remain in full force. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. Section headings are for convenience only and do not affect interpretation. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Together with the Privacy Policy, these terms are the entire agreement between you and Training Partner about the service.
General and legal questions: legal@trainingpartner.app
Formal legal notice, including service of process and DMCA notices, must be sent in writing to legal@trainingpartner.app. We will provide a postal address for service on request.