Terms of Use

1. Agreement

By creating an account or using the Kiatu app ("App"), you agree to these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the App. Kiatu is made and run by an individual developer ("we", "us").

2. What Kiatu Is

Kiatu helps runners keep track of their shoes: mileage, rotation, run logs, and estimates drawn from the runs and (optionally) Apple Health or Strava data you choose to connect.

Kiatu is not a medical device, a healthcare provider, or a coaching or physiotherapy service. Nothing in the App is medical advice, a diagnosis, or a treatment.

3. Who Can Use Kiatu

• You must be at least 13 years old (16 in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or anywhere else that sets a higher minimum age).
• If you are under the age of majority where you live, you should use the App with a parent or guardian’s permission.
• You must be able to form a binding agreement, and not be barred from using the App by law.

4. Your Account and Security

• Give accurate information when you sign up and keep your sign-in details private. You are responsible for what happens under your account.
• Do not share your account or transfer it to someone else.
• Tell us at support@kiatu.run if you think someone else has accessed your account.

5. Acceptable Use

Please do not:

• use the App for anything unlawful;
• try to get into our systems, databases, or other people’s accounts;
• reverse engineer or copy the App’s source code, except where the law allows it;
• use bots, scrapers or scripts to pull data out of the App or our services, or overload them;
• upload or transmit malware or anything meant to damage the service;
• impersonate another person or misrepresent who you are.

6. Your Data and What You Let Us Do With It

Your runs, shoes, notes and other content are yours. You give us a worldwide, royalty-free permission to store and process that content only to run the App for you: to show it to you, sync it between your devices, back it up, and calculate your stats and estimates. We do not use it for advertising and we do not sell it.

How we handle personal data, and how you can switch each kind off or delete it, is explained in the Privacy Policy and on the Data consent page.

7. Third-Party Services

Kiatu can connect to services you choose, such as Apple Health (iPhone) and Strava. Your use of them is also subject to their own terms and privacy policies, and we do not control them.

• Apple Health: Kiatu only reads the data types you allow in the iOS permission screen. It never writes to Apple Health.
• Strava: Strava data is shown only to the athlete it belongs to, is not used to train or run any machine-learning or AI model, and runs that came from Strava cannot be shared as a picture from Kiatu. If you disconnect Strava, or remove Kiatu’s access on Strava, the Strava runs in Kiatu are deleted as described in the Privacy Policy.
• Disconnecting a service stops Kiatu from getting new data from it. It does not delete data that service already holds; that is governed by the service itself.

8. Health and Wellness Disclaimer

Please read this section. The coach, Shoe Lab, recovery, training-load and injury-related features, and shoe recommendations are based on general running principles and on the data you give the App. They are for information and motivation only.

Numbers such as sleep score, recovery, readiness, walking steadiness, walking asymmetry, heart-rate drift, effort, leg-load and shoe-life figures are estimates. They depend on your device, how it is worn, and the data it recorded, and they can be wrong. They are not clinical measurements.

You should:

• talk to a doctor, physiotherapist or other qualified professional before changing training because of pain, an injury, or a health condition;
• stop and seek medical help if you feel chest pain, dizziness, difficulty breathing, acute pain, or anything unusual;
• not rely on the App alone to decide whether it is safe for you to run.

To the extent the law allows, we are not responsible for injury or harm that results from relying on the App’s suggestions or estimates.

9. Location and GPS Accuracy

Live Run uses your phone’s GPS. GPS can be inaccurate or lose signal (tall buildings, tunnels, trees, weak battery or low-power settings, or if you deny location access), which can make distance, pace and routes wrong or incomplete. You are responsible for your own safety while running: stay aware of your surroundings and traffic, and do not use the App in a way that distracts you. You can always correct a run’s distance by hand.

10. Free Today; Paid Features Later

Kiatu is currently free. If we add paid features in the future, we will describe what is included and what it costs before you buy, and we will not charge you for anything you did not agree to. Purchases will be handled by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play), including payment, Restore Purchases and refunds, under their rules. Nothing in these Terms promises any particular future feature or price.

11. Intellectual Property

The App’s code, design, content and trademarks belong to the developer. We give you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the App for personal, non-commercial purposes under these Terms. Shoe names and brand names belong to their owners and are used only to identify products; they do not imply endorsement.

12. No Warranty

To the extent the law allows, the App is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and accuracy. We do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that shoe-life estimates, recommendations or other content are accurate or complete. Your legal rights as a consumer, which cannot be excluded, are not affected.

13. Limitation of Liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for loss of data, profits or opportunity, arising from your use of (or inability to use) the App. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us for the App in the 12 months before the claim or US$100. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

14. Ending Your Use

• You can stop using Kiatu at any time and delete your account in the App under Settings › Account › Delete my account. Your account and the data in it are then deleted as described in the Privacy Policy (Apple Health data on your phone and Strava’s own copy are not affected). If you cannot sign in, email support@kiatu.run.
• We may suspend or close an account that breaks these Terms or harms other people or the service. Where we reasonably can, we will tell you why.
• If we ever stop running the App, we will aim to give notice in the App first.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. If a change is material, we will tell you in the App before it takes effect and update the “Last updated” date above. If you keep using the App after that, you accept the new Terms; if you do not agree, stop using the App and delete your account.

16. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Canada and of the Canadian province or territory where the developer lives, and any dispute will be dealt with by the courts there, unless the law where you live says otherwise. Please contact us first at support@kiatu.run so we can try to sort out any problem informally. Nothing here limits your rights as a consumer under the laws of the place where you live.

17. General

If part of these Terms is found unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we do not enforce a right straight away, we have not given it up. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and us about the App.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms: support@kiatu.run. We usually reply within a couple of days.