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These terms cover the Blok Sessions app and this website. They're written to be read. If something is unclear, email hello@bloksessions.com.

Blok Sessions is the trade name of Frank Blokdijk (KvK 42113691) in the Netherlands ("we", "us").

Training is at your own risk

Bouldering and climbing training can injure you. Finger training, campus boards and high-intensity blocks in particular put real load on tendons and pulleys.

  • The exercises, instructions and plans in Blok Sessions are general information for experienced climbers. They aren't medical advice, physiotherapy or personal coaching, and they don't know your body, history or current injuries.
  • You decide what to train and how hard. Warm up, stay within what you can recover from, and stop if something hurts.
  • If you're injured, returning from injury, or unsure whether a block suits you, ask a physiotherapist or qualified coach first.
  • Plans, exercises and videos a coach sends you come from that coach, not from us, and we don't check them. Ask your coach about anything that doesn't suit you.

The app

The app is licensed to you under Apple's Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement, together with these terms. Where the two conflict, Apple's agreement wins for anything about the licence itself.

You need a free Blok Sessions account to use the app. Keep your sign-in details to yourself. You can delete the account at any time in Settings, or on this website under Account in the planner.

Blok Sessions Pro

Pro comes as a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase that never renews. The yearly subscription starts with a 7-day free trial if you haven't had one before: cancel at least a day before it ends and you pay nothing, otherwise the yearly price is charged when it ends. It's the same Pro wherever you buy it, and it follows your account, so it works in the app and in the planner on this website.

In the app, Pro is sold through Apple's App Store. Apple handles payment, billing, renewals, cancellations and refunds under its own terms. A subscription renews at the end of each month or year until you cancel it in your Apple ID settings.

On this website, Pro is sold by us, and the checkout is run for us by RevenueCat with payments processed by Stripe. The price at checkout is the price you pay. A subscription renews at the end of each month or year, at the price you signed up for, until you cancel it; you can cancel at any time with the link in your purchase email, or by emailing us, and it stays active until the end of the period you've paid for. For a yearly subscription we email you before it renews.

You normally have 14 days to withdraw from an online purchase. Pro is digital content that starts as soon as you buy it, so at checkout you agree that it starts straight away and that you lose the right to withdraw once it has. If something went wrong with a purchase on this website, email hello@bloksessions.com and we'll sort it out, including a refund where that's fair.

We may add, change or retire features over time. If we ever remove a Pro feature that you paid for once, we'll replace it with something of comparable value or refund you (through Apple, for a purchase made in the app).

Your training data

Your training log is yours. We don't claim ownership of anything you record. When you switch on backup, you give us permission to store that data only so we can provide the service to you. What we store, and how to get it back or delete it, is in the privacy policy.

Community plans

You can share a training plan or an exercise you made (a superset counts) to the community page. Share only plans and exercises you made yourself or have permission to share. By sharing one, you let us show it on this website and in the app, and you let anyone with a Blok Sessions account add it to their own account and train from it. You keep whatever rights you have in it, and you can remove it from the community at any time; copies people already added stay with them.

Don't share anything unlawful, hateful, sexual, misleading or promotional, or anything that isn't a training plan or an exercise. Community plans and exercises are written by climbers, not checked by us, so train within your limits (see "Training is at your own risk"). Anyone with an account can report a plan or an exercise. One that several people report is hidden until we've looked at it, and we may remove anything shared, or suspend an account, that breaks these rules. Offensive wording in a title, description, author name or an exercise's instructions is refused when it’s shared, and anyone with an account can block a climber, which takes every plan and exercise of theirs out of their own lists here and in the app.

You can send a plan to someone with a private link. The same rules apply as for community plans: send only plans you made yourself or have permission to share. Anyone who has the link can see the plan and add a copy to their own account. Stopping sharing turns the link off; copies people already added stay with them.

Invites

If a friend uses your invite code, on a new account or one they already have, and then logs sessions on three different days, you both get a month of Pro on your accounts. Every friend who does that adds another month for you. The month is Pro, not money, and can't be exchanged for anything else.

Invites are for real people you know. Inviting yourself, making accounts to collect months, or buying and selling codes isn't allowed, and we may take back months earned that way or suspend the accounts involved. We may change or end the invite programme; months you've already earned stay yours.

Fair use

Please don't:

  • try to access other people's accounts or data, or get around the app's security;
  • overload, scrape or automate requests against our servers, including the website's forms;
  • copy and republish the exercise catalog as a whole.

We may suspend an account that does these things.

Content and copyright

The exercise catalog's descriptions and the app's design are ours. The training methods themselves belong to nobody: most climbing training is shared community knowledge. Where a protocol is widely known by the name of the person who made it popular, we use that name to credit them.

If you believe something in the app or on this website uses your work, or other rights of yours, without permission, email hello@bloksessions.com with:

  • what the content is and where it appears;
  • what you own, and how it's being used without permission;
  • your contact details, and a statement that the information is accurate and that you hold the rights or may act for whoever does.

We'll reply within five working days. If the claim holds up, we remove or rewrite the content promptly. If we disagree, we'll tell you why.

This website

The website describes the app, sends the free strength plan by email, and runs the planner and the community page. Asking for the plan is free, and it doesn't create an account or commit you to anything. The details are in the privacy policy. Prices on the website are in euros; the App Store shows its own price in your currency.

Liability

We build Blok Sessions carefully, but it's provided as it is, without guarantees that it will always be available or free of errors. As far as the law allows, we aren't liable for injuries from training, for lost data, or for indirect loss. None of this limits liability that can't legally be limited, such as for intent or gross negligence, and none of it affects your rights as a consumer.

Changes and law

If these terms change, this page is updated along with the date at the top. For a change that matters, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect.

Dutch law applies. If you're a consumer living elsewhere in the EU, you also keep the protection of your own country's mandatory consumer law, and you can bring a claim in your home courts.