These Terms of Use ("Terms") are the agreement between you and the independent developer of Vado ("we", "us", "our") for the Vado app on iPhone and Apple Watch, together with any subscriptions, accounts, and features it offers (together, the "App"). By downloading, opening, or using the App, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the App.
Vado is distributed through Apple's App Store. Your use of the App is also covered by Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement (the "Apple Standard EULA", available at apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula). These Terms add to that agreement. If anything here directly conflicts with the Apple Standard EULA on a point the Apple EULA governs (for example, the App Store license grant), the Apple Standard EULA controls for that point.
You need to be old enough to form a binding contract where you live, and at least 13 years old. Vado is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly let them create accounts or subscribe. If you're using the App under the age of majority, do so only with a parent or guardian's involvement.
You're responsible for your device, your Apple ID, and — if you create one — your Vado account and the activity under it.
Vado records running and walking workouts through Apple's HealthKit, using GPS for outdoor routes and motion sensors when GPS isn't available. It reads fitness data you've allowed (such as heart rate, energy burned, and the VO₂ max estimate your Apple Watch calculates) to build a personalized pace and training profile, generate plans, predict race times, and show your history. On the watch, it draws an animated running scene that reacts to the time of day and — through Apple's WeatherKit — real weather.
Exactly what data the App reads, writes, stores, and (only if you opt in) sends off your device is described in our Privacy Policy. The Privacy Policy is part of your agreement with us.
An account is optional. The App works fully offline with no account. Signing in (with Sign in with Apple, Google, or email) only adds cloud backup of your training data and optional upload of your runs to Strava. Those features are described in the Privacy Policy.
Vado offers an optional Vado Pro subscription that unlocks the training plans, the fitness insights (VDOT, VO₂ max trends, race predictions), the full 20-world journey, and the in-app games. Pro is offered as:
each with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. We may also, from time to time, offer a one-time lifetime purchase at $99 that unlocks the same Pro features permanently with no recurring charge. Prices shown in the App are always the live prices from Apple for your region and currency; the amounts above are the US reference prices and may differ where you live or if we update them (any change applies to future billing periods, never retroactively).
Because the App is sold through Apple's App Store, the following apply:
If Apple changes how subscriptions are billed or disclosed, Apple's current App Store terms govern the mechanics of your purchase.
We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the App on Apple devices you own or control, as allowed by the Apple Standard EULA and the App Store's Usage Rules, for your own non-commercial use. This is a license, not a sale — we and our licensors keep all ownership of the App.
Please use the App honestly and lawfully. You agree not to:
We may suspend or limit access to protect the App, our users, or our servers from abuse, fraud, or a security threat.
Leagues, friends and the shared-run feed show the username you choose to other participants — the app never generates one for you, and nothing social is visible until you pick one. We have a no-tolerance policy for objectionable content in display names or any other content visible to others: names that are abusive, hateful, sexually explicit, or impersonating others may be removed or reset without notice, and repeat or serious abuse may result in removal from leagues or account termination. You can report an offensive name from the league board (long-press a row), and you can hide leagues entirely in Settings. Reports are reviewed and acted on promptly.
You keep ownership of your own data — your workouts, routes, training profile, and any content you create in the App. Your health and workout data lives on your device in Apple Health and only reaches our servers through the specific opt-in features (cloud backup, Strava) described in the Privacy Policy.
By using cloud backup or Strava upload, you give us permission to store and process that specific data only as needed to provide those features to you — for example, to back up your runs so you can restore them, or to build a route file and post it to Strava at your request. We don't use your data to advertise to you, we don't sell it, and we don't share it except as the Privacy Policy describes.
You can delete your account and everything on our servers at any time from inside the App (Settings › your account › Delete account). That is a permanent, irreversible deletion of your server-side data; it doesn't touch the data that lives in Apple Health on your device.
The App works with services run by others, under their own terms and privacy policies:
We're not responsible for those services, their availability, or what they do with data you send them directly or authorize us to send on your behalf. Weather, sign-in, and upload features depend on those services being available.
Vado is a fitness tool, not a medical device, and it does not provide medical advice. The App's plans, pace targets, calorie and distance figures, and fitness numbers — including VO₂ max and VDOT estimates and race predictions — are estimates produced by models and by your device's sensors. They can be wrong, and they are not a diagnosis, a treatment, or a substitute for professional judgment.
You agree that you use the App's fitness guidance at your own discretion and risk.
We're an independent developer and we offer the App as a product that evolves. We may update, change, add, or remove features, and we may release new versions through the App Store. We may also stop offering the App, a feature, or a connected integration. We'll try not to break things you rely on, but we don't promise the App will always be available, uninterrupted, or error-free, or that it will work on every device or OS version.
If we make material changes to these Terms, we'll update this page and move the effective date at the top. Your continued use after a change means you accept the updated Terms.
To the fullest extent the law allows, the App is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory — including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We don't warrant that the App's estimates, plans, routes, or measurements are accurate or complete, that the App will meet your needs, or that defects will be fixed.
Some places don't allow certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you. Nothing in these Terms removes rights you have under mandatory consumer-protection law that can't be waived.
To the fullest extent the law allows:
These limits don't apply to liability that the law says can't be limited — for example, liability for death or personal injury caused by our gross negligence or willful misconduct, or your non-waivable statutory consumer rights. This section survives the end of these Terms.
If someone brings a claim against us because you misused the App, broke these Terms, or violated the law or another person's rights, you agree to cover the reasonable costs and damages we incur from that claim, to the extent it was caused by what you did. We'll let you know about the claim and can take part in defending it.
You and we acknowledge:
You can stop using the App at any time and delete it. You can delete your account and its server-side data from inside the App at any time.
We may suspend or end your access to the App or to your account if you materially break these Terms, misuse the App, or create a security or legal risk — where practical, we'll give you notice. When your access ends, the license in Section 4 stops, but Sections that by their nature should survive (including data ownership, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnity, and governing law) continue to apply. Ending your access doesn't automatically cancel an Apple subscription — manage that in your Apple ID settings.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Virginia, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, except where mandatory consumer-protection law in your home jurisdiction gives you rights that apply regardless. Nothing here deprives you of the protection of those mandatory laws.
Questions about these Terms? Email us at alexbolton@gmail.com.