Terms

Last updated 2026-11-14

These terms cover your use of BLADES on the website and in the iPhone app. By using BLADES you agree to them. Questions about them: use the support page.

It’s a beta

BLADES is being built in the open. Things will change, some things will break, and now and then a season’s rules may be rebalanced. We’ll try hard not to lose anyone’s data, but it’s provided as it is, without guarantees that it will always be available or error-free.

Your health

Rowing hard is hard on the body. BLADES is a game, not medical advice or a coaching service: training plans, target splits and training bands are estimates. Check with a doctor before starting a new training programme, stop if something hurts, and set up and use your erg as Concept2 tells you to.

Your account

Keep your password to yourself; you’re responsible for what happens under your account. You can delete it any time from Account › Delete account… (see the privacy policy for what that removes).

Playing fair

• Row your own sessions. Don’t fake erg data, use the simulator or tools to post sessions you didn’t row, or interfere with other players’ leagues.
• Names you choose (yours, your programme’s, your league’s) are seen by your crewmates and league members: keep them decent, and don’t impersonate anyone.
• Don’t try to break into, overload or reverse-engineer the service, or use it to break the law.

We may suspend accounts that break these rules, and remove names that are offensive.

What’s ours and what’s yours

The game, its code, art, voices and writing belong to BLADES. Your sessions and what you write are yours; you let us store and show them to the people you row with so the game works. The schools, clubs, regattas and people in the game are fictional. BLADES isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Concept2 or WHOOP; their names are their trademarks.

Paid features

BLADES is free during the beta. If we add paid features, we’ll say what they cost and what you get before you pay, and these terms will be updated to cover them.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, BLADES isn’t liable for indirect or consequential losses, and our total liability to you is limited to what you’ve paid us in the past twelve months. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under consumer law that can’t be limited.

Credits

Charles River course and Penrith Lakes drawn from OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (openstreetmap.org/copyright).

Changes and contact

If these terms change, we’ll update the date at the top and tell you in the app if it matters. Questions: the support page.