Terms of Use

1. About these Terms

These Terms of Use (the Terms) govern your access to and use of Volumes, including its mobile application, associated services, cloud features and content (together, the App).

The App is provided by David White, trading as White Matter (I, me or my). My contact details are set out in section 18.

By downloading, accessing or using the App, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the App. These Terms operate alongside Apple's applicable App Store terms and my Privacy Policy.

2. Who may use Volumes

You must be at least 16 years old to use the App independently. If you are under 18, you confirm that a parent or legal guardian has reviewed and agreed to these Terms and has permitted your use of the App.

You must not use the App if doing so would breach any law or professional restriction that applies to you.

3. What Volumes does

Volumes is designed to help users plan, record and review strength-training activities. Depending on the version and features available to you, the App may provide:

• local workout and exercise tracking;
• backups and synchronisation through permitted Apple services, including iCloud;
• integration with Apple Health and other permitted Apple services;
• suggested workouts, exercises, weights, sets, repetitions or progressions; and
• AI-generated summaries or observations about workouts and exercises.

Features may change over time and may differ by device, operating-system version, country or purchase status.

4. Fitness, health and safety

The App is for general information, organisation and fitness tracking only. It is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, prevent, monitor, predict, treat or cure any disease, injury or medical condition.

Before starting or changing an exercise programme, you should consider whether it is suitable for your health, fitness, experience and circumstances. Seek advice from a doctor, physiotherapist or other appropriately qualified professional before using the App if you have an injury, medical condition, disability, pregnancy, symptoms that concern you, or any doubt about whether exercise is suitable for you.

Stop exercising and seek appropriate assistance if you experience pain, faintness, dizziness, unusual shortness of breath, chest discomfort or other concerning symptoms. In an emergency, contact the emergency services; do not rely on the App.

You are responsible for:

• choosing exercises, equipment, weights and training intensity appropriate to you;
• using safe technique and obtaining qualified instruction or supervision when needed;
• checking equipment and ensuring that your training area is safe; and
• allowing appropriate recovery and not training through injury or concerning symptoms.

5. Suggestions and AI-generated information

Workout suggestions, exercise information, weight suggestions and AI-generated summaries are automated outputs based on limited information. They may be incomplete, inaccurate, unsuitable or misleading and may not reflect your current health, technique, fatigue, equipment or environment.

You must use your own judgement and verify important information before acting on it. Do not treat an AI summary or other automated output as medical, physiotherapy, nutritional or other professional advice. The App does not continuously monitor you and cannot identify every injury risk, unsafe movement or medical issue.

No particular fitness, strength, health or performance outcome is promised or guaranteed.

6. Devices and Apple services

Volumes does not require registration with me, and I do not provide or operate a user account system for the App. App information is stored on your device and, for supported features, may be synchronised through the private iCloud database associated with your Apple Account, as explained in the Privacy Policy.

You are responsible for protecting your devices and Apple Account using appropriate security controls. If you believe there is a security issue affecting Volumes, contact me promptly at hello@whitematter.uk. You can remove information using the App's deletion controls and the relevant Apple Health or iCloud settings, as described in the Privacy Policy.

7. Workout data, cloud sync and backups

Some data may be stored locally on your device and some may be synchronised through your private iCloud database or another permitted Apple service. Syncing and backup can be affected by connectivity, device settings, platform services, storage limits, software errors or actions you take.

You should keep any separate records that are important to you. I will use reasonable care and skill in providing the App but cannot promise that workout records will never be delayed, duplicated, corrupted or lost.

8. Apple Health

If you choose to connect Volumes to Apple Health, you authorise the App to read and/or write only the categories you approve through Apple's permission controls. You can change those permissions in your device settings.

Information obtained through Apple Health may be sensitive health-related personal data. How I process it is explained in the Privacy Policy. Apple Health data may be incomplete, delayed or affected by data supplied by other apps and devices. It must not be relied upon for emergency, diagnostic or clinical purposes.

Apple is not responsible for the App's fitness suggestions, AI outputs or my handling of your data. Your use of Apple Health is also subject to Apple's applicable terms.

9. Optional purchases

The App may offer optional paid features, content or upgrades through Apple's in-app purchase system. The price and what is included will be shown before you confirm a purchase.

Apple processes payments and applies its own billing, cancellation and refund rules. Where available, purchases can be restored using the App Store account used to make them. Nothing in these Terms limits any refund, cancellation or other consumer right you have under applicable law.

If a recurring subscription is introduced, the App will disclose its duration, price, renewal arrangements and how to cancel before you subscribe. These Terms do not themselves create a subscription.

10. Licence to use the App

Subject to these Terms, I grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence to use the App on Apple-branded devices that you own or control, as permitted by the applicable App Store rules, for your own non-commercial purposes.

The App, its software, design, branding, text, graphics and other content are owned by me or my licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. Except where the law permits, you must not copy, sell, sublicense, reverse engineer, modify, distribute or commercially exploit the App or its content.

11. Acceptable use

You must not:

• use the App unlawfully, fraudulently or to harm another person;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to systems or data;
• introduce malware, interfere with security or place an unreasonable load on the service;
• scrape, harvest or systematically extract content or data without permission;
• misrepresent automated outputs as professional or clinical advice; or
• use the App in a way that infringes another person's rights.

12. Third-party services

The App may rely on or link to third-party services, including Apple services, hosting providers and AI technology providers. Those services may have their own terms and privacy practices. I am not responsible for a third party's acts or omissions, but this does not remove any responsibility I have to you under applicable law for the way I select, integrate or use those services.

13. Availability, updates and changes

I may update the App to improve it, add or remove features, maintain security, respond to legal requirements or accommodate changes to third-party services. I will take reasonable care not to make changes that unfairly deprive you of paid functionality.

The App may occasionally be unavailable for maintenance, technical problems or events outside my reasonable control. I do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation. You may need to install updates to continue using some features safely.

14. Ending use and availability

You may stop using the App and delete it from your devices at any time. You can delete supported records within the App and manage information stored in Apple Health or iCloud through the relevant Apple settings, as explained in the Privacy Policy.

I may stop providing the App or particular features where reasonably necessary for security, legal, technical or business reasons. Where reasonably possible, I will give appropriate notice. Ending use or availability does not affect rights or obligations that arose beforehand, including applicable consumer and payment rights.

15. My responsibility to you

I will provide the App with reasonable care and skill. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where it would be unlawful to do so, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or your statutory rights as a consumer.

If I fail to comply with these Terms, I am responsible for loss or damage that is a foreseeable result of that failure or of my failure to use reasonable care and skill. Loss or damage is foreseeable if it was obvious that it would happen or if both you and I knew it might happen when you accepted these Terms.

The App is supplied for personal and domestic use. I am not responsible for business losses, including loss of profit, revenue, business opportunity or business data, resulting from use of the App for trade or business purposes.

I am not responsible for loss caused solely by your failure to follow clear safety instructions, your use of the App contrary to these Terms, or circumstances outside my reasonable control, except to the extent that the law makes me responsible.

16. Privacy

My Privacy Policy explains what personal data the App collects, why it is used, how it is protected, when it may be shared, how long it is retained and the rights available to you. You can read it at /apps/volumes/privacy-policy.

17. Changes to these Terms

I may update these Terms to reflect changes to the App, law, safety requirements or business arrangements. If a change materially affects your rights or use of the App, I will give reasonable notice through the App or by another appropriate method. The updated Terms will state their effective date.

A change will not retrospectively remove rights you have already acquired. If you do not agree to a material change, you may stop using the App and remove it from your devices. You can manage or delete stored information using the controls described in the Privacy Policy.

18. Contact details

Volumes is provided by:

19. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. If you live elsewhere in the United Kingdom or another country, you retain any mandatory consumer protections and rights to bring proceedings that apply where you live.

Please contact me first so that I can try to resolve any complaint. If a dispute cannot be resolved, the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction, meaning that you may also be entitled to bring proceedings in the courts where you live.

20. General terms

If a court finds part of these Terms unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining parts will continue to apply. If I delay enforcing a right, that does not mean I have waived it. These Terms are between you and me; no other person has a right to enforce them, except that Apple and its subsidiaries may enforce provisions relating to their rights under the applicable App Store licence terms.