Sledge

Sledge Terms of Service

Version: 1.0 Effective date: 29 August 2026 Language: English

1. Provider

Sledge is provided by:

Burlis Management GmbH Philippstraße 27 52349 Düren Germany

Managing Director: Alexander Burlis Commercial Register: HRB 7595, Local Court of Düren VAT identification number: DE316238171 Telephone: +49 177 6436530 Email: support@burlis.de

2. Scope and documents

These Terms govern the optional Sledge Friends service: account authentication, display names, invitations, friendships, blocks, reports and the two-week leaderboard.

The separate End-User Licence Agreement governs installation and use of the app. The Privacy Policy explains personal-data processing. Acknowledging the Privacy Policy is not acceptance of a contract or consent to processing. Sledge requests Health consent and the optional fitness-leaderboard consent separately.

The Germany launch build contains no remote AI Coach, food-photo analysis, paid offer or subscription, Expo over-the-air update, or Sign in with Apple. These Terms grant no right to a function that is not offered in this release.

3. Local use and contract formation

You may use the local workout log, manual food and water logging, progress views and local settings without a Friends account. The app licence and the store's terms govern that local use.

A Friends contract is formed when Sledge has shown you the Terms and Privacy notice in your selected language and you:

  1. confirm that you are at least 18 years old;
  2. accept the current Terms;
  3. acknowledge receiving the Privacy and report notice;
  4. for an ordinary account, verify an email address with a one-time code, or, for the isolated store-review account described below, present its assigned reusable review credential; and
  5. create or access the Friends account.

Sledge records the Terms version and acceptance time separately from the Privacy notice version, acknowledgement time and language shown. If the Terms change materially, Friends may require acceptance of the new version before continued use.

4. Friends authentication and account

Ordinary Friends accounts use email one-time codes only. You must control the email address and keep codes, device access and sessions secure. Do not share a code or sell, transfer or lend the account. Tell us promptly if you believe the account is being used without permission.

One isolated synthetic account supplied only to Apple and Google for store review uses a separate reusable, account-scoped review credential. It exists so store reviewers can inspect the submitted Friends functions without access to a company mailbox. The credential cannot authenticate another account and is not available for public registration.

Your display name may be a pseudonym. It must not impersonate another person, contain another person's contact details, unlawfully expose personal data, promote hatred or violence, threaten, harass, defraud, advertise, contain malicious links, or otherwise violate law or another person's rights. Automated screening does not make every accepted name lawful.

5. Friends, invitations and leaderboard

You may create a seven-day invitation and choose how to share it. Give it only to the intended person. A friendship exists only after the other person accepts the invitation.

If you separately give the optional explicit fitness-leaderboard consent, Sledge automatically uploads totals for the current and previous ISO week when the app enters the foreground and after a completed workout:

Accepted Friends see your display name and those totals. Sledge does not upload individual exercises, individual sets, per-set weights, meals, body weight, plans or Health records to Friends. Fitness consent is not required to form or use the Friends contract. Without it, Friends remains available but Sledge does not upload or show your own totals. You may withdraw it in Friends settings; that stops future uploads and deletes your uploaded totals while preserving the account, friendships and local workout data. The Privacy Policy explains this separate consent and its legal effect.

You grant Burlis a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store and display your display name and leaderboard totals only as needed to provide, secure and moderate Friends. The licence ends when the data are deleted.

6. Removing friends, blocking and reporting

You may remove a friend or block another Friends user. A block applies in both directions. You may lift a block yourself. Lifting it does not restore the friendship.

You may report another user using one of the fixed reasons in the app. A report also removes the friendship and creates a block. Do not knowingly submit a false or abusive report. Sledge reviews reports at least weekly, aims to handle them within 30 days, deletes unhandled reports after 90 days and deletes handled reports 12 months after handling.

Burlis may reject or change a display name, remove a friendship, or restrict or terminate a Friends account where reasonably necessary to enforce these Terms, protect users, investigate abuse or comply with law. We consider the seriousness, available evidence and proportionality. Where reasonable and lawful, we tell the affected user and provide a way to raise a moderation concern through the contact in Section 1. Reports are deleted on the unconditional 90-day or 12-month schedule above.

7. Account deletion and ending Friends

You may stop using Friends at any time. Delete the account in the app or use the web deletion route if you no longer have access to the app. A recoverable network or server failure keeps a usable session and is shown so you can try again. If the server reports that the session is no longer authenticated, Sledge clears that unusable session and asks you to sign in again.

Account deletion removes the server-side account, authentication records, friend graph, blocks, invitations and leaderboard totals. It does not delete the workout database on your device or a record already written to Apple Health or Health Connect. A report filed by another user may retain its fixed reason and filing and handling times for the finite period in the Privacy Policy, but account deletion removes the reported account identifier and display-name snapshot from it.

We may terminate Friends for a serious or repeated breach, a security threat, legal necessity, or permanent discontinuation. Mandatory notice and consumer rights remain unaffected. The local app continues to work unless the app licence itself ends.

8. Health and fitness information

Sledge is a personal logging tool. It is not a medical device, emergency service, doctor, dietitian or substitute for professional advice. Outputs such as totals, progress and estimates can be incomplete or wrong. Check entries before relying on them and seek qualified help where appropriate. Do not use Sledge for diagnosis, treatment or an emergency.

Health integration is optional and requires separate explicit consent followed by the operating-system permission. The Friends fitness leaderboard has its own optional explicit consent because its three weekly totals can reveal physical activity. Neither consent is acceptance of these Terms. You remain responsible for what you choose to record and for reviewing anything Sledge writes to Apple Health or Health Connect.

9. Availability, maintenance and changes

We use reasonable care to operate Friends, but do not promise uninterrupted or error-free availability. Maintenance, security work, provider outages and legal requirements may temporarily restrict it.

We may make proportionate changes for security, compatibility, law, app-store requirements, abuse prevention or feature development. Material adverse changes to the Friends contract are communicated in advance where reasonably possible. If you do not agree, you may delete the account before the change applies. Mandatory rights concerning digital products and updates remain unaffected.

10. Intellectual property and acceptable use

Sledge software, design, name and original content are protected by law. The EULA grants the app licence. Except where mandatory law or an open-source licence allows it, you must not bypass security or access controls, probe the service without permission, scrape Friends data, automate unsupported requests, introduce malware, disrupt the service, obtain another user's credentials, or use Sledge unlawfully.

Third-party and open-source components remain subject to their own licences. Notices and applicable texts are available in the app. The licences page explains how to request a copy.

11. Warranty and liability

German statutory warranty and consumer rights apply. Nothing in these Terms limits liability for intent, gross negligence, injury to life, body or health, fraudulent concealment, an expressly assumed guarantee, product liability, or another liability that cannot legally be limited.

For slight negligence, Burlis is liable for breach of an essential contractual duty only for the foreseeable damage typical for the contract. An essential duty is one whose performance makes the contract possible and on which the user may ordinarily rely. In other cases, liability for slight negligence is excluded to the extent permitted by law. These limits also apply to employees and agents.

You remain responsible for protecting your device and for backups you export. This does not remove liability where Burlis caused a loss under the rules above.

12. Privacy and communications

Personal-data processing is governed by the Privacy Policy. Acceptance of these Terms is neither Health consent nor fitness-leaderboard consent.

Contractual notices may be provided in the app, on the Sledge website or by email to the Friends address where appropriate. This does not replace a form required by law.

13. Consumer dispute resolution

Burlis Management GmbH is neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

If a dispute under a consumer contract could not be settled directly, Burlis will provide the information required in the individual case by Section 37 of the German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act. This statement does not restrict access to courts, authorities or consumer organisations.

14. Governing law, language and final terms

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. A consumer retains mandatory protection of the law of their habitual residence. No exclusive place of jurisdiction is imposed on a consumer.

For a German legal flow, the German Terms govern. For an English legal flow, this English version governs. A language rule does not restrict mandatory consumer protection.

If a provision is invalid, the statutory rule applies and the remainder stays effective where legally possible. Failure to enforce a right once is not a waiver. Questions may be sent to the provider contact in Section 1.