Draft: under legal review. This version applies while Rugger is being tested with a small group. When the reviewed version is published, we'll ask you to read and agree to it.

Rugger: Health Disclaimer & Liability Waiver

Part A: Health Disclaimer

1. This is not individualised professional advice

Every training session, load recommendation, and nutrition target Rugger generates is produced from an automated system (described in the project brief as a layered programming engine, with rule-based guardrails checking each session before it's shown to you) based on the information you provide: your training history, daily check-ins (sleep, soreness, fatigue), session effort, and stated goals. It is not:

• a substitute for assessment, diagnosis, or advice from a doctor, physiotherapist, or registered dietitian;
• individualised medical or dietetic advice tailored by a qualified professional to your specific health history;
• a guarantee that any exercise, load, or nutrition target is appropriate for your particular circumstances, including any pre-existing injury or health condition you have not disclosed.

2. Estimates, not certainties

%1RM figures, load progressions, RPE targets, and nutrition macros (carbohydrate/fat ratios and calorie targets) are estimates generated from the data you enter and general training principles. They can be wrong, because the underlying data is wrong, incomplete, or because your circumstances have changed since you last updated your profile.

3. Tell us, and a real professional, about injuries

If you have a current or recent injury, a diagnosed health condition, or you're returning from a long layoff, get clearance from a qualified professional before following any programme. Rugger doesn't ask about injuries, so it can't adjust your programme for one. Use Swap to replace any exercise that doesn't suit you, and follow your physio's advice over the app's.

4. Stop if something feels wrong

Stop a session and seek appropriate medical advice if you experience pain beyond normal training discomfort, dizziness, chest pain, or any symptom that concerns you. Do not continue a prescribed session through pain on the assumption the app "knows best". It doesn't have access to anything beyond what you've told it.

Part B: Liability Waiver / Assumption of Risk

5. Training carries inherent risk

Strength and conditioning training, and rugby itself, carry an inherent risk of injury, including serious injury. By using Rugger's training features, you acknowledge and accept this risk as a normal part of participating in the sport and in structured training.

6. What you're agreeing to

• You confirm you are medically fit to undertake the training Rugger prescribes, or have sought appropriate clearance if you have reason to doubt that.
• You accept that Rugger, its creator, and anyone else involved in building or operating it are not liable for injury arising from following a prescribed session or nutrition target, except where that injury results from our negligence.
• For a player under 18, a parent or guardian must accept this waiver on the player's behalf as part of the guardian-consent process described in the Safeguarding Policy. It should not be presented to a minor as something they can accept alone.

7. This does not waive rights you can't waive

Nothing in this document excludes or limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded under the laws of England and Wales.

This combined document should be reviewed by both a lawyer (for the waiver's enforceability) and someone with relevant S&C/medical credibility (for the health disclaimer's accuracy) before it's shown to any real tester. It should be presented for explicit acceptance, not buried in general terms, consistent with the "standalone consent" requirement already flagged in the Data protection checklist item.

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