Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern the contractual relationship between the provider and you as the user for your use of RunLine — comprising the web frontend at getrunline.app and the mixed-reality application for Meta Quest. Please read them carefully. If anything is unclear, email mail@getrunline.app.

§ 01Scope and provider

RunLine is a web service and a mixed-reality application for Meta Quest, operated by Mario Hofer, 73278 Schlierbach, Germany, reachable at mail@getrunline.app (the "Provider"). Full provider details (address, VAT identification number, person responsible) are available in the Imprint.

These Terms apply between the Provider and the user for all services delivered through the RunLine web frontend and the Quest application. Deviating terms put forward by the user do not become part of the contract unless the Provider expressly agrees to them in writing.

§ 02Description of service

RunLine is a visualization tool for designers and judges of dog-sport agility courses. Its core function is the import of SmarterAgility course designs and their true-to-scale rendering as a mixed-reality scene on Meta Quest headsets.

The service is an aid for planning and visualization. Responsibility for the real-world setup of a course, the safety of the dogs and athletes running the course, and compliance with the applicable federation rules (FCI, VDH, AKC and similar bodies) lies solely with the user.

Beta notice: During the beta phase, the service is under active development. Features may change without prior notice, be temporarily unavailable, or be removed entirely.

§ 03Conclusion of contract

The contract between the Provider and the user is concluded upon successful confirmation of the user's account. Users must have reached the age of majority (at least 18 years) and have unrestricted legal capacity.

The Provider reserves the right to reject, refuse to confirm, or suspend accounts without giving reasons — in particular within the framework of a beta-slot limitation or on reasonable suspicion of a breach of these Terms.

§ 04Rights of use and user obligations

The Provider grants the user a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive right, limited to the term of the contract, to use RunLine for the contractually intended purpose.

The user is obliged to keep their credentials confidential and to protect them from access by third parties. Creating and operating multiple user accounts by the same natural person is not permitted.

§ 05Intellectual property and confidentiality

All rights in RunLine — in particular in the software, the source and object code, the data models, the graphic design, the 3D models, textures and icons, the user-interface design, as well as the names, logos, and other content — belong exclusively to the Provider or are used by the Provider under lawful authorisation. The rights of use granted to the user under § 04 do not transfer any ownership or intellectual-property rights.

The user is prohibited from reproducing, extracting, imitating, or incorporating into their own or third-party products, in whole or in part, any content, design elements, models, or other components of RunLine, except to the extent permitted by mandatory law.

Confidentiality during the beta: During the beta phase, RunLine is made available to the user as a non-public pre-release product. All non-publicly-known information accessible in this context — in particular unreleased features, interaction concepts, designs, technical details, and roadmap information — must be treated as confidential. The user undertakes not to disclose such information to third parties and not to use it for any purpose other than the contractually intended use.

In particular, the user is prohibited from using RunLine, or confidential insights or protected content of the Provider derived from it, to develop, have developed, or support the development of a competing product. The independent development of the user's own products without use of the Provider's confidential information or protected content remains unaffected.

These confidentiality obligations continue to apply after the contractual relationship has ended.

§ 06Prohibited conduct

The user is in particular prohibited from:

• reverse engineering, decompiling, or disassembling the application or its components, except to the extent expressly permitted by mandatory law (§ 69e of the German Copyright Act);
• circumventing technical protection measures, including JWT-token verification, slot and rate limits;
• automated access (bots, crawlers, scraping tools) without the Provider's prior express written consent;
• disclosing credentials to third parties;
• creating and operating multiple user accounts by the same natural person;
• sharing a linked SmarterAgility account between multiple RunLine users;
• interfering with or altering the application, its server infrastructure, or database contents;
• transmitting malicious code or attempting to exploit security vulnerabilities;
• reproducing, extracting, or imitating content, 3D models, textures, icons, or design elements of the application, in whole or in part;
• using the application, or confidential insights derived from it, to develop, produce, or support a competing product;
• disclosing non-publicly-known beta features, designs, or technical details to third parties without the Provider's prior written consent;
• any breach of applicable law or third-party rights in connection with the use of RunLine.

Any breach of these provisions entitles the Provider to immediately suspend the affected account and to terminate the contract without notice.

§ 07Availability

The Provider aims for high service availability but gives no guarantee of any specific level of availability or response time. Planned maintenance windows will be announced in advance where reasonably possible. During the beta phase, no service-level agreement applies.

§ 08Subscription and termination

During the beta phase, use of RunLine is free of charge. Paid plans will be introduced at a later date; the separate contractual terms for such plans will be communicated in good time before introduction and require the user's separate consent.

The user may delete their account at any time by contacting the Provider at mail@getrunline.app. The Provider is entitled to terminate the contract without notice for good cause — in particular in the event of a breach of § 06 of these Terms.

§ 09Data protection

The Provider's Privacy Policy applies and forms an integral part of these Terms. It describes which personal data is collected, the purposes for which it is processed, and the rights available to the user with respect to their data.

§ 10Liability and warranty

Beta notice: The service may contain defects and is provided in its current state of development. The Provider is liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence as well as under the provisions of the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz).

In cases of slight negligence, the Provider is liable only for breach of material contractual duties (so-called cardinal duties — duties whose fulfilment is essential for the proper performance of the contract and on whose observance the user may regularly rely), and such liability is limited to damages typically foreseeable under the contract.

Liability for indirect damages, lost profits, and data loss is excluded to the extent permitted by law. §§ 309 and 310 of the German Civil Code (BGB) remain unaffected — mandatory consumer-protection rules take precedence over this limitation of liability.

In particular, the Provider assumes no responsibility for damage to animals, persons, or property arising from the construction of a course based on data supplied by RunLine. Assessing the safety of a course setup in physical space is the sole responsibility of the user.

§ 11Course plan import (extraction)

As an optional feature, RunLine offers automated recognition of course plans: the user may upload a digital image of a course plan; the application reconstructs machine-readable course data from it, which is stored in the user's account and can, on request, be transferred to the user's linked SmarterAgility account.

Responsibility for uploads: Course plans may be protected by copyright or other third-party rights. The user may only upload plans they created themselves or whose use for this purpose they are authorised for — for example because the rights holder provided the plan for trial preparation or training purposes or consented to its use. The Provider does not review uploaded content for legal permissibility; responsibility for the upload rests solely with the user.

Rights to uploads: By uploading, the user grants the Provider the non-exclusive right, limited to the purpose of providing the feature, to store and automatically analyse the image. Uploaded images are deleted no later than 90 days after upload. Any use beyond this, in particular to analyse and improve the automated recognition, only takes place if the user has given separate consent (feedback and correction evaluation, see below).

Feedback on recognition: The user may voluntarily rate a recognition result, select error categories, mark locations in the image and leave a comment. By sending the feedback, the user consents to the affected image, the recognition result and the feedback details being stored beyond the 90 day period and evaluated to analyse and improve the recognition feature. Consent is given when the feedback is submitted and is not a precondition for using the feature.

Correction evaluation: If the user transfers a course created from an image into their SmarterAgility account and consents to correction evaluation, the Provider stores later changes to that course's data (previous and changed state) and evaluates them to improve the recognition feature. In that case the associated image and recognition result are also retained beyond the 90 day period.

Revocation: Both consents are voluntary and can be revoked at any time with effect for the future, for example by e-mail to mail@getrunline.app. After revocation the affected images, feedback details and correction data are deleted. Details are set out in the Privacy Policy.

Indemnification: The user indemnifies the Provider against all third-party claims arising from the user's unlawful use of the import feature, including the reasonable costs of legal defence, unless the user is not responsible for the infringement.

Removal of contested content: The Provider may block or delete uploaded images and course data generated from them if third parties assert an infringement or there are concrete indications of one. Rights holders may address complaints to mail@getrunline.app.

No warranty for recognition results: Recognition is automated and yields an approximation of the depicted plan. The user must verify the generated course data before use — in particular before setting up real obstacles. § 10 remains unaffected.

§ 12Final provisions

Governing law: These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, to the exclusion of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Where the user is a consumer, the mandatory consumer-protection provisions of the state in which the user has their habitual residence remain unaffected.

Place of jurisdiction: To the extent that the user is a merchant, a legal entity under public law, or a special fund under public law, or relocates their domicile abroad after conclusion of the contract, the place of jurisdiction is the Provider's registered seat.

Severability: Should individual provisions of these Terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions shall remain unaffected. The invalid provision shall be replaced by the statutory rule that comes closest to the economic purpose pursued by the invalid provision.

Amendments to these Terms: The Provider is entitled to amend these Terms with effect for the future where this is necessary for good cause — for example due to a change in the legal situation, supreme-court case law, technical development of the service, or an expansion of the range of services — and provided that the user is not thereby unreasonably disadvantaged contrary to the requirements of good faith. The user will be informed of intended amendments in text form (e.g. by email) at least six weeks before they take effect. If the user does not object within six weeks of receiving the notice, the amended Terms are deemed accepted; the Provider will separately draw attention to this consequence and to the user's right to object in the notice. If the user objects, the contract continues on the previous terms; both parties remain entitled to terminate the contract in accordance with § 08. Amendments to the main contractual obligations or to any remuneration are excluded from this provision and require the user's separate consent.