These Terms of Service govern your use of the Oruloop app. By creating an account, you agree to these terms. Please read the sections on what Oruloop is not, on checking what is right for you, on health and physical activity, on logs and insights, on check-ins, and on stakes with particular care, because they set out what you are taking on yourself. Please also read our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your information.
What Oruloop is
Oruloop is a social habit tracking and accountability app. You can use it on your own, or with a small private group (a "loop") of family, friends or colleagues. You start or join a challenge, set the daily targets it is built from, check in each day, keep shared lists, record your own logs and measurements if you want to, and see streaks, points, belts, badges, weekly results and a Consistency Score built from what you record.
Some challenges start from a ready-made template in the app (a "campaign"). A template is only a starting point. The people running the challenge choose the targets, how often each one has to be met, how long it runs, who takes part, and what, if anything, is at stake.
Oruloop is a tracker, not a coach and not a guarantee
Oruloop records what you tell it. It does not train you, supervise you, assess whether an activity is safe or suitable for you, or make anything happen on your behalf.
Everything that happens in a challenge is chosen and done by the people in it. You choose the challenge, you choose the targets and how demanding they are, you choose the duration, you choose who joins, you choose the stake, and you do the activity itself. Oruloop provides the place you record it, and the summary you see afterwards.
Nothing in the app is advice. Not a template, its name or its description, not a suggested target, goal or pace, not a suggested stake, not a message from Loopi, not a help answer, not an insight such as BMI or a healthy range, not a score, not a belt or a badge, not a reminder. These are prompts, general formulas and summaries of entries made by users, and none of them is a professional recommendation of any kind.
A template is named after a theme, not a result. A template that mentions your heart, your metabolism, sugar, sleep, alcohol, smoking or money does not treat, prevent or cure anything, has not been designed for you, and has not been reviewed for you by a doctor or any other professional.
We make no promise about results. We do not guarantee that a challenge will improve your health, fitness, finances or habits, that a belt, a streak or a score reflects your real fitness or health, that the app will motivate you, that other people in your challenge will take part, keep going, or be honest, or that a stake will ever be honoured. A challenge is an agreement between the people in it, and following through on it is up to them.
It is up to you to check what is right for you
Oruloop does not know your health, your history, your circumstances or the law where you live, and it does not check them. Before you start, join, set up or continue anything in the app, it is your responsibility to find out whether it is safe, suitable and lawful for you, and for anyone you invite. Where it matters, that means asking a qualified professional, such as a doctor, dietitian, physiotherapist, counsellor, financial adviser or lawyer, before you begin.
Advice from a professional who knows you always comes first. If a target, template, goal, reminder or stake in the app conflicts with what your doctor or another professional has told you, follow their advice, change the target, or leave the challenge.
Other users do not speak for Oruloop. A person who runs a loop or a challenge, including someone who describes themselves as a trainer, coach, dietitian or other professional, does not act for us, and we do not check their qualifications or what they ask you to do. Any advice or targets they give you are a matter between you and them. If you are a professional using Oruloop with clients, you remain responsible for your own advice and for meeting your own professional, legal and data protection obligations.
You are also responsible for making sure that what you do through the app is lawful where you live, including the stakes you agree, the photos you take and share, and anything you record about other people.
Eligibility
You must be at least 13 years old to create an Oruloop account. If you're under 18, you must have a parent or guardian's permission to use the app, and a parent or guardian must approve, before you take part, any challenge involving physical activity, a change to how you eat, drink or sleep, body measurements or photos, or a stake.
A child under 13 must not have their own account. If you run a challenge for or with a child, for example with one of the family or kids templates, you are responsible for supervising them, for making sure every target is safe and suitable for their age and health, and for what you record about them.
Your account
You're responsible for the information you provide and for keeping your account secure. Each account is for one person. Don't share your sign-in access with someone else, and don't create an account on behalf of someone who hasn't agreed to these terms themselves.
Loops and loop admins
The person who creates a loop is its admin. An admin can add and remove people, decide whether everyone or only the admin can start challenges and lists in the loop, and share the loop's invite link. Admins are users like everyone else. They do not act for Oruloop, and we are not responsible for how they run their loop.
Anyone with a loop's invite link or QR code can use it to join that loop, so share it only with people you want in the loop. If you add someone to a loop, make sure they would want to be there. Anyone can leave a loop at any time.
You set up your own challenges
Challenges in Oruloop are created by users, not by us. Whoever creates one chooses its targets, how often each target must be met, what each is worth, how it is won, how long it runs, who is invited, whether it runs solo or with a loop, what the stake is, and whether everyone has to record a log. Anything the app suggests is a suggestion you are free to change or ignore.
Take on only the challenges and targets that are appropriate for you. A target that is easy for one person can be unreasonable, or unsafe, for another. Judging what you can take on is your responsibility, as is adjusting it or stepping away if it stops being right for you. You can leave a challenge at any time, and you should, if continuing would harm you. If a challenge asks for something you are not comfortable with, such as a body measurement or a photo, decline the invite or leave.
Do not use a challenge, a streak, a belt, kudos or a stake to pressure, shame or coerce anyone else, and do not set targets for other people that you would not accept yourself.
The creator of a challenge can change some things after it has started, such as adding people, changing the stake until someone else has accepted it, or resetting the challenge once into a second round so that new people can join fairly. Check a challenge's details before you accept, and again if they change.
Health, fitness and physical activity
Oruloop is not a medical device or a medical record, and we are not doctors, trainers, physiotherapists, dietitians or any other kind of professional. Nothing in the app is medical, nutritional, fitness or mental health advice, a diagnosis, or a treatment, and nothing in it should be used as a substitute for advice from a qualified professional.
Consult a doctor before you create, join or continue any challenge that involves physical activity or a change to how you eat, drink, sleep or fast, or to anything you take or stop taking, such as alcohol, tobacco, caffeine or supplements. This matters most, and we ask you to treat it as a requirement rather than a suggestion, if you have or have ever had a medical condition or injury, have a disability, are pregnant or have recently given birth, are taking medication, are recovering from illness or surgery, are an older adult, or are new to exercise. If you are not sure whether an activity is safe for you, do not do it until a doctor has told you it is.
Some changes can be dangerous for some people even when they sound healthy, for example fasting, cutting out foods, drinking a lot more water, hard or long training, or suddenly stopping alcohol after drinking heavily. Never start, stop or change a medicine, a treatment or a diet your doctor has given you because of anything in the app.
Stop straight away and seek medical help if you feel pain, dizziness, breathlessness, chest discomfort, or anything else that does not feel right. Never push through it to protect a streak, keep a belt, pass a Grading Week, hold a place on the leaderboard, or avoid a stake. If you are ill or injured, rest. The Dojo's Meditation can pause your belt, but with or without it, no score in this app is worth an injury, and we would rather you break a streak than your health.
Oruloop is not for emergencies. It does not monitor you, and it will not raise an alarm or alert anyone if something goes wrong. In an emergency, contact your local emergency number (112 in India).
Tracking food, weight or your body can become stressful for some people. If logging, a weight goal, a streak or comparing yourself with others starts to affect how you feel about yourself, or how you eat, stop using that part of the app and talk to someone you trust or a professional.
You take part in every activity entirely at your own risk. You are solely responsible for your own health and safety, and for satisfying yourself that anyone you invite or encourage into a challenge, including a child or an older relative, is fit to take part in it.
Logs, measurements and insights
Logs are a place to keep numbers you measured yourself. Oruloop does not measure anything, does not check your readings, and is not a medical record. Do not rely on it to keep the readings your doctor needs, to monitor a medical condition, or to decide whether you need care. If you log something like blood pressure, blood sugar or heart rate, the app will not tell you whether a reading is normal, dangerous or urgent, and it will not alert you or anyone else.
Insights such as BMI, a healthy weight range, waist-to-height ratio or a body fat band come from simple general formulas. They are not a health assessment, they do not take your individual circumstances into account, and they can be misleading, for example for children and teenagers, older adults, athletes, pregnant women, and people with some medical conditions. Talk to a doctor before you act on them.
Goal pace figures, such as how many kilograms a week you would need to lose to reach a goal by a date, are arithmetic based on the goal and the date you chose. They are not a recommended or safe rate. Set goals and timeframes with a qualified professional, and never try to lose or gain weight faster than they advise.
A challenge can ask everyone in it to record a reading of a log with a photo, at the start, at the end and sometimes in between, before they can check in. Only take photos you are comfortable taking. If you would rather not, decline the invite or leave the challenge. Log readings and log photos stay private, as our Privacy Policy explains.
Check-ins are self-reported and we do not verify them
Every check-in, number, note, photo and log reading in Oruloop is entered by a user. Oruloop does not verify any of it. We do not check whether an activity actually took place, whether a photo shows what it appears to show, whether a measurement is accurate, or whether anyone has checked in honestly. We have no way of doing so. When the app asks for a photo as proof, the proof is for the people in your challenge to look at. We do not review it.
Points, streaks, badges, belts, weekly awards, rankings, the Consistency Score, log insights and the outcome of a challenge are all calculated from those unverified entries. They describe what was recorded in the app, not what happened in the world.
Keeping a challenge honest is the job of the people in it. If accuracy matters to you, agree the rules up front and check each other's check-ins yourselves. This is exactly what the shared feed is for.
If someone checks in when they should not have, records the wrong number, or ends up winning a challenge or a stake they should not have won, that is a matter between the people in that challenge. Oruloop is not responsible for it, does not investigate or arbitrate it, will not reverse or adjust a score, a result or a stake because of it, and is not liable for any loss anyone suffers as a result. We can remove content or accounts that abuse the app, but we cannot and will not settle who really did what.
Scores, results and winners
Each challenge is decided by the rule its creator chose, such as highest score, longest streak or first to the finish. Some older challenges also use progress against a measurement someone logged. Every one of these calculations runs on the self-reported entries described above, so it is only ever as reliable as what people recorded.
When a challenge is reset into a second round, the first round has no challenge winner and owes no stake, even if the app congratulates whoever led it.
Belts are earned, held and can be lost under the rules shown in the Dojo. A belt is a summary of how you have used the app, not a grade of your fitness, skill or health, and we may change the rules.
A result shown in Oruloop is a summary of the data in the app. It is not a finding of fact, not a prize awarded by us, and not something we stand behind as true. Scores, statistics, belts and results may also change if entries are edited, added late or removed, or if we correct how something is calculated.
Stakes are set by users and are meant to be informal
A stake is something the people in a challenge agree between themselves, and it is set by them, not by us. Stakes are meant to be light and encouraging, a nudge that keeps everyone showing up: a treat, a chore, cooking dinner for the group, the winner picking the next outing. They are not entry fees, prizes or winnings, and Oruloop never asks for, holds or takes a share of anything.
When you set up a challenge with other people, the app asks for a stake and offers ideas. An idea is only an idea. Change it, keep it symbolic, or choose something that costs nothing. Once someone else accepts, the app locks the stake so everyone can see what was agreed. That lock is a record, not an enforcement.
Oruloop does not process payments, hold or transfer money, act as an escrow or stakeholder, verify or guarantee that a stake was settled, or enforce anything anyone agreed to. Oruloop is not a payment service, and it is not a betting, gaming or wagering service. We do not offer, organise, run or take any part in any game of chance or skill played for money. The app records the sentence you typed, so that the people who agreed it can remember what they agreed, and nothing more.
Whatever a stake is, it is a private arrangement between the people involved, on the honour system. Oruloop is not a party to it, does not mediate disputes about it, and is not responsible if someone doesn't follow through, if the result someone relied on turns out to be wrong, or if what was agreed turns out to be unenforceable.
You are responsible for what you agree to. Make sure it is lawful where you live, that everyone involved is comfortable with it (including a parent or guardian, where a participant is under 18), and that it is something you could shrug off if it went the other way. Keep stakes small, friendly and in proportion. If a stake could cause anyone real hardship, or could not be laughed about afterwards, it does not belong in a challenge.
Your content
You keep ownership of the loops, lists, challenges, check-ins, notes, logs, readings, photos and other content you create. By posting content, you give Oruloop permission to store it and display it to the people you've shared it with (your loop-mates, your challenge co-participants, or the people you've shared a log with), which is just what's needed to run the app.
Only add photos and other content you have the right to share. Don't post a photo of someone else, and especially of a child, without their permission (or their parent's or guardian's). Remember that a photo attached to a check-in is visible to everyone in that challenge.
When you share a link, a QR code or a card outside Oruloop, you choose where it goes, and what happens to it there is between you and the people or apps you shared it with.
Don't post anything illegal, harassing, abusive, or that infringes someone else's rights, and don't deliberately falsify check-ins or measurements in a shared challenge. We may remove content or suspend accounts that violate this.
Account deletion and termination
You can delete your account at any time from Settings, then Delete Account. See our Privacy Policy for exactly what that does.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, misuse the app, or pose a risk to other users.
Availability and changes to the app
We may add, change or remove features at any time, and a change may affect how existing scores, streaks, belts or challenges are calculated or displayed. We may deliver fixes and improvements to the app automatically, without a new download from the app store. We work to keep the app reliable, but it may be unavailable, delayed, or lose data, and a missed or late reminder or notification, or a check-in or reading that fails to save, is not something we can be responsible for.
No warranty, limited liability
Oruloop is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Oruloop and its developers are not liable for any injury, illness, death, loss, cost or damage arising out of or connected with: any activity you take part in through a challenge; any decision you make based on anything shown in the app, including a template, target, goal, pace, insight, reading, help answer or message from Loopi; any check-in, reading, score, streak, belt, badge, result or statistic being inaccurate, incomplete, late or missing; anything another user does, says, records, advises or fails to do, including a loop admin or someone who describes themselves as a professional; any stake or other arrangement between users; anything you share outside the app; or any interruption, error, or loss of data.
Where liability cannot be excluded by law, it is limited to the amount you have paid us for the app in the twelve months before the claim, which for a free app is nothing.
Your responsibility
You agree to use Oruloop lawfully and sensibly, and to take responsibility for what you do with it. To the extent the law allows, if a claim is brought against us because of something you did in the app, an activity you took part in, advice or targets you gave another user, or an arrangement you made with another user, you agree to cover the reasonable costs of dealing with it.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms as the app changes. We'll update the date at the top when we do, and significant changes will be communicated in-app. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the updated terms.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of India, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
Contact us
Questions about these terms:
support@oruloop.com