These Terms are an agreement between you and The NextSet. By creating an account or using the app you accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you don't accept them, don't use The NextSet.

The NextSet is a newly launched, actively evolving service. This has three practical consequences you accept by using it:

• The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.You may encounter bugs, incomplete features, and occasional downtime while we grow. We make no warranties — express, implied or statutory — other than those that cannot be excluded under Australian Consumer Law or the New Zealand Consumer Guarantees Act.
• Features may change, appear, disappear, or behave unexpectedly as the product develops, without prior notice. Feedback you send us may (or may not) shape what we build.
• Data you generate may be retained for debugging, safety review, product improvement, and forensic analysis of incidents, as described in our Privacy Policy and section 5B of these Terms. You can request deletion of your account and data at any time (section 11); safety-critical records are retained as described in section 5B.

• You must be 16 or older. Members aged 16 and 17 use The NextSet on a separate board: they can only see, match with and message other members aged 16-17, and adults can never see or contact them through the app. Full access begins automatically on your 18th birthday.
• If you are under 18, you confirm that a parent or guardian has read these Terms and agreed to your use of The NextSet.
• You must provide accurate sign-up information (real age, real gender).
• You must not be subject to a current ban from The NextSet.
• You must comply with the laws of your country, state, and territory.

The NextSet is a tool that helps lifters discover each other and arrange to train together. We do not:

• Verify the qualifications, fitness level, character, or intentions of other users. (Identity verification via government-issued ID is planned for a future release — your acceptance of these Terms covers that future check, and we will notify you in-app before it goes live.)
• Vet, supervise or insure any in-person meetup.
• Provide medical, physiotherapy, coaching or training advice. Form tips, spotting guides and the Form Snapshot tool are general information only.
• Guarantee that you will be matched with anyone, in any timeframe, at any gym, or that any match will result in a meetup.

Your use of The NextSet, your training, and any in-person meeting are at your own risk and discretion. Always consult a suitably qualified professional (doctor, physio, coach) before starting, changing or returning to any exercise program.

Every time you tap Go Live, post a Buddy Ad, accept a match request, or arrange an in-person meetup, you re-acknowledge that:

• The other person is a stranger to us. We do not conduct background checks, criminal-record checks, or fitness assessments.
• You assume all physical risk of the meetup, the training, the exercises attempted, the equipment used, and any interaction before, during or after.
• You will meet in a public area of the gym floor, remain in view of gym staff or CCTV where possible, and end the meetup at your own discretion at any time.
• You will use the app's privacy tools (gender visibility filter, selfie-before-meetup, block, not-a-match, report) as you see fit to keep yourself safe.
• You will contact your local emergency services (000 in AU, 111 in NZ) for any injury, threat or crime. The NextSet is not a substitute for emergency, medical, security, or law-enforcement services.

You agree not to:

• Misrepresent your age, gender, or identity.
• Harass, abuse, threaten, stalk, or solicit any user.
• Send sexual, violent, hateful or unlawful content. Any sexually explicit content involving a minor will be reported to law enforcement.
• Use The NextSet for commercial promotion, recruiting, multi-level marketing, or coaching solicitation without our written permission.
• Scrape, harvest, mirror, frame, or republish any part of the service, the user-facing copy, the design, the icons, the recognition feed, or any data displayed in the app.
• Decompile, disassemble, reverse-engineer, or attempt to derive the source code, internal APIs, AI prompts, database schema, or system architecture.
• Build, train, or fine-tune any machine-learning model, dataset, or third-party product using content or behaviour obtained from The NextSet.
• Build, distribute, or operate any product, service, or app that replicates the look, feel, flow, naming, or core functionality of The NextSet — including any “NextSet”-named or NextSet-derived competing service.
• Bypass safety features (block lists, view-once, reporting), or run automated tools, bots, headless browsers, or unofficial clients against the service.
• Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, attribution, or proprietary notice from the app or its assets.
• Share your account or impersonate another person.

We can suspend or permanently ban any account that breaks these rules, with or without notice.

You keep ownership of the content you upload (display name, avatar, photos, voice notes, messages, workout logs). You grant The NextSet a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, transmit, and display that content as needed to run the service. We don't use your content for advertising or training third-party AI models.

Screenshots are possible.View-once messages can prevent re-viewing in our app, but we cannot stop another device from photographing the screen. Don't share anything you wouldn't want a stranger to keep.

Selfies sent inside NextSet chats are designed as a “view-once” feature: the recipient sees the image for about 60 seconds, then the app removes it from view and the chat message is deleted shortly after.

You should assume every selfie you send is retained by The NextSet indefinitely— independently of the view-once behaviour — specifically for the purposes of safety review, incident investigation, moderation decisions, and legal or law-enforcement requests. Retention includes the image itself, the timestamp, the sender, and the chat context. Only The NextSet administrators can access this archive; it is never shared with other users, never displayed anywhere in the app, and never used for advertising or model training.

If you delete your account, retained selfies you uploaded are also deleted, except where they are the subject of an active safety report, unresolved complaint, ongoing investigation, or a legal or regulatory hold. In those cases we retain the record for as long as reasonably required and then delete it.

The practical rule:the same rule as any other photo you share online — if you would not want it seen by a court, an admin, or a police officer, do not send it. NextSet is not a private-messaging service.

You can block any user from your profile or report them via the flag icon on a match card. We review reports and may take action including warnings, content removal, suspensions, or bans. If you believe a crime has been committed, contact your local police directly — The NextSet is not a substitute for emergency services.

Premium features are not yet offered. When they are, the price, billing cycle, free trial terms, and cancellation rights will be presented to you before purchase. As an Australian consumer, your rights under the Australian Consumer Law are not excluded by these Terms. You can cancel a subscription at any time and continue using paid features through the end of the current billing period.

Ownership.The NextSet is proprietary. All right, title, and interest in and to the service — including the NextSet and The NextSet names, the NS chrome wordmark, the logo, the app and screen designs, the user-interface flows, the navigation model, the recognition stream, the matching, buddy-ad and trust-score mechanics, the AI program-builder prompts, the equipment and exercise guides as compiled by us, the source code, the database schema, the internal APIs, the marketing copy, and all related text, graphics, audio, animations, and look-and-feel (collectively, the “NextSet IP”) — is owned by The NextSet (or its licensors) and is protected by Australian and international copyright, trademark, design, trade secret, and other intellectual-property laws.

Licence to you. Subject to your continued compliance with these Terms, The NextSet grants you a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to access and use the service for your own non-commercial use on devices you own or control. No other rights are granted. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

What you must not do. Except to the minimum extent allowed by applicable law that cannot be contractually excluded, you must not:

• copy, modify, adapt, translate, publish, transmit, distribute, sell, sub-licence, rent, lease, or otherwise commercially exploit any part of the NextSet IP;
• reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or attempt to derive the source code, prompt structure, AI training data, or system architecture of the service;
• create derivative works, forks, mods, mirrors, “clone” apps, or competing products that incorporate, replicate, or are substantially similar to the NextSet IP or any portion of it — including substantially similar feature combinations, naming, visual identity, copy, or flow;
• use the NextSet IP, or any data, content, or behaviour obtained from the service, to train, fine-tune, or develop any machine-learning model or third-party product;
• scrape, harvest, index, frame, or systematically extract content, user profiles, or any data exposed by the service or its APIs;
• remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, attribution, or proprietary notice on the service or in its source artefacts.

Trademarks.“The NextSet”, “NextSet”, the NS chrome wordmark, and the NS icon are trademarks of The NextSet, used or registered in Australia, New Zealand and other jurisdictions. You must not use these marks, or any confusingly similar mark, without our prior written permission — including in app names, domain names, social-media handles, business names, paid advertising, app-store listings, or merchandise.

Third-party content. Exercise reference GIFs and instructions are licensed from WorkoutX and remain the property of their respective owners. Map tiles are provided under licence from Esri / OpenStreetMap contributors. Where any third-party asset has its own terms, those terms apply alongside ours.

Your content.See Section 5 — you keep ownership of the content you upload and only licence it to us as needed to run the service.

Feedback. If you send us suggestions, ideas, bug reports, or other feedback about the service, you grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use that feedback to improve The NextSet without obligation or attribution to you. You waive any moral rights in that feedback to the extent permitted by law.

Enforcement.Breach of this Section 8 may cause irreparable harm for which monetary damages would be inadequate. We may — in addition to any other remedy — seek immediate injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction without the obligation to post a bond, and recover our reasonable legal costs.

The NextSet relies on third-party infrastructure — including Supabase (database + realtime), Vercel (hosting), Firebase Cloud Messaging + Apple Push Notification service (mobile pushes), Anthropic (AI program generation), Resend (email), Stripe Identity (identity verification, when enabled), and OpenStreetMap / Esri (map tiles). Their availability, performance and continued operation is outside our control.

We are not liable for any loss, delay, or non-performance caused by: outages of these services; changes to their pricing, terms or APIs; natural disasters; internet or mobile network failures; power outages; industrial action; pandemic-related disruption; government action; cyber attacks; or any other event beyond our reasonable control.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, The NextSet's liability for any claim arising from your use of the service is limited to the greater of (a) AUD $100 or (b) the total fees you have paid us in the 12 months before the claim. We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential losses, including loss of revenue, data, or opportunity.

Nothing in these Terms excludes any guarantee, right or remedy you have under the Australian Consumer Law or the New Zealand Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 that cannot be excluded by contract.

You agree to indemnify The NextSet against any claim, loss or cost (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the service, or your interactions with other users.

You can delete your account at any time from Settings. We can suspend or terminate your access for breach of these Terms, for security or legal reasons, or if we discontinue the service. On deletion, your profile, sessions, workout logs and trusted buddy links are permanently removed. Chat messages you sent are retained for 6 months after deletion — accessible only to NextSet admins — so reports of inappropriate behaviour can be reviewed against the actual conversation, then permanently purged. Some safety-related records (e.g. ban history, section 5B selfie evidence) may be retained as permitted by law.

We'll update the “Last updated” date at the top whenever these Terms change. For material changes we'll show an in-app notice the next time you sign in. Continued use after that constitutes acceptance.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia. Disputes are subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Victoria. If you're a New Zealand resident, this clause does not displace the protections of the New Zealand Consumer Guarantees Act.

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