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Terms of Use

These terms are the deal between you and {{DECIDE: legal entity name and registered address}}, which runs Lattice and sells The Threshold Protocol. Buying anything from us, or making an account, means you agree to all of it.

Plain English is the goal here. If a lawyer later tells us a clause has to get uglier to actually work, it gets uglier. The intent stays the same.

1. What you are buying

A licence to use written training content and a web app. That is it.

You are not buying coaching. You are not buying a consultation. You are not hiring a healthcare provider, and no relationship of that kind is created by paying us. Nobody is watching your sets.

Products currently sold:

• The Threshold Protocol, twelve weeks
• The Form Vault
• The Full Year, weeks thirteen through fifty-two
• The Next 12 Weeks, weeks thirteen through twenty-four

All one-time payments. There is no subscription and we do not store a recurring charge against your card.

2. Your licence, and its limits

You get a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to read, print for yourself, and follow the content you have paid for. Access lasts {{DECIDE: access term, e.g. lifetime access vs. a stated number of years, and what happens if the app is retired}}.

What you may not do:

1. Post it, share it, upload it, or resell it
2. Give your login to somebody else, including a friend who is also postmenopausal and also wants to lift
3. Copy the content into your own program, coaching business, or class
4. Scrape it, or feed it into a model to reproduce it
5. Strip out the safety material and pass on only the training

That fifth one matters more than the other four. The screening, the ramp and the stop-conditions are not padding around the program. They are the reason it is safe enough to sell without supervision.

We own the content, the app, the illustrations, the name and the look. You own your own training data. More on that in the Privacy Policy.

3. Assumption of risk

Read this part twice.

Strength training and impact training carry a genuine risk of injury. That risk includes muscle strain, tendon and joint injury, back pain, falls, cardiac events, and bone fracture, and it is not eliminated by good technique. The risk is higher if you have low bone density, and low bone density is the reason most of you are here.

You are choosing to do this without supervision. The randomized trial this protocol is adapted from, LIFTMOR (Watson and colleagues, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 2018), was delivered with direct professional supervision of every session. We are not supervising you and we do not claim otherwise. The four-week technique ramp, the RPE-based loading instead of percentage-of-maximum loading, the form gates and the intake screening exist specifically because of that difference. They reduce risk. They do not remove it.

By using the program you confirm:

• You have talked to a doctor, or you have decided not to and you accept that decision is yours
• You answered the screening questions honestly
• You will stop when the stop-conditions say stop, and get looked at
• You take responsibility for the load you put on the bar

If your health changes, redo the screening. A new answer can move you to a different lane, and it should.

4. No guarantee of a medical outcome

I will not promise you a number.

Bone density responds slowly, it responds differently in different women, and a scan taken twelve months from now may show improvement, no change, or continued loss even if you complete every session as written. Nothing here is a promise about your DEXA result, your fracture risk, your pain, or your posture. Genetics, medication, diet, sleep, other conditions and plain luck all sit outside anything I control.

What I will say is narrower. Most women who complete Phase 1 can feel the strength change, and the money-back guarantee in the Refund Policy is written against that felt change and nothing else.

Individual results vary. Any testimonial you see on the site is one person's experience and is not typical by default.

5. Your account

Magic link only. No passwords, because password resets are the single largest support burden with any audience, and because there is nothing here worth a stolen password except your own lifting log.

Keep control of your email inbox. Anyone with your inbox has your account. Tell us at {{DECIDE: support email address}} if that stops being true.

One account, one person. We may close accounts that are shared, resold, or used to redistribute content, and we may do it without a refund.

6. Payment

Stripe processes every payment. Prices are in {{DECIDE: currency and whether tax or VAT is shown inclusive}}. Order bumps and one-click offers are charged to the card you already used, and each one shows the total on the button before you press it.

Refunds are governed by the Refund Policy, which is a separate document because it has three separate paths and they get confused when they sit inside a wall of terms.

7. Changes

I will change the content. Sessions get rewritten when I learn something or when the professional who reviews this protocol tells me a cue is wrong. You get the current version, not the version you bought.

If we materially change these terms we will email account holders and ask for acknowledgement again. Small corrections we will just make.

8. Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for injury, loss or damage arising from your use of the program, except where that liability cannot be excluded by law. Our total liability is capped at {{DECIDE: liability cap, commonly the amount you paid us}}.

Some places do not allow parts of this to be excluded. Where that is true, the exclusion does not apply to you and the rest still stands.

9. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction over any dispute.

{{DECIDE: whether to require informal resolution first, and whether to add an arbitration clause and class-action waiver, which depends on where we sell}}

10. The rest

If one clause is unenforceable, the others survive. Not enforcing something once does not mean giving it up. These terms plus the Disclaimer, the Privacy Policy and the Refund Policy are the whole agreement.

Written {{DECIDE: effective date}}.