Terms for 16 and 17 year olds

The terms

• Free is for 16 and 17 year olds who agree for themselves: in Ireland you can agree to how your information is used from 16. Free needs no parent permission or coach review, and you are welcome to show these terms to a parent or guardian.
• On Free you can build and log your own workouts, keep a food diary, log your weight, read the recipes, see your progress and check your strength rank on one lift. Free is self-guided: nobody plans your training or checks your technique.
• Vanbutlr never sets a calorie deficit or a weight-loss target for anyone under 18. Food tracking is a record, not a diet. If eating, weight or how your body looks worries you, talk to a parent, your GP or Bodywhys (bodywhys.ie).
• Some things stay off under 18: the public leaderboard, offers and partner codes, marketing emails, the free message to the coach and the free trial workout. Food label scanning uses the AI provider named in Privacy settings only if you choose it there, and you check every value before saving.
• Exercise can cause injury, including serious injury. Learn each movement before you add weight, use manageable loads, and stop if your technique breaks down. Do not train through concerning pain, dizziness, chest symptoms or unusual breathlessness, and get medical help in an emergency.
• The Program and Coaching need a parent’s or guardian’s permission and a review by the coach. We do not send you offers or ask you to buy anything; the plans are described in the app if you want to read about them.
• You can stop at any time and delete your account and your information in the app. When you turn 18 you will be asked to accept the adult terms.
• Your statutory rights remain unchanged. These terms do not exclude liability for negligence or other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, or remove Vanbutlr’s obligation to provide reasonable care and skill.

How their information is used

We keep your date of birth, the version and time you agreed to these terms, and what you log: workouts, food, weight and progress. It is used only to run your account and keep the under-18 settings in place, never for marketing or advertising, and it is not shown to other members. Your fitness information also needs your own permission, asked for separately. Deleting your account deletes it.

What the young person ticks

I am 16 or 17. I have read and agree to the Free terms for 16 and 17 year olds and how my information is used. I will learn each movement, use manageable loads, and stop and ask for qualified help when unsure.

About Vanbutlr

Vanbutlr offers a self-guided training Program and personal Coaching. Exercises, biomechanics explanations and movement lessons draw on exercise research and the training methods I use myself to build muscle. Learn the instructions before trying each movement, start with a manageable load and ask for help whenever unsure.

Participation information

• For ages 16–17, the young person agrees first, a parent or legal guardian gives permission, and the coach reviews the application. Access requires a current approval and the appropriate purchased or otherwise valid membership. Parent permission alone does not activate access. A purchase needs either the parent buying it after approval or the parent’s separate permission for the young person to buy it in the app.
• Your coach is self-taught, drawing on personal experience and exercise research rather than a professional fitness qualification. Research-informed training does not guarantee results or make every exercise suitable for everyone. The Program is self-guided; Coaching adds personalised guidance and private messaging. Neither provides medical care or in-person supervision.
• Exercise can cause injury, including serious injury. Learn movements before attempting them, practise with manageable loads, use suitable equipment and supervision, and stop if technique breaks down. Do not train through concerning pain, dizziness, chest symptoms or unusual breathlessness. Seek appropriate medical help; do not wait for a coaching reply in an emergency.
• Approved teens can use training, weight and food/macro tracking, and the coaching features covered by their approval and membership. Tracking is a record, not a prescribed diet. Calorie targets for under-18s are set at estimated maintenance and never below it. A teen who chooses to lose fat stays at maintenance and is assigned three 30-minute incline walks a week (incline 12, 4 km/h) instead of a calorie deficit, because eating below maintenance while still growing can disrupt hormones, growth, bone health and energy. Maintenance is an estimate from a general formula, not a medical assessment: ask a GP or dietitian about nutrition needs during growth. Public leaderboard participation is unavailable under 18.
• Each optional feature needs the parent’s separate permission, and the young person can still choose not to use it: private physique/progress photos for Coaching, which also need the young person’s own upload acknowledgement; reading nutrition labels with AI; estimating meals from photos with AI; and other AI help, meaning monthly progress summaries, help drafting the coach’s monthly review and translation of coaching messages. AI features also need the young person’s own choice of the provider named in Privacy settings. None of these is needed for manual tracking. AI can misread labels, estimate portions incorrectly or mistranslate: check values before saving. These choices never authorise advertising, public sharing or AI analysis of physique photos.
• The young person can decline or stop participating. A parent can withdraw this permission through their private link or support. Parent approval does not replace the young person’s own choices about health data and does not automatically give the parent access to private coaching messages or health records.
• The coach decides whether the Program or Coaching is suitable and records the approved scope. A parent can buy a membership separately after approval, or give separate permission for the young person to buy the Program or subscribe to Coaching in the app with their own Apple account. The App Store shows the price before payment, and a Coaching subscription renews until it is cancelled in the Apple account’s subscription settings. No payment is taken by this permission form. Withdrawing permission or a suspended approval stops access to the restricted features and new purchases, but does not itself cancel a subscription: contact support for billing, cancellation or refund help.
• Your statutory rights remain unchanged. These acknowledgements do not exclude liability for negligence or other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, or remove Vanbutlr’s obligation to provide reasonable care and skill.

How application information is used

We use the account identifier, first name, date of birth, country, parent contact, dated agreements, optional choices and coach review to manage participation. Our basis for ordinary application administration is legitimate interests in safe eligibility checks, balanced against the young person’s rights. This form does not replace the young person’s explicit health-data consent. Supabase stores these records and Resend delivers the parent email. The parent sees the first name, age band, approval and their own choices, not private health records or coaching messages. An email link proves access to that inbox; the coach separately checks the guardian and suitability. Records are restricted to authorised staff, with each applicant able to see their own status. Inactive applications and related review records are deleted after 90 days without an update. Active approvals are retained during participation and for up to 90 days after turning 18. A restricted age record remains for the account’s lifetime so changing a profile cannot bypass the age checks. Specific legal holds may require separate restricted retention. Contact vanbutlr@gmail.com for correction, withdrawal, access or deletion, or read the Privacy Policy for your rights and complaint options.

What the young person ticks

I am 16 or 17, have read and agree to the participation terms, and have read how my application information is used. I understand that I must wait for approval before using the training or coaching service. I will learn each movement, use manageable loads and stop and ask for qualified help when unsure.

What the parent or guardian ticks

• I am 18 or over and this young person’s parent or legal guardian. I have read the participation terms and give permission for them to use Vanbutlr, subject to the coach’s review and approval.
• I understand Vanbutlr provides self-taught fitness guidance, not professional or medical care. I will support them in learning the movements and arranging appropriate supervision or qualified help when needed. Our legal rights remain unchanged.

Optional choices, each ticked separately (offered from the version named):

• Nutrition label scanning, from 2026-10-15.teen.2: Allow optional food and nutrition-label image analysis by the provider named in Privacy settings. The young person must also opt in to that provider. Estimates need checking; manual food entry remains available.
• Meal photo estimates, from 2026-10-21.teen.4: Allow optional meal estimates from food photos by the provider named in Privacy settings. The young person must also opt in to that provider. Estimates need checking; manual food entry remains available.
• AI summaries and translation, from 2026-10-21.teen.4: Allow optional AI help by the providers named in Privacy settings: monthly progress summaries, help drafting the coach’s monthly review and translation of coaching messages. The young person must also opt in. This never includes analysis of physique photos.
• Progress photos (Coaching only), from 2026-10-15.teen.2: Allow private physique/progress photos for coaching. The young person must also choose to upload them. This does not allow public posts or advertising.
• Buy the Program in the app, from 2026-10-21.teen.4: Allow them to buy the Program in the app with their own Apple account. It is a one-off purchase, and the App Store shows the price before they pay.
• Subscribe to Coaching in the app (Coaching only), from 2026-10-21.teen.4: Allow them to subscribe to Coaching in the app with their own Apple account. The App Store shows the price before they pay, and it renews until cancelled in their Apple subscription settings.

Earlier version: 2026-10-18.teen.3 participation information

• For ages 16–17, the young person agrees first, a parent or legal guardian gives permission, and the coach reviews the application. Access requires a current approval and the appropriate purchased or otherwise valid membership. Parent permission alone does not activate access or authorise payment.
• Your coach is self-taught, drawing on personal experience and exercise research rather than a professional fitness qualification. Research-informed training does not guarantee results or make every exercise suitable for everyone. The Program is self-guided; Coaching adds personalised guidance and private messaging. Neither provides medical care or in-person supervision.
• Exercise can cause injury, including serious injury. Learn movements before attempting them, practise with manageable loads, use suitable equipment and supervision, and stop if technique breaks down. Do not train through concerning pain, dizziness, chest symptoms or unusual breathlessness. Seek appropriate medical help; do not wait for a coaching reply in an emergency.
• Approved teens can use training, weight and food/macro tracking, and the coaching features covered by their approval and membership. Tracking is a record, not a prescribed diet. Calorie targets for under-18s are set at estimated maintenance and never below it. A teen who chooses to lose fat stays at maintenance and is assigned three 30-minute incline walks a week (incline 12, 4 km/h) instead of a calorie deficit, because eating below maintenance while still growing can disrupt hormones, growth, bone health and energy. Maintenance is an estimate from a general formula, not a medical assessment: ask a GP or dietitian about nutrition needs during growth. Public leaderboard participation and AI-written coaching reviews are unavailable under 18.
• Private physique/progress photos require the parent’s separate optional permission and the young person’s own upload acknowledgement. Food-image analysis also requires separate parent permission and the young person’s provider-specific choice. Neither is required to use manual tracking. AI can misread labels or estimate portions incorrectly: review values before saving. Neither choice authorises advertising, public sharing or analysis of physique photos.
• The young person can decline or stop participating. A parent can withdraw this permission through their private link or support. Parent approval does not replace the young person’s own choices about health data and does not automatically give the parent access to private coaching messages or health records.
• The coach decides whether the Program or Coaching is suitable and records the approved scope. A parent handles any new purchase separately after approval. No payment is taken by this permission form. Withdrawing permission or a suspended approval stops access to the restricted features, but does not itself cancel a subscription: contact support for billing, cancellation or refund help.
• Your statutory rights remain unchanged. These acknowledgements do not exclude liability for negligence or other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, or remove Vanbutlr’s obligation to provide reasonable care and skill.

Earlier version: 2026-10-15.teen.2 participation information

• For ages 16–17, the young person agrees first, a parent or legal guardian gives permission, and the coach reviews the application. Access requires a current approval and the appropriate purchased or otherwise valid membership. Parent permission alone does not activate access or authorise payment.
• Your coach is self-taught, drawing on personal experience and exercise research rather than a professional fitness qualification. Research-informed training does not guarantee results or make every exercise suitable for everyone. The Program is self-guided; Coaching adds personalised guidance and private messaging. Neither provides medical care or in-person supervision.
• Exercise can cause injury, including serious injury. Learn movements before attempting them, practise with manageable loads, use suitable equipment and supervision, and stop if technique breaks down. Do not train through concerning pain, dizziness, chest symptoms or unusual breathlessness. Seek appropriate medical help; do not wait for a coaching reply in an emergency.
• Approved teens can use training, weight and food/macro tracking, and the coaching features covered by their approval and membership. Tracking is a record, not a prescribed diet. Automated calorie/weight-loss targets, public leaderboard participation and AI-written coaching reviews are unavailable under 18. Ask an appropriately qualified professional about nutrition needs during growth. Do not use an adult calorie formula to set a teen’s diet.
• Private physique/progress photos require the parent’s separate optional permission and the young person’s own upload acknowledgement. Food-image analysis also requires separate parent permission and the young person’s provider-specific choice. Neither is required to use manual tracking. AI can misread labels or estimate portions incorrectly: review values before saving. Neither choice authorises advertising, public sharing or analysis of physique photos.
• The young person can decline or stop participating. A parent can withdraw this permission through their private link or support. Parent approval does not replace the young person’s own choices about health data and does not automatically give the parent access to private coaching messages or health records.
• The coach decides whether the Program or Coaching is suitable and records the approved scope. A parent handles any new purchase separately after approval. No payment is taken by this permission form. Withdrawing permission or a suspended approval stops access to the restricted features, but does not itself cancel a subscription: contact support for billing, cancellation or refund help.
• Your statutory rights remain unchanged. These acknowledgements do not exclude liability for negligence or other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, or remove Vanbutlr’s obligation to provide reasonable care and skill.