The localised versions of this document (English / German / French) are available in the app at brevetcycling.club/terms. The German version is binding for users in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
These Terms of Service govern your use of Brevet Cycling Club. By creating an account or using the platform, you accept these terms. The contract language is English; we also offer translations in German and French. The German version is binding for users in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
By creating an account or otherwise accessing Brevet Cycling Club ("the Service"), you accept these Terms of Service. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Service. Mandatory consumer rights remain unaffected by anything in these terms.
Brevet Cycling Club is a browser-based and companion-app virtual cycling platform. The Service connects to Bluetooth LE hardware (smart trainers, heart-rate sensors, controllers), provides real-time physics simulation, fitness analytics, AI-supported coaching feedback and multiplayer features. The Service is currently offered free of charge in its core configuration; future paid features will be marked clearly and require a separate order step.
Parts of our website also work without an account: you choose a single activity or route file, your browser reads it, a tool returns descriptive numbers, and nothing is stored. Section 14 applies to these public tools.
A valid email address is required to create an account. You are responsible for the confidentiality of your login link and for all activity under your account. You agree to provide accurate information and to keep it up to date. Minors under 16 may only register with the consent of a parent or legal guardian (see also our Privacy Policy).
You agree to refrain from:
Brevet Cycling Club is a fitness and coaching tool. It is not a medical device within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 (MDR) and is not intended for the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, prediction, prognosis, treatment or alleviation of disease, injury or disability. Fitness metrics, physiological estimates (e.g. VO2max, lactate threshold, fatigue model, AI coaching recommendations) are mathematical approximations, not medical advice. You confirm that you are sufficiently fit for the planned training intensity. If you are unsure, consult a physician before starting. Use of the Service is at your own risk.
All software, designs, trademarks and content of Brevet Cycling Club are owned by Brevet Cycling Club or its licensors. Without prior written permission you may not copy, modify, distribute, sublicense or reverse-engineer the Service, except as expressly permitted by mandatory law (e.g. Section 69d UrhG / Art. 5 Software Directive 2009/24/EC).
You retain ownership of the data and content you upload (rides, profile information, display name). You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-transferable license, limited to the duration and scope necessary to provide the Service to you (including leaderboards, multiplayer, ghost replays and post-ride analyses). You can withdraw this license at any time by deleting the relevant content or your account.
The Service may offer optional integrations with third-party providers (Strava, Spotify, Google Calendar, Google Firebase Cloud Messaging, Apple Health, Google Health Connect). These integrations are subject to the terms and privacy policies of the respective provider. We are not responsible for the availability, accuracy or behaviour of third-party services.
AI coaching is processed via Google Vertex AI (Gemini models) inside the European Union. Google acts as our data processor under the Google Cloud Data Processing Addendum and is contractually barred from training its models on your data, which is pseudonymised before it is sent. Each AI request requires explicit consent. Our Privacy Policy describes the AI pipeline in detail.
The Service is provided as is. Uninterrupted availability cannot be guaranteed; planned maintenance is announced in advance where reasonably possible.
We may amend these Terms when this is necessary for legal, technical, organisational or product reasons. We will notify you of material changes at least 30 days before they take effect, by email or by an in-app notice. You may object within 30 days of notification; if you object, you may continue to use the Service under the previous terms until either party terminates the contract for the future. Continued use after the effective date without objection is treated as acceptance only if we have explicitly informed you about the change, the deadline and the consequences of silence in the notification (in line with §308 No. 5 BGB).
We are liable without limitation for damages caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for damages caused by injury to life, body or health, and for any liability that is mandatory under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz) or comparable mandatory law in your jurisdiction.
For damages caused by simple negligence, we are liable only for the breach of essential contractual obligations (Kardinalpflichten — obligations whose fulfilment is required for the proper performance of the contract and on whose compliance you may regularly rely). In that case, our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.
Any further liability is excluded. The above limitations apply also to our legal representatives, employees and agents. Mandatory consumer-protection rights remain unaffected.
You can delete your account at any time without giving reasons via the in-app deletion function. This terminates the contract immediately for the future.
We may suspend or terminate your account only for cause and, where reasonable, after a prior warning. Examples of cause include repeated violations of Section 4 (Acceptable Use), fraud, abuse of the Service or non-payment of fees that may be introduced for paid features. In cases of severe and unambiguous abuse (e.g. attempts to compromise other users' accounts) we may suspend access immediately without prior warning; you will be informed of the reason in writing afterwards.
These Terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and excluding the conflict-of-laws rules to the extent that they would lead to the application of foreign law.
If you are a consumer with habitual residence in another country of the European Economic Area, you additionally enjoy the protection of any mandatory provisions of the law of that country (Art. 6 Rome I Regulation). The place of jurisdiction for consumers is, at the consumer's choice, either the consumer's place of residence or the seat of the operator (Art. 17–19 Brussels Ia Regulation). Place of jurisdiction for merchants, public-law legal persons and special public-law funds is Offenbach am Main (Germany).
Some tools on our website work without an account and without a login. You choose a single activity file or route file; your own browser reads it, the file itself is not uploaded, and the tool returns descriptive numbers computed from what was read and from the values you enter. Nothing is stored — our Privacy Policy (Section 6b) describes exactly what is sent and what happens to it. These tools are provided free of charge and as a convenience; we may change or withdraw them at any time.
You may only use a file that is your own or that you are entitled to have processed, and only a file free of unlawful content. The heart-rate part of an analysis runs only on your own heart-rate data and only if you give the separate explicit consent offered on the page. You are responsible for the values you enter — for example critical power, FTP or body weight; a wrong entry produces a wrong result. The output is a calculation on what you supplied. It describes your file; it is not an instruction, not a training prescription we owe you, and not a statement about you. Section 5 applies to these tools in full.
Because these tools are provided free of charge and without an account, we do not warrant that a result is accurate, complete or fit for a particular purpose, that a tool is available at any given time, or that a given file can be read. Our liability is governed by Section 10 without modification; in particular, nothing in this Section limits our liability for intent, for gross negligence, or for damage arising from harm to life, body or health.
The printable pacing card is generated from your route file, your entries and our layout. You may use and pass on the card as it was generated, privately and commercially. Layout, wording and our marks remain ours: you may not alter the card or remove the attribution. A card is not an official document of any event, and neither the card nor this service is endorsed by, or affiliated with, any event organiser.