Terms of Service
These terms cover how you may use Iron Standard — the strength & conditioning platform at this site — and what we owe you in return. We have tried to write them the way we would explain them out loud, not the way they would look on a fax machine.
1. Who you are agreeing with
Iron Standard is operated as a sole proprietorship by Victor Brankovich (“Iron Standard”, “we”, “us”). There is no parent company and no investor behind this — one coach builds and runs it.
By creating an account, joining an organization, or using the platform, you agree to these terms. If you are accepting on behalf of a school, college, club, or training business (an “organization”), you confirm you are allowed to bind that organization.
2. Accounts, roles, and eligibility
There are two kinds of people on the platform:
- Coaches / staff — adults who run an organization, build programs, and manage rosters. Coaches are responsible for everything done under their account and for keeping their password private.
- Athletes — the people being coached. Athletes are added by their organization, or join it with a code the organization issues. At high-school customers, most athletes are minors.
The platform is not directed to children under 13. Before an organization adds an athlete under 13, it must have obtained verifiable parental consent, or be authorized to consent on parents’ behalf as a school acting for a school-authorized educational purpose. The organization — not Iron Standard — is responsible for obtaining that consent and for having the right to give us the roster data it uploads. See our Privacy Policy for how minors’ data is handled.
3. Subscriptions, trials, and billing
Every organization starts with a 14-day free trial — no credit card required. When the trial ends, access to coaching features pauses until a plan is chosen. Nothing is deleted when a trial lapses.
Paid plans are billed in advance, per organization, at $29, $79, $149 per month:
| Plan | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $29/mo | $290/yr |
| Pro | $79/mo | $790/yr |
| Elite | $149/mo | $1490/yr |
- Auto-renewal. Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period until cancelled.
- Payments. Card details are entered on Stripe-hosted pages. We never see or store your card number.
- Cancellation. You can cancel at any time from Settings → Billing. You keep access through the end of the period you already paid for.
- Refunds. Handled under our Refund Policy.
- Price changes. If we change prices, we will tell existing subscribers by email before the change takes effect for them, and you may cancel instead of accepting.
- Taxes. Prices exclude any sales or use tax we are required to collect.
4. Your data stays yours
Programs you build, rosters you manage, and the training, testing, and wellness data your athletes record belong to your organization, not to us. You grant us only the permission we need to host, back up, display, and process that data in order to run the service for you.
Exports are included on every plan, including Starter. Coaches hold minors’ training data, so you must always be able to take it with you.
We may use aggregated, de-identified statistics (for example, “how many sets are logged on a typical Monday”) to improve the product. We do not sell your data, and we do not use athlete data to advertise to anyone.
5. Acceptable use
Don’t do these things with the platform:
- Upload data you have no right to share, or someone else’s roster.
- Share coach credentials, or resell access to the platform.
- Attempt to reach another organization’s data, probe or bypass access controls, or scrape the service.
- Upload malware, or content that is unlawful, harassing, or abusive — including in messages to athletes.
- Interfere with the service’s availability for others.
6. AI features
On the Elite plan, program generation and “Ask AI” run on a large-language model using an Anthropic API key you supply and control (bring-your-own-key). Your key is stored encrypted and is used only for your organization’s requests; the usage bills to your Anthropic account under Anthropic’s terms.
AI output is a draft for a coach to review. It can be wrong. A coach is responsible for reviewing any generated program before it is prescribed to an athlete.
7. Training tool — not medical advice
Iron Standard prescribes barbell training loads and shows interpretive training-load analytics (for example acute:chronic workload ratios). It is a training tool, not medical advice, not a diagnosis, and not a prediction of injury. It does not replace a physician, athletic trainer, or the professional judgment of a qualified coach.
Strength training carries inherent risk. Athletes should train under qualified supervision, stop if they feel pain, and consult a physician before starting or changing a program. Organizations are responsible for supervising their athletes and for any medical clearance their program requires.
8. Availability and support
We aim to keep the platform up and fast, but we do not promise a specific uptime percentage, and we may take it down for maintenance. Support runs by email at victor.brankovich1@gmail.com; Elite includes priority support and onboarding.
We may add, change, or retire features. If we remove something you depend on, we’ll give reasonable notice and you can export your data and cancel.
9. Warranties and liability
The service is provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind to the fullest extent the law allows. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any training outcome will result from using it.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability arising from your use of the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including lost profits or lost data. Some jurisdictions do not allow these limits, in which case they apply only as far as the law permits.
10. Suspension and termination
You may stop using the service and cancel at any time. We may suspend or terminate an account that violates these terms, that is used to endanger other users’ data, or whose payment fails and stays unpaid after notice. If we terminate an account for reasons other than a serious violation, we’ll give you a reasonable window to export your data first.
11. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. If a change materially affects you, we will notify subscribers by email or in-app before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that date means you accept the updated terms.
12. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and the state and federal courts located there will have exclusive jurisdiction. (This clause is one of the items still open with counsel.)
13. Contact
Questions about these terms — or anything else — go to victor.brankovich1@gmail.com. A human answers.
Victor Brankovich, sole proprietor, doing business as Iron Standard.