Terms of Use

Taper is an endurance training app operated by Construkt Ltd, a company registered in New Zealand, trading as “Taper”.

In these terms, “we”, “us” and “Taper” mean Construkt Ltd, and “you” means the person using Taper. Your agreement is with Construkt Ltd and with nobody else. “Taper” is a trading name, not a separate legal person.

By creating an account or using Taper you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, do not use Taper. These terms sit alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains what we do with your data.

This is the most important part of these terms. Taper produces training plans and training guidance. It is information, not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, and it is not supervision by a doctor, physiotherapist or any other health professional.

• Get medical clearance before starting or significantly increasing training, particularly if you have a heart condition, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, a chronic illness, an injury, are pregnant, or are unsure whether you are fit to exercise.
• Stop immediately and seek medical attention if you feel chest pain, dizziness, faintness, unusual shortness of breath, or any sudden unusual symptom.
• You decide what training you actually do. A session in your plan is a suggestion. Skipping it, shortening it or replacing it is always your call, and is sometimes the right one.
• Endurance training and the events people train for carry real risk of injury, illness and, in some conditions, death. You take part at your own risk.

Nothing in this section is intended to limit any right you have under New Zealand consumer law, or any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Taper’s plans and session details are generated by artificial intelligence, and so are coach conversations on Taper Coach. The coach has a name and a personality, but it is software. It is not a qualified human coach, and no human reviews every plan or message before you see it.

• It can be wrong, including confidently wrong. Treat what it says as a starting point and use your own judgement.
• It is not a medical service, a physiotherapist, a counsellor or an emergency service. Do not rely on it for any of those. If you are in crisis or need urgent help, contact a health professional or emergency services.
• Your messages and training data are sent to our AI provider so it can generate your plan and replies. The Privacy Policy names who that is and what they may do with it.

You must be at least 16 to use Taper, and at least 18 to buy a paid plan or enter any payment details. If you are under 18, talk to a parent or guardian before you start training to a plan.

One account is for one person. Do not share your login, and do not set up an account on someone else’s behalf without their knowledge.

Give us accurate information, and keep it up to date. Your plan is built from what you tell us, so an inaccurate answer produces an inaccurate plan.

Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what happens on your account. Tell us at kadewallis@gmail.com if you think someone else has access to it.

Taper comes in two versions. Taper Core is your training plan: the full build to race day, every session written out, and your training log. Taper Coach adds a coach you can message about your training, weekly check-ins, and syncing from Strava and wearables. Settings shows which one you have.

Taper Coach is not currently on sale. If you already have it, you keep it; new access comes only from an activation code we give you.

Taper Core is currently free. It costs nothing and is not a trial. It is limited to a set number of people at a time while Taper is being built, so it may be full when you arrive. If it is, you can join the waitlist and we will email you when a spot opens up.

We can change what Taper Core or Taper Coach includes, how many free spots there are, or stop offering Taper Core for free. If we do, or move a feature you rely on to a paid plan, we will tell you first and give you a way to get your training plan out.

Some people join Taper as testers, using an activation code we give them. A code gives access to Taper Core or Taper Coach, is for one person, and works once. Testing is how we find what is broken, so testers get a button on every screen to tell us.

We can end a tester place, or move a tester between Taper Core and Taper Coach. If we do, we will tell you first, and your training plan and history stay yours.

Taper does not currently charge anyone. When paid plans launch, these terms apply to them and we will tell you before you are ever asked to pay.

• Prices are in New Zealand dollars and include GST where GST applies.
• A subscription renews automatically at the end of each billing period until you cancel.
• You can cancel at any time. Cancelling stops the next payment. Your paid features run to the end of the period you have already paid for.
• If a free trial is offered, we will say how long it runs and what happens at the end of it before it starts. Cancel before it ends and you are not charged.
• We do not give partial refunds for time you have not used, except where New Zealand consumer law says we must.
• We can change prices. Existing subscribers get notice before a price change takes effect, and can cancel before it does.
• Payments are handled by a third-party payment provider. We never see or store your full card details.

If you stop paying, you keep your account and your training history. The paid features stop.

Your training data, session notes and coach conversations are yours. You give us permission to store and process them for one purpose: running Taper for you. That includes sending them to the providers listed in the Privacy Policy so your plan can be built and your questions answered.

We do not sell your personal data. We do not publish it. You can delete your account from Settings at any time, which removes it.

Taper itself, including the app, the plan engine and the written material in it, stays ours. You can use your own plan however you like, including printing it. You cannot resell Taper’s plans or pass them off as your own product.

• Break into, overload, scrape or reverse engineer Taper, or try to reach data that is not yours.
• Use Taper to build plans you sell on as a coaching service.
• Upload anything unlawful, or anything about another person without their consent.
• Misuse the coach, including trying to get it to produce harmful content or to act as a medical service.

We can suspend or close an account that does any of this.

Taper is in active development. Features will change, some will be removed, and things will occasionally break. We do not promise that Taper will always be available, or that it will be free of errors.

We will give notice before removing something substantial that you depend on, and we will not delete your training history without telling you.

If you are a consumer in New Zealand, the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and the Fair Trading Act 1986 give you rights that these terms do not limit or exclude. Nothing here takes those rights away.

If you use Taper for business purposes, the Consumer Guarantees Act does not apply, and you agree that it is fair and reasonable for us to contract out of it under section 43(2) of that Act.

Apart from rights that cannot lawfully be excluded, the total liability of Construkt Ltd to you for anything connected with Taper is limited to the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or NZ$100 if you have paid us nothing. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, including lost time, lost income, or a race that did not go the way you hoped.

Any claim you have goes to Construkt Ltd, the company you contracted with. You agree not to bring a claim under these terms against our directors, shareholders, employees or contractors personally. This does not affect any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, and it does not limit your rights against Construkt Ltd itself.

You can stop using Taper and delete your account at any time from Settings. We can suspend or close your account if you break these terms, or if Construkt Ltd stops running Taper. If Taper closes down, we will give you reasonable notice and a way to take your training plan with you.

We will update these terms as Taper grows. When a change matters, we will show you the new terms in the app and ask you to accept them before you carry on. The version number at the top of this page is what we record against your account when you do.

These terms are governed by New Zealand law, and the New Zealand courts deal with any dispute about them.

Questions about these terms, a payment, or anything else, email kadewallis@gmail.com.