Forge

Terms of Use

Last updated 3 November 2026

These terms are the deal between you and Forge when you use the app. Please read them. They're short. Our Privacy notice explains how we look after your data.

Forge is run by Donnacha Holmes. "We" and "us" mean Donnacha Holmes, trading as Forge. Contact: forgeperformanceie@gmail.com.

1. What Forge is

Forge is a web app that lets coaches (personal trainers, strength and conditioning coaches and physios) build training programmes and share them with squads and 1:1 clients. Athletes use it to see their programme, log sessions and tests, and watch exercise videos. It runs in your browser, so there's nothing to install.

Forge is a tool. We don't coach you, and we don't give medical advice. Your programme comes from your coach.

Forge is in early access. It's free to use for now, and features may change during this period.

2. Who can use it

  • You need to give your real name and an email address you control. Keep your password to yourself. You're responsible for what happens on your account.
  • You must be 18 or over to use Forge.

3. Training safely

  • Exercise carries a risk of injury. Train within your limits, warm up, and stop if something hurts.
  • If you have an injury, a health condition, or you're coming back from surgery (for example ACL rehab), follow the advice of your doctor or physio. Check with them before starting or changing a programme.
  • Programmes, videos and advice in Forge come from your coach, not from Forge. Forge doesn't check them. If you're unsure about an exercise, ask your coach.
  • Forge isn't for emergencies. If you're hurt, get medical help.

4. Extra terms for coaches

Your responsibilities

  • You're responsible for your programmes, advice, videos and notes, and for coaching your athletes safely and in line with any professional rules or insurance that apply to you.
  • You'll only add people who've agreed to train with you through Forge, and you'll only ask them for information you need to coach them.
  • Filming: only film or upload athletes who've said yes in Forge. Don't put clients in "standard" library videos, and only share programme media with the people it's meant for. The app asks you to confirm these when you upload.
  • Interest page: only use leads to reply to the person who got in touch.
  • Read-only staff you add to a squad can see that squad's training. You're responsible for who you add.

Data you hold about your athletes For your athletes' coaching data (their programmes, sessions, tests, notes and media), you're the controller and Forge is your processor. That means:

  • We only use that data to run Forge for you and your athletes, and not for anything else.
  • People on the Forge team who can see it are bound to keep it confidential.
  • We keep it secure (see the Privacy notice) and use the service providers listed there. We'll tell you before adding a new one, so you can object.
  • We'll help you answer your athletes' requests to see, correct or delete their data. Forge's self-serve tools do most of this.
  • We'll tell you without undue delay if a breach affects your athletes' data.
  • When you delete your account, we delete that data as set out in section 9, and you can download your own work first.
  • We'll give you the information you reasonably need to show you're following the law.
  • You're responsible for having a lawful reason to collect your athletes' data, including health information such as injuries and rehab notes, and for telling them about it.

Plans and payments

  • Coaches may need a paid Forge plan for some features. Prices and what's included are shown in the app before you pay.
  • Payments are handled by Stripe. If you charge your athletes through Forge, you're the seller and Forge isn't part of that deal. You're responsible for your own prices, refunds, VAT and tax.
  • If an athlete leaves, is removed, or you delete your account, their monthly payment stops at the end of the current paid period. We don't give refunds for part of a month.

5. Extra terms for athletes

  • You join a squad or 1:1 with a code or an invite from a coach. Only use codes and invites that were meant for you.
  • Log your own training honestly. Your coach may comment on it, and may log a session for you.
  • You can leave a squad or 1:1 any time from Training, in Squads & coaches. Your history stays on your account.
  • Your coach can remove you. If they do, your sessions are saved, and you'll need a new invite to rejoin.

6. Your content

  • What you put into Forge stays yours: programmes, videos, notes, sessions and so on.
  • You give us permission to store, copy and show it only as needed to run Forge for you and the people you share it with. This permission ends when you delete the content or your account, apart from backups that expire on their normal cycle.
  • Only upload things you have the right to share. That includes videos of other people (you need their OK) and other people's material.
  • If you send us feedback or ideas, we can use them to improve Forge without owing you anything.

7. Fair use

Please don't:

  • break the law, or harass, threaten or embarrass anyone
  • upload anything sexual, hateful or violent, or anything that invades someone's privacy
  • try to get into accounts, squads or data that aren't yours, test our security without our permission, or overload the service
  • copy, resell or scrape Forge, or use automated tools on it, except the read-only access tokens we provide for your own data
  • pretend to be someone else

8. Our part

  • We'll do our best to keep Forge running, safe and up to date, but we can't promise it'll always be available or error-free. Sometimes we'll need to take it down for updates.
  • We may change, add or remove features. If a change takes away something important you pay for, we'll tell you in good time.
  • We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms or puts other people at risk. Where we can, we'll tell you first and explain why.

9. Leaving Forge

  • You can stop using Forge any time.
  • Delete your account: Settings → Your data → Delete account. You have 14 days to change your mind by signing back in. After that it's gone for good. Until this is live in the app, email forgeperformanceie@gmail.com.
  • If you're a coach: your squads pause straight away and your athletes get 14 days to download their training. After that your squads, programmes and media are deleted, along with your athletes' sessions on those squads. Download your data first if you want to keep a copy.

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If the change matters, we'll show you a short note in the app and ask you to agree before you carry on. If you don't agree, you can delete your account.

11. Liability

  • Nothing in these terms takes away your rights under Irish consumer law, or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud.
  • Apart from that, Forge is provided "as is". We're not responsible for injuries from training, or for advice, programmes or content from coaches or other users.
  • We're not liable for losses we couldn't reasonably have foreseen, or for business losses (for coaches: lost profit, lost clients or lost data you could have downloaded).

12. The legal bits

  • These terms are governed by the law of Ireland, and the Irish courts deal with any dispute. If you're a consumer living elsewhere in the EU, you keep the protections of your own country's law.
  • If one part of these terms turns out not to be valid, the rest still applies.
  • You can't pass your account or these terms on to someone else. We can transfer them if Forge changes hands, and we'll tell you if that happens.

Questions? Email forgeperformanceie@gmail.com.

Privacy·Terms