Terms of Service

You retain all rights to the content you upload — your photos, bio, class descriptions, schedule data, and so on. By publishing content on Avara you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to host, store, reproduce, display, and distribute it as needed to operate the platform (e.g. to show your public schedule to students, to deliver email confirmations, or to surface your classes in discovery feeds). This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except where retention is required to comply with the law or to defend a claim.

Anything you mark as public — your profile, your classes, your iCal feed — is, in fact, public. It can be indexed by search engines, shared via direct link, and downloaded as a calendar feed by anyone who has the URL. Do not publish personal data you don't want third parties to see.

Studios you connect with through Avara receive the profile data needed to confirm the connection. Avara does not verify whether you are entitled to teach at a given studio, does not act as your employer or agent, and is not party to any contract between you and a studio. We can't mediate disputes between teachers and studios.

Avara relies on the third-party services listed in our Privacy Policy (database, hosting, email, city autocomplete). While editing your profile your browser may directly contact a third party (Photon by Komoot) to fetch city suggestions. We are not responsible for the availability or content of third-party services.

Avara is a scheduling and discovery platform, not a fitness, medical, insurance, or legal service. Teachers are solely responsible for the safety and quality of their own classes and for their certifications, insurance, taxes, and any required licences. Students are responsible for assessing their own fitness to participate in classes they discover or book through links on Avara.

Avara is currently free to use. We may change, suspend, or discontinue features — including for individual users — with or without notice when needed for technical or legal reasons. If we ever introduce paid features we will give reasonable advance notice and will not silently enable charges on existing free accounts.

You may delete your account at any time from your account settings. We may suspend or terminate your account if you breach these Terms, if your use creates legal or operational risk for the platform or others, or if your account is inactive for an extended period. Where reasonable we will notify you and give you a chance to remedy the breach. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (e.g. liability, governing law) continue to apply.

We are liable without limitation for damages caused by intent or gross negligence, for damage to life, body, or health, under the German Product Liability Act, and within the scope of any guarantee we have given. For ordinary negligence we are liable only for breaches of essential contractual obligations (cardinal duties) and only up to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract. Any further liability is excluded to the extent permitted by law. Mandatory consumer-protection rights are not affected.

These Terms are governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer this choice does not deprive you of the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of your habitual residence. The exclusive place of jurisdiction for disputes with merchants, legal entities under public law, or special funds under public law is Hamburg, Germany.

We may update these Terms when the platform changes or when the law requires it. We will notify registered users of material changes by email at least 30 days before they take effect. If you do not agree to the new version you may delete your account before it takes effect; otherwise continued use after the effective date counts as acceptance.