Athlete Terms

1. Purpose and definitions

• Platform: the site, the application and the technical services provided by Throwdown SAS, 6 la boulaie, 79140 Cirières, RCS Niort 994 848 299.
• Organizer: the individual or legal entity that organizes an event and manages its registrations through the platform. That is your seller.
• Event: the sports event that you register for or that you attend.
• Athlete, spectator, volunteer, judge: depending on what you do, taking part, attending, running or judging.
• Registration: your right to take part, individually or as a team. Share: the fraction of the price of a team registration that you pay for yourself.
• Spectator ticket: your right of access to the event as a member of the public.
• Shop item: a good sold by the organizer on the page of the event.
• Flex option: the paid option that opens a right to a refund of the price of your spot according to the scale of article 7.
• Service fees: the remuneration of the platform, shown on your summary before payment.

2. The role of the platform and the identity of the seller

The platform lets you discover events, register for them, pay online, consult the schedule and the practical information, follow the leaderboard live and exchange messages with the organizer.

Throwdown organizes no event. The contract of sale of your registration, of your ticket or of your item is concluded directly between the organizer and you. Depending on the country where the organizer is established, the price is collected on a payment account opened in the organizer's name, or collected by Throwdown in the organizer's name and on the organizer's behalf under a mandate, which the payment screen then states.

The organizer is designated on the page of the event by the name the organizer declares. Where the organizer sells registrations, tickets or items, its identity is in addition verified by our payment provider or under the collection mandate. The organizer may be a company, an association or a private individual, and your rights depend on it. Where your seller is not a professional, consumer law does not apply to your relationship with that seller and you benefit towards that seller from neither the legal warranty of conformity, nor the right of withdrawal. If the identity or the status of your seller does not seem clear to you, ask us for it at contact@throwdown.live and we will tell you.

The events shown on our public pages are ordered by start date, from the nearest to the furthest, and you may filter them in particular by country, discipline, format and period. No organizer pays to be better placed.

If the page of an event seems to you unlawful, misleading or fraudulent, report it through the report button present on that page, under the conditions of article 6 of the legal notice.

3. Your account

• Creating an account is reserved for persons aged at least fifteen, the age at which a person may consent alone to an online service within the meaning of article 8 of the General Data Protection Regulation and of article 45 of the French Data Protection Act.
• You provide accurate and up-to-date information, first name, last name, email address and date of birth in particular, and you correct it if it changes.
• You are responsible for the confidentiality of your credentials and for what is done from your account.
• You may change some information in your registration from your area, within the limits the organizer has set and as long as the registrations allow it.
• Where you are linked to a team registration, you see the whole registration, including the contact details of the other members of the team, email address, phone and date of birth, and you may edit only your own line. The captain remains the holder of the order.
• Your account may be suspended in the event of fraud, of abusive use or of a breach of these terms, under the conditions of article 18.

4. Athletes who are minors and legal representative

An athlete who is a minor may be registered from the age of eight. The platform imposes only that minimum, and it is up to the organizer to set the age conditions of its divisions. The age thresholds of this article, eight to take part, fifteen to open an account and eighteen for the age of majority, are assessed on the date of the registration.

• An athlete under the age of fifteen may not create an account. The registration is made from the account of the legal representative.
• Every registration of an athlete under the age of eighteen requires the legal representative to be identified, first name, last name, email address and phone. The legal representative's identity is filled in by the person who carries out the registration, who declares to be acting with the legal representative's agreement. That agreement is recorded and timestamped when that full identity is filled in, and kept with the version of the text accepted, as proof.
• If you are between fifteen and eighteen, you may have your own account but you may not commit alone to paying. Your legal representative gives agreement at the moment of the registration and answers for the payment.
• The holder of the account who carries out the registration contracts in that person's own name and answers for the price, including where the athlete registered is someone else.
• The legal representative remains responsible for the compliance of the athlete who is a minor with the rules set by the organizer. The organizer may require a written authorization or a further medical certificate.

5. Registration, price, service fees and taxes

The price of your spot is set by the organizer, as are any discounts, promo code or automatic discount known as early bird. Throwdown takes service fees on every transaction.

Depending on the organizer's choice, those service fees are charged to you on top of the price of the spot, shared half and half with the organizer, or borne entirely by the organizer. So you have nothing to guess. The summary shown before the payment always states the price of the spot, the exact amount of the service fees that you pay, the Flex option if you take it out, the tickets and the items added, and the total to be settled.

The service fees are not refunded if your registration is cancelled. There are two exceptions, in which everything you paid is given back to you, service fees included. An expired split payment, described in article 6. The exercise of your right of withdrawal on a shop item, described in article 9.

Throwdown falls under the small business value added tax exemption provided for by article 293 B of the French general tax code. Our service fees carry no value added tax. Any tax included in the price of your spot is a matter for the organizer and for the organizer's own tax regime.

Payments are handled by our payment provider and charged in the currency of the event. Throwdown stores no bank card data. If the currency of the event differs from that of your bank account, your bank may apply its own exchange fees.

Unless you take out the Flex option, your registration is firm and final as soon as the payment is validated, subject to article 8.

6. Split payment of a team registration

Where the organizer allows it, a team registration may be paid in several shares. The captain creates the registration, is its holder and is the person the organizer contacts. Each team member pays a share from the link received and then accepts these terms on that member's own account.

The team spot is held as soon as the first share is paid. The registration becomes final only once every share is settled, before the deadline stated to the captain at the moment of the creation.

If the deadline passes without every share being paid, the registration is cancelled and the spot is freed. Every share already paid is then refunded to you in full, service fees included, because the registration never came into being and no service was provided. The organizer makes that refund, by bank transfer or by any other means agreed with you, at the latest thirty days after the cancellation. We notify the organizer of the amount due to each team member, and our service fees are not earned by us, they are returned to the organizer on request.

7. Flex option

Where the organizer offers it, you may take out a paid option called Flex, at the moment of registration only. Its price is set by the organizer and is added to the price of your spot. It cannot be added after the purchase and its price is never refunded.

The Flex option opens a right to a refund of the price of your spot alone, excluding the price of the option and excluding the service fees. The refundable amount is determined at the date of your request, according to the following scale, computed against the first day of the event and counted in whole days in the time of the event venue.

• The full price of your spot if you file the request thirty-one days or more before the event
• Half of the price of your spot if you file it between thirty and seven days before
• No refund if you file it less than seven days before

The organizer may require a supporting document to be attached to your request, for example a medical certificate. It is up to the organizer to announce it before the purchase, on the page of the event or in the event rules, the platform flagging it to you in your area only at the moment you file the request. Without that document, the request is not admissible. For a team registration, only the holder of the order files the request, and the cancellation applies to the whole team, including where the option was taken out on only one share, only the shares covered by the option then opening a right to a refund.

You file your request from your athlete area. The terms of handling and of payment are set out in article 8. Without the Flex option, no cancellation and no refund can be requested through the platform, subject to the organizer's own policy and to article 8.

8. Cancellation and refund

Who refunds. The organizer, and the organizer alone. Throwdown never carries out a refund, neither through its payment provider, nor by any other means, including where the price was collected by Throwdown under a mandate. The organizer is your debtor and it is the organizer you turn to.

How much. If you took out the Flex option, the amount follows from the scale of article 7. If you did not take it out, the amount follows from the organizer's refund policy, which the organizer must publish before the purchase on the page of the event or in the event rules. Where a team registration paid in shares is cancelled, article 6 applies.

Within what time. You file your request from your area. Where no supporting document is required, a request that matches the scale of the Flex option is accepted as soon as it is filed and your cancellation is then final. Where a supporting document is required, the organizer answers within fifteen days. The organizer may refuse a request that matches the scale only if the supporting document the organizer had announced is missing or manifestly does not correspond to what the organizer had announced, and the organizer gives reasons for the refusal. A refusal closes the request. You may not file a second one from your area, and you then challenge that refusal through the complaint provided for in article 21. The organizer pays the amount due at the latest thirty days after the acceptance of the request.

By what means. By bank transfer to the account you state, or by any other means agreed between you. The refund is not carried out from the platform.

What the platform does. It records your request, computes the amount due, informs the organizer of it by email, frees your spot and records the refund once the organizer declares it, which archives your order without erasing it from the organizer's accounting figures. If the organizer has paid you nothing once the thirty-day period has passed, write to us at contact@throwdown.live. We chase the organizer and we pass on the details of your order that we hold so that you can assert your rights. We do not step into the organizer's place.

Cancellation, postponement or change of the event. The organizer alone answers for it, including in a case of force majeure. The organizer informs you of it and determines what follows, refund or postponement, according to the organizer's policy and according to the law. The platform messaging allows the organizer to reach the registered athletes and the volunteers. The buyer of a spectator ticket or of a shop item alone is informed by the organizer by the organizer's own means. Our service fees pay for access to the platform and for the upkeep of your registration, they remain earned, subject to the two exceptions of article 5. That does not reduce what the organizer owes you, the sum the organizer refunds you being able to include service fees that the organizer never received.

Nothing in this article deprives you of the rights the law grants you towards the organizer, in particular where the organizer fails to perform.

9. Right of withdrawal

Registrations and spectator tickets. In line with article L. 221-28, 12°, of the French consumer code, the fourteen-day right of withdrawal does not apply to leisure services supplied on a specific date or during a specific period. A registration for an event and a spectator ticket fall within that exception. You therefore do not hold that right, and you are informed of it by this article, which you accept before any payment. Articles 7 and 8 remain applicable.

Shop items. That exception does not cover physical goods. If you order an item from the shop of an event and the seller is a professional, you have fourteen days to withdraw without giving a reason, from the day you physically take possession of the item, whether you receive it through a carrier or collect it on site.

To exercise that right, send your decision to the organizer, or write to us at contact@throwdown.live and we will pass it on. You send back or bring back the item within the following fourteen days, at your expense, in its original condition. In line with article L. 221-24 of the French consumer code, the organizer then refunds you all the sums you paid for that item, service fees included, as well as the delivery costs at the standard rate, and may keep no part of it. If a delivery method more expensive than the standard method was offered to you and you chose it, only the cost of the standard method is given back to you. That refund takes place at the latest fourteen days after the organizer has been informed of your decision to withdraw. The organizer may however defer it until the item is recovered or until you have provided proof of its dispatch, whichever happens first. The service fees we received on that item are not earned by us, they are returned to the organizer on request.

That right does not apply to an item made to your specifications or clearly personalized, for example an item printed with your name, with your bib number or with a measurement of your choosing. The organizer must warn you of it in the description of the item, before the order, the platform displaying no automatic notice on the subject.

10. Spectator ticketing

The organizer may sell tickets giving access to the event. The organizer sets their types, their prices and their validity, once, for a day or as a booklet. A coupon giving a right to a drink or to a service is itself a ticket type, whose validity is set in the same way by the organizer.

Your ticket is sent to you after payment and it is checked at the entrance by reading its code. A coupon is counted once per intended use. The ticket is sold by the organizer, who answers for access to the site, for the capacity, for the safety of the public and for the announced program. You comply with the house rules of the venue and with the organizer's instructions.

A ticket gives rise to no right of withdrawal, for the reason set out in article 9. If the event is cancelled, article 8 applies.

11. Shop

The organizer may sell items on the page of the event, with options, fields to fill in, a size guide, fixed price packs and volume discounts. The organizer offers collection on site or shipping, and sets the costs for it.

The organizer is the seller and, where applicable, the shipper. The organizer answers for the conformity of the items, for the lead times, for the availability of the stock, for the legal warranty of conformity and for the warranty against hidden defects. Your complaints are addressed to the organizer. The right of withdrawal is set out in article 9.

12. Volunteers and judges

You may register as a volunteer or as a judge where the organizer opens roles. You then choose the role and the availability slots offered, and you accept these terms as well as the organizer's rules.

Your commitment is voluntary. It creates neither an employment contract, nor a relationship of subordination with Throwdown, which is neither your employer, nor the party instructing you. The organizer is responsible for welcoming you, for your safety and for compliance with the applicable law. The benefits in kind the organizer grants you, in particular goodies or a volunteer pack, are the organizer's decision alone.

A volunteer registration may be created for you by another member from that member's account, or by the organizer from the organizer's administration area. Where another member registers you, the platform keeps both your identity and that member's. Where the organizer registers you, the organizer's identity is not kept on your line. In both cases, the registration is linked to you through your email address.

If you judge, you reach the score entry through a personal link that the platform generates and that the organizer passes on to you. That link amounts to an authorization, you pass it on to no one. You enter the scores in line with the rules of the competition and you refrain from judging a heat in which you take part yourself.

Image rights for volunteers follow the mechanism described in article 15 for athletes. Except for an online event, you are informed of them before confirming your volunteer registration, and that confirmation amounts to a timestamped permission. Where another person registers you, it is that person who confirms for you and declares to have your agreement. You withdraw your permission under the same conditions as the athletes.

13. Your participation, physical fitness, documents and insurance

• You declare that you are in a condition to take part in intense physical effort and that you know of no medical contraindication to your participation.
• You provide the medical certificate, the license or the attestation that the organizer requires, within the time the organizer sets. Failing that, the organizer may refuse or cancel your participation.
• You warn the organizer on site if your condition changes before or during the competition.
• You comply with the rules of the competition, with the safety instructions, with the decisions of the judges and with the conditions of the division you enter, in particular the age limits and any weigh-in.
• You are covered by your own public liability insurance for the damage you might cause. The organizer takes out the insurance for the event provided for by article L. 321-1 of the French sports code. Throwdown insures neither the event, nor the participants.

14. Results, leaderboard and score dispute

The scores are entered and validated by the organizer and by the judges the organizer appoints. Some workouts are scored by a panel of several judges, whose notes are aggregated into the score of the workout according to the rule published by the organizer. Others are timed, where applicable by a chip system.

The leaderboard is computed by the platform from the scores entered, according to the scale chosen by the organizer. On equal points, athletes are separated by the number of best places obtained across the workouts. The full rule applicable to your event is the one the organizer publishes on its page.

If you challenge a score or a rank, you open a dispute from the leaderboard. It is passed to the organizer, who examines it and answers it, and the exchange is kept. That procedure deprives you of no remedy, including before the courts.

Throwdown does not judge, does not referee and validates no score. We answer for the computation of the leaderboard from the scores entered, within the limits of article 17.

15. Your data, your image, what is published and the messages you receive

Our processing of personal data, its legal bases, its recipients, its durations and your rights are described in our privacy policy. The points that concern you most directly are recalled here.

What is published. Your first name, your last name, your division, your team and your results appear on the public pages of the event, on the schedule and on the display screens. So does your nationality where you fill it in. The public feed that third-party applications may pick up describes the events and contains no athlete. That publication rests on the legitimate interest of the organizer and of the platform in holding a public competition. You may object to it on grounds relating to your particular situation, by writing to the organizer or to us. No automatic setting per athlete exists, the removal of your identity from the public display is then carried out by hand.

Your image. Where the organizer has switched on image rights for the event, you are informed of it before payment, and the confirmation of your registration amounts to permission to use the photographs and the videos taken during the event. That permission is timestamped. The registration flow does not offer the option of refusing it. If you do not wish to give it, write to the organizer before registering. For a team registration, the person who registers the team confirms for its members and declares to have their agreement, a team member who pays that member's own share confirming for that member. You withdraw your permission from your area as long as the organizer keeps the editing of the registration open, and afterwards by writing to the organizer or to us. The withdrawal applies for the future, with no effect on what has already been circulated where the withdrawal is practically impossible.

Your documents. Where the organizer requires a medical certificate or another document liable to reveal health data, it is you who upload it, voluntarily and after having read what it is used for. That upload amounts to explicit consent, within the meaning of article 9.2.a of the General Data Protection Regulation, to its processing for the sole purpose of verification by the organizer. Where the person who registered your team uploads it for you, that person declares to be acting with your agreement. You may replace the document from your area until the end of the event, which deletes the previous one, and you withdraw your consent by writing to us, the document then being deleted. Only the organizer and the members of the team that the organizer authorizes reach it, through a short-lived signed link, and the file is deleted thirty days after the end of the event.

The supporting document attached to a request under the Flex option may also contain health data. It is accessible to the organizer and to us, for the sole purpose of handling the request. It is not covered by the automatic deletion at thirty days. It is kept with the request and deleted at your request once the request has been handled.

The messages you receive. The emails and the notifications related to your registration, to your order and to the running of the event are part of the service and you cannot object to them without giving up the service itself. The notifications on your phone depend on the permission you give your device, which can be withdrawn at any time in its settings, and on your preferences in your account. Our commercial information sends carry an unsubscribe link.

16. Intellectual property

The content, interfaces, trademarks and features of the platform are protected by intellectual property law and remain the property of Throwdown or of its partners. You hold a personal right of use of the service. Any unauthorized reproduction, display, modification, publication or adaptation is prohibited, as is the systematic extraction of the published data.

17. Liability

Throwdown does not organize the events. Holding the event, its quality, its safety, the sporting rules, the judging, the cancellation, the postponement or the change and the refunds that follow from them are a matter for the organizer alone, as is the conformity of the items sold in the organizer's shop.

Throwdown answers for its own breaches as a technical provider, in particular for the reasonable availability of the service, for keeping your registration data and for the computation of the leaderboard from the scores passed to it. We enter into no quantified availability commitment, an interruption linked to maintenance, to a technical incident or to a third-party service being impossible to rule out.

Our liability towards you is capped at the amount of the service fees we received on the order concerned. That cap applies neither in the event of gross negligence or wilful misconduct, nor in the event of personal injury, nor in the cases where the law prohibits it.

No clause of these terms has the object or the effect of depriving you of your right to compensation in the event of a breach on our part.

18. Suspension and deletion of your account

We may suspend or terminate your account in the event of fraud, of a falsified score, of a multiple account, of circumvention of the service, of unlawful content or of a serious breach of these terms. The measure is notified to you with its grounds and you may challenge it through the complaint provided for in article 21. A suspension issued by an organizer for the organizer's own events is a matter for that organizer, and is challenged with that organizer.

You may delete your account at any time from your settings. We then automatically erase your identifying data, first name, last name, email address, phone and picture, from your account and from your own registration and volunteer lines, we delete your favorites and your collaborator access, and your email address becomes available again for a new account. The lines of the other members of a team you registered are not modified. The result and leaderboard lines of events already held are kept without your identity, since a public record of results and the ranking of the other participants cannot be rewritten. Not erased automatically are the identity of a legal representative, your date of birth, your answers to the organizer's fields, the delivery address of a shop order, the name and email address of the recipient of a ticket and the notification tokens of your devices. We erase them on request sent to contact@throwdown.live, subject to the accounting records of your orders, kept for ten years under our legal obligations.

19. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. Every new version is published on this page with its date, and a substantial change is announced to you by email or by a notification in the application before it comes into force.

A new version never applies to an order already paid, which remains governed by the version you accepted. That version is recorded with your registration or your volunteer registration, under the conditions of article 20. We do not yet publish an archive of the replaced versions. Write to us and we will send you a copy of the one you accepted.

20. Acceptance and proof

You accept these terms by ticking the box provided before the payment, on each of the flows concerned, registration, share of a team registration, spectator ticket, shop order and volunteer registration. The box is required on each of those flows and no order is recorded without it. It is also presented when your account is created.

With your registration or your volunteer registration we keep the date of your acceptance and the version number of the document accepted, as well as a frozen copy of the organizer's rules and their revision date where the organizer publishes them. For a share of a split payment, we keep the date of your acceptance. For a spectator ticket and a shop order, the proof lies in the fact that no order is recorded without the box. In a split payment, each team member accepts these terms on that member's own account, at the moment the share is paid or, if that member's share was paid for that member, at the moment that member completes the registration from that member's link. Where the person who registered the team personally fills in a team member when creating the registration, it is that person who accepts these terms for that share.

Your acceptance covers these terms, our privacy policy and, where applicable, the organizer's own rules and terms.

21. Complaints, applicable law and disputes

Send any complaint about the platform to contact@throwdown.live or from the support thread of your account. We acknowledge receipt of it and we answer you. A complaint that bears on the event itself, on how it ran or on a refund is addressed to the organizer, and we help you reach them.

These terms are governed by French law.

If you act as a consumer, no jurisdiction clause can be relied on against you. You may bring the matter, at your choice, before the court of the place where you lived when the contract was concluded, that of the place where the harmful event occurred, or one of the courts having jurisdiction under the French code of civil procedure. The protective provisions of the French consumer code remain yours in every case.

Consumer mediation. In line with article L. 612-1 of the French consumer code, you may use a consumer mediator free of charge with a view to the amicable resolution of a dispute between you and Throwdown, after having tried to resolve it directly with us through a written complaint and within the year following that complaint. The mediator we come under is CM2C, 49 rue de Ponthieu, 75008 Paris, France, phone +33 1 89 47 00 14. You can refer your dispute to it online at https://www.cm2c.net/declarer-un-litige.php, by email at litiges@cm2c.net or by post at the address above. The CM2C website and its referral form are in French.

These terms are published in several languages. Only the French version is authoritative and prevails in the event of a divergence.

22. Trademarks mentioned

CrossFit® is a registered trademark of CrossFit, LLC. HYROX® is a registered trademark of Upsolut Sports AG.

Throwdown is neither affiliated with, nor a partner of, nor a reseller for these organizations, and runs no official event under these trademarks.

These names are quoted purely descriptively, to designate the competition formats that the organizers using the platform put on. This use falls under article 14 of regulation (EU) 2017/1001 on the European Union trade mark, which allows a third party to use a trade mark where it is necessary to indicate the intended purpose of a product or service and where that use is in accordance with honest practices in industrial or commercial matters.

Any request relating to these trademarks may be sent to contact@throwdown.live.