Simple terms for a useful RGN membership.

Supplemental clarification · 3 October 2026

Using Journey

Journey is your chronological RGN record. New accounts begin with Private for future entries. You may choose Private, mutually accepted Friends, signed-in Members or Public for each entry. A change to your future default does not change earlier entries.

Completing an eligible Training session, Monthly Focus check-in, saved Quiz or Pathway milestone may add a minimal entry using your chosen future audience. The entry does not include source notes, maps, activity links, Quiz answers or scores. No historic activity is newly made public.

You may add your own words, change an entry audience or remove an entry. Members with access may offer Encouragement and comment. Each comment keeps its posting-time entry audience as a ceiling, so changing an entry later cannot silently broaden another person’s comment. Comment authors can remove their own comments after entry access ends.

Do not include unlawful, abusive, misleading or privacy-invasive material. RGN may hide or remove reported content to protect people or operate the service responsibly.

Friends access requires acceptance by both people. Blocking or removing a friendship ends the related access immediately. Public entries may be copied or indexed, and RGN cannot recall copies made while an entry was public.

Supplemental clarification · 10 September 2026

Using the Runners Gateway Community

This separately dated clarification does not replace the membership Terms or record a new Terms acceptance. Active adult members choose separately whether to join after reviewing the Community participation notice.

The Journey clarification above now governs new milestone sharing. Earlier Community records keep their recorded audience. You may edit your optional words or remove your entry.

Encouragement is a quiet acknowledgement, not a vote or ranking. Journey supports comments, but not private messages, popularity ordering or automatic Facebook posting. Members can leave, block another member or confidentially report visible content. RGN may hide or remove content to protect people or operate the service responsibly.

The public Facebook group link is optional and leads to a separate service with its own terms. Participation there is not required for RGN Community membership.

Supplemental clarification · 12 September 2026

Using Explore

Active RGN members can use Explore to find runners and walkers. Fictional demo profiles are labelled.

Choose separately whether your published profile and discovery details appear to all RGN members. An earlier preview choice is not carried forward to this audience. Leaving Explore does not unpublish your direct profile. Unpublishing removes Explore visibility, and publishing again does not restore it automatically.

This clarification does not replace the accepted membership Terms or record a new acceptance. Earlier records remain unchanged.

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Your agreement with us

These terms are between you and Gary Robert Wilmot, trading as Avallach Technology (ABN 37 177 187 798), the operator of Runners Gateway Network.

By activating an RGN membership, you confirm that you have read and accepted the version of these terms shown during activation. You can browse public RGN pages and complete the Weekly Running Quiz without accepting these terms or creating an account.

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Who can join

RGN membership is currently available only to people aged 18 or over. By joining, you confirm that you meet this age requirement and that the information you provide is accurate.

The public Quiz remains available without membership. Please do not create an RGN membership for someone under 18 or ask another person to create one on their behalf.

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Your Runners Gateway identity

Your email address and password are used for your Runners Gateway identity. Changing them through RGN also changes how you sign in to other Runners Gateway services that use the same identity.

An existing Runners Gateway user may sign in with the same email address and password, but must still activate RGN and accept these terms. Joining RGN does not create or import another profile, follow an account, enrol you in a programme or expose content from another Runners Gateway service.

Keep your password private and tell us promptly if you believe somebody else has accessed your account. You are responsible for activity performed through your account unless it results from a failure by RGN that you could not reasonably prevent.

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Your optional public RGN profile

You may choose a handle and add a small profile with optional personal context, external links and a photo. The profile stays private until you deliberately publish it. Publishing makes every completed profile field visible to anyone at its RGN address and may allow search engines to index it.

Add only information and links you have the right to use. RGN does not connect to, import from or verify parkrun, Strava, Garmin, Runs of the World or a general website. If you follow a link, the destination service applies its own terms and privacy practices.

Your handle becomes permanent when the profile is first published. You can unpublish later, but RGN cannot recall copies already saved or indexed by another person or service. Closing membership retains only that normalised public handle as a non-attributed reserved name so it cannot be reused.

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Quiz and private history

The Weekly Running Quiz is an informal experience for enjoyment and running knowledge. It is not a competition, qualification, professional assessment or independently verified record.

After seeing a complete result, RGN saves the first result for an active signed-in member. Other visitors may choose to save it. RGN keeps one saved result for each edition. If you complete an edition again, the existing result changes only when you deliberately confirm its replacement.

Quiz facts and sources can need correction as information changes. RGN may correct an edition and will identify a material correction in the answer review where appropriate.

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Using RGN responsibly

When you use RGN, you agree not to:

• break the law or encourage another person to do so;
• use another person's account or misrepresent who you are;
• interfere with the service, its security controls or another person's access;
• use automated requests, scraping or other methods that place an unreasonable load on RGN; or
• copy or commercially exploit RGN content except where the law or a separate written permission allows it.

The RGN name, design and original content belong to the operator or the relevant rights holder. Your ordinary personal use of the service does not transfer those rights to you.

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Availability and changes

We aim to keep RGN accurate, secure and available, but internet services sometimes experience maintenance, delay or failure. We may correct, improve, limit or withdraw a feature when needed to protect customers, keep information accurate or operate the service responsibly.

If these terms change materially, the updated date and version will change. Where continued membership needs new acceptance, RGN will ask you clearly rather than treating unrelated public use as agreement.

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Closing your RGN membership

You can close your RGN membership from Account after confirming the action. Closing permanently deletes your RGN member details and saved Quiz history, including your profile, photo and Community participation identity. Any public profile becomes unavailable as closure starts. RGN reports the membership closed only after the private photo is confirmed deleted. If that confirmation is temporarily unavailable, the membership remains locked in a safe state so you can retry closure; it is not treated as completed.

Closing RGN does not delete your shared Runners Gateway login or information held by another Runners Gateway service. Full shared identity deletion is not part of the current RGN membership service while those other services remain in operation.

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Privacy

The RGN Privacy page explains what information we handle, why we use it, the essential storage the service needs, and your access, correction, export and closure choices.

Your email address, account details and saved Quiz history are not public in RGN. Profile details are public only while you have deliberately published the profile.

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Rights and contact

Nothing in these terms excludes a guarantee, right or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded. To the extent permitted by law, RGN is not responsible for loss caused by events outside our reasonable control or by use of the service contrary to these terms.

For a question about these terms, your membership or the service, email hello@runnersgateway.com.