RunLokal

Terms of Use

Version 6, effective Sun, 25 Oct 2026

RunLokal is a product of Vanguard AI Analytics, Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, which owns and operates the RunLokal website at runlokal.com and its related services ("RunLokal"). In these Terms, "we", "us" and "our" mean Vanguard AI Analytics, Inc. "You" means anyone who visits or uses RunLokal.

By creating an account or using RunLokal, you agree to these Terms of Use and to our Privacy Notice. If you do not agree, do not use RunLokal. If you own an organizer on RunLokal, our Organizer Agreement applies to it as well (section 4).

1. What RunLokal is

1.1. RunLokal lets you create an account, build a runner profile and have your own public runner page. Creating an account and a profile is free.

1.2. RunLokal also lists events that organizers publish, and takes registrations and payments for them. Anyone with an account can create an organizer and publish its events on RunLokal (section 4). You register for an event, and pay for it, only on RunLokal; the organizer holds the event. Where an event's page says that paid registration opens soon, only its free categories can be chosen for now.

1.3. Registering other people. You can register other people, such as family members, friends and children, as well as yourself. When you do, you confirm that you may give us their details, that the details are correct, and that the people you register (or, for a child, their parent or guardian) know about it. Do not register someone who has not agreed to take part.

1.4. The waiver. Each event has a waiver and release, which its organizer wrote and which you can read before you register. When you register, you accept the waiver and release for every participant in your order. For a participant who is a minor, you accept it as that participant's parent or guardian, and you confirm that you are.

1.5. Payments. Prices are in pesos and are shown before you pay. Payments are made through the payment gateway, which handles your card or wallet details. RunLokal never stores them. A registration is held for a short time while you pay; if the payment does not arrive in that time, the hold ends and the slot goes back on sale.

1.6. RunLokal's fee, and refunds. A price you pay may include RunLokal's fee, as the event's page shows. RunLokal's fee is not refunded, including when an event is cancelled. All sales are final. Any refund is up to the organizer: write to the organizer at the contact email on the event's page. RunLokal does not decide on refunds and does not make them for an organizer.

1.7. Registration is on RunLokal only. Registration and payment for an event listed on RunLokal happen only on RunLokal. RunLokal never asks you to pay anywhere else, or by sending money to a person.

2. Eligibility and accounts

2.1. To create an account, give us your name and an email address that you can read. RunLokal does not limit accounts to people of a certain age.

2.2. You can create an account with your name, your email address and a password, or sign in with Google. If you use a password, you must confirm your email address before you first sign in.

2.3. Give us accurate information and keep it up to date. Keep your password and any two-factor authentication codes secret. You are responsible for everything done through your account. If you think someone else has used it, tell us at once at [email protected].

2.4. An account is for one person. Do not share your account or let anyone else use it. Do not create an account for someone else or with an email address that is not yours, and do not create a new account after we have suspended or closed yours.

2.5. When you tick the box to accept these Terms, that is your electronic signature under the Electronic Commerce Act (Republic Act No. 8792). We may give you notices by email or on RunLokal.

3. Your profile and public page

3.1. Every account has a runner profile and a public page at runlokal.com/r/ followed by your handle. The page shows your display name and, if you add them, your photo and your home city. Your display name is your first and last name unless you choose another.

3.2. When you sign up, we give you a handle, usually made from your name, and you can change it. When you do, your old handle keeps leading to your page. No one else can ever take a handle that you have used, even after you delete your account.

3.3. Your page is public unless you hide it. While it is public, anyone can see it, and search engines may list it. You can hide it at any time in your account settings; others then see a "not found" page. Anything on your public page can be seen, copied or saved by others while it is public, and hiding or deleting it later does not remove the copies they made.

3.4. Your private runner details are optional: your birthday, gender, mobile number and emergency contact. We do not show them on your public page or to other users. If you add an emergency contact, you must have their permission to give us their name and mobile number.

4. Organizers and events

4.1. An organizer is a page on RunLokal for a person, a club or group, or a registered business that holds running events, together with the events it publishes. Any account holder can create one, and becomes its owner. Creating an organizer and publishing events is free.

4.2. When you create an organizer, or we hand one to you, you accept our Organizer Agreement for it. It adds to these Terms, and if the two differ on anything about an organizer or its events, the Organizer Agreement applies.

4.3. An organizer's page shows its name, its kind, its description, its logo, its header photo, its contact email, links to its Facebook and Instagram pages, and its events. Each event's page shows what the organizer wrote about it, such as its date and time, venue, description, photos and videos, distances, prices, slots and inclusions. These pages are public: anyone can see them, and search engines may list them. They never show the name, email address or runner profile of the account that owns the organizer.

4.4. Each organizer is responsible for its events and for everything it publishes about them: that it is accurate and kept up to date; that the event is safe for the people who take part in it; that the event has every permit and permission it needs; and that it has the insurance that the law requires or the event calls for.

4.5. RunLokal does not organize, run, supervise or insure the events it lists, and does not check what organizers publish. Before you take part in an event, check its details with its organizer, and send your questions about it to its organizer.

4.6. An organizer that has never published an event can be deleted. Once it has published one, it can be closed but not deleted, and its pages stay public (section 8).

4.7. Private events. An organizer can make an event private. A private event is listed apart from the dated events, with a "Private" badge, and shows only its title and its organizer. Its page shows only that, with a button to request to join. When you request to join, we share your name, email address and any message you write with the organizer, who decides whether to approve you. Only approved people, and people already registered, can see the event's page and register for it. The organizer is responsible for who it approves.

5. Acceptable use

You are responsible for your profile, for any organizer you own and what it publishes, and for how you use RunLokal. You may not:

  • give false information, or pretend to be another person or organization;
  • use a display name, handle, photo, organizer name, logo, header photo, description or anything else that is unlawful, hateful, sexually explicit, violent, harassing or defamatory, or that infringes anyone else's rights;
  • publish an event that you are not holding or are not authorized to publish, or false or misleading details about an event;
  • add a photo of another person without their permission;
  • give us, or publish, another person's personal information without their permission;
  • link to anything that you could not publish on RunLokal yourself under these rules;
  • use RunLokal to break the law, or to harass, threaten or deceive anyone;
  • interfere with RunLokal, probe or test its security, overload it, or get around any security measure or limit; or
  • collect information from RunLokal, or create accounts, by automated means.

6. Content and intellectual property

6.1. You keep ownership of what you put on RunLokal, such as your photo and, for an organizer you own, its logo, its header photo, its description and its events' texts and photos. You give Vanguard AI Analytics, Inc. a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, adapt (for example, resize, crop or convert) and display it, and to let our service providers do so for us, as needed to run RunLokal: to show your profile to you and, while your page is public, to show your page to others; to show an organizer's page and its events' pages to everyone, and to list its events on RunLokal's home page and in its search; and to show any of these in the preview that appears when someone shares a link to it, and in the information about the page that search engines read. The licence lasts while your content is on RunLokal, and for a reasonable time afterwards for copies in backups and in previews already shared.

6.2. For an organizer's content, the licence also continues after you close the organizer, after you delete your account and after we hand the organizer to another account (section 8), for as long as the organizer's pages are on RunLokal.

6.3. You confirm that you have the rights needed to put your content on RunLokal and to give us this licence, including the permission of anyone shown in your photos.

6.4. The RunLokal name and logo, and RunLokal's design and software, belong to Vanguard AI Analytics, Inc. or its licensors. You may not use them without our written permission, except to link to RunLokal or to share a runner, organizer or event page.

7. Reporting content and takedowns

7.1. If you see something on RunLokal that is false, unsafe, offensive or unlawful, or that infringes your rights or uses your personal information without your permission, report it to us with the Report link on its event page, or at [email protected], with the address of the page and what is wrong with it.

7.2. Whether or not anyone has reported it, we may act on content that we believe breaks these Terms, the Organizer Agreement or the law, or that is false, unsafe or offensive, and on a lawful request to erase personal information. We may:

  • put an event on hold: its page is no longer shown, and it cannot be published, until we release the hold;
  • suspend an organizer: its owner can no longer edit or publish its events, and we may put its upcoming events on hold;
  • clear an organizer's name, description, logo or header photo;
  • remove an organizer: its page and every one of its events' pages are no longer shown, and its name, description, logo, header photo, links, and its events' descriptions and photos, are deleted; or
  • hide or remove anything else that you have put on RunLokal (section 8).

7.3. We decide what to do about each report. We do not check content before it is published, and we are not obliged to act on every report. We email an organizer's owner when we take one of these steps about their organizer or its events.

8. Suspension, termination and deleting your account

8.1. You may delete your account in your account settings, once what you still run is finished. While an organizer you own has an upcoming published event, or a partner you own (a brand's account for sponsoring runs) has a coupon that is still live, finish what is still running first: cancel or wait out your upcoming events, and close your partners. We ask you to confirm the deletion first, with your password or by signing in with Google again. Deleting your account cannot be undone.

8.2. When you delete your account, we erase your account, profile, private runner details and photo, sign you out everywhere and email you to confirm it. We keep the records of what you accepted and our audit log, and your handles stay reserved, as our Privacy Notice explains.

8.3. Deleting your account does not take down the pages of an organizer you own that has published an event. That organizer is kept without an owner: it is closed, unless we have suspended it, and its pages, upcoming events included, stay public. We may hand it to another account, which then becomes its owner. An organizer you own that has never published an event is deleted with your account. To have an organizer erased, write to us (section 7).

8.4. We may suspend or close your account, or remove or hide anything you have put on RunLokal, without notice, if we believe that you have broken these Terms or the law, or that your use of RunLokal could harm other people or RunLokal.

8.5. We may change RunLokal, or stop offering it or any part of it.

8.6. Sections 6.1 (for copies already made), 6.2, 9 and 11 continue to apply after your account is deleted or closed.

9. Disclaimers and limitation of liability

9.1. To the fullest extent permitted by law, RunLokal is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We do not promise that RunLokal will always be available, uninterrupted, secure or free of errors.

9.2. Each runner page shows what its runner chose to put there, and each organizer and event page what its organizer chose. We do not verify who runners or organizers are or check what their pages say, and we are not responsible for what they put on their pages. The one exception is the "Verified organizer" badge, which means only that we checked a document from the organizer against the name on its bank account.

9.3. Each event is its organizer's, and taking part in it is a matter between you and its organizer. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for any event listed on RunLokal, including whether it takes place, how it is run, and any injury, loss or damage that taking part in it causes.

9.4. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Vanguard AI Analytics, Inc. and its directors, officers, employees and agents are not liable for:

  • any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill or opportunity;
  • any loss caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including failures of hosting, network or telecommunications services; or
  • any unauthorized access to your account that results from your failure to keep your sign-in details secure.

9.5. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for all claims relating to RunLokal is limited to five thousand pesos (₱5,000).

9.6. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under Philippine law, including liability for fraud, bad faith or gross negligence, or your rights under the Data Privacy Act of 2012.

10. Changes to these Terms

10.1. We may update these Terms. We will post the new version on this page with its effective date.

10.2. If a change is material, we will ask you to accept the new version before you continue to use your account. Other changes, such as corrections, apply from the date we post them.

10.3. If you do not agree to a change, you may delete your account (section 8), once what you still run is finished: your upcoming events cancelled or ended, and your partners closed (section 8.1).

11. Governing law and disputes

11.1. These Terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of the Philippines.

11.2. If you have a complaint or a dispute with us, please write to us first at [email protected], so that we can try to resolve it informally.

11.3. Any suit arising from these Terms or RunLokal shall be filed exclusively in the proper courts of the city where Vanguard AI Analytics, Inc. has its principal office, to the exclusion of all other venues, without prejudice to any right you have to bring a complaint before the National Privacy Commission or another government agency.

11.4. If a court finds any part of these Terms invalid, the rest remain in effect. If we do not enforce a part of these Terms, we have not waived it.

12. Contact

Vanguard AI Analytics, Inc., operator of RunLokal

Email: [email protected]