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Waiver template

Membership Liability Waiver

The member's waiver: the risks of exercise and equipment, their own fitness to take part, and what the gym is and is not responsible for.

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Where this comes from

Not a sample we wrote for this page. This is the document the product puts in your account, as a draft, the moment you say what you do.

Written for your trade

Name your trade during setup — gyms, studios and youth sports — and this is waiting for you, already written, in your words, with the blanks marked and the points a lawyer settles flagged for one. Edit it, or paste in what you already use.

It is a starting point and not legal advice: the wording is yours to change and your attorney's to check.

How it reaches your account

  1. Say what you do. Pick your trade when you set up; nothing to find or download.
  2. It is there as a draft. The 3 blanks marked, and 1 point flagged for a lawyer.
  3. Settle the notes, then send. The product will not send it with a note still in it.

How this works for gyms, studios and youth sports

What it asks you to fill in

Read off the document itself, so this list cannot drift away from what the document actually asks for.

3 blanks in this document

business nameguest namedate

Each one is a box on the send screen, and a value your own system can pass through the API. The rest of the wording is the same for every signer.

How they are filled

  • Once per send, from what you already know.
  • Or from your own system, through the API.
  • Into the document, never into its wording.
  • What somebody signed is the version they were shown.
Page one of the Membership Liability Waiver, as a blank copy for Example Business: the document's title and opening clauses, with a line for each blank still to be filled in.
Page one as the dashboard prints a blank copy: every blank a line, named.

Questions it can ask

Beyond the blanks, a template can ask the signer questions. These come from the product's own question library and suit this document; add them, change them, or write your own.

As the signer sees them
  • Date of birth
  • I am fit to take part todayPut in front of your staff if it is left unticked
  • Any medical condition that could affect you todayLeave blank if none.OptionalHidden from staff once answered
  • Any medication we should know aboutOptionalHidden from staff once answered
  • Emergency contact
  • Emergency contact number

Each question is checked where it is answered — a date that is on the calendar, a birthday that is not in the future, an address long enough to be one — in the same words on the signing page, on the counter tablet and in the API, and the signature waits until every required one is done.

  • Sections. Group questions under a heading, and give a section a page of its own.
  • Conditions. Show a question only when an earlier answer calls for it; a hidden question is never asked and never owed.
  • Flags. Put an answer in front of your staff when it needs a person, such as a safety box left unticked.
  • Questions first. Ask them before the document is shown, and the document after.

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What a lawyer has to settle

These are the notes already written into the document, not our opinion about the law where you operate. The product refuses to send a document with one still in it, which is the point of them.

SignSealer does not give legal advice and this document is not legal advice. What it does is put the questions in front of you before somebody signs, rather than after.

Check what a fitness-facility release may waive where you operate; several states limit or refuse it.

The document

The real text, with the blanks shown as blanks and the notes above lifted out so they are read rather than skimmed past.

Membership Liability Waiver

Between business name and guest name, on date.

  1. What I am doing. I am using business name's facilities, equipment and classes. I understand that exercise carries risks including strain, injury from equipment, collision with others, and in rare cases serious injury or death, and I accept those risks for myself.
  2. Fitness and health. I am fit to exercise, or I have been told by a doctor what I should not do and will follow that. I will tell staff about any condition that could affect my safety before I take part, and I will stop and tell staff if I feel unwell.
  3. Instruction and equipment. I will follow the instruction given, use equipment as shown, and ask before using anything I have not been shown.
  4. Release. To the extent the law where business name operates allows, I release business name, its owners, staff and instructors from claims for injury or loss arising from my ordinary use of the facilities, other than claims arising from their negligence or misconduct that the law does not let a release cover.
  5. Belongings. business name is not responsible for belongings left in lockers or on the floor.
  6. Medical care. If I am injured, I consent to first aid and to emergency medical care, and I am responsible for its cost.

By signing I confirm that I have read this, had the chance to ask about it, and meant to sign it.

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