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Content Rules

Last updated: August 27, 2026.

Kono shows runners each other's work: profiles, crews, shared training sessions, and training programs one runner publishes for others to copy. These Content Rules say what you may not post. They apply to everything you put into Kono that another person can see, and they form part of our Terms and Conditions — breaking them can cost you your content and your account.

The short version: post training you would be comfortable watching a stranger follow, and post nothing you would be uncomfortable having attached to your name.

1. Where These Rules Apply

These rules cover everything you contribute that another runner can see, including:

• Your username, display name, other profile details, and your profile photo;
• Your crew connections and the training activity Kono shows to your crew;
• The title, notes, and workouts of any training session you create, share, or take part in; and
• Any training program you publish for other runners to browse and copy.

2. Inappropriate Content

Do not post content that is offensive, explicit, or abusive. That includes:

• Sexually explicit material, nudity, or sexual solicitation;
• Anything that sexualizes a minor, in any form. This is the one rule with no gradient: we remove the content and terminate the account;
• Harassment, threats, or content that demeans a person or group — including on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation;
• Graphic violence, or the encouragement of violence against anyone;
• Content that encourages self-harm or suicide; and
• Content that promotes or organizes illegal activity.

A session note is not a comment thread, but it reaches everyone invited to that session. Write it as something they will read.

3. Spam

Do not use Kono to advertise, funnel, or flood. That includes:

• Advertising, affiliate or referral links, or promotional copy dressed up as a training program;
• Publishing a program whose real purpose is to move runners off Kono to buy something elsewhere;
• Scams, phishing, or requests for money, payment details, or account credentials;
• Posting the same content repeatedly, or publishing near-identical programs in bulk; and
• Mass crew requests, fake accounts, or anything else meant to inflate reach.

4. Misleading or Unsafe Training

A training program in Kono is not a post. It is a set of instructions a stranger will carry out with their own body, on their own, without you there to see how it is going — and if they copy it, they get a plan of their own that keeps running long after you have stopped thinking about it. Judge what you publish on that basis. Do not post:

• Content promoting disordered eating. No calorie limits or weight targets attached to a training block, no instructions to run fasted or through hunger "to burn more," no framing that treats eating less as a way to get faster, and no goal weights, "race weight" targets, or body-composition rules in a program's notes.
• Extreme or dangerous progressions. No mileage or intensity that climbs far faster than a body adapts, no blocks of consecutive hard days with no easy running or rest, no programs built with no recovery weeks, and no instruction to train through pain, illness, or a diagnosed injury. Long, demanding, high-mileage training is welcome here; training that removes recovery is not.
• Unqualified medical claims. Do not tell runners that a program treats, cures, or rehabilitates an injury or condition, that they do not need to see a doctor, or that they can ignore warning signs like chest pain, dizziness, or the localized ache of a stress fracture. Do not present a program as clinical or rehabilitation advice for a person you have not assessed.
• Performance shortcuts. No promotion of performance-enhancing drugs, prescription medication, or unapproved supplements.
• Credentials you do not hold. Do not describe yourself as a coach, physiotherapist, dietitian, physician, or certified professional unless you are one, and do not attach a race result, qualification, or affiliation you did not earn.

If a program carries real risk for some runners — a high-volume build, a return-to-running block, a heat or altitude progression — say so in its description, and say who it is for. Being honest about who a program is not for is the most useful thing you can write into it.

5. Impersonation

Be who you say you are. Do not use another person's name, photo, or identity as your own; do not pose as a real coach, athlete, brand, race, or organization; and do not present yourself as Kono or as someone speaking for Kono. Do not claim an affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement you do not have. A parody or fan account that a reasonable person could mistake for the real thing counts as impersonation here.

6. Someone Else's Work

Publish only training that is yours to publish. Do not copy a plan out of a book, a coaching service, another app, or a coach you hired, and publish it as your own — that is the case this rule exists for. Do not upload photos, artwork, or logos you do not have the rights to use.

Being influenced by the training you have read is not the problem, and nobody owns the interval. Reproducing someone's plan, week structure, or written prescriptions and presenting them as your work is. If you are a rights holder and your work has been published in Kono without permission, email legal@coachkono.com with a description of the work and where in Kono it appears.

7. Other People's Privacy

Other runners appear in your training whether or not they use Kono. Do not post a photo of someone who has not agreed to it, and do not use anyone else's photo as your profile picture. Do not post another person's contact details, home or work address, or the times and places they routinely run, and do not use a session note or program description to expose someone's private life, health, or injury history. Your own training data is yours to share; theirs is not.

8. Reporting and Blocking

A Report option sits in the menu on a runner's profile, on a training session and on the workout that session prescribes, on a runner's row in that session's list of participants, and on a published program. Choose the reason that fits (inappropriate content, spam, misleading or unsafe, impersonation, or something else) and add what happened in your own words. The person you report is not told that you reported them, and filing a report does not hide the content on its own — a person decides that.

Not every screen that shows you another runner's content carries that menu. A crew member's activity, run, or workout, their training plan, the browse and search lists, the crew request in your inbox, and a profile photo opened full-screen have no Report button on them. If what you need to report is on one of those, email legal@coachkono.com with the runner's username and what you saw. It reaches the same people who read the reports filed in the app, and Section 9 applies to it in the same way.

You can also block another runner from their profile or from their row in a session you share. Blocking stops the two of you from seeing each other in Kono and removes you from each other's crew. It clears the sessions you share as well: you leave any session that runner is in, and they are removed from any session you own — so blocking from a roster row takes you out of that roster. The workout itself stays on your calendar. You can see and undo your blocks under Blocked accounts in your settings. If you would rather write to a person instead of filing a report, email legal@coachkono.com.

9. What Happens After a Report

A person on the Kono team reads every report within 24 hours of it being filed. Not a filter, not a queue that ages — a person, within a day. What follows depends on what they find:

• Content that breaks these rules is removed;
• The account that posted it can be suspended, and can be terminated for a serious or repeated breach; and
• A report we do not act on is closed.

If we removed your content or suspended your account and you believe we got it wrong, email legal@coachkono.com, saying what was removed and why you think it belongs. A person will look at it again.

10. Contact Us

For anything about these rules, about content you have seen in Kono, or about a decision we made, contact us at legal@coachkono.com.

These Content Rules form part of our Terms and Conditions and should be read with them, including the health and safety disclaimers in Section 4 of those Terms. Nothing here is medical advice, and no program published by another runner has been reviewed or endorsed by Kono. We may update these rules as Kono adds new ways for runners to share their training with each other; if we make material changes, we will give notice through the Service or by other reasonable means.