QR Code / Membership Fraud
- Your QR code can only be used by yourself: Your QR code is issued solely for your use, as your membership is personal to you and only covers your use of a gym. You are responsible for keeping your QR code secure and confidential at all times. The membership card remains our property at all times.
- When entering through access control doors, you must ensure you scan your membership card/QR code even if the door is unlocked or if another member holds the door open for you. Failure in doing so will result in a possible suspension or termination of membership. This is to ensure all members are logged in the system.
- Use of QR code is monitored: In the interests of the safety and security of all our members, use of QR code and access is monitored and individuals using QR code / Access Devices may be asked to provide proof of identification.
- What we will do if we think your QR code / Access Device has been misused: Should we believe that your QR code / Access Device has been used by another individual or individuals we may (in our discretion) decide to conduct an investigation. If we do so we will: (a) inform you, via email, that we believe your QR code has been used by another individual or individuals and ask you to provide us with reasonable assistance to investigate the matter; and (b) following our investigation we will contact you, via email, to inform you of our findings and our proposed course of action, which may include one or more of the steps set out in paragraph 4 below.
- Our Right to make additional charges and/or cancel your membership: If you unreasonably refuse to cooperate with our investigation, or following our investigation we have reasonable grounds to believe that your QR code was used, with or without your knowledge and/or consent, by another individual or individuals, depending on the particular circumstances of each case, we reserve the right to take one or both of the following steps, which are in addition to any other legal rights that we may have : (a) to apply a penalty charge to your membership fees (and increase your direct debit payment(s) accordingly). The penalty charge will be calculated as being equal to the price of a day pass (that applied at the time of use) for each occasion on which your QR code was used by that individual/those individuals; and/or (b) in the event of serious misuse of your QR code, for example, yourQR code has been used on repeated occasions and/or by more than one individual, to notify you, via email, that we are cancelling your membership with immediate effect, and no refunds will be given.
- Your responsibility for another’s conduct: If we have reasonable grounds for believing that you knowingly provided your QR code/ Access Device to another individual or individuals, or allowed unauthorised entry following your entry to the gym (Known as tailgating) in addition to our rights referred to in paragraph 4 above, we may hold you responsible for the conduct of the individual(s) while on our gym premises, and liable for any loss we suffer as a consequence of that conduct.
Access Device: the device, key-fob, or any other relevant security hardware device with built-in authentication equipment, issued or otherwise provided to you by us to enable you to securely access the relevant gym in accordance with the terms of your membership. Only one device can be registered to an account at any time, if you lose or misplace the device you need to contact member services to remove the device immediately.