Terms of Service

The website, the gym and the memberships described below are operated by:

• BARBELL STUDIO S.R.L.
• Reg. Com. J2020001499292
• CUI 42966797
• Str. 22 Decembrie, Nr. 20, Municipiul Câmpina, Județ Prahova
• EUID ROONRC.J2020001499292

You can reach us at contact@barbellstudio.ro or +40 750 408 590.

We act as the trader: we sell our own services, in our own name and on our own account. BARBELL STUDIO S.R.L. is not a marketplace, an intermediary, a distributor or anybody else's agent — there is no third-party seller behind us, and the contract for a membership is concluded directly between you and us.

The invoice for anything bought on this site is issued by BARBELL STUDIO S.R.L., the same company named above, through our invoicing provider Oblio.eu. Nobody else invoices you for a Barbell Studio membership.

These terms govern the use of the Barbell Studio website and of the gym at Str. Pătlăginei, Nr. 18, București. A membership bought online is a distance contract, governed by OUG 34/2014 and by Legea 365/2002.

You accept them expressly, not by implication. When you create your account, and again before any online payment, you tick a box — empty until you tick it — confirming that you have read and accept these terms and our privacy policy. Neither the account nor the payment can go ahead until you do. We record each acceptance: the version you accepted, the moment you accepted it, and the connection it came from. Front-desk purchases work the same way: staff show you these terms before taking payment.

By accepting them you conclude a binding contract with BARBELL STUDIO S.R.L.. If you do not agree with them, please do not buy a membership or use our services.

• Membership is personal and non-transferable.
• You must be at least 16 years old. Between 16 and 17 you have restricted legal capacity under Art. 41 of the Romanian Civil Code and can only join with the written consent of a parent or legal guardian, signed at the front desk. By giving that consent, the parent or guardian becomes jointly liable for the member's obligations under these terms.
• New members join by submitting an application. We review it and, if we approve it, email you an invitation to complete your registration and choose a plan. Submitting an application does not create a contract, and neither does our approval.
• Barbell Studio is a private gym and membership is by invitation. We choose who trains here: we may decline an application, or decline to renew a membership when its period ends, without giving reasons. An application is not an offer we are obliged to accept.
• That choice is never made on any ground prohibited by law. We do not decline anyone by reason of race, nationality, ethnic origin, language, religion, social category, convictions, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, chronic non-contagious disease, HIV status, or membership of a disadvantaged group (OG 137/2000).
• Declining an application or a renewal is not the same as ending a membership you have already paid for. A period you have paid for runs to its end unless it is terminated for the reasons set out under Code of conduct below.
• You can buy a membership to start today or to start on a later date of your choosing, up to 90 days ahead. Whichever you pick, it runs the full period you paid for from that date.
• The contract is formed when you complete payment after accepting these terms — not when you apply. Your membership starts on the date the payment is confirmed, or on the later date you chose, and runs for the period you bought (monthly or yearly).
• Your membership runs until the end of its last day, not until the hour you bought it. A membership bought at 8am on the 28th ends at midnight on the last day, not at 8am.
• If you buy more time while a membership is still running, the new period is added to the end of the one you have. Nothing you have already paid for is shortened or replaced.

• Prices are shown on the website in RON and are final. Barbell Studio is not registered for VAT, so no VAT is added at checkout and invoices are issued VAT-exempt.
• The total you will pay is shown to you, together with the plan and the period it covers, before you confirm the order. There are no fees beyond that total.
• You can pay online by card — processed securely by NETOPIA Payments — or at the front desk (cash, card or bank transfer).
• If you upgrade your plan mid-period, the price difference is calculated pro rata and shown to you for confirmation before you pay it.
• Your membership does not renew automatically. It ends when the period you paid for ends, and a new period starts only when you choose to buy one. We email you a reminder before your membership expires.
• We may change our prices for future periods. A price change never affects a period you have already paid for, and we announce it at least 30 days before it takes effect.

• Memberships are digital services — there is no physical product to ship.
• When you pay online, your membership is activated immediately after the payment is confirmed, and you can see it in your account.
• For a front-desk payment, your membership is activated by our staff at the time of payment.
• A confirmation email is sent for every successful payment. If your membership is not active within a few minutes of an online payment, contact us at contact@barbellstudio.ro.

A membership bought online is a distance contract, so OUG 34/2014 gives you a cooling-off period. This section is written to that law, and the article numbers are there so you can check it.

• You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 calendar days from the date it is concluded — the date your payment is confirmed — without giving any reason and without any cost beyond the proportional amount described below (Art. 9 of OUG 34/2014).
• To exercise it, use the withdrawal form on this site: barbellstudio.ro/withdrawal. It takes a moment, needs no account, and we confirm receipt to you by email the same instant — that confirmation is your proof of the date. This is the online mechanism required by Art. 11^1 of OUG 34/2014.
• The form is not the only way, and never will be. An unequivocal statement by any means works — an email to contact@barbellstudio.ro, or a letter to our registered office — and you may use the model withdrawal form in the Annex to OUG 34/2014, but you do not have to. You never have to give a reason.

Express request to start early

• At checkout you choose when your membership starts — today, or a date up to 90 days ahead. Nothing is chosen for you, and you cannot pay until you have picked.
• Choosing a start date that falls inside the 14 days is your express request that we begin providing gym access during the withdrawal period, and your acknowledgement that once the whole period you bought has been provided you lose the right of withdrawal (Art. 16 lit. a of OUG 34/2014). The wording is shown next to the choice before you pay, and we confirm it to you by email on a durable medium (Art. 7(3) of the same law).
• Choosing a start date beyond the 14 days requests nothing of the sort: nothing is provided during the withdrawal period, so if you change your mind before it opens we return everything you paid.

What you pay if you withdraw part-way through

• If your membership started inside the 14 days and you then withdraw, you pay an amount proportional to what you received up to the moment you told us, measured against everything the contract covers (Art. 14 of OUG 34/2014).
• For example: you withdraw after using 5 days of a 30-day membership, so you pay 5/30 of the total price and we refund the remaining 25/30.
• We refund everything you paid, less that proportional amount where it applies, without undue delay and no later than 14 days from the day you told us you were withdrawing. The refund goes back by the same means you paid, unless you agree otherwise, and it costs you nothing.

• This right covers online purchases. A membership bought and paid at the front desk is concluded on our premises, is not a distance contract, and is covered by the cancellation rules below instead.

• You can cancel your membership at any time by contacting us at the front desk or at contact@barbellstudio.ro — there are no cancellation penalties.
• Cancellation takes effect at the end of the period you have already paid for: you keep full access until then.
• Once the 14-day withdrawal window described above has passed, cancelling does not produce a refund: the unused remainder of a period you have already paid for is not returned. Inside those 14 days it is a withdrawal, not a cancellation, and the rules above apply instead.
• Nothing in this section limits your statutory rights as a consumer, including the right of withdrawal above.

• You can freeze your membership from your account. A pause lasts at least 7 days, and you can freeze up to 30 days in any rolling 12 months.
• A pause moves your end date out by exactly the number of days frozen, so you never lose paid time.
• You can book a pause up to 90 days in advance.
• You can end a pause early and come back whenever you want, but it still uses up the 7-day minimum from your annual allowance.

To keep the gym a great place to train for everyone:

• Re-rack your weights and plates after use.
• Wipe down equipment after use and use a towel while training.
• Indoor sports shoes are mandatory.
• Follow the instructions of our staff and report damaged equipment immediately.
• Store personal belongings in the lockers provided; do not leave valuables unattended.

• Physical exercise carries risks that are inherent to it. You accept those inherent risks, to the extent they do not arise from any fault on our part.
• We recommend consulting a doctor before starting any exercise program, especially if you have a medical condition.
• Warm up properly and ask our staff if you are unsure how to use a piece of equipment.
• Report any injury or incident to our staff immediately.

Your responsibilities when you train

• You agree to perform only exercises you are familiar with and whose correct technique you understand. If you are unsure how to perform an exercise or how to use a piece of equipment, ask our staff for guidance before attempting it.
• You agree to exercise only within your real physical ability. You must select weights, resistance levels and exercise intensity that correspond to your current fitness and health, and you must not attempt loads or movements that exceed what you can safely control.
• For exercises in which a weight is lifted into a position where, if dropped or lost, the likelihood of personal injury is high — including, but not limited to, the barbell bench press and the barbell squat — you must arrange adequate safety measures before beginning the set. This means either (a) using the safety bars, rack pins or other protective equipment provided in the gym, and/or (b) obtaining a spotter — that is, another person positioned and ready to assist you if you cannot complete the lift. It is your responsibility to secure a spotter when one is needed; fellow gym members are under no obligation to agree.
• Unless otherwise specifically agreed in writing, the services provided by Barbell Studio do not include spotting, personal supervision of your exercise technique, or any other form of individual training assistance. Staff may voluntarily offer guidance, but this does not create a continuing obligation to supervise your training.
• You acknowledge that injury or damage arising from the improper performance of exercises — including overestimating your physical capabilities, using incorrect form, or using equipment in a manner inconsistent with its intended purpose — is your responsibility, except to the extent that the injury or damage was caused or contributed to by a fault on our part (including, without limitation, negligence, gross negligence, wilful misconduct, defective equipment, or a failure to maintain safe premises).

We expect all members to treat staff and fellow members with respect. Harassment, discrimination, aggressive behavior or filming other members without their consent are not tolerated.

• Depending on how serious the behavior is, a violation may lead to a written warning, a temporary suspension, or the termination of your membership.
• We reserve termination without a refund of the remaining period for a serious or repeated violation — physical aggression, harassment, discrimination, or illegal activity on the premises.
• We tell you in writing why your membership was suspended or terminated, and you can reply to us at contact@barbellstudio.ro.

• We provide the website and the gym facilities with reasonable care. We do not guarantee that the website will be free of errors or uninterrupted.
• To the extent Romanian law permits, Barbell Studio is not liable for indirect or consequential damage, or for the loss or theft of personal belongings left unattended on the premises.

• We process your personal data under the GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) and Legea 190/2018. Our privacy policy describes what we collect, why we collect it, how long we keep it and what rights you have.
• Running your membership means processing your name, email, phone, membership status and billing details. That processing is necessary to perform this contract — it does not rest on your consent, and you cannot withdraw it while remaining a member.
• Anything beyond that — marketing emails, for instance — needs your separate consent, given freely and never bundled with these terms. You can withdraw it at any time without losing access to anything you have paid for.
• We never make access to the gym or to the website conditional on agreeing to optional processing.

The content of this website — including the Barbell Studio name, logo, texts and images — belongs to Barbell Studio. It may not be copied, distributed or reproduced without our prior written permission.

• We may update these terms when a change in the law, in our services or in our costs justifies it. We cannot change them arbitrarily or with retroactive effect.
• Changes that affect what you get or what you owe are announced by email and published here at least 30 days before they take effect. The email tells you what is changing and the exact date it starts applying.
• If you keep your membership after that date, the updated terms apply to it. If you would rather not accept them, you can cancel at any time before that date and pay no penalty — tell us at the front desk or email contact@barbellstudio.ro. We will not treat your silence as agreement to anything we did not tell you about first.
• Corrections, clarifications, and changes that only add to your rights take effect when we publish them. There is nothing in them for you to refuse, so they carry no waiting period — but we still tell you about them by email, and they never reduce what you already have.
• Some things can never be agreed by silence: anything unusual or particularly onerous, and any request that affects your right of withdrawal, always need an active choice of your own.
• Each version of these terms is identified by the date shown at the top of this page. We keep every earlier version, and we will send you any of them on request — write to contact@barbellstudio.ro naming the date, and we will reply with that version as it was published.

• These terms are governed by Romanian law. Disputes fall under the jurisdiction of the competent Romanian courts, without prejudice to your right, as a consumer, to bring proceedings before the court of your own domicile.
• ANPC – SAL: as a consumer, you can turn to the National Authority for Consumer Protection and its alternative dispute resolution service.
• SOL: the European Commission's online dispute resolution platform closed on 20 July 2025 (Regulation (EU) 2024/3228). For a cross-border dispute, use the Commission's list of dispute resolution bodies instead.
• If a clause in these terms turns out to be invalid, the rest stays in force.
• Questions about these terms? Contact us at contact@barbellstudio.ro.