Waivers

The built-in waiver

The Run This Liability Waiver is presented on every registration and every volunteer signup, always first and always required. You can't edit or remove it — it's the platform's baseline release, and it's versioned so an acceptance always pins the exact wording that person signed.

Adding your own waivers

On the Waivers card in your event dashboard, each waiver you create has:

Title

A short label, e.g. "Photo Release".

Body

The full text, written in markdown so headings, lists, and links carry through. There's a preview button that renders it exactly as athletes will see it.

Required

When on, registration can't finish until the athlete signs it. When off, it's shown at registration with an Optional badge and can be skipped.

You can add up to two custom waivers — a main one plus an optional secondary, which covers nearly every race. Need a third for a special case? Contact Run This support. Waivers also appear on your public event page in a collapsible preview, so athletes can read what they'll be agreeing to before they start registering.

How people sign

Each waiver is a three-part gate:

• Scroll to the bottom. The agree checkbox is disabled until they've scrolled through the full text (short texts that fit without scrolling count as read).
• Check “I have read and agree.”
• Type their name as a signature. The typed name must match the participant's name before they can continue.

The name match is deliberately forgiving about things a person can't see or control: extra spaces, curly vs. straight apostrophes, capitalization, accent encodings, and unusual dashes in hyphenated names all match. A genuinely different name never does.

When several people are registered in one checkout, the waivers step is signed once by the person completing the checkout — their typed name is the signature on record for that cart.

What gets recorded

Every registration stores which waivers were accepted — each one's title and the exact version signed — along with the name typed as the signature, a server-stamped time, and technical details (IP address and browser) for the legal record. Volunteer signups additionally snapshot the full verbatim waiver text, so even if wording changes later, the record shows exactly what that person agreed to.

Volunteers sign too

The volunteer signup form presents the Run This waiver plus any of your waivers marked Required, with the same scroll-and-sign flow. Optional waivers are a registration-only concept — they aren't shown to volunteers. See Volunteers.

Renewing your event

Waivers carry forward automatically when you renew your event for a new year — last edition's waivers (and everything signed against them) are archived with that edition, and the same waiver set is presented to the new year's registrants.

Curious what this looks like from the athlete's side? See Registering for an event.