Last updated: August 6, 2026
These terms also reference our User Terms, Privacy Policy, Business Terms and Participation Notice.
If you are watching a class on your own device for yourself, these terms do not apply to you and you can stop reading here. Your use is covered by our User Terms.
Watching at home with other people is still personal use. If your family, your housemates, or a few friends join you in your living room, that is not a group viewing and these terms do not apply to you. A class does not become a group viewing just because more than one person is watching it.
A group viewing is something different. It is generally when an organization makes a class available as one of its own programs or activities, at a facility the organization operates, to people who come because the organization offered it.
That includes, for example, a librarian projecting a class in a branch meeting room, a senior center running a weekly chair yoga session, a recreation department adding a class to its published schedule, a school showing a class in a gym, an assisted living community offering a class in a common room, and an employer running a session in a conference room. Other situations along the same lines are covered as well. If you are not sure which side of the line you are on, contact us and we will tell you.
The same rules apply whether you work for the library or other organization that pays for Anywhere Active, or for a community organization using it in your own building. There is no separate process and nothing to sign.
Being able to show our classes to a group is unusual, and it is one of the main reasons libraries choose Anywhere Active. Most fitness videos, including exercise DVDs and videos on public platforms, cannot legally be shown to a group. Ours can, because we obtain that permission from our instructors and clear the music in our own classes for it. What follows is what we need from you in return.
You may show classes that Anywhere Active produces. These are the live classes and the recordings of them in our on-demand library. We identify in the site whether a class is cleared for group viewing.
You may not show anything else to a group. Our site also includes videos made by other people and organizations, including videos hosted on outside platforms. We do not have permission to let those be shown to a group, and we cannot give you permission we do not have. Those videos are for individuals watching on their own.
If you are not sure, do not show it to a group. Where the site does not identify a class as cleared for group viewing, treat it as not available for group viewing. Ask us through the contact form if you need help telling the difference.
Show classes as scheduled sessions, not on a loop. A group viewing is a session people come to at a set time. Please do not leave a class running on a loop, and do not leave one playing unattended in a lobby, hallway, waiting room, or other open area. We do not offer a loop feature and we do not give permission for that kind of use.
You may hold group viewings at your own facility, in the area served by the library, parks and recreation department, or other organization whose Anywhere Active page you are using.
You do not need an invitation, a letter, or approval from anyone. If your organization is located in the area that library or department serves, and you are using its Anywhere Active page, you may hold group viewings. If you are not sure whether you are in that area, ask the library or department, or contact us.
Two limits apply. You may show classes only at your own facility, not at someone else's, and you may not pass this permission along to another organization. If a neighboring organization outside the service area wants to run classes, it is welcome to contact us about its own Anywhere Active access.
You may not charge anyone anything to attend a group viewing. That includes admission, class fees, drop-in fees, registration fees, materials fees, per-session charges, and asking for a donation as a condition of coming in. Recovering your costs is not permitted either. The class has to be free to the people in the room.
Your existing fees are fine. If your organization already charges membership dues, a facility fee, or fees for other programs, you can keep doing that, as long as none of that charge is for Anywhere Active and you are not advertising or pricing Anywhere Active as something those fees include or pay for.
Offering classes to your own people at no charge is fine. An employer, senior living community, school, senior center, or similar organization may offer group viewings to its own employees, residents, students, patients, or members free of charge as a benefit. It does not matter that your organization is for-profit or that access is limited to your own people.
What this rule is aimed at is a business using our classes as a product. A gym, studio, or personal training business may not use our classes as a paid class, include them in a paid schedule or membership tier, or use them in place of an instructor it would otherwise pay.
A group viewing is your organization's program, held in your building. You pick the room, schedule the session, decide who comes in, and supervise what happens. Anywhere Active provides the class. We are not there, we cannot see the room, and we have no way to inspect or supervise any physical space.
That means the space is your responsibility. Before people arrive, make sure of the following.
Everyone has room to move with arms extended in all directions.
The floor is clear of cords, bags, and trip hazards, and has reasonable traction.
For a chair-based class, the chairs are stable and not on wheels.
The screen and sound can be seen and heard clearly from the back of the room.
Exits are unobstructed, and lighting and ventilation are adequate.
Any mats, props, or equipment you provide are in good condition.
You know who is coming and we do not, so you choose the class. To help, we identify for every class whether it can be done seated, whether it includes standing, whether it includes floor work, and roughly how much effort it involves.
These descriptions tell you what a class involves. They are not a statement that a class is safe or suitable for any particular person. If some of your group cannot stand, choose a class that can be done seated. If getting down to the floor and back up would be difficult, avoid classes that include floor work.
During every group viewing, at least one staff member from your organization needs to be on the premises, reachable, and able to respond if something happens. That person does not have to be in the room.
If no staff member is in the room, have a responsible adult in there who knows how to find staff and how to start your emergency procedure. A trained volunteer is fine.
Emergency response is yours to handle. Our instructors teach remotely. They cannot see the room, cannot tell how anyone is doing, and cannot help anyone who needs it.
People walking into a group viewing have not agreed to anything and have not seen our terms. They do need to know what they are joining, particularly that the instructor is on a screen and cannot see or help them.
What we ask you to do. Two things.
First, post our Participation Notice where people can read it as they come into the room. It is a one-page printable sheet available at [link]. You are welcome to add your own logo, translate it, or adjust the layout, as long as the substance stays the same and no safety point is removed.
Second, include the short paragraph in Section 12 below in any flyer, calendar listing, registration page, poster, or newsletter item you publish about the session.
What we do not require. We are not asking you to collect signed waivers, run health screenings, or hand out forms at the door, and we are not asking you to send us any of that. Requiring that you provide us a signature from every person who walks into a chair yoga class would make this feature unworkable, and it is not a condition of holding group viewings.
What we strongly recommend. Many organizations that run fitness programming ask participants to sign a waiver, complete a short health questionnaire, or acknowledge the risks in writing before taking part. If your organization already does that for its own exercise classes, we strongly recommend you do the same for Anywhere Active group viewings, and handle them exactly as you would handle a class led by a local instructor you hired.
If the waiver or acknowledgment you use lists the people and organizations being released, you may include Anywhere Active LLC and its instructors in that list.
One thing to avoid. Please do not describe our classes as medically supervised, physician-approved, therapeutic, rehabilitative, or suitable for a particular medical condition. Our instructors are fitness professionals, not medical providers, and our classes are general wellness programming.
People under 18 are welcome at group viewings. Get permission from a parent or guardian first, which you can do through whatever registration, permission slip, enrollment, or membership process you already use. There is no Anywhere Active form for this.
If your group viewing is for children or teens, including at a school, camp, after-school program, or a family class, have a responsible adult in the room for the whole session. That should be someone your organization already allows to supervise children under its own policies. We do not add a separate screening requirement and we do not want to see the results of yours.
If a class needs to be registered in advance, an adult needs to complete that registration. We do not collect names or email addresses from children, and students should not be registering individually.
You may take photographs and short video of your own group viewing for your organization's newsletter, social media, annual report, or similar use. We know libraries and community organizations document their programming, and the fact that our class is on the screen in the background does not stop you.
Two things to keep in mind. Keep it short and incidental. Photographs of the room and brief clips are fine, but a substantial recording of the class itself is not, for the reasons in Section 11.
And this permission is only ours to give. It covers our class appearing in your photograph. It says nothing about photographing the people in your room. Whether you need a photo release or consent from participants is governed by your own organization's policies and by the law where you are, and that is your responsibility, not something we can permit on your behalf.
Please do not record, film, screen-capture, download, copy, rebroadcast, or retransmit our classes, and do not post them anywhere. That includes your website, YouTube or another video platform, social media, and a learning management system.
You can show our own recordings from our on-demand library as often as you like. What is not permitted is making a new copy or a new transmission of a class.
This is the condition our instructors rely on. Our permission to let you show their classes to a group depends on those classes not being copied or redistributed, so keeping this one intact is what keeps the whole arrangement available.
Include this in any flyer, listing, registration page, or newsletter item for a group viewing. Copy it as is, or shorten it using the second version.
Longer version, for registration pages and flyers
This class is led by an instructor over video. No instructor will be in the room. Exercise carries a risk of injury, so take part at your own pace, use the seated or easier options whenever you like, and stop if anything hurts or you feel unwell. Check with your doctor first if you have a heart or blood pressure condition, are pregnant, or have any condition exercise could affect. This is general fitness programming, not medical care. Anyone under 18 needs a parent or guardian's permission, and children need an adult with them. Staff will be on site.
Short version, for calendar listings and social posts
Instructor-led over video, no instructor in the room. Go at your own pace and stop if anything hurts. Check with your doctor first if you have a health condition. Under 18 needs a parent's okay. Staff on site.
Live classes require registration in advance. If you are showing a live class to a group, one adult from your organization registers on the group's behalf. The people in your room do not each need to register.
Live classes include a text chat for sending a question to the instructor. Participant cameras and microphones are never turned on, so nobody in your room appears or can be heard, and none of them will appear in the recording.
If you use the chat during a group viewing, please do not enter anyone's personal information, and discourage attendees from doing so. A name appears only if someone chooses to type one.
This permission lasts as long as the library, parks and recreation department, or other organization whose page you are using keeps its Anywhere Active subscription, and as long as the conditions in these terms are being met.
If that subscription ends, or if we or that organization lets you know the arrangement has ended, stop holding group viewings, take our classes off any screen or playback system in your building, and withdraw any listing for a session you had scheduled.
If the conditions in these terms are not being met, the permission in these terms does not apply, and we may end access at any time. We can also update these terms from time to time, and the current version is always on our website.
Anywhere Active publishes three sets of terms, along with a privacy policy.
These Group Viewing Terms cover showing a class to a group in a room.
The User Terms cover individual use of our site, including yours. They include important health and safety information and a release of liability. They apply to you in addition to these terms.
The Business and Organization Terms and Conditions cover the agreement between Anywhere Active and the organizations that subscribe. If you work for a community organization rather than the subscriber, those terms are not an agreement with you, though they describe the same arrangement in more formal language.
The Privacy Policy explains what information we collect and how we use it. Note that we collect nothing at all about the people who attend a group viewing in your room.
If anything in these terms appears to conflict with the personal use limits in our User Terms, these terms control for group viewings.
If you are accepting these terms while acting for your organization, you are accepting them for your organization as well as yourself.
Questions about anything here are welcome. Please use the contact form on the Anywhere Active website.