Where they are
Your family home shows a Waivers card listing anything waiting for your name. Open it, read the document, and sign.
Signing is typing your full legal name
There is no drawn signature and no uploaded scan. You type your full legal name, and that — with the date, the exact version of the document you were shown, and the account you were signed in as — is what is recorded. It is the same commitment as signing the paper version.
You are signing a specific version. If the club later publishes a revised waiver, what you signed remains on file exactly as it was.
Who may sign
- A guardian signs for a child. A household admin or an adult on the family.
- A child cannot sign for themselves.
- A caregiver cannot sign at all — not for a child, not for themselves as the responsible adult. This is a safeguarding line. If the nanny is the one at the pool, a parent still signs.
An adult athlete signs for themselves.
Why a waiver can go stale without anybody doing anything
Two ways:
A new version. The club publishes a revision. If it is marked a material change, every existing signature is invalidated and the whole club needs to re-sign. You will be yellow, not red — you are not blocked, you are asked.
An eighteenth birthday. A waiver signed by a guardian is a guardian's signature, and on the swimmer's eighteenth birthday it stops being the right one. It goes yellow that morning, not red, so nobody is refused at the gate on their birthday. The fix is that the now-adult swimmer signs for themselves.
Missing versus outdated
- Missing is red. Nothing signed at all — nobody gets in the water.
- Needs re-signing is yellow. Something is on file, it is just no longer the current version. Come in, swim, and sign it when you can.
Signing at the desk
If you would rather do it at the club, the front desk can put it in front of you on a tablet. Same document, same record.