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Terms of Service
Baseline beta terms for using TheYard. These terms are written for a closed beta and should be reviewed by counsel before broad public launch.
Last updated May 9, 2026
@TheYard legal
Baseline beta terms for using TheYard. These terms are written for a closed beta and should be reviewed by counsel before broad public launch.
Last updated May 9, 2026
TheYard is a community product for campus, performance, alumni, and culture conversation. During beta, access may be limited, changed, or paused while features are tested.
You are responsible for your account, password, profile, posts, messages, uploads, and actions taken while signed in. Keep your login private and use TheYard only if you can follow these terms.
You keep ownership of content you post, comment, message, upload, or otherwise submit, subject to any rights held by schools, performers, photographers, videographers, music owners, or other third parties.
By submitting content, you give TheYard a limited, worldwide license to host, store, reproduce, resize, transcode, display, distribute, and make that content available inside the product so the service can operate.
Only upload media you have the right to share. Do not post content that infringes copyrights, publicity rights, privacy rights, school policies, venue rules, or another person's consent.
TheYard may process uploaded media for storage, previews, performance, moderation, safety review, and display across feeds, discussions, groups, profiles, and messages.
Direct messages and message requests are for respectful conversation. Harassment, threats, spam, impersonation, coercion, unwanted sexual content, or repeated unwanted contact are not allowed.
Blocking is a hard boundary. Blocked members should not be able to message, follow, friend, send message requests, or view each other's profiles where the product can practically enforce it.
Messages are private between participants, but TheYard may review message content when necessary for safety reports, support, legal compliance, platform integrity, or policy enforcement.
TheYard may review, label, limit, remove, or preserve content when it appears to violate these terms, the Community Guidelines, user safety expectations, law, or platform integrity.
TheYard may restrict features, hide content, lock discussions, suspend accounts, or escalate reports to moderators or service providers when needed to protect the community.
TheYard may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, create safety risk, abuse reporting or messaging systems, evade blocks, infringe rights, or disrupt the service.
You may stop using TheYard at any time. For account deletion or export requests during beta, contact support@jointheyard.co.
Members can report users, posts, comments, discussions, replies, and messages for moderator review. Reports may include reason codes, details, reporter information, and related content identifiers.
Members can block and unblock other members from settings. Unblocking does not automatically restore follows, friendships, message requests, or prior conversations.
If you believe content on TheYard infringes your copyright, send a notice to dmca@jointheyard.co with enough information to identify the work, the allegedly infringing content, your contact information, and a good-faith statement.
TheYard intends to maintain a public DMCA contact and, before public launch, should confirm whether a designated agent filing with the U.S. Copyright Office is needed.
Do not use TheYard for harassment, hate, threats, sexual exploitation, nonconsensual intimate media, doxxing, fraud, malware, scraping, spam, impersonation, illegal activity, or attempts to bypass safety controls.
Do not interfere with the service, test security without permission, automate abusive actions, or collect member data outside normal product use.
TheYard uses infrastructure and service providers such as Supabase, Vercel, storage, email delivery, analytics, logging, and moderation tooling to operate the product.
Third-party services may process account, session, content, usage, device, and operational data as needed to host, secure, deliver, and improve TheYard.
Support: support@jointheyard.co. Legal: legal@jointheyard.co. DMCA: dmca@jointheyard.co. Confirm these inboxes are monitored before beta invites scale.