@TheYard legal
The rules for creating an account, sharing culture, and participating safely on TheYard.
Last updated August 28, 2026
You must be at least 18 years old to create or use a TheYard account. You must provide accurate account information and keep your login secure.
You are responsible for activity performed through your account. Do not share access, impersonate another person or organization, or evade a suspension or block.
Before publishing or messaging, you must accept these Terms, the Privacy Policy, and the Community Guidelines. The current accepted version and timestamp are recorded with your account.
TheYard prohibits illegal, hateful, harassing, threatening, sexually exploitative, abusive, fraudulent, infringing, or otherwise objectionable content and conduct. Child sexual abuse and exploitation material is never permitted.
You keep ownership of content you submit, subject to the rights of performers, schools, photographers, videographers, music owners, and other rights holders.
You grant TheYard a limited, worldwide license to host, store, reproduce, resize, transcode, display, and distribute that content only as needed to operate, secure, moderate, and improve the service. Upload only content you have the right and consent to share.
Some pages embed or link to media hosted by third parties such as YouTube. The publisher remains identified, and TheYard does not claim ownership of that media or download and rehost it as member content.
Third-party services have their own terms and privacy practices. Unavailable or non-embeddable media may be removed from TheYard surfaces.
Direct messages and requests are for identified members, not anonymous or random chat. Do not send threats, spam, scams, coercion, unwanted sexual content, or repeated unwanted contact.
Members can report content, conversations, groups, and profiles and can block other members. TheYard may review relevant evidence, remove content, restrict features, suspend accounts, and preserve limited safety records.
You may permanently delete your account from Settings > Account security > Delete account. Deletion removes your authentication account and associated personal content and media and cannot be undone.
De-identified moderation evidence may be retained when reasonably necessary for safety, fraud prevention, legal obligations, or dispute resolution. Group owners must transfer ownership or delete their groups before deleting their account.
Copyright notices may be sent to dmca@jointheyard.co. Include the protected work, the challenged TheYard content, your contact information, and the statements required by applicable law.
TheYard may remove content or suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, the Community Guidelines, law, user safety, or platform integrity.
Support: support@jointheyard.co. Legal notices: legal@jointheyard.co. Copyright: dmca@jointheyard.co.
