Terms of Service — YSS (Your Sailing Stats)

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These Terms of Service ("Terms") are a binding agreement between you and [Legal Entity Name] ("YSS", "we", "us", "our") and govern your access to and use of the YSS sailing/GPS analytics service — the mobile app, website, and backend API (together, the "Service") available at https://your-sailing-stats.net.

Please also read our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal data and is incorporated into these Terms by reference. Because the Service analyzes activity tracks, using it involves processing precise location data and, where your files contain it, heart-rate data; the Privacy Policy describes this processing and the choices you have.

1. Acceptance of these Terms

By creating an account, or by accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to bind that organization, and "you" refers to both you and that organization.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least [Minimum Age] years old (and old enough to form a binding contract in your country) to use the Service. The Service is not directed to children under that age. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child in violation of this requirement, we will delete it (see the Privacy Policy, "Children's privacy").

3. The Service

YSS analyzes GPS activity tracks from sailing, windsurfing, and similar water sports. Depending on the features you use, the Service lets you:

• Upload and import activities — GPX, FIT, and TCX files, and activity archives you export from third-party platforms (e.g. a Garmin account export you provide).
• Analyze tracks — the Service filters GPS noise and computes metrics such as speeds, distance, duration, tacks/jibes, velocity-made-good (VMG), polar diagrams, wind estimates, and race statistics, and may enrich a track with historical wind/weather data.
• Store and organize your activities into categories with descriptions and tags.
• Share and compare — publish tracks publicly or to friends, join groups, post tracks to groups, comment and like, appear on leaderboards, take part in competitions/replays, and join Fleets (collective replays that combine several participants' tracks over a time window and area).

We may add, change, or remove features at any time (see Section 15).

4. Accounts and registration

• Registration. You can register with an email address and password, or sign in with Google. You must provide accurate information and keep it up to date.
• Account security. You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for all activity under your account. Notify us promptly at [Privacy Contact Email] if you suspect unauthorized use. We store passwords only as cryptographic hashes and never in plaintext.
• One account. Do not share your account, impersonate others, or create an account using another person's identity or credentials without authorization.
• Verification. We may require email verification and may apply security controls such as temporary lockouts after repeated failed sign-in attempts.

5. Your content and the license you grant us

• You own your content. As between you and us, you retain all rights in the activities, files, images, text, and other content you upload or create ("Your Content").
• License to operate the Service. You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, process, analyze, adapt (e.g. filter, compute derived statistics), and display Your Content solely as needed to provide and improve the Service and only in accordance with the visibility and sharing settings you choose (see Section 6). This license ends when you delete the relevant content or your account, except for (i) content others have already lawfully accessed or copied consistent with your settings, and (ii) residual copies retained for a limited period as described in the Privacy Policy.
• Your responsibilities and warranties. You represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary rights to upload and process Your Content, and that Your Content — and our processing of it as directed by you — does not violate any law or third-party right. In particular, do not upload location, activity, health, or personal data about other people unless you have a lawful basis and any required consent to do so.
• Feedback. If you send us suggestions or feedback, we may use them without restriction or obligation to you.

6. Sharing, public content, and community

You control who can see your tracks, and you are responsible for what you choose to share.

• Visibility levels. Each track has a privacy setting: Public, Friends, or Private. You can set a default and change it per track.
  • Public tracks are accessible to anyone who has the link, including people who are not signed in. Do not make a track public unless you intend it to be world-readable.
  • Friends tracks are visible to your confirmed friends. By default, your friends can see your newly uploaded tracks in their feed unless you set the track to Private.
  • Private tracks are visible only to you.
• Share settings. For a shared track, additional toggles control which details (description, category, tags, speed/turn/polar details, etc.) are shown to viewers.
• Groups, competitions, and Fleets. If you post a track to a group, enter a competition/replay, or are included in a Fleet, the relevant track data is visible to the members or participants of that group, competition, or Fleet according to its rules. When you join a Fleet as a candidate, you agree that your eligible tracks within the defined time window and area may be included in the collective replay; you can remove your participation, which cryptographically destroys the key to your segment (see the Privacy Policy, "Fleet").
• Community conduct. Group names, descriptions, comments, and other content you post must comply with Section 7. Group owners and admins are responsible for how they run and moderate their groups within these Terms.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to, and not to allow anyone else to:

• Upload or share content that is unlawful, infringing, defamatory, harassing, hateful, or that violates the privacy or other rights of any person;
• Upload other people's personal, location, or health data without a lawful basis and any required consent;
• Impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation;
• Access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Service, other users' accounts, or our systems without authorization; circumvent access controls, privacy settings, signed URLs, or rate limits;
• Scrape, crawl, or use automated means to access the Service except through interfaces we provide and within their documented limits;
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code or keys, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
• Introduce malware, disrupt or overload the Service, or probe or test its security without our prior written authorization;
• Use the Service to build a competing product, or resell or commercially exploit the Service without our permission.

We may investigate and take appropriate action, including removing content and suspending or terminating accounts, for violations of this Section.

8. Third-party services and integrations

• Google Sign-In. If you sign in with Google, your use of that feature is also subject to Google's terms and privacy policy.
• Imported activity archives (e.g. Garmin). You may upload activity archives you export from third-party platforms. You are responsible for having the right to export and upload that data. Those platforms are independent; we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of Garmin or any other provider, and we do not connect to their servers on your behalf.
• Weather data. Wind/weather enrichment is provided using third-party data sources and is informational only and not guaranteed to be accurate.
• App stores. If you obtain the app through the Apple App Store or Google Play, your use is also subject to that store's terms.

Third-party services are governed by their own terms, and we are not responsible for them.

9. Subscriptions and paid features

The Service is currently offered free of charge, and we do not currently collect payment or billing information. We may introduce paid plans or premium features in the future; if we do, we will present the applicable prices and additional billing terms, and those terms will govern the paid features. Any references to "subscription tiers" in the Service today affect only usage/rate limits and do not represent a paid purchase.

10. Intellectual property

The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics, and the YSS name and logo, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Service for your personal, non-commercial use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted. This Section does not affect your ownership of Your Content (Section 5).

11. Disclaimers — safety and accuracy

Please read this Section carefully. It is important for a GPS/sailing analytics service.

• Not a navigation or safety device. The Service is provided for information, training, and entertainment purposes only. It is not a navigation instrument and is not intended for navigation, collision avoidance, positioning, or safety of life at sea. Do not rely on the Service for navigation or for any decision where inaccurate data could lead to injury, loss of life, or property damage. Always use proper marine navigation equipment and follow official guidance and applicable maritime rules.
• Estimates, not measurements. GPS positions, speeds, distances, wind direction, VMG, polar diagrams, tack/jibe detection, and race statistics are estimates derived from the data you provide and from third-party weather sources, and are subject to sensor error, filtering, and approximation. They may be inaccurate or incomplete.
• Not official race scoring. The Service is not an official timing, judging, or scoring system, and is not a substitute for the Racing Rules of Sailing, race committee decisions, or official results.
• "As is". To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy, and availability. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that any data will be preserved without loss.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you.

12. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law:

• We (and our officers, employees, and suppliers) will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or related to your use of, or inability to use, the Service.
• Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us (if any) for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim or [Liability Cap, e.g. USD 100].

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law (such as, in some jurisdictions, liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud, or certain consumer rights). Where such laws apply, your statutory rights are not affected.

13. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims, damages, liabilities, and reasonable expenses (including legal fees) arising out of or related to Your Content, your use of the Service, or your violation of these Terms or of any law or third-party right.

14. Suspension and termination

• By you. You may stop using the Service at any time. You can delete individual tracks yourself, and you can request deletion of your account by contacting us at [Privacy Contact Email] (see the Privacy Policy for what deletion entails).
• By us. We may suspend or terminate your access, or remove content, if you violate these Terms, if required by law, or to protect the Service, our users, or third parties. Where practical and lawful, we will provide notice.
• Effect of termination. On termination, your right to use the Service ends. Sections that by their nature should survive — including Section 5 (as to residual/lawfully-shared copies), 10, 11, 12, 13, and 16 — survive.

15. Changes to the Service and these Terms

We may modify the Service and these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes to these Terms, we will post the updated version with a new "Effective date" and, where required by law, provide additional notice. Changes are effective when posted (or on any later date we specify). Your continued use of the Service after an update means you accept the revised Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service and, if you wish, request deletion of your account.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of [Governing Law / Jurisdiction], without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The courts located in [Governing Law / Jurisdiction] will have jurisdiction over disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service, except where mandatory law (e.g. consumer-protection law in your country of residence) provides otherwise. [Confirm venue, and whether arbitration and/or a class-action waiver apply for your target markets.]

17. Miscellaneous

• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements on that subject.
• Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect.
• No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for failures or delays caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
• Notices. We may provide notices to you via the Service or the email associated with your account.

18. Contact us

Questions about these Terms:

• [Legal Entity Name]
• [Postal Address]
• Email: [Privacy Contact Email]

This document should be reviewed together with our Privacy Policy.

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