Privacy Policy for YakJive.com
Data Retention Policy for YakJive.com
Full Terms and Conditions of YakJive.com
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In return and in order to use YakJive.com, you agree that:
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Last updated November 14, 2023.
All information entered into YakJive.com (the "Service") by you (the "Member") is private to Member except to the extent that you opt to share that information with other YakJive.com members and/or the public, through YakJive.com or otherwise.
It is the Company's policy to respect the privacy of Members. Therefore, the Company will not disclose to any third party Member's name or contact information. The Company will also not monitor, edit, or disclose the contents of a Member's information unless required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the Company; (2) protect and defend the rights or property of the Company; (3) investigate and ensure compliance with the Terms and Conditions of the Service ("TCS"); (4) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of members or the public; or (5) fix or debug problems with the Service.
The Service is hosted on Bluehost, a US-based,third-party server provider. Please see this link for additional details about Bluehost: Bluehost GDPR compliance
The Service integrates with Stripe, Inc. ("Stripe") for purposes of payment processing.
No third-party data processing of Member Content occurs except for purposes of subscription payment and activation, through Stripe.
YakJive.com requires the use of internet browser cookies to provide a good user experience and to activate Service capability.
Site visitors may reject the TCS and thus opt out of allowing YakJive.com browser cookies, but major or all parts of the Service may not work.
YakJive.com cookies are used for the following purposes:
Visitors may clear existing cookie settings at any time by contacting the Service at /contact.html, however failure to enable cookies may render part or all of the Service unuseable.
You may clear current cookie settings by clicking here:
The Service does not use cookies to track personal information or track identifiable user information.
The Service does not use third party cookies to monitor site usage or visits.
The Service does not require use of a Member's location or location information about a Member's content
Optionally and at the Member's discretion, the Service will collect location information from the browser or from uploaded content to assign a position to an article.
Optionally and at the Member's discretion, the Service will display maps showing article locations.
The Member may delete location information from an article at any time.
The Member may turn off location information collection or map display in the Service at any time. It is the Member's responsibility to delete or update old content to remove location information.
The Member is solely responsible for having permission to store location information in the Service.
Last updated November 14, 2023.
YakJive regularly reviews and updates our polcies regarding retention of content entered into YakJive.com (the "Service") by you (the "Member") and of content generated in the course of the Member's usage of the Service.
The following types of data are handled according to the associated policies below, consistent with our Terms and Conditions of Service.
Retention Period: As long as the user has an active account.
Purpose: To provide and maintain user accounts.
Retention Period: As long as the user has an active account.
Purpose: To personalize user experience and facilitate social interactions.
Retention Period: Until the user deletes the content or closes the account after which data may be retained for up to 30 days. Users wishing to delete their account may do so by emailing support@yakjive.com or by contacting us here.
Purpose: To allow users to manage and share their content.
Retention Period: 30 to 90 days.
Purpose: Troubleshooting, system improvements, and security monitoring.
Retention Period: Indefinite or until anonymization.
Purpose: Long-term analytics for service improvement, but ensure individual users cannot be identified.
Retention Period: As required by relevant data protection laws and regulations.
Purpose: Meeting legal and regulatory obligations.
Accounts that have been inactive for twelve (12) months may be flagged for review and potential deletion.
Regularly review and update the data retention policy, and obtain user consent for any significant changes.
Last updated March 30, 2026.
YakJive.com ("Service"), owned and operated by YakJive ("Company," "we," "us" or "our”), is provided to you ("Member," "You," or "you") under the Terms and Conditions of Service ("TCS") for YakJive.com and any operating rules or policies that may be published by the Company. The TCS comprises the entire agreement between Members and the Company and supersedes all prior agreements between the parties regarding the subject matter contained herein. BY COMPLETING THE SITE CREATION AND REGISTRATION PROCESS, MEMBER INDICATES AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE TCS.
YakJive.com provides Member with various publishing and community services, including but not limited to the capability to post information including text, images, audio files, and other data ("Content") to a web page and participate in web-based discussions.
The primary fee for the Service is an annual subscription fee, payable at the start of subscription. The Service is available for use by the Member immediately upon payment.
Some components and use of the Service will be free of charge, others may cost money or have other requirements. The requirements or fees for any service or option will be clearly explained and separately agreed to when Member implements those options, if any. Member must: (1) provide all equipment, including a computer and modem, necessary to establish a connection to the World Wide Web; (2) provide for own access to the World Wide Web and pay any telephone, cable, and internet service fees associated with such access; and (3) provide their own site content.
When You register for the Service, the Company may provide You access to a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right and license to use the Service for a limited time for free ("Free Trial Period"). The term for the Free Trial Period will begin on the date of Your registration for the Service and will continue for thirty (30) consecutive calendar days, unless extended or sooner terminated in accordance with the TCS. Upon completion of the Free Trial Period, You will be presented with the option to terminate Your access to the Service, continue using free features of the service, or convert to one of the paid subscription plans by providing standard credit card information in addition to the information You provided upon registration.
Member subscription fees will automatically renew at or just before the end of the subscription term until cancelled. Members may upgrade, cancel, or renew before the end of the subscription at their discretion according to the terms herein and before the automatic renewall is processed.
The Company may change the terms and conditions of the TCS, including costs and fees, from time to time. Upon major changes in the terms and conditions of the TCS, the Company will notify You by email and by changing the TCS posted at /terms-and-conditions.html. By continuing to use the Service, you agree to be bound by the changes. If you do not wish to agree to the changes, you may terminate your use of the Service at that time. Minor changes in the terms and conditions of the TCS will be posted to YakJive at https://www.yakjive.com.
Member's continued use of the Service constitutes an affirmative: (1) acknowledgment by Member of the TCS and TCS modifications; and (2) agreement by Member to abide and be bound by the TCS and TCS modifications.
The Company reserves the right to modify or discontinue the Service with or without notice to Member. The Company shall not be liable to Member or any third party should the Company exercise its right to modify or discontinue the Service.
Unless stated otherwise for specific services, Member will retain copyright ownership and all related rights for information You publish through YakJive.com or otherwise enters into YakJive.com-related services.
The Company reserves the right to use publicly shared Member Content, including excerpts and images of Member's Content, for promotional, marketing, or advertising uses. Content that is password restricted or not published is excepted from this use.
Third-party refers to any individual, entity, or corporation who is not the Company nor the Member.
Member acknowledges and agrees that the Company neither endorses the contents of any Member communications nor assumes responsibility for any threatening, libelous, obscene, harassing, illegal, or offensive material contained therein. Member accepts full responsibility for and agrees to indemnify the Company against damages arising from any infringement of third party intellectual property rights arising therefrom or any crime facilitated thereby.
Member acknowledges that the service is for use for personal, group, or corporate content and not for use as "search engine spam," for pass through links to gimmick or spam sites, or for marketing nonexistant, illegal, or misrepresented products. The Company reserves the right to evaluate any products or content posted by the Member and to terminate the Member's use of the Service without notice or recourse if the content is determined to be inappropriate.
Member acknowledges that Member has full rights to publish, modify, and display the content on their sites. Member acknowledges that Member has full copyright ownership of any documents, attachments, or photographs posted through the service.
The Company reserves the right to remove, without notice or recourse by the Member, any content that is discovered to be in violation of a third-party copyright. Repeated violations of third-party copyrights will result in termination of Member's account on the Service with no notice or recourse. Third-parties who discover proprietary or copyrighted material displayed through the service should report violations at /contact.html.
The Company will not use artificial intelligence ("AI") in connection with Member Content without Member's prior consent.
If the Company introduces any new material use of AI in the Service, the Company will provide reasonable advance notice by updating the TCS posted at /terms-and-conditions.html and through the Service.
The Company will not combine Member Content with other users' content for use in AI (including for training AI models or similar processing), except as may be technically incidental to providing the Service to Member individually and as described in these Terms.
Member represents and warrants that all Content Member posts, including Content created or substantially assisted by AI tools, is Content that Member has the right to post, publish, and use under applicable law, including ownership, license, or fair use rights.
The Company may remove, without notice or recourse by the Member, any Content that the Company determines is AI-generated or otherwise posted without adequate rights to publish and use it, in addition to remedies elsewhere in the TCS.
Once you become a member of the Service, you shall create a password and receive an account. You are entirely responsible if you do not maintain the confidentiality of your password and account. Furthermore, you are entirely responsible for any and all activities which occur under your account. You may change your password at any time. You may also set up a new account and close an old one at your convenience.
Member agrees to immediately notify the Company of any unauthorized use of Member's account or any other breach of security known to Member.
Through the Service, Member has the ability to invite individuals (Contributors) to use the Member's account on the Service. By using the Service, Contributors agree to be bound by the TCS and shall themselves be considered Members. Member assumes full responsibility for the transmissions, activity, abuse, infringement of the TCS, illegal activity, or other actions prohibited by the TCS that are committed by Contributors. Member understands and agrees that violation of the TCS by any Contributor will result in immediate termination of the Service for the Member with no recourse or notice.
Member acknowledges that the Company is not responsible for damage or loss to a Members content on the Service, misuse, or other inappropriate activity caused or initiated by Contributors to a Member's Service.
Member expressly agrees that use of the service is at Member's sole risk. The service is provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis.
The Company expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
The Company makes no warranty that the service will meet your requirements, or that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error free; nor does make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the Service or as to the accuracy or reliability of any information obtained through the Service or that defects in the software will be corrected.
Member understands and agrees that any material and/or data downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the service is done at Member's own discretion and risk and that Member will be solely responsible for any damage to Member's computer system or loss of data that results from the download of such material and/or data.
Member understands and agrees that any material and/or data uploaded or otherwise added to the Service is done at Member's own discretion and risk and that the Company is not responsible for any damage to Member's data or loss of data that results from the upload of such material and/or data.
The Company makes no warranty regarding any goods or services purchased or obtained through the Service or any transactions entered into through the Service.
No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by Member from or through the Service shall create any warranty not expressly made herein.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you.
The Company shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, resulting from the use or the inability to use the Service or for cost of procurement of substitute goods and services or resulting from any goods or services purchase or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through the Service or resulting from unauthorized access to or alteration of member's transmissions or data, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, use, data or other intangible, even if has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages so some of the above limitations may not apply to you.
Member agrees not to resell the Service, without the express consent of the Company.
The Company assumes no responsibility for the deletion or failure to store information entered into the Service.
At no charge to Member, the Company has set a fixed upper limit of data contained in the posts and attachments that Member may store through the Service. The Company reserves the right to charge for or offer for free any additional storage space above that fixed amount.
Member and Contributors are solely responsible for the contents of his or her transmissions and transmissions of Contributors through the Service. Member's use of the Service is subject to all applicable local, state, national and international laws and regulations.
Member and Contributors agree: (1) to comply with US law regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States through the Service; (2) not to use the Service for illegal purposes; (3) not to interfere or disrupt networks connected to the Service; and (4) to comply with all regulations, policies and procedures of networks connected to the Service.
The Service makes use of the Internet to send and receive certain messages; therefore, Member's conduct is subject to Internet regulations, policies and procedures. Member and Contributors will not use the Service for chain letters, junk mail, spamming or any use of distribution lists to any person who has not given specific permission to be included in such a process.
Member and Contributors agree not to transmit through the Service any unlawful, harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, or harmful material of any kind or nature. Member and Contributors further agree not to transmit any material that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international law or regulation. Attempts to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems are prohibited.
Member and Contributors shall not interfere with another Member's use and enjoyment of the Service or another entity's use and enjoyment of similar services.
The Company may, at its sole discretion and without notice, immediately terminate Service should Member's or Contributor's conduct fail to conform with these terms and conditions of the TCS.
Member and Contributors agree to indemnify and hold the Company, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Member's or Contributor's use of the Service, Contributors' use of the Service, the violation of this TCS by Member, the violation of this TCS by Contributors, or the infringement by Member, or the infringement by Contributors associated with the Member's account on the Service, or other user of the Service using Member's computer, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.
Member and Contributors agree to indemnify and hold the Company, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Member's or Contributor's use of the Service to store location information and exposing that information to third parties on the internet.
All notices to a party shall be in writing and shall be made either via email or through the Service. The Company may broadcast notices or messages through the Service to inform Member of changes to the TCS, the Service, or other matters of importance; such broadcasts shall constitute notice to Member.
For problems and issues, email support@yakjive.com or contact us here. A representative may be reached at: XXX-XXX-XXXX
The company agrees not to insert third-party advertising on the site. Any third party advertising on a YakJive.com site is the responsibility of the party who created the site.
Member understands and agrees that Company logos, statements of advertising for the Company, or other Company advertisements may and shall appear on the Members Service public web site and in correspondence sent through the Service by and to the Member. Member understands that obscuring hiding, defacing, or otherwise obstructing such advertising shall result in immediate termination of the Service for the Member with no notice or recourse.
Member may enter into correspondence with or participate in promotions of the Advertisers showing their products on the Service. Any such correspondence or promotions, including the delivery of and the payment for goods and services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such correspondence or promotions, are solely between the corresponding Member and the Advertiser. The Company assumes no liability, obligation or responsibility for any part of any such correspondence or promotion.
Members may put Advertising links or banners in the content of their articles at their discretion as long as the Advertising does not obscure or disrupt Advertising placed by the Company and does not violate other terms of the Service.
Member acknowledges that content, including but not limited to text, software, music, sound, photographs, video, graphics or other material contained in either sponsor advertisements or email-distributed, commercially produced information presented to Member by the Service ("Content") by the Company or the Company's Advertisers, is protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents or other proprietary rights and laws; therefore, Member is only permitted to use this Content as expressly authorized by the Service or the Advertiser. Member may not copy, reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from this Content without expressly being authorized to do so by the Service or the Advertiser.
The Service shall be available for purchase only within the United States of America. Individuals purchasing the Service from outside the United States, do so at their own risk and assume all responsibility for compliance with international law.
The TCS shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of California, exclusive of conflict or choice of law rules. The parties agree that any controversy, claim or litigation arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be resolved in a federal or state court in the State of California, and consent to the jurisdiction of such court over the parties hereto and such controversy, claim or litigation. The parties acknowledge that these Terms evidences a transaction involving interstate commerce.
If any provision(s) of the TCS is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then such provision(s) shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties with the other provisions remaining in full force and effect.
The Company's failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the TCS shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision unless acknowledged and agreed to by the Company in writing.
Member and the Company agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to this Service must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action arose; otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred. The section titles in the TCS are solely used for the convenience of the parties and have no legal or contractual significance.
You and YakJive agree to waive any right to a jury trial, or the right to have any dispute under these Terms (each a “Dispute”) resolved in any court, and instead accept the use of binding arbitration (which is the referral of a dispute (as such term is defined below) to one or more impartial persons for a final and binding determination). Except that either party may seek equitable or similar relief from any court of competent jurisdiction, any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or in relation to these Terms, that cannot be settled amicably by the parties, shall be finally settled in accordance with the arbitration rules of American Arbitration Association then in force by one or more arbitrators appointed in accordance with said rules. The parties agree that any dispute arising from or relating to the subject matter of the Agreement shall be resolved in Orange County, California. The award rendered shall be final and binding on both parties. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. The prevailing party shall be entitled to recover costs and attorneys’ fees.
You and YakJive agree that any Dispute is personal to You and YakJive, and that any Dispute shall only be resolved by an individual arbitration and shall not be brought as a class arbitration, a class action, or any other representative proceeding. Neither party agrees to class arbitration, or an arbitration where a person brings a Dispute as a representative of any other person or persons. Neither You nor the Company agrees that a Dispute can be brought as a class or representative action whether inside or outside of arbitration, or on behalf of any other person or persons.