YAWK Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of the YAWK platform, including the website at www.yawk.fun (the “Site”), the web application at app.yawk.fun, and the YAWK mobile apps for iOS and Android (together, the “App”), operated by Meka Bear Industries, Inc (“YAWK,” “we,” “us”). The Site and App together are the “Service.”

By creating an account or using YAWK, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use YAWK.

1. The Service

YAWK is a community-powered live scoring and game video platform for youth sports, built around a team. Roster Pass holders manage rosters, report and confirm scoring events during games, view stats, and share video of their games through the App. Game data and player stats may be displayed on the public Site according to each player's visibility setting.

Game video. Roster Pass holders may stream a game live from a camera or phone, and may upload a recording of a game after it ends. YAWK keeps the stream's recording, cuts short clips of scoring plays from any video of the game, and may render an “Enhanced Highlight” of a scoring play: a zoomed, slow-motion replay with transitions and similar presentation added by YAWK. Live games, full-length recordings, clips, and Enhanced Highlights are available in the App to any signed-in YAWK user, including users who are not members of the recorded team. Game video is never shown on the public Site and is not available to anyone without a YAWK account.

2. Eligibility and Accounts

You must be at least 18 years of age and either a parent or legal guardian of any athlete you add to YAWK, or otherwise authorized by the parent or guardian to register that athlete.

YAWK is a passwordless service. You sign in with a one-time code sent to your email address or phone number, by using your Google, Facebook, or Apple account, or, on a phone where you have turned it on, with your device's biometric sign-in. You are responsible for keeping your email account, phone, and any linked Google, Facebook, or Apple account secure, for not sharing one-time login codes with anyone, and for all activity under your account. Notify us at support@yawk.fun if you suspect unauthorized access.

You may invite one household member (co-parent, spouse, or guardian) to share full access to your account at no additional cost. You are responsible for the actions of any household member you invite.

3. Roster Passes, Teams, and Payments

Most YAWK features require a Roster Pass, which links a parent, guardian, or coach to a specific team for a specific season. Each household's first Roster Pass is free; additional Roster Passes are paid.

A team is created for one sports season (for example, Fall 2026 or 2026–27). Members can continue to access the team after that season ends, and player stats can accumulate across seasons. To record games and accumulate stats for a new season, members must create a new team for that season. Fifteen months after a team is created, its season is locked and the team is automatically archived; members can still access its historical record.

Teams belong to their members. A team on YAWK is created by acquiring the first Roster Pass on it. Except as described below for Team Pass teams, every Roster Pass holder on a team is an equal member of it. No member owns the team, and no member controls the others. Each member can add their own player, report and confirm plays, stream and upload video of the team's games, and delete video they uploaded. No member can delete another member's video. Except as described below for Team Pass teams, no member can remove another member from the team. If you leave a team, let your pass lapse, or delete your pass, the team continues without you, the plays you reported stay in the team's record, and video you uploaded stays available to the team until you delete it.

A team can also be created by a coach who buys a Team Pass, as described below. A Team Pass team is not run by its members as equals: it is run by its managers. Only managers can change its name, logo, and colors, families join it only by a manager's invitation, and a manager can remove a family from it. On a Team Pass team, as on any team, members report and confirm plays, stream and upload video of the team's games, and delete video they uploaded, and no member can delete another member's video.

Team Pass. A coach can buy a Team Pass to start a new team that the coach runs. A Team Pass always creates a new team; it cannot be added to a team that already exists. There are two kinds: a Team Pass, which includes the coach's own Roster Pass on the team, and a Team Pass with players, which also includes Roster Passes for up to 30 players the coach invites, in addition to the coach's own. Neither the coach's own pass nor an included pass uses up a household's free first Roster Pass. Prices are on our pricing page and at checkout.

Joining a Team Pass team. A Team Pass team is invite only. A family joins it by accepting an invitation from one of its managers; each invitation is for one child and can be used once. When a family accepts, their pass is an included pass if the Team Pass still has one left, otherwise their household's free first Roster Pass if they have not used it, and otherwise a paid Roster Pass. An included pass belongs to the family once they accept it. A place that an included pass has taken is not given back if the family is later removed.

Managers. The coach who buys a Team Pass is the team's first manager, and any manager can make another adult whose household holds a pass on the team a manager too. A manager must hold an active Roster Pass on the team through their household. A manager's role ends when their household no longer holds a pass on the team, and only another manager can make them a manager again. A manager can step down at any time, and a manager can end another manager's role, except that of the coach who bought the Team Pass. Managers can invite families, edit the team's name, logo, and colors, see the team's families, including the names of the adults in each family, and its pending invitations, and remove a family from the team. A family that includes a manager cannot be removed. Every member of the team can see who its managers are.

Removing a family. When a manager removes a family from a Team Pass team, the family's Roster Passes on the team end, and their children's stats on the team are deleted, unless another household still holds a pass for the same child on that team. If it was a child's only team, the child's profile is deleted too. We email the adults in the family to say so, and the email says when a profile was deleted.

When a team has no manager left. If no one who manages a Team Pass team holds a pass on that team any more, for example because they closed their account, deleted their pass, stepped down, or left or were removed from the household that holds their pass, the team becomes an ordinary team that any member can edit and share. Pending invitations are cancelled, and any included places not yet used end.

Teams are unofficial unless we say otherwise. Team names, logos, and colors are entered by members, or on a Team Pass team by its managers. A team on YAWK is a space for the families of that team, not an official presence of any club, league, school, or association, and nothing on YAWK implies that any such organization endorses or has verified the team, its stats, or its video. A Team Pass team is run by a coach, but that does not make it official: we do not verify that a coach acts for any club, league, school, or association. We may rename a team, remove a logo, or mark a team as unofficial at any time, including in response to a complaint under Section 8.

How you pay depends on where you buy. On our website and Android app, payments are processed by Stripe, and by purchasing you authorize Stripe to charge your payment method. In our iOS app, Roster Passes are sold as in-app purchases through the Apple App Store and are billed by Apple under your Apple Account; Apple's terms and Apple's purchase and refund policies apply to those purchases. A Team Pass is sold only on the web, in our web app at app.yawk.fun, and paid by card through Stripe, whatever device you use, including an iPhone; our mobile apps do not sell it. We do not see or store your card information.

Roster Passes are non-refundable except where required by law — and, for purchases made through the Apple App Store, except as provided by Apple's refund policies. Leaving a team does not entitle you to a refund. A Team Pass is non-refundable, except where we can't create your team, or where required by law. If you paid for a Team Pass and your team was not created, contact support@yawk.fun. Pricing may change at any time, and price changes apply only to new purchases; prices may differ between platforms.

Apple App Store. If you download the App from the Apple App Store, your use is also subject to Apple's standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement. You and we acknowledge that Apple is a third-party beneficiary of these Terms and may enforce them, that Apple has no obligation to provide maintenance or support for the App, and that Apple is not responsible for the App or any claims relating to it, to the extent required by Apple's App Store policies.

4. Game Data

The scores, plays, confirmations, and disputes that members report during a game (“Game Data”) are contributions to the team's shared record, made jointly by the people at the game. Game Data is not Your Content and you do not own it. It may be changed by the consensus process and by other members, it stays in the team's record after you leave the team, and it remains in anonymized form after you delete your account. The stats YAWK derives from Game Data are owned by YAWK and shown according to each player's visibility setting.

5. Your Content

You may submit content to YAWK, including player names, photos, jersey numbers, team names and logos, live video streams, video recordings, and the audio those recordings contain (“Your Content”).

You own it. You keep ownership of Your Content, including the copyright in any video you record and share through YAWK.

Your representations. By submitting Your Content, you represent that:

• You have the right to submit it
• For any minor's player profile, name, photo, or other information that you submit separately from game video, you are the minor's parent or legal guardian or have that parent's or guardian's permission to submit it; appearing in game footage alone does not mean you have obtained every person's permission to be recorded or shared
• For video, you or a member of your household recorded it yourself, or you have the recording's owner's permission to share it
• For video, you complied with the rules of the venue, league, and tournament where it was recorded, including any restriction on recording or live streaming. It is your responsibility to know those rules; YAWK does not check them
• Your Content does not include video taken from another streaming or video service, such as a facility, league, or school broadcast
• Your Content does not infringe any third party's rights and is not unlawful or harmful

Inviting families. If you invite families to a Team Pass team, you represent that you may give us each family's email address and their child's name and jersey number so that we can send the invitation, and that you invite only families of your own team.

Your license to us. You grant YAWK a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable license to host, store, copy, process, display, distribute, and create derivative works from Your Content as needed to operate, provide, and improve the Service. For video, this includes showing it to signed-in YAWK users, cutting clips from it, rendering Enhanced Highlights from it, and analyzing it to find scoring plays as described in our Privacy Policy. This license ends when you delete the content or your account, except as described in Section 4.

Game video you delete. You may delete a full-length video you streamed or uploaded at any time. We will remove it from YAWK immediately, together with the clips and Enhanced Highlights made from it, and it can no longer be played. To ask us to remove a specific clip or highlight without deleting the video, contact support@yawk.fun.

Player visibility. Each player is private by default. You control how each player appears on the public Site through their visibility settings, and you can change these at any time. Visibility settings apply to the public Site; game video is shown only to signed-in users as described in Section 1.

6. Game Video Rules

Game video is available to any signed-in YAWK user as described in Section 1. You may stream or upload only video of the game itself, recorded from the stands, the sideline, or a fixed camera, during play. You may not stream or upload:

• Video from a locker room, bathroom, changing area, bus, hotel room, or any other place where a person could reasonably expect privacy
• Video of anyone undressed or partially undressed
• Video that is not of this team's game, including practices, other teams' games, or personal footage unrelated to the game
• Video captured from another streaming or video service, or that you do not have the right to share
• Video that singles out, mocks, or harasses a player, official, coach, or spectator

We remove video that breaks these rules. A violation may also result in closure of your account and loss of access to Roster Passes you have purchased, subject to any refund rights under Section 3. Where the law requires it, we report material to law enforcement or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Watching. Video playback is for you to watch inside the App. You may not share playback links or credentials with people who are not signed in, download or re-encode video except through a feature we provide for that purpose, rebroadcast a stream, or post full-length game video from YAWK on another service.

7. Acceptable Use

You may not, and may not permit anyone else to:

• Use YAWK in violation of any law
• Submit false reports, manipulate the consensus scoring engine, vote fraudulently, or impersonate another person
• Post content that is unlawful, harassing, defamatory, threatening, hateful, sexually explicit, or otherwise objectionable
• Stream or upload video in violation of Section 6, or stream a game where the venue, league, or tournament prohibits it
• Represent a team as official, or represent yourself as authorized by a club, league, school, or association, when you are not
• Invite anyone to a Team Pass team who is not in a family of that team, or give us a person's email address or a child's name without the right to do so
• Access YAWK through any automated means, including bots, scrapers, or crawlers, except for well-behaved search engine indexing of public pages
• Bulk-collect, copy, or extract any portion of the Site or App, including public player or game data
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code from YAWK
• Interfere with the operation of YAWK, attempt to gain unauthorized access, or probe for security vulnerabilities without our written permission
• Resell, sublicense, or commercially exploit YAWK or any video on it without our written permission

8. Intellectual Property and Complaints

YAWK and all underlying software, design, branding, trademarks, and content (excluding Your Content) are owned by Meka Bear Industries, Inc and are protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use YAWK for its intended purpose, subject to these Terms.

Enhanced Highlights. The presentation YAWK adds to an Enhanced Highlight, such as zoom, slow motion, color transitions, and audio editing, is owned by YAWK. The underlying footage remains Your Content under the license in Section 5.

Other people's trademarks. Team names, logos, and colors on YAWK belong to whoever owns them. YAWK claims no rights in them and does not verify that a member may use them.

Copyright and trademark complaints. If you believe content on YAWK infringes your copyright or trademark, send a notice to support@yawk.fun or to the mailing address in Section 16, marked “Copyright Notice.” Include: the work you believe is infringed; the content on YAWK you want removed, with enough detail for us to find it; your name, mailing address, email, and phone number; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the owner or authorized to act for the owner; and your physical or electronic signature. We respond to complete notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we may forward a notice to the person who posted the content, and we close the accounts of repeat infringers.

Video of your child. If your child appears in game video on YAWK and you are not the person who posted it, you may ask us to remove a specific video or clip by contacting support@yawk.fun with the game, the team, and enough detail to identify your child. You do not need a YAWK account to make this request.

9. Termination

You may delete your account at any time from the profile page in the App. When you delete your account, we delete your data as described in our Privacy Policy. Full-length video you streamed or uploaded is removed immediately, together with the clips and Enhanced Highlights made from it, and plays you reported stay in anonymized form as described in Section 4.

We may suspend or terminate your account, with or without notice, if you violate these Terms, if your use of YAWK creates risk for us or other users, or if we discontinue the Service.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including Section 4, the continuing license in Section 5, intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, and dispute resolution — survive termination of these Terms.

10. Disclaimers

YAWK IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR ACCURACY.

YAWK relies on community-reported scoring. Stats and game data may contain errors. We do not guarantee that scores, plays, or stats are accurate, complete, or timely. Do not rely on YAWK for any purpose where errors could cause harm.

Game video is provided by members. We do not guarantee that a stream will work, that a recording is complete, that a clip or Enhanced Highlight shows the play it is labeled with, or that any video will be kept for any period of time. Keep your own copy of any video that matters to you.

We do not guarantee that YAWK will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free.

11. Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, MEKA BEAR INDUSTRIES, INC AND ITS OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF YAWK.

OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YAWK WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US IN THE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS ($100).

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so some of these limits may not apply to you.

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Meka Bear Industries, Inc and its officers, employees, and agents from any claim, demand, loss, or damages, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or related to: (a) Your Content, including any video you stream or upload and any claim that you recorded or shared it without the right to do so, (b) your use of YAWK, (c) your violation of these Terms, or (d) your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

13. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. You agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Delaware for any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service.

14. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by email or by prominent notice in the App before the changes take effect. When they take effect, the App will ask you to accept the updated Terms before you continue using it. Your continued use of YAWK after changes take effect constitutes acceptance.

15. Miscellaneous

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and YAWK regarding the Service. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain in effect. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms; we may assign them in connection with a business transfer.

16. Contact Us

Email: support@yawk.fun

Mail:
Meka Bear Industries, Inc
56 Broad St STE 14004
Boston, Massachusetts 02109