Terms of Service

Effective Date: November 23, 2025

Welcome to How to Yo-Yo. By accessing or using our website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service.

1. Account Registration

• Eligibility: You must be at least 13 years old to create an account.
• Security: You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials. You are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your account.
• Accuracy: You agree to provide accurate information when creating an account.

2. User-Generated Content (UGC)

"How to Yo-Yo" allows users to post comments, blogs, trick lists, and yo-yo reviews.

• Ownership: You retain ownership of the content you create.
• License: By posting content, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, display, reproduce, and distribute your content on our platform.
• Moderation: We reserve the right to remove any content that we deem offensive, illegal, spam, or irrelevant at our sole discretion.
• Prohibited Content: You may not post hate speech, harassment, sexually explicit material, or content that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others.

3. Physical Safety Disclaimer

Yo-yoing involves physical activity and the manipulation of spinning objects.

• By using this site and attempting the tricks described in tutorials or user posts, you assume all risk of injury or damage to property.
• How to Yo-Yo is not liable for any personal injury, broken items, or damages resulting from practicing tricks, equipment failure (e.g., string breakage), or following advice found on the platform.

4. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Use the site for any illegal purpose.
• Attempt to hack, reverse engineer, or disrupt our services (including our hosting on Vercel or databases).
• Scrape data or use automated bots without permission.
• Harass or abuse other community members.

5. Intellectual Property

Except for User-Generated Content, all site content, design, code, and logos are the property of How to Yo-Yo. You may not copy or reproduce our site assets without permission.

6. Third-Party Links

Our site may contain links to third-party websites (e.g., yo-yo retailers, external tutorials). We are not responsible for the content or practices of these external sites.

7. Termination

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account at any time, without notice, if you violate these Terms or engage in behaviour that harms the community.

8. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, How to Yo-Yo is provided "as is." We make no warranties regarding site uptime, accuracy of tutorials, or data integrity. We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the service.

9. Changes to Terms

We may modify these Terms at any time. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance of the new Terms.

10. Contact

For any questions regarding these Terms, please contact us at: [[email protected]]