Transparent, fair, and secure. Everything you need to know about our user roles, booking rules, and our strict zero third-party data sharing guarantee.
Terms and Conditions of Service
Effective Date: September 16, 2026 • Governing YARD (formerly TurfNow)
Official Policy
Zero Third-Party Exploitation Pledge
YARD will never sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third-party advertisers or external commercial brokers. We do not use your information for personal commercial exploitation outside the direct fulfillment of your sports bookings, team coordination, and match scheduling.
1. Agreement to Terms
These Terms and Conditions of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between you ("User") and YARD (formerly TurfNow, operated by YARD Sports Network at yardcommunity.in). By downloading, accessing, or using the YARD mobile app or web platform, you expressly agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must immediately discontinue use of the platform.
2. Ecosystem Roles & User Responsibilities
YARD unites all participants in grassroots sports. Every role is governed by clear operational guidelines:
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1. General User / Player
Discovers sports turfs, reserves play slots, creates or joins open matches, connects with squads, chats in squad channels (with full right to edit and delete own messages), and books certified trainers. Must arrive punctually and follow venue rules.
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2. Turf Owner / Operator
Manages arena listings, schedules operational slots, configures daytime and night-time hourly pricing, manages custom multi-hour bookings, publishes slot delay notices, and maintains safe, playable sports grounds for players.
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3. Sports Trainer / Coach
Maintains professional coaching profiles, lists authentic sports qualifications, sets hourly training rates (1-on-1, duo, group), sets availability slots, and conducts high-standard, safe athletic training for trainees.
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4. Squad Admin / Creator
Creates public or private community squads, generates 8-character deep-link invites for team sharing, manages member access requests, schedules squad matches, and moderates squad discussions with sportsmanship.
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5. Super Admin / Platform Administrator
Verifies newly listed arenas and trainer applications, enforces platform integrity, oversees promotional home banners, and resolves safety escalations.
3. Bookings, Slot Pricing & Settlements
Technology Intermediary: YARD facilitates connections between sports players, venues, and coaches. Slot rates (day and night hourly pricing) and training fees are established directly by arena owners and coaches.
Settlement & Direct Payment: Payments, advance deposits, and slot fee settlements are transacted directly between players and venues/coaches via cash, UPI, or card.
Cascading Slot Delays: When a preceding match runs overtime, venue operators can broadcast an official slot delay notification. Players receive real-time alerts with adjusted start times.
4. Community Chat Conduct & Message Freedom
In squad chat rooms, players enjoy complete autonomy to edit or delete their sent messages at any time. However, any form of harassment, hate speech, abusive language, gambling promotion, or unauthorized spam is strictly prohibited and will lead to immediate account termination.
5. Physical Activity & Assumption of Risk
Sports activities (Football, Box Cricket, Badminton, Tennis, Pickleball, etc.) involve inherent athletic risks of physical strain or injury. By reserving slots or training sessions on YARD, participants voluntarily assume all standard sports-related risks. YARD does not operate physical venues and is not liable for personal bodily injury or property damage sustained at arenas.
6. Governing Law & Legal Contact
These Terms are governed by and construed under the laws of India. For any legal inquiries, questions, or concerns:
Effective Date: September 16, 2026 • YARD (formerly TurfNow)
Google Play Verified
Strict Privacy & Zero Third-Party Sharing Promise
We DO NOT share, sell, rent, trade, or distribute your personal data to any third-party advertisers, data brokers, or external agencies. Additionally, we will never exploit your data for our personal commercial benefit. Your data is used exclusively to facilitate sports venue bookings, squad matchmaking, coaching sessions, and necessary push alerts.
1. Information We Collect & Authentication Scope
We collect only the minimum information necessary to provide our sports community platform:
Google Sign-In (Firebase Authentication): Collects your basic public profile information (name, email address, profile photo URL, and unique authentication UID). We never access your private Google contacts, files, or background account data.
Email & Password: Salted and secured via Google Firebase Authentication infrastructure.
Phone Number: Provided by venue owners, trainers, and coordinating players solely for account verification, dashboard access, and direct booking coordination.
Browsing Without Registration: General visitors can freely browse venue listings, sports matches, and coach profiles without providing any personal data.
2. Information Handled by User Role
Players: Profile identity, booking history, joined matches, and squad chat messages (with edit/delete permissions).
Turf Owners: Venue name, address, geo-coordinates, phone number, operating schedule, daytime and night pricing, amenities, arena photos, and slot reservations.
Coaches / Trainers: Professional bio, athletic certifications, hourly session rates, and trainee session records.
Squad Admins: Community name, sport, description, privacy setting (public/private), and 8-character invite tokens.
Super Admins: Arena and trainer verification logs and broadcast notifications.
3. Squad Chat Privacy & User Control
Squad chats are isolated strictly to members of that specific squad. Users retain full rights to edit or delete their sent messages at any time. Once deleted, the message content is permanently removed from the active database.
4. Infrastructure & Security
Zero Advertising SDKs: The App contains no advertising trackers, analytics spyware, or ad networks (no Google AdMob, no Meta Audience Network).
Google Firebase: All database operations are secured through Google Firebase Realtime Database using end-to-end TLS 1.3 encryption.
Cloudinary CDN: Images uploaded by venue owners or users are hosted securely via Cloudinary's encrypted CDN.
5. Data Deletion Rights (Right to be Forgotten)
You have the complete right to request the permanent deletion of your account, arena listings, trainer profiles, or chat history at any time. Simply email shaikhrayhan479@gmail.com or call +91 7058811186. All associated data will be permanently wiped within 7 business days.
