Terms of Service

You need an account to use yeil. You must be at least 18 years old. You agree to give us accurate information, keep it current, and keep your password and recovery materials private. You're responsible for everything that happens under your account. If you think your account has been compromised, sign in and rotate your credentials, or email us right away.

If you're using yeil on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have the authority to bind it to these Terms, and that the organization is also bound.

yeil is a small set of products: mail (a hosted inbox at an @yeilmail.com address, with paid aliases on custom domains you own), DNS (hosted authoritative DNS for domains you own), team (the same products, shared with people you work with), and any future product we attach to your yeil account. We describe each on its marketing site.

We try to keep the services available, but we don't guarantee uninterrupted access (see Section 11). Maintenance happens. Internet routing breaks. We'll do our best to communicate when it matters.

Some services are free. Paid plans are billed through Stripe; we don't see or store your card details. Prices and billing cadence are shown on the product's pricing page at the time of purchase, and we'll disclose any renewal terms before you check out.

Recurring plans (monthly, yearly) renew automatically until you cancel. For annual plans, we'll send a reminder email before each renewal so you can decide whether to continue. You can switch between monthly and yearly cadence, update your card, view invoices, and cancel directly in your account settings; cadence changes are prorated and cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. We don't refund unused portions of a recurring period, except where the law requires us to.

Lifetime plans are a one-time charge that doesn't renew. “Lifetime” means as long as we offer the product. If we discontinue the product or shut down yeil entirely, lifetime customers within 36 months of their purchase receive a pro-rata refund: refund = purchase price × (36 − months held) ÷ 36. After 36 months, the value you've received on a lifetime plan exceeds what an annual subscription would have cost, and no refund is owed. We picked this threshold because it guarantees lifetime customers come out at least as well as they would have on the cheapest equivalent subscription ($1/month or $7/year, depending on the product).

If a charge fails and stays unpaid, we may downgrade or suspend the account. If you initiate a chargeback for a charge that wasn't fraudulent, we may suspend the account while we work it out with you. Prices exclude taxes; you're responsible for any applicable taxes other than taxes on our income, unless we're legally required to collect them.

You agree not to use yeil to:

• send spam, phishing, or bulk unsolicited messages
• violate any law, infringe anyone's rights, or distribute malware
• host or transmit material that is illegal, sexually exploits minors, or incites violence
• resell yeil services or proxy them to third parties without our written agreement
• attempt to break, probe, overload, scrape, or reverse-engineer the services, or interfere with anyone else's use of them
• use the services in a way that puts our infrastructure or other users at risk
• use the services from a country or in a manner that violates US export controls or trade sanctions

We can suspend or terminate accounts that violate these rules. For severe abuse we'll act without notice; otherwise we'll usually reach out first and give you a chance to fix the issue.

Your mail, DNS records, and anything else you put into yeil are yours. You keep ownership. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, store, copy, transmit, display, back up, and technically reformat your content as the services require, only as far as we need to operate the services for you. We don't use your content to train AI, sell to advertisers, or share with third parties except as Section 8 describes.

You're responsible for your content. If a third party claims your content infringes their rights, we may have to act on that claim under applicable law (see Section 6).

If you send us feedback or suggestions about the services, we may use them freely with no obligation to you.

We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe content hosted on yeil infringes your copyright, send a written notice to our designated agent that includes the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3): your signature, identification of the work, identification of the allegedly infringing material with enough detail for us to locate it, your contact info, a good-faith statement, and a statement under penalty of perjury that you're the owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Designated agent:
Jordan Koch (or successor)
yeil
2 Main St #1402
Sparta, NJ, USA
legal@yeil.org

If we receive a valid notice, we'll act on it as required by law, which usually means removing or disabling access to the material and notifying the user. If you believe content of yours was removed in error, you can send a counter-notice meeting the requirements of 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) to the same address. Repeat infringers will have their accounts terminated.

On a team plan, the team owner (the person who creates the team and pays for it) sets membership and permissions. Team administrators can see member metadata (addresses on team domains, roles, billing) and can manage shared team resources like the team's DNS zones and domain configuration. If you join a team, you're agreeing to that visibility for the duration of your membership.

Each member's mail is encrypted with keys derived from that member's password, so administrators cannot directly read a member's mailbox or reset their existing password. There's one carve-out: when an admin creates an account by setting an initial password for the member (the “create now” flow), the admin knows that initial password until the member signs in and changes it. Until then, the admin has a path to that mailbox. Members invited via the invite-link flow choose their own password at sign-up, and the admin never has it.

The team owner is responsible for paying the team's bill and for the team's use of yeil. Team plans bill per active member; when members join or leave mid-period, the next invoice is prorated. Mail addresses on team-owned domains are team property and stay with the team when a member leaves; personal DNS zones the member owns separately stay with the member. If a team leaves yeil, the owner is responsible for migrating data out and notifying members.

Most of yeil runs on hardware we own in our own datacenter. We use a small number of subprocessors for the parts that don't:

• Stripe for payments. Stripe receives the card and billing details you enter at checkout.

We'll keep the current list in the Privacy Policy. We may also share information to comply with a subpoena, warrant, or other valid legal process, or to prevent imminent harm to a person or to our infrastructure. We push back on overbroad requests and try to give you notice before disclosing, unless we're legally barred from doing so.

We may share aggregated or de-identified information (counts, volumes, trends) that doesn't identify you for any business purpose, including in marketing about yeil.

If yeil changes ownership through acquisition, merger, sale, reorganization, or asset transfer, your data may transfer to the new owner under the same commitments we made here. We'll notify you of the change before it takes effect so you can close your account if you don't want to continue with the new owner.

You can close your account at any time from account.yeil.app/security/delete-account. Doing so cancels any active subscriptions, deletes your personal data, and signs you out. Some records (billing history, abuse signals) may be retained as long as we're legally required to keep them. If you'd rather email us, write to legal@yeil.org.

We can terminate or suspend an account for material breach of these Terms, for non-payment, for legal reasons, or because we stop offering the service. If we terminate for our own business reasons (not your breach), we'll give you at least 30 days' notice and a reasonable chance to export your data first. If we discontinue a lifetime-plan product, Section 3 governs the refund.

We provide yeil “as is” and “as available.” To the maximum extent the law allows, we disclaim all implied warranties (merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement). We don't promise that the services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that every message or DNS query will succeed. Nothing in this section excludes warranties or terms that cannot be excluded under applicable law (including the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act and similar state consumer-protection statutes).

To the maximum extent allowed by law, yeil's total liability to you for anything related to yeil will not exceed the greater of (a) the amounts you paid us in the twelve months before the event that gave rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred US dollars. We're not liable for indirect, consequential, incidental, special, or punitive damages, lost profits, or lost data, even if we've been told they were possible.

These limits don't apply to: (i) our indemnification obligations in Section 13, (ii) our gross negligence, willful misconduct, or fraud, (iii) liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or (iv) anything else the law doesn't allow us to limit. Some jurisdictions don't allow these limits to apply in full for consumer transactions. Where that's the case, the limit applies as far as the law allows.

By you. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold yeil (and our officers, employees, and agents) harmless from any third-party claim, loss, damage, or cost (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from (a) your use of yeil in violation of these Terms or applicable law, (b) your content, or (c) any willful or grossly negligent act of yours.

By us. We'll defend you against third-party claims alleging that yeil, as we provide it, infringes a US patent, copyright, trademark, or trade secret, and we'll pay the losses awarded against you in a final judgment (or the settlement amount we agree to). This doesn't cover claims arising from (a) your use of yeil in violation of these Terms, (b) yeil combined with anything else not provided by us, (c) modifications you made, (d) use of a beta or preview feature, or (e) your content.

Each side has to (a) promptly notify the other in writing of any indemnified claim, (b) let the other side control the defense and any settlement (no settlement that admits liability or imposes obligations on the indemnified party without that party's consent), and (c) cooperate reasonably at the indemnifying party's expense.

Neither party is liable for failure or delay in performance caused by events beyond reasonable control: natural disasters, fires, power or internet outages affecting our providers, denial-of-service attacks, pandemics, labor disputes, government actions, or acts of war. We'll still do our reasonable best to mitigate and restore service.

We'll update these Terms from time to time. When we make material changes, we'll surface the update in the apps and ask you to accept the new version before continuing to use them. For minor edits (typos, clarifications, updated contact info), we'll update the “last updated” date without an acceptance prompt. The current version is the one live on this page; older versions are available on request.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in New Jersey, and you and yeil each consent to personal jurisdiction there. We're not requiring arbitration and we're not waiving anyone's right to bring (or participate in) a class action. Before filing a lawsuit, please contact legal@yeil.org so we can try to resolve the issue informally first.

Any claim against us must be brought within one year after it arises; otherwise it's permanently barred, except where applicable law requires a longer minimum period.

Survival. Sections 5 (Your content, for the license you granted), 6 (Copyright complaints), 8 (Who we share data with), 9 (Business transfers), 11 (Disclaimers), 12 (Limitation of liability), 13 (Indemnification), 16 (Governing law and disputes), and 17 (General) survive termination of these Terms.

Entire agreement. These Terms (together with the Privacy Policy and any other policies we reference) are the entire agreement between you and us about yeil, and supersede any prior agreements on the same subject.

Severability. If any part of these Terms is held unenforceable, the rest stays in effect.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce a term doesn't waive our right to enforce it later.

Assignment. You can't assign these Terms without our written consent. We can assign them to an affiliate or to a successor in connection with a transaction described in Section 9.

Notices. We'll send notices to the email address on your account. Notices to us go to legal@yeil.org or by mail to the address in Section 18.

Questions about these Terms? legal@yeil.org.

yeil
2 Main St #1402
Sparta, NJ, USA