Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Yardmaster application and related services (the “Service”), operated by the maintainer of Yardmaster (“we”, “us”, or “our”). By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. Independent Terminal Operations Tool

Yardmaster is an independent tool built to help terminal crews manage their work schedules and operational workflows. Any carrier or railroad names, marks, or terminology are used only to describe the operational context and remain the property of their respective owners. The Service is not an official system of record for any employer.

2. Eligibility & Family Access

Authorized terminal personnel must be at least 18 years old to create and maintain an employee account. Family member accounts (including children and minor dependents) are welcome to access the Service with the consent and supervision of their parent or legal guardian to view household work schedules, shift turns, and terminal announcements. The primary employee account holder assumes responsibility for family accounts associated with their profile.

3. Accounts and Access

• Accounts are created with an email address and password through our authentication provider. New self-service sign-ups start as a pending Family account and must be approved and assigned a role by an administrator before gaining full access.
• You are responsible for keeping your credentials confidential and for all activity that occurs under your account. Notify us promptly of any unauthorized use.
• We (or your administrator) may suspend, block, or remove accounts that violate these Terms, are inactive, or are no longer authorized.

4. Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Access data or accounts you are not authorized to access, or share access with unauthorized people;
• Upload unlawful, false, or misleading content, or content you do not have the right to share;
• Attempt to disrupt, reverse engineer, scrape, overload, or circumvent the security of the Service;
• Use the Service to harass others or to violate any applicable law, employer policy, or collective bargaining agreement.

5. Your Content

The Service lets you and your administrators submit information such as schedules, rosters, time-off requests, and uploaded schedule images (“Your Content”). You retain ownership of Your Content. You grant us a limited license to store, process, and display it solely to operate and provide the Service to you and the other authorized users in your terminal. You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to submit Your Content.

6. Intellectual Property & Copyright Ownership

The Service, including all source code, software architecture, user interfaces, algorithms, data synchronization workflows, visual layouts, and documentation (“Our Intellectual Property”), is the exclusive personal property of Cregan Mullins, protected under United States and international copyright laws (U.S. Copyright Office Registration Case # 1-15260674191).

Not a Work Made for Hire: Yardmaster was conceived, authored, programmed, and maintained independently by Cregan Mullins during personal off-duty time, without company resources, funding, or corporate equipment. It is explicitly not a “work made for hire” under Section 101 of the U.S. Copyright Act for any railroad carrier, employer, corporate entity, or contractor. No railroad carrier, employer, or third-party entity holds any copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, or ownership interest in the Service or any associated code, database, or workflow.

Cregan Mullins retains all right, title, and interest in and to the Service. You are granted solely a personal, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable license to view and use the Service for its intended operational purposes. You agree not to copy, modify, distribute, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or extract source code or architecture from the Service, nor attempt to claim any corporate, employer, or third-party ownership over the Service or any of its components. Any unauthorized duplication, reverse-engineering, reproduction, or corporate appropriation is strictly prohibited and subject to statutory copyright infringement damages under Title 17 of the United States Code.

7. AI-Assisted Features

Some features use third-party artificial intelligence (currently Google AI / Gemini) to read uploaded schedule images and extract names and assignments. AI output may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always verify AI-generated results against the original source before relying on them. See our Privacy Policy for how this data is processed.

8. No Reliance for Safety-Critical Decisions

The Service is provided for convenience and planning only. It is not an official source of truth for crew calling, on-duty/off-duty status, hours-of-service compliance, or any safety-critical or regulatory decision. Always confirm your assignments through your employer’s official channels.

9. Availability and Changes

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, with or without notice. We do not guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or available at any particular time.

10. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that data displayed in the Service is accurate, current, or complete.

11. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, missed shifts, lost wages, or lost profits, arising out of or related to your use of (or inability to use) the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars (USD $100).

12. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims, damages, or expenses arising out of your use of the Service, Your Content, or your violation of these Terms.

13. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, including for violation of these Terms or when your authorization to use the Service ends. You may stop using the Service and request deletion of your account at any time by contacting us.

14. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. You agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Tennessee for any dispute that is not otherwise resolved.

15. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

16. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Contact us at cregan1988@gmail.com.