Yanamino Terms of Use

Version 1 · Last updated: 5 November 2026

These terms are the agreement between you and Yanamino. They say what you can do on Yanamino, what you let Yanamino do with what you make, and what happens when someone breaks the rules. The Community Guidelines are part of these terms.

We've written them for everyone who uses Yanamino, including people aged 13 to 17. If something isn't clear, ask a parent, or write to us.

1. Who we are

Yanamino is a study app made by Atahan Caliskan in Norway. "We" and "Yanamino" in these terms mean Atahan Caliskan.

You can reach us at support@yanami.no, in English or Norwegian. Section 18 has every way to contact us.

2. Who can use Yanamino

• Anyone can use Yanamino on their phone without an account.
• An account is for people 13 or older.
• Running a group, sharing what you made, and making things public are for people 16 or older.
• Making things public also needs Yanamino Premium (section 9).

When you sign up, the app asks your month and year of birth. Tell the truth. We don't check documents, so we rely on your answer. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 13, we close it, as our Privacy Policy explains.

3. Your account

• Keep your sign-in safe. Don't share your account or use someone else's.
• One account is for one person.
• You're responsible for what's done with your account, unless someone got in through no fault of yours. Tell us at once if you think that happened.
• You can delete your account at any time, in Settings, then your account at the top, then Delete Account.

4. What you make, and what you let Yanamino do with it

It stays yours. When we say a deck, lesson or quiz is "yours", or that you "own" it, we mean you control it on Yanamino: you decide who it's shared with, you can change it, and you can take it back. It doesn't change who owns the copyright in what's inside it. That stays with whoever made the material.

Your licence to Yanamino. So Yanamino can work, you give Yanamino a free, non-exclusive licence to store, copy, convert (for example, package files or resize pictures), show and send what you put on Yanamino, wherever people use Yanamino, but only for these uses:

• backing up your library and keeping it in sync on your devices;
• showing what you share with a group to the people in that group;
• when you make something public: showing it to anyone on Yanamino, letting them study it on their own phones, and letting people who run groups add it to their groups (section 6);
• checking it against our rules, with automatic tools and with a person, and keeping evidence when a report or the law needs it (section 11).

How long the licence lasts. While the item is shared or public. When you stop sharing it, unpublish it or delete it, we stop showing it, and copies on other people's phones are removed the next time their app checks. The licence goes on only:

• for items you choose to keep with their groups when you delete your account, and items someone takes over with your reclaim code, for as long as they stay on Yanamino;
• for evidence we have to keep (section 11).

If you're under 18, you or a parent can end the licence at any time by writing to us. We then take those items off Yanamino.

Your promise. When you share something or make it public, you promise that you made it, or that you have permission to share everything in it: other people's text, pictures, voices and recordings included. That promise covers every change you send later too.

5. Sharing with your groups

• You can share your own decks, lessons and quizzes with groups you run. Only the person who made an item can share it.
• The people in a group can use what's shared with it. The people running a group can see who shared each item. Members never see who made an item.
• Send Changes updates your item for the groups you shared it with yourself. A group in a space you're not in gets a new version only when its leaders accept it, after they see what changed.
• Stop Sharing takes it out of every group.

6. Making things public

Who can. You can make a deck, lesson or quiz public if you're 16 or older, have Yanamino Premium (a free trial doesn't count, section 9), have accepted these terms, and meet the other conditions the app shows you, such as how old your account is and how you sign in. We limit how many items a new publisher can make public at a time.

What becomes public. The title, the description, what it teaches, and all of its content: every card, page or question. Your progress and your other items stay private. For now, public items can't carry pictures or recordings.

Who sees it. Anyone signed in on Yanamino, 13 or older, can find a public item in Explore, look through it, study it on their own (Get), and, if they run a group, add it to their group.

Your publisher name. Public items show a publisher name you choose, never your username. People who run a group in a space you're in see your username instead. A publisher name must follow the Community Guidelines, can't be your username, and can't look like Yanamino's own names or someone else's. You can change it once every 30 days.

Checks before anything goes public. Every new public item, every new version and every new description is checked first (section 11). Until you're a trusted publisher, a person at Yanamino also looks at each item before it goes public. When something passes, it has been checked against our Community Guidelines. That doesn't mean Yanamino approves it, or has checked who holds the rights to it.

Changes. The groups you added an item to yourself get your changes when you tap Send Changes. Everyone else gets each new version only after it's been checked.

Unpublish. You can unpublish at any time, whatever state the item is in. It leaves Explore at once, and it leaves every group and every library that found it on Yanamino. Groups you added it to yourself keep it, unless you choose otherwise. If you make it public again later, the groups and people who lost it don't get it back.

7. Using what other people made

• Items in your groups, and public items you get, were made by other people. Yanamino doesn't make them and doesn't promise they're correct.
• A public item can change, be paused, or go away: its maker can unpublish it, and Yanamino can remove it. Your progress on it is kept, so it comes back if the item does.
• If something breaks the rules, report it (section 13). You can also hide a maker's items from your own search and pickers with Hide Items by This Maker. Nobody is told.

8. Yanamino's own decks, dictionaries and AI

• Yanamino's own decks and dictionaries are for your own study. Don't copy them to share or sell them.
• Some dictionaries and other material come from other people under their own licences. Those licences are listed in the app (Study › Tools › Licenses), and they apply to that material.
• AI practice makes questions and grades answers with an AI model. It can be wrong. Treat its questions and grades as help, not as the final word.

9. Yanamino Premium

What it gives is listed on the app's Premium screen, such as the Comprehensive dictionaries, more groups and more items in each, public groups, and making things public.

A free trial of Premium gives you everything Premium gives except the public acts: making an item public, sending a new public version, changing a public item's description, and changing your publisher name. Those need Premium that isn't a trial.

When Premium ends, nothing you made is removed:

• what you made public stays public, as it was last checked, and you can still unpublish it. Your own copy stays yours to edit, and Send Changes still reaches the groups you added it to yourself. Changes to the public version, its description and your publisher name wait until Premium returns, and are checked then;
• your groups keep everything in them; new groups and new items use the free limits;
• the Comprehensive dictionaries lock for 30 days, then leave your phone, unless Premium returns first.

If a store refunds your Premium, it ends at once, and the rules above apply.

10. The rules

Follow the Community Guidelines in everything you share or make public, in your publisher name, and in the names and descriptions of your groups. Also, don't:

• try to get around Yanamino's checks, limits, blocks or strikes, for example with hidden text, instructions written for the checks, or a new account;
• pretend to be Yanamino, or someone else;
• report things you know are fine, or use reports to harass someone;
• break, overload or probe Yanamino's servers, or copy Yanamino's content in bulk with scripts or other automatic tools;
• use Yanamino to break the law.

11. How we keep Yanamino safe

Our tools.

• A word and contact filter reads all the text of every new public item and version.
• An AI check reads the same text, looking for what the Community Guidelines don't allow, including someone's personal details. It's run for us by Anthropic. It treats the text only as something to check, and anything unclear goes to a person, never straight into Explore.
• When public items can carry pictures and recordings, pictures will also be matched against known child sexual abuse images and checked by an AI model, and recordings will be turned into text and checked like text.
• A person at Yanamino looks at every item from a publisher who isn't trusted yet, at items a check flags, and at what people report.

What the tools can do on their own. A check never removes anything. It sends the item to a person. The one exception: a severe result on a picture pauses the item everywhere until a person decides. Reports from several people can also take an item out of search, or pause it, until a person looks. Some reports about a child's safety pause an item at once.

What a person at Yanamino can do, step by step, depending on how serious it is:

1. leave it up, or decide it can go public;
2. not make it public, or not make a change public;
3. remove it everywhere. A removal is a strike for a year. For 90 days after a strike, a person looks at everything you make public first;
4. stop you from sharing or making things public: this happens at 3 strikes in a year;
5. suspend your account. Then your items leave Explore at once.

When we suspend an account, or it gets a third strike, we keep a scrambled fingerprint of its sign-in for 2 years, so a new account with the same sign-in can't share or make things public. An account deleted while it has a strike leaves the same fingerprint until the strike would have ended.

We always explain. Every time we pause, refuse, remove or restrict something, the person who made it gets the full reasons: what we did, where, for how long, which rule, what we found, how we found it, and whether a person decided. We never say who reported it. For a copyright report, we may tell the maker who holds the rights, so they can answer.

Safety first. We report suspected child sexual abuse material to the police, and a threat to someone's life or safety at once. We can keep an item and its maker's identity as evidence for the police, even if the account is deleted, for at most a year unless the police ask for longer.

What we don't look at. We don't look through your private library. We look at items you share only with your groups when someone reports them, or when the law requires it.

12. If you think we got it wrong

• Tap Ask Us to Look Again on the decision. You can do this once for each decision. A person looks at it again and tells you what they decide.
• You can also write to us (section 18), or take the matter to the courts (section 17).
• If someone reported your item for copyright and you have permission to share it, say so when you ask us to look again. If you show us you have permission, we put the item back.

13. Reporting

• In the app: tap Report on any item that isn't Yanamino's or yours, or Report This Card, Report This Page or Report This Question.
• Without an account: follow How to report something on Yanamino. You can write to support@yanami.no.
• We look at every report as soon as we can, urgent ones first, and act quickly on anything illegal.
• We tell you the outcome. We never tell the maker who reported.
• Copyright reports need a short explanation and your statement that you believe it's true. When a report is valid, we remove the item, and repeated removals lead to the steps in section 11.

14. Ending

• You can stop using Yanamino at any time, and delete your account in the app. When you do, the app asks what happens to items you shared: Delete removes them everywhere; Keep leaves them with the groups you added them to yourself. Either way, what you made public is unpublished.
• We can suspend or close an account that seriously or repeatedly breaks these terms, as section 11 describes. We tell you why, and you can ask us to look again.
• We may stop offering Yanamino. If we do, we'll tell you first.

15. Changes to Yanamino and to these terms

• Yanamino changes over time. Features may be added, changed or removed.
• When we change these terms in a way that matters, we tell you in the app. You accept the new version before you share or make something public again. If you don't agree, you can stop using Yanamino and delete your account.

16. Our responsibility

Yanamino is made by one person. We work hard to keep it running and to keep your data safe, but we can't promise that Yanamino will always be available, or that it has no mistakes, including in Yanamino's own decks, dictionaries and AI answers. Keep your own copy of anything you can't afford to lose.

We aren't responsible for what other people share or make public, but we act on reports (section 13).

Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have by law, for example under Norwegian consumer law, or limits our responsibility where the law doesn't allow it to be limited.

17. Law and disputes

Norwegian law applies to these terms. If you live in another country, you also keep the protection the law where you live gives you.

If you have a problem with Yanamino, please tell us first. Most things can be solved by email. If we can't solve it together, you can take it to the courts that the law gives you a right to use.

18. Contact

• Questions, support and requests about your data: support@yanami.no
• Reports and notices about content, including from people without an account, and from authorities: support@yanami.no
• By post: ask for the postal address at support@yanami.no

We answer in English or Norwegian.