These terms apply when you use Yonder, whether you are setting up a registry or giving money toward someone else's trip. Yonder is operated by Yonder Technologies Inc., a company incorporated in Alberta, Canada. In these terms, "we" and "Yonder" mean that company, and "you" means you.
By using Yonder you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the platform.
Yonder is software. Someone plans a trip, publishes a registry for it, and people who want to help pay for that trip contribute money toward it. The person the registry belongs to decides when to take the money out, and they book the trip themselves.
We call the person who receives contributions the recipient, and the person giving money a contributor.
This section matters more than any other, so it is worth reading properly.
Yonder does not hold your money.
When you contribute, your payment goes to Stripe, the payment company we use. Stripe holds it in Stripe's own bank account. It does not pass through a Yonder account and we cannot spend it, move it somewhere else, or use it to run our business.
What Yonder can do is tell Stripe when to pay a recipient and who to pay. That is an instruction. It is not the same as holding the money. Yonder is not a bank, an escrow service, a trustee, or a money transmitter, and nothing on this platform should be read as making us one.
Because Stripe holds the money, Stripe's terms apply to it as well as ours.
You must be at least 18. A recipient needs an account and needs to complete Stripe's identity checks before any money can be paid out. Contributors do not need an account.
Keep your login details to yourself. You are responsible for what happens on your account.
A contribution is a personal gift. You are not buying anything, you are not investing, and you do not get anything in return. You do not get a say in how the trip is planned or whether it happens.
Contributions must not be made in exchange for goods, services, promotion, or any other benefit. This is not a formality. It is what keeps contributions treated as gifts rather than income.
A registry can have a goal. That goal is a target. It is not a condition.
If a registry raises less than its goal, the recipient still receives what was raised. Missing a goal does not reverse your contribution and does not delay it. There is no point at which your contribution sits waiting on a goal.
Yonder charges a platform fee of 3% of each gift. It comes out of the gift, which means the recipient receives the gift amount less 3%. Where someone is funding their own trip rather than receiving gifts, there is no platform fee.
The platform fee that applies to a registry is fixed when that registry is created. If we ever change our fee, the change applies to registries created after it. It does not change the fee on a registry that is already collecting contributions.
Card processing is charged by Stripe and is added at checkout. You will see the exact amount before you pay. It varies depending on the card used. If Stripe's actual cost turns out to be higher than the amount shown at checkout, Yonder covers the difference. It is never passed on to the recipient.
Contributions build up on the registry until the recipient releases them. Releasing is something the recipient chooses to do. When they do, we instruct Stripe to pay out to the bank account they connected through Stripe.
How long that transfer takes is determined by Stripe and by the receiving bank, not by us.
Before a recipient releases funds, a contributor can ask us to reverse their contribution, and we will instruct Stripe to reverse the charge.
Once a recipient has released funds, the money has left Stripe and gone to their bank account. There is no longer a charge for us to ask Stripe to reverse. A contributor who wants money back after a release needs to ask the recipient directly.
The full rules, including what does and does not come back, are in our Refund and Unclaimed Funds Policy, which forms part of these terms.
If a registry receives contributions and the recipient never releases them, we will try to reach the recipient using the contact details on their account. If we cannot reach them, we instruct Stripe to return the contributions to the people who made them.
The timing, and what happens if a reversal is refused by the card issuer, are set out in the Refund and Unclaimed Funds Policy.
If a contributor disputes a charge with their bank after funds have been released, Yonder bears that loss. We do not ask the recipient to pay it back.
The dispute itself is handled by Stripe and by the banks involved. We are not the decision maker.
Yonder helps build an itinerary and links out to travel providers. Some of those providers pay us a commission if you book through our link.
Any booking you make is between you and that provider, on their terms. Yonder is not a travel agency, is not a party to your booking, and is not responsible for what a provider does or fails to do. We do not guarantee that a trip will happen, that prices or availability shown are current, or that a recipient will spend contributions on travel at all.
Itinerary suggestions on Yonder are produced with the help of artificial intelligence. It gets things wrong. Opening hours, prices, travel times, entry requirements, and whether a place still exists are all things it can state confidently and incorrectly.
Check anything that matters before you rely on it, particularly anything to do with visas, health requirements, or money.
Do not use Yonder for any of the following:
If we think a registry is being used this way we can hide it, pause payouts, close it, or close the account, and we will tell Stripe.
Trip descriptions, photos, and messages you put on Yonder stay yours. You give us permission to display and store them so the platform can work, including showing them to the people you share a registry with.
Do not upload anything you do not have the right to use.
You can close your account at any time by contacting us. If contributions have been made to your registry and you have not released them, closing your account does not make them disappear. Contact us first, because those contributions still need to go somewhere: either you release them, or we instruct Stripe to reverse them to the people who made them.
We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms.
We may change the platform, and we may change these terms. If a change is material we will tell you before it takes effect, by email or on the platform. If you keep using Yonder after that, you have accepted the new terms.
A change to these terms does not apply retroactively to a contribution already made.
We will run the platform with reasonable care. Beyond that, and to the extent the law allows, we are not liable for:
Where we are liable, our total liability to you for everything taken together is capped at the greater of these two amounts:
Nothing in these terms limits our liability for fraud, for willful misconduct, for gross negligence, or for personal injury. Nothing in these terms limits any liability that consumer protection law where you live does not allow to be limited.
If you live in Quebec, the law places real restrictions on limiting liability against consumers, and parts of this section may not apply to you at all.
If a contributor and a recipient fall out over money on this platform, that is between them. We are not able to arbitrate it and we will not take sides.
These terms are governed by the laws of Alberta and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. This does not take away any protection you have under the consumer law of the province where you live.