These Terms are a binding agreement. Please read them — we’ve kept them as plain as we can. A few things we especially want you to notice: you must be 18 or older to use The Mat’ (Section 2); our Community Guidelines are part of this agreement (Section 5); and Section 13 includes an arbitration agreement and a waiver of class actions that affects how disputes between us are resolved, along with how you can opt out of it.
Welcome to The Mat’. These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are a legal agreement between you and Fuesera LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company (“Fuesera,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). They govern your access to and use of The Mat’ — our community forum and mobile application for the yoga industry — together with any related features and services (the “Service”).
By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use The Mat’.
1. About these Terms
These Terms apply specifically to The Mat’. Fuesera also operates other products — FlowMads™, HostGuru™, and Sway — which have their own terms; these Terms don’t govern those products. Where we add marketplace or payment features to The Mat’ in the future, we may add supplemental terms that apply to them, and we’ll make those clear when we do.
Two other documents work alongside these Terms and are part of your agreement with us:
- Our Community Guidelines, which set the standards for participation and are incorporated into these Terms by reference (Section 5).
- Our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your information. Please read it to understand our data practices.
2. Who can use The Mat’
You must be 18 or older
The Mat’ is for adults. You must be at least 18 years old to create an account or use the Service — this applies to every type of account. When you register, we ask for your date of birth to confirm you meet this requirement, and you agree that the information you provide is accurate.
Misrepresenting your age is a violation of these Terms and grounds for immediate termination of your account. If we learn that an account holder is under 18, we will remove the account and the associated personal data, consistent with our Privacy Policy.
Who the community is for
At launch, The Mat’ is open to yoga teachers and yoga studios. Students are not part of the community yet; if we open the Service to students in the future, we will update our terms and guidelines first.
Where the Service is available
At launch, The Mat’ is offered to users in the United States. We may make the Service available elsewhere in the future, and we’ll update these Terms if we do.
3. Your account
To use The Mat’ you create an account and a profile. You agree to provide accurate information, to keep it reasonably current, and to keep your login credentials secure. You’re responsible for activity that happens under your account, so let us know promptly at help@fuesera.com if you believe someone has accessed it without your permission.
You register as a teacher or a studio, and some features and spaces within the Service are organized by that role. You agree to use the role that genuinely reflects who you are, and not to impersonate another person, studio, or organization.
4. Using The Mat’ — what it is and isn’t
The Mat’ is a space for honest conversation among yoga professionals. It is a community and discussion platform — not a source of professional, medical, legal, financial, or business advice. Content on The Mat’, including posts from other members, reflects the views of the people who wrote it, not Fuesera. You’re responsible for how you use information you find here, and you should use your own professional judgment, especially on anything affecting health, safety, or your business.
You may use the Service only for lawful purposes and in line with these Terms and our Community Guidelines. You agree not to interfere with or disrupt the Service, attempt to gain unauthorized access to it, scrape or harvest data from it, or use it to send spam or malicious code.
5. Community Guidelines
Our Community Guidelines are part of these Terms and are incorporated by reference. They describe what’s welcome on The Mat’ and what isn’t, and they’re the standard we hold accounts to. By using the Service, you agree to follow them.
Violating the Community Guidelines is a violation of these Terms. The actions we may take in response — from removing content to suspending or terminating an account — are described in the Guidelines and in Section 9 below.
6. Content you post
You own your content
You keep ownership of the content you create and post on The Mat’ — your posts, comments, and contributions (“Your Content”). We don’t claim ownership of it.
The permission you give us
To operate the Service, we need your permission to use what you post. By posting Your Content, you grant Fuesera a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, display, reproduce, and distribute it within and in connection with the Service, so the community can see and interact with it. This license exists so The Mat’ can function; it does not give us the right to sell Your Content, and our Privacy Policy explains the limits on how we use information.
This license continues for content that remains on the Service after you leave — see Section 10 on what happens when you delete your account.
Your responsibilities for what you post
You’re responsible for Your Content. By posting it, you represent that you have the right to do so, that it doesn’t infringe anyone else’s rights, and that it complies with these Terms and our Community Guidelines.
Content we may remove
We may remove content that violates these Terms or our Community Guidelines, and we may do so at our reasonable discretion to protect the community. We aren’t obligated to monitor everything posted, but we can act when something is reported or comes to our attention.
7. AI-generated content
Some discussion topics on The Mat’ begin with an opening post generated by artificial intelligence, always clearly labeled as AI-generated. This content is provided to start conversation. It may not be accurate or complete, and you shouldn’t rely on it as fact or as professional advice. Our use of AI is narrow and described in our Community Guidelines and Privacy Policy: the AI starts conversations; it doesn’t converse with you, make decisions about you, or moderate the community.
8. Our intellectual property
The Mat’ itself — our name, logo, the application, its design, and the software behind it — belongs to Fuesera and is protected by intellectual-property laws. These Terms don’t give you any right to use our branding or to copy, modify, or reverse-engineer the Service, except as the law expressly permits. The “The Mat’” and “Fuesera” names and marks are ours.
9. Suspension & termination
Your choice to leave
You can stop using The Mat’ and delete your account at any time. What happens to your information and your contributions when you do is described in Section 10 and in our Privacy Policy.
Actions we may take
We may remove content, and we may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, if you violate these Terms or our Community Guidelines, if it’s necessary to protect the community or comply with the law, or for other good-faith reasons. Where it’s reasonable to do so, we’ll aim to act proportionately and to let you know — but conduct that puts members at risk may result in immediate action. Our Community Guidelines describe how we approach enforcement and how to ask us to review a decision you believe was a mistake.
What survives termination
Sections of these Terms that by their nature should continue — including content licenses for material that remains on the Service, disclaimers, limitations of liability, and the dispute-resolution terms in Section 13 — survive the end of your account.
10. What happens to your content when you leave
When you delete your account, we follow a principle we hold to across our community products:
Contributions stay, the person disappears. Your connection to your content is removed — your name and identity are permanently severed from it. But contributions that have value to the community, like a discussion that helped other teachers, may remain in anonymized form so the conversation isn’t broken for everyone who relied on it. Information that exists only to describe your personal activity is removed.
If you’d like specific content removed rather than anonymized, you can ask us — see our Privacy Policy or email privacy@fuesera.com. The Privacy Policy is the full picture of what we keep, for how long, and why.
11. Disclaimers
We work hard to make The Mat’ useful and reliable, but we provide it “as is” and “as available.” To the fullest extent permitted by law, Fuesera disclaims warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don’t warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or secure, or that content on it — including AI-generated content and content posted by other members — is accurate, complete, or reliable.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits anything that can’t lawfully be excluded or limited.
12. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Fuesera and the people who work with us will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to your use of — or inability to use — the Service.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for all claims relating to the Service will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100). Because The Mat’ is provided free of charge, this reflects a reasonable allocation of risk between us. Some jurisdictions don’t allow certain limitations, so some of these may not apply to you; where that’s the case, our liability is limited to the smallest extent permitted by law.
13. Resolving disputes — arbitration & class-action waiver
Please read this section carefully — it affects your legal rights. It requires most disputes between you and Fuesera to be resolved through individual arbitration rather than in court, and it waives your right to participate in a class action. You have the right to opt out of this arbitration agreement within 30 days, as described below, and opting out won’t affect any other part of these Terms or your use of The Mat’.
13.1 Talk to us first
Most concerns can be resolved quickly and informally, and we’d genuinely prefer that. Before starting arbitration, you agree to first contact us at help@fuesera.com with a short description of the dispute and what you’d like to resolve it. We’ll do the same if we have a dispute with you. If we can’t resolve it within 60 days, either of us may proceed to arbitration.
13.2 Agreement to arbitrate
Except for the matters described in Section 13.5, you and Fuesera agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or to The Mat’ will be resolved by binding individual arbitration, rather than in court. This agreement to arbitrate is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. Arbitration uses a neutral arbitrator instead of a judge or jury, allows for more limited discovery than court, and is subject to limited review — but an arbitrator can award the same individual relief that a court could.
The arbitration will be administered by a recognized, neutral arbitration provider under its consumer arbitration rules, and may be conducted by phone, video, or written submissions, or in person at a mutually agreeable location in North Carolina. The arbitrator decides the substance of the dispute; questions about whether this Section 13 applies to a particular dispute are also for the arbitrator, except that a court decides any question about the enforceability of the class-action waiver in Section 13.4.
13.3 Costs of arbitration
We want cost not to be a barrier to a legitimate claim. Consistent with the arbitration provider’s consumer rules, we will pay arbitration filing and arbitrator fees for any claim where those rules place a disproportionate share on a consumer, except where the arbitrator finds your claim was frivolous or brought for an improper purpose. Each party otherwise bears its own attorneys’ fees, unless a law or the arbitrator provides otherwise.
13.4 Class-action waiver
You and Fuesera agree that each may bring claims against the other only on an individual basis, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims and may not preside over any form of a representative or class proceeding. If this class-action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, then that claim — and only that claim — will be severed from arbitration and may proceed in court, while all other claims remain in arbitration.
13.5 Exceptions
Two kinds of matters are not subject to the agreement to arbitrate: (a) either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies; and (b) either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court to protect its intellectual property or to stop unauthorized access to or misuse of the Service. Nothing here prevents you from reporting a concern to a government agency.
13.6 Your right to opt out
You can opt out of this Section 13 (the agreement to arbitrate and the class-action waiver) without affecting any other part of these Terms. To opt out, email help@fuesera.com within 30 days of first accepting these Terms, with the subject line “Arbitration Opt-Out” and your account name, stating that you wish to opt out. If you opt out, disputes between us will be resolved in the courts identified in Section 14. If you don’t opt out within 30 days, you agree to be bound by this Section 13.
13.7 Changes to this section
If we make a material change to this Section 13 in the future, we’ll notify you, and you’ll have the opportunity to opt out of the changed arbitration terms as described above. Changes won’t apply retroactively to a dispute of which we already had actual notice.
14. Governing law & venue
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. The Federal Arbitration Act governs Section 13. For any dispute not subject to arbitration — including disputes by anyone who has opted out under Section 13.6, and the matters in Section 13.5 — you and Fuesera agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in North Carolina, and you consent to venue there.
15. Changes to these Terms
The Mat’ will grow, and these Terms may change with it. If we make a material change, we’ll let you know through the Service and, where appropriate, by email, before the change takes effect. The “Effective” date at the top of this page tells you which version is current. If you keep using The Mat’ after a change takes effect, you’re agreeing to the updated Terms; if you don’t agree, you can delete your account.
16. General
These Terms, together with the Community Guidelines and Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Fuesera regarding The Mat’. If any provision is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Our not enforcing a provision on one occasion doesn’t waive our right to enforce it later. You can’t transfer your rights under these Terms without our consent; we may transfer ours in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, agency, or employment relationship between us.
17. Contact us
Questions about these Terms? We’re glad to help.
Fuesera LLC · North Carolina, USA · General & support: help@fuesera.com · Privacy & your data: privacy@fuesera.com