Legal



Yugo Non-Discrimination Policy

Yugo seeks to ensure that safe, reliable, and high-quality transportation options are available to everyone. Yugo and its affiliates therefore prohibit discrimination against riders or drivers based on race, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sex, marital status, gender identity, age or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal or state law. Such discrimination includes, but is not limited to, refusing to provide or accept services based on any of these characteristics. Any rider or driver found to have violated this prohibition will lose access to the Yugo platform.


Yugo Firearms Prohibition Policy

Our goal is to ensure that everyone has a safe and reliable ride. That's why Yugo prohibits riders and drivers from carrying firearms of any kind in a vehicle while using our app.


*Anyone who violates this policy may lose access to Yugo.


Service Animal Policy (U.S.)

State and federal law prohibit driver-partners using the Yugo Driver App from denying service to riders with service animals because of the service animals, and from otherwise discriminating against riders with service animals. As explained in Yugo's Non-Discrimination Policy, driver-partners who engage in discriminatory conduct in violation of this legal obligation will lose their ability to use the Driver App.


What is a Service Animal?

A service animal is an animal that is trained to work or perform tasks for an individual with a disability.


The law provides that there are only two questions that a driver-partner may ask to confirm that a rider’s animal is a service animal: (1) Is the animal required because of a disability? And, (2) What work or task has the animal been trained to perform? The driver-partner may not request that the rider present documentation proving that the rider’s animal is a service animal.


There is no requirement that a service animal wear a tag, be registered, or display any kind of proof that it is a service animal.


Legal Obligations of Driver-Partners

Driver-partners have a legal obligation to provide service to riders with service animals.

A driver-partner CANNOT lawfully deny service to riders with service animals because of allergies, religious objections, or a generalized fear of animals.


By virtue of their written Technology Services Agreement with Yugo, all driver-partners using the Driver App have been made aware of their legal obligation to provide service to riders with service animals and have agreed to comply with the law. If a driver-partner refuses to transport a rider with a service animal because of the service animal, the driver-partner is in violation of the law and is in breach of their agreement with Yugo.


Consequences for Refusal to Transport a Rider with a Service Animal

If Yugo determines that a driver-partner knowingly refused to transport a rider with a service animal because of the service animal, the driver-partner will be permanently prevented from using the Driver App. Yugo shall make this determination in its sole discretion following a review of the incident.


If Yugo receives plausible complaints on more than one occasion from riders that a particular driver-partner refused to transport a rider with a service animal, that driver-partner will be permanently prevented from using the Driver App, regardless of the justification offered by the driver-partner.


How to Report a Service Animal Complaint

If a rider has an issue related to his or her service animal—including issues regarding ride cancellations, harassment, or improper cleaning fees—the rider can report the issue to Yugo.


Once a rider submits a service animal complaint, Yugo’s specialized support team will investigate the issue and take appropriate action in accordance with Yugo’s Technology Services Agreement and this Service Animal Policy. Yugo’s specialized support team will then make a reasonable and good faith effort to notify the rider within a week of the outcome of the investigation and the actions taken.


To file a complaint email us at support@yugoride.com


Rights of Riders with Service Animals

Riders cannot be denied service because they travel with a service animal. A rider will be refunded any trip cancellation charges or other charges imposed because a driver-partner denied a Rider service because of a service animal.


Riders will be informed by Yugo of what action Yugo takes in response to their complaint about discrimination on the basis of a service animal, including whether Yugo has terminated its contract with the driver-partner involved.


Cleaning Fees

Riders cannot be charged cleaning fees for shedding by their service animals. Riders will be refunded any cleaning fees charged for shedding by their service animals.


A rider will not be charged for the first or second reported mess involving a service animal’s bodily fluids. A rider can be charged for the third reported mess involving a service animal’s bodily fluids. The rider may contest that such a mess occurred by responding to the fee notification email to notify customer support. If a rider contests the cleaning fee, Yugo will make a reasonable good faith effort to determine whether a mess occurred.


User Generated Content Policy

Yugo may, in its sole discretion, permit you from time to time to submit, upload, publish or otherwise make available to Yugo through the Services textual, audio, and/or visual content and information, including commentary and feedback related to the Services, initiation of support requests, and submission of entries for competitions and promotions ("User Content"). Yugo may, in its sole discretion, remove, edit, or disable User Content for any reason, including if Yugo reasonably determines that User Content violates this Agreement. Yugo does not assume any responsibility or liability for User Content, for removing it, or not removing it or other Content. Yugo does not pre-screen all User Content and does not endorse or approve any User Content available on the Services.


Any User Content provided by you remains your property. However, by providing User Content to Yugo, you grant Yugo a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, modify, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, and otherwise exploit in any manner such User Content in all formats and distribution channels now known or hereafter devised (including in connection with the Services and Yugo’s business and on third-party sites and services), without further notice to or consent from you, and without the requirement of payment to you or any other person or entity.


You represent and warrant that: (i) you either are the sole and exclusive owner of all User Content or you have all rights, licenses, consents and releases necessary to grant Yugo the license to the User Content as set forth above; and (ii) neither the User Content, nor your submission, uploading, publishing or otherwise making available of such User Content, nor Yugo’s use of the User Content as permitted herein will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party's intellectual property or proprietary rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.


When you access or use the Services, you agree that you will not:

  • Violate any law, rule or regulation.

  • Interfere with or disrupt the Services or any server or network used to support or provide the Services, including any hacking or cracking in the Services.
  • Use any software or program that damages, interferes with or disrupts the Services or another's computer or property, such as denial of service attacks, spamming, hacking, or uploading computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, cancelbots, spyware, corrupted files and time bombs.
  • Use the Services to cause nuisance, annoyance, inconvenience, or property damage, for example using vulgar or harassing language, being abusive, or spamming, to any party using the Services. Hate speech is not tolerated.
  • Contribute User Content or organize or participate in any activity, group or association that is inappropriate, abusive, harassing, profane, threatening, hateful, offensive, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, defamatory, infringing, invades another's privacy, or is otherwise reasonably objectionable.
  • Publish, post, upload or distribute User Content that is illegal or that you don't have permission to freely distribute, including the personal information of another person
  • Publish, post, upload or distribute any content that Yugo (acting reasonably and objectively) determines is inappropriate, abusive, hateful, harassing, profane, defamatory, threatening, hateful, obscene, sexually explicit, infringing, privacy-invasive, vulgar, offensive, indecent or unlawful.
  • Post a message for any purpose other than personal communication. Prohibited messages include advertising, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes and other types of solicitation or commercial activities.
  • Impersonate another person or falsely imply that you are an Yugo employee, Yugo Partner or representative.
  • Improperly use in-app support or complaint buttons or make false reports to Yugo staff.
  • Attempt to obtain, or search for, a password, account information, or other private information from anyone else using the Services.
  • Use any robot, spider or other automated device or process to access the Services for any purpose or copy any material on from the Services.
  • Attempt to use the Services on or through any service that is not controlled or authorized by Yugo.
  • Promote, encourage or take part in any prohibited activity described above

If you or someone using your Account violates this Agreement, fails to remedy this violation after a warning, Yugo may take action against you, including revoking access to certain or all of the Services, or terminating your Account. In case of severe violations, Yugo may take these actions without issuing a prior warning. When practical, Yugo will notify you of the action it will take in response to violations of these rules or breach of this Policy.


Specific Yugo Services may post additional rules that apply to your conduct on those services.


If you encounter another user who is violating any of these rules, please report this activity to Yugo using by emailing support@yugoride.com


Yugo may, in its discretion, monitor or record online activity or Content on the Services and may remove any Content from any Service at its discretion. Remember that your communications and your User Content in any of the Services are public and will be seen by others.


Zero Tolerance Policy

Yugo does not tolerate the use of alcohol or drugs by drivers using the Yugo app. If you believe your driver may be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, please have the driver END THE TRIP IMMEDIATELY.


After the driver has ended the trip, please report any feedback directly in the app by tapping Help from the menu and selecting your issue. You can also get in contact by visiting contact.yugoride.com or emailing support@yugoride.com.



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