The fine print

By using yeardead you agree to these terms. They're short, and they mostly say one thing: a match is a careful guess, never a fact.

What yeardead is

yeardead reads the names in a yearbook and checks them against our database of public obituary sources. When a match is likely enough, we mark that classmate as having died. That's an estimate, made by software, from records that are themselves incomplete and sometimes wrong.

No guarantees

The site is provided as it is, without any warranty. We may mark someone who is alive, miss someone who has died, misread a name, or show the wrong photo. Never rely on yeardead alone: check the notice itself, or with the family, before you tell anyone, act, or make any decision based on what you see here.

Our liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we aren't liable for any loss, harm or distress that comes from using yeardead or from an error on it, whether a wrong match, a missed one, a misread name or the site being unavailable. Where the law doesn't allow us to exclude liability, it's limited to what you paid us, which is nothing.

What you send us

Only send photos of yearbook covers and pages, or of a single photo in one, that you're entitled to photograph. By sending one you let us read it, keep the portraits, names and cover copies we take from it, and show them to anyone with the class's link, as described in our privacy policy. You still own your photos.

Don't send anything else: no nudity, nothing hateful, nothing about someone who isn't in the yearbook. Don't use the site to harass anyone, alive or dead, or their families, and don't try to break, overload or scrape it. We may remove anything and block anyone, without notice.

Respect for the dead

yeardead isn't meant to make light of anyone's death. It's a reminder of how short and shared our time is, made for the people who went to school with them. Please treat the people on it, and their families, the way you'd want yours treated.

Who can use it

You must be an adult (18, or the age of majority where you live) to use yeardead.

Changes

We may change the site, or these terms, at any time; the date at the top says when they last changed. These terms are governed by Canadian law. Questions: info@yeardead.com.