Terms of use

Last updated 18 September 2026

yatotes is a small, invite-only site for runners, run by one person. Using it means accepting what follows. If you do not, please do not use it.

Who may use it

You need an invitation, and you need to be 18 or over. New accounts are not available in the European Economic Area — the EU member states plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. The United Kingdom is not currently blocked. An account you already have keeps working: you can sign in from a blocked country and reach your own settings, though not the rest of the site. Your account is yours: do not share it, and tell us if someone else gets into it. A tracker page is different: anyone holding the link can read it, post a cheer and post a photo, without an account and without an invitation, and these terms apply to them too.

What you post

You keep ownership of what you write and upload. By posting it you give yatotes permission to store and display it for the purpose of running the site — showing your post to the people you meant to show it to, and in the case of a cheer, sending it to the watches on that tracker.

Do not post anything that is:

• unlawful, threatening, harassing, hateful or designed to intimidate someone;
• obscene, or sexual content involving anyone who is not a consenting adult;
• somebody else's private information, or their work passed off as yours;
• impersonating another person, including signing a cheer with someone else's name to make a runner think it came from them;
• spam, advertising, or an attempt to break or overload the site.

A photo posted to a tracker is public on the page and is also reachable at its own web address. That address is unlisted, not protected: anyone you give it to keeps it, and it goes on working after the photo comes off the page. Post accordingly.

Cheers go onto someone's wrist

A cheer posted on a tracker page is public on that page and is sent to the watches taking part in that race, where it appears on screen and vibrates. A cheer is not private mail to one runner: every watch on that tracker receives every cheer, whoever you had in mind when you wrote it. So do not put anything private or personal in one, and write it as something you would be happy for a tired stranger to read mid-race. It arrives at a moment they cannot reply to, cannot easily dismiss, and did not choose.

A cheer cannot be recalled. Deleting it removes it from the page, but it does not remove it from a watch that has already received it, and there is no way to make it. Write it as though it is permanent, because on the wrist it is.

Reporting something

If you see a cheer, photo, post or profile that breaks these rules, email abuse@yatotes.com with a link and what is wrong with it. Reports are read by a person, usually within a day. Anything breaking these rules is removed, and accounts that keep doing it lose access. The people running a race tracker can also delete cheers and photos on it directly, which is the fastest route during an event.

Live tracking is not a safety service

This matters more than anything else on this page. The tracker shows a position from a few minutes ago at best, delivered through a watch, a phone and a mobile network, any of which can and does fail. Positions can be late, out of order, or absent for an hour. Some positions are not from a watch at all: crew at an aid station type them in by hand, and they can be mistyped, guessed or entered long after the fact.

The marker on the map is an estimate. Between real positions it keeps advancing along the course at the pace the runner was last going, because a frozen dot is useless for meeting someone. That means a moving marker is not evidence that anything has been heard from the runner — it moves whether or not it has. Look at the time of the last real position, which the page shows, and trust nothing else about the dot.

Everything built on top of that estimate inherits the problem. Cutoff margins, required pace, arrival times at aid stations and projected finishes are arithmetic on a guess about where someone is, using course data that is itself approximate. They are worth looking at and they are not worth acting on alone. Do not let someone leave an aid station, or stand them down from a cutoff, on the strength of a number on this site.

Do not use yatotes to decide whether someone needs help. If you are worried about a runner, contact the race organisers or the emergency services. If you are the runner, carry what the race requires and tell someone your plan; a phone in a pocket is not a rescue plan.

What the site is and is not

yatotes is provided as it is, with no promise that it will work, be available, or be accurate. Race listings, courses, aid stations, cutoffs and results come from public sources, from race organisers and from other people, and they are often wrong. Times, distances, elevation and age-graded scores are estimates. Check anything that matters against the race itself.

Nothing here is coaching, medical or safety advice. Running is your own risk and your own responsibility. As far as the law allows, the operator of yatotes is not liable for loss arising from using it, from relying on anything it shows, or from it being unavailable.

The Garmin data field

The Race Feed data field is an independent piece of software that works with Garmin devices. It is not made, endorsed or supported by Garmin. It needs your phone within range to send anything, and it samples every few minutes rather than continuously. Support for it comes from the address below and nowhere else.

Ending it

You can stop using yatotes whenever you like and ask for your account to be deleted — see the privacy page. Access can be withdrawn for breaking these rules, or if the site shuts down, in which case there will be notice and a chance to take your data with you.

Changes and contact

These terms can change; the date at the top moves when they do, and anything significant is announced to account holders. For anything else, write to hello@yatotes.com.

See also the privacy page.