Terms of Service

Last updated: September 28, 2026

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of the Stockyard website at stockyardinvest.com, the Stockyard web app and the Stockyard mobile apps (together, “Stockyard” or the “Service”). Stockyard is operated by Accelerare Consultants LLC, a Virginia limited liability company doing business as Stockyard Invest (“we”, “us”, “our”). By creating an account or using Stockyard, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, don’t use Stockyard.

The short version

This summary is part of the Terms, but the full text below controls.

  • Stockyard is a research and monitoring tool, not a broker or an investment adviser.
  • Stockyard is for education and information only. Nothing on Stockyard is a recommendation to buy or sell any security.
  • We don’t trade for you. You decide what to do and place any trades with your own broker. You’re always in control.
  • Past performance doesn’t predict future results. Backtests are hypothetical.
  • We can’t guarantee that all data is accurate, complete or up to date.
  • Do your own research before making any investment decision.

1. Not investment advice

Stockyard provides general, impersonal research tools, data and alerts. Stockyard is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer or financial planner, and we don’t provide personalized investment, legal, tax or accounting advice.

Smartfolios, rankings, sector classifications, alerts, prebuilt strategies, AI-generated content and everything else on Stockyard are for information and education only. An alert that a stock meets or no longer meets a set of rules is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold it. We don’t know your full financial situation, objectives or risk tolerance, and we don’t owe you a fiduciary duty.

Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of all the money you invest. You’re solely responsible for your investment decisions. Consider talking to a licensed financial professional before you invest.

2. We don’t trade for you

Stockyard doesn’t hold your money or securities, doesn’t have access to your brokerage account, and doesn’t place trades for you. Any trade you make, you make yourself, with a broker of your choosing.

3. Backtests and past performance

Backtest results are hypothetical. They show how a set of rules would have performed on historical data. They don’t reflect actual trading, and they don’t account for every real-world factor, such as trading costs, taxes, slippage, liquidity or the fact that you might not have followed the rules exactly. Past performance, whether actual or backtested, does not predict or guarantee future results.

4. Data and AI-generated content

Stockyard uses market data, company fundamentals and SEC filings from third-party sources, and uses AI to analyze them. Data may be delayed, incomplete or wrong, and AI-generated summaries and signals can contain errors. We don’t guarantee the accuracy, completeness or timeliness of any data, rankings, classifications, alerts or AI output, and you shouldn’t rely on them as your only source of information.

5. Your account

  • You must be at least 18 years old to use Stockyard.
  • Give us accurate information when you sign up, and keep it up to date.
  • Keep your password secure. You’re responsible for activity under your account. Tell us right away at support@stockyardinvest.com if you think someone has accessed your account without permission.
  • One person per account. Don’t share your login.

6. Plans, billing and cancellation

  • Free period: new accounts get full access for 30 days. After that, you keep access to the free plan (fundamentals and Discovery) unless you subscribe to a paid plan.
  • Paid plans: Individual and Pro plans are billed monthly in advance at the price shown when you subscribe. Payments are handled by a third-party payment processor; we don’t see or store your full card number. If you subscribe through the Apple App Store or Google Play, billing and cancellation are handled by that store under its terms.
  • Cancellation: you can cancel anytime. Your plan stays active until the end of the current billing period and then doesn’t renew. There’s no annual contract.
  • Refunds: payments are non-refundable, except where required by law.
  • Investment club discount: clubs of two or more members get 25% off, subject to the club pricing terms shown at signup. We may verify club membership.
  • Price changes: we may change prices. We’ll tell you in advance, and a change will apply from your next billing period after the notice.

7. Investment clubs

If you join a club on Stockyard, other members of that club can see the strategies, Smartfolios, leaderboard results and other content you share with the club. Club administrators can invite and remove members. Don’t share anything with your club that you don’t want other members to see.

8. Acceptable use

When you use Stockyard, you agree not to:

  • copy, scrape, resell or redistribute Stockyard data, rankings or content, or use them to build a competing product
  • reverse engineer, decompile or try to extract Stockyard’s source code, models or methods
  • access Stockyard through automated means (bots, scrapers) except through features we provide for that purpose
  • interfere with or overload the Service, or try to get around security or usage limits
  • use Stockyard for anything illegal, including market manipulation or securities fraud
  • present Stockyard’s output to others as personalized investment advice from you or from us

9. Intellectual property

Stockyard, including its software, design, data compilations, rankings, sector classifications and content, belongs to us or our licensors and is protected by law. We give you a personal, non-transferable, revocable license to use Stockyard for your own investing research while these Terms are in effect.

You own the strategies, watchlists and other content you create in Stockyard (“Your Content”). You give us permission to store, process and display Your Content to provide the Service to you and, where you choose to share it, to your club.

10. Third-party services

Stockyard may link to or rely on third-party websites and services, such as data providers, payment processors and app stores. We don’t control them and aren’t responsible for them. Your use of them is subject to their own terms.

11. Disclaimer of warranties

Stockyard is provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We don’t promise that Stockyard will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, or that alerts will be delivered on time or at all.

12. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we won’t be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any lost profits, trading or investment losses, lost data or loss of goodwill, arising from your use of Stockyard, even if we’ve been told they’re possible.

Our total liability for any claim related to Stockyard is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose, or $100.

Some jurisdictions don’t allow some of these limitations, so they may not all apply to you.

13. Indemnity

You agree to defend and indemnify us against claims, losses and costs (including reasonable legal fees) that arise from your misuse of Stockyard or your breach of these Terms.

14. Suspension and termination

You can stop using Stockyard and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms, if we’re required to by law, or if we stop offering the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive (including 1, 3, 4, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 15) survive termination.

15. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Fairfax County, Virginia, and you and we consent to their jurisdiction.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. If we make material changes, we’ll tell you by email or in the app before they take effect. If you keep using Stockyard after the changes take effect, you accept the updated Terms.

17. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email support@stockyardinvest.com.