Terms of use

1. Who runs this

Yekjan is run by Yekjan LLC, 4550 SW Betts Ave, PO Box 2007, Beaverton, OR 97005, USA, in the United States. Writing to the address at the bottom of this page reaches us.

We are an independent initiative by members of the Bahá'í community. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for any Bahá'í institution, and nothing here should be read as their view.

2. What this is, and what it is not

Yekjan is a waitlist and a private questionnaire. You give us an email address; we tell you when the service opens. If you choose to answer the questionnaire, your answers are read by our founding team so that introductions can be made by hand. There is no matching engine, no profile anyone can browse, no messaging, and no member list you can search — none of that exists.

We are not a marriage bureau, an agency, or a matchmaker acting on your behalf. We introduce nobody today and we promise nobody in future. When the service does open it will be introductions between adults who choose for themselves, and the choosing stays yours.

We do not guarantee that the service will open, or when, or that any particular person will be on it. If we decide not to continue we will tell everyone on the list and delete the list.

3. What it costs

Membership is free. We may introduce optional paid services in the future; Founding Members will always receive the best terms we offer. The first 500 members become Founding Members: free membership plus special founding-member benefits. That status is permanent, and it means you will never pay more than anyone else for anything we build.

Until the end of 5 September 2026, Pacific time, we said Founding Members would receive every premium feature free for life. If you joined on or before then, you keep exactly that. So does anyone who joins from one of our printed cards or table tents, whenever they scan it — those cards are already in people's hands and we cannot reprint what we handed you. Your signup date and how you arrived are both already recorded, so this does not depend on anyone remembering. If your signup date is close to the line, we read it in your favour. If a friend sent you our message and you joined by 19 September 2026, the promise in that message still stands for you, whatever the date above.

We did not email anyone about this change, and we would rather tell you that than have you notice it. Nobody already on the list is worse off: everyone who has joined keeps what they were promised, and this changes only what we promise to people who have not joined yet. When a change does cost you something, section 7 says we will email you before it takes effect — and we will.

4. Who can join

You must be 18 or over and legally free to marry. You may sign up for yourself. You may not add somebody else's email address — not a friend's, not a relative's, not your child's. That rule is not administrative tidiness: being on this list says something about a person's religion, and that is theirs to disclose and nobody else's.

5. Using the service fairly

Do not use the form to find out whether a particular address is already registered. Do not submit addresses in bulk, automatically, or repeatedly. Do not attempt to reach data belonging to anyone else. If we believe an entry was added by somebody other than its owner, we delete it without notice.

6. Your information

What we collect, why, and how to have it deleted is set out on the privacy pledge. It is short and it is the more important document of the two. In summary: an email address and two consents to join, the date you joined, which language you used and which printed card you scanned; and, only if you choose to answer it, a private questionnaire covering who you are, your life, your faith and family, and what you hope for. No cookies, no trackers, and nothing public.

Every email we send carries a link that deletes your entry in one tap, with no questions and no login. You never need our permission or our cooperation to leave.

7. Changes and closing

We may change these terms. If a change matters to you — anything about what we do with your information — we will email everyone on the list before it takes effect, not after. Minor wording fixes we will simply date at the top.

You may leave at any moment using the link in any email. We may close the service or remove an entry that breaks the rules above.

8. Law, and being straight about it

Yekjan is run from the United States, so United States law applies to us and the courts there are where a dispute would be heard.

We hold your information to the standard of the European GDPR because we chose to, not because a server location makes us. Our database and the code that serves this site both run in the United States. Where a company is based decides which law binds it; where its servers sit does not. We would rather say that plainly than let a sentence about a server location do work it cannot do.

Nothing here takes away a right you have under the law where you live. If a court finds any part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still stands.

9. Contact

Questions about these terms, about your information, or about anything else: privacy@yekjan.com. A person reads it.