MyVillage Terms of Use

Last updated: November 2026

Welcome to MyVillage. These terms are the agreement between you and MyVillage (“we”, “us”) for using the app. By using MyVillage, you agree to them. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the app — and if anything here is unclear, write to us at [email protected] and we’ll explain it in plain words.

1. What MyVillage is

MyVillage is a catalog, collection tracker, value reference, display planner, and community for collectors of miniature Christmas and Halloween villages. The catalog’s information — names, dimensions, years, prices, and values — is compiled from manufacturers’ listings and recorded sales, and is provided for reference. We work to keep it accurate, and collectors’ corrections help, but we can’t promise every number is right. A value shown in MyVillage is an estimate based on recorded sales, shown with the sales behind it — it is not an appraisal and not a promise of what a piece will sell for.

2. Your account

• You can use most of MyVillage without an account. An account is required to back up your collection and to post or review in the community.
• You are responsible for activity under your account. Keep your sign-in method secure.
• You must be old enough to enter a contract in your country, or use the app with a parent’s or guardian’s permission. The community is intended for adults.
• One person, one account for community purposes. Don’t impersonate another person or collector.

3. The community — your content

The Share tab (the “village square”) lets signed-in users post photos and captions of their villages, tag the pieces in them, write reviews of pieces, and read and react to other collectors’ posts.

Your content stays yours. When you post a photo, caption, or review (“your content”), you keep ownership of it. By posting, you give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, display, reproduce, and distribute your content inside MyVillage — including in the community feed, on piece pages (for reviews), and in the app’s own promotional screenshots of the community — for as long as your content remains posted, so the community can work. You can end the license for a post at any time by deleting the post; deleting your account deletes all of your content (see §7).

You are responsible for your content. Post only photos and words you have the right to share. Don’t post:

• photos or text you don’t own or have permission to use;
• anyone’s private information (addresses, phone numbers, faces of people who haven’t agreed);
• anything unlawful, harassing, hateful, threatening, sexually explicit, or violent;
• spam, advertising, or sales listings (the village square is for showing villages, not storefronts — buying and selling happen elsewhere);
• anything that impersonates another person, or misrepresents a piece, its maker, or its value on purpose.

There is no place in MyVillage for objectionable content, and we don’t tolerate objectionable users. This sentence is here because Apple requires it of apps like ours — and because it’s true.

4. Reporting, blocking, and moderation

• Report: every post and review has a Report button. Reports go to our moderation queue and are visible only to our team.
• Block: you can block any user; their posts and reviews stop appearing for you immediately.
• Contact outside the app: you can always flag content or reach the moderation team at [email protected] — this address is published in the app’s store listing and on our support page.
• What we can do: we may remove any content, or suspend or close any account, that in our reasonable judgment breaks these terms or makes the community worse for others — with or without notice, though we will normally explain when we can. We aim to review every report within 24 hours. Removal of content by us is final; if you believe we made a mistake, write to us and a person will reconsider.

5. The catalog, values, and other people’s property

MyVillage is an independent collector’s companion. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Department 56, Enesco, Lemax, or any other manufacturer. Department 56, Lemax, Spooky Town, and all other product and series names are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to identify the pieces. Catalog photos are manufacturers’ and retailers’ product photos, used to identify pieces for collectors.

If you believe content in MyVillage infringes your copyright or trademark, write to [email protected] with the item, your claim, and your contact details; we will review and remove confirmed infringing material promptly.

6. Acceptable use of the app

Don’t scrape the catalog in bulk, attempt to break or overload the service, upload anything malicious, or use MyVillage to build a competing copy of its database.

7. Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time in the app (Account → Delete account). Deletion permanently removes your account, email address, display name, synced collection and layouts, and all of your community posts and reviews. Your local, on-device collection is removed when you delete the app.

8. The app itself — license and limits

Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement applies to your use of the MyVillage app, except where these terms add community rules that Apple’s agreement doesn’t cover.

The app is provided “as is”. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for losses arising from reliance on catalog information or values, or from community content posted by other users.

9. Changes and governing law

We may update these terms; material changes will be announced in the app or on this page before they take effect, and continuing to use the community after a change means you accept it.

10. Contact

[email protected] — a person reads these.