01The small print

Terms of Service

These terms cover yorepek.org. Using the site means reading its figures, holding them against the thing you have to carry, and following its links. They are written for that use and no other.

What this site is

This is the Yorepek catalogue: laptop and travel backpacks, ball backpacks for the team bench, padded bags for car seats and strollers, two-layer golf trunk organisers, slotted cases for nail polish, and padded carriers cut for named machines — with the capacity, the internal dimensions and the compartment count printed where you can read them before you decide. It is a reference, not a checkout. Our retail partner takes the payment, ships the parcel and handles any return, and the contract of sale is formed there, on their terms.

Flying with a car seat

A bag is luggage, not a restraint. What the federal aviation administration asks for is separate and specific: the safest place for a child under two on a US airplane is an approved child restraint system in its own seat rather than a lap, and the seat has to carry the line "This restraint is certified for use in motor vehicles and aircraft" printed on it. Read the manual before you fly, because a seat that cannot be secured properly in an airplane seat is one you may be asked to check as baggage. And when it comes back off the belt, look at it. The national highway traffic safety administration draws its line between a crash you can keep a seat after and one you cannot partly on whether there is visible damage to the seat; a bag keeps grease and rain off a shell and gives a handler something to hold, and it does not certify what is inside it.

What a child should carry

If the pack is going to school on a child, weigh it. The american academy of pediatrics puts the ceiling at 15% of the child's own body weight, asks that the bottom of the pack rest in the curve of the lower back and never sit more than four inches below the waistline, wants two broad padded straps rather than one, and says the heaviest things — the textbook, the laptop — ride closest to the back. A compartment count is not a substitute for any of that. Our capacity figures say what a bag holds, not what a person should carry.

Both notes are written out of public guidance rather than out of our own testing. Every source behind them is named, with the date it was read, on our updates page.

Figures and photographs

Capacities, dimensions and compartment counts come from our product data. Prices move; the figure at the till is the one that counts, and where the two disagree, the till wins. Photographs show the thing being sold rather than a styled substitute, and a frame that argues with its caption is pulled rather than captioned around.

Questions

About these terms: pack@yorepek.org.