| Terms and Conditions of Cutting Club | |
| Cutting Club provides men (hereinafter referred to as the "Member") with a free and/or paid online platform that enables members to connect and interact with one another. Purpose of the Platform: To provide a community for the exchange of experiences and mutual support among men who are circumcised or intend to undergo circumcision. These Terms and Conditions constitute the sole and exclusive terms governing all services and offerings provided by Cutting Club. They define the legal relationship between the Member and Cutting Club. Any conflicting or deviating terms and conditions of the Member are expressly rejected. | |
| 1. | Eligibility |
| 1.1 | By registering, the Member agrees to these Terms and Conditions. |
| 1.2 | The Member confirms that they are circumcised (meaning the glans penis remains permanently uncovered as a result of a surgical procedure) or intend to undergo circumcision. The Member further confirms that they will use the platform in accordance with its intended purpose and support its objectives. |
| 1.3 |
Registration and continued membership are granted at the sole discretion of the operator. The operator may refuse, suspend or terminate a registration or membership where necessary to preserve the purpose of the platform or to ensure the proper operation of the community. |
| 1.4 | By registering, the Member confirms that they are at least 18 years of age. The Member acknowledges that Cutting Club may contain erotic and sexually explicit images, videos and written content and that participation is entirely voluntary. The operator may verify the Member's age by means of appropriate technical methods, age verification services or other verification procedures chosen by the operator. The age verification process may be modified at any time to comply with technical developments or legal requirements. Where there are reasonable doubts regarding a Member's age, or the Member is unable to provide satisfactory proof of age, the operator may refuse registration or terminate the membership without prior notice. |
| 2. | Changing our appearance |
| The Cutting Club will at all times be allowed to make changes to our appearance as well as to the functions provided by the Cutting Club website. This includes changing or deleting current features as well as implementing new features. Therefore the Cutting Club does not need its members for agreement. Merely basic functions (profiles as well as mailboxes) are guaranteed for by the Cutting Club. | |
| 3. | Registration |
| 3.1 | The Cutting Club offers free, non commercially used accounts to its members. The necessary alias (username) is to be freely chosen by each member, as long as it goes along with legal regulations. You can only chose names that aren't taken already. There is no right to receive certain names though. |
| 3.2 | Each member assures that all particulars are valid and have been made correctly. Especially adress, email and date of birth have to be valid. Should there be any changes to these date, you will have to change your details on here immediately as well. |
| 3.3 | The member warrants that they hold all necessary copyrights, usage rights and any other rights required to upload the submitted images, videos, graphics and texts, and that their publication does not infringe any third-party rights. By uploading content, the member grants Cutting Club a non-exclusive, royalty-free right to use and exploit the content. This includes, in particular, the right to store, reproduce, edit and optimize it, as well as to publish it within the Cutting Club and on websites and online services operated by the operator, provided they are thematically related to the Cutting Club. Any editing and optimization is carried out solely for the technical or visual improvement of the content. This right shall remain in effect even after the termination of the membership. The Media Exchange is intended to serve as a permanent archive for its members. Uploaded content is therefore generally intended for permanent publication. There is no contractual right to the subsequent removal or deletion of content that has already been published in the Media Exchange. Cutting Club may, at its sole discretion, agree to remove content in individual cases. Mandatory statutory rights of the member remain unaffected. The member may delete images and videos from their own profile at any time, provided that they have not already been published in the Media Exchange or another permanent section of the platform. |
| 3.4 | Each member commits himself to stick to legal regulations, each member is self-responisble for the content he provides. Spreading animal- or child-porn as well as depictions of hate or violence will be reported to the police immediately. |
| 3.5 | For accessing the members section you will receive a randomly generated password, which can be changed to a more personal password afterwards. Members are self responsible for chosing as well as keeping secret those passwords. Passing your account onwards to third persons is not allowed. The Cutting Club is not responsible for misuse of accounts by third parties. |
| 3.6 | Each member is only allowed to have only ONE account at the Cutting Club. Should we find out someone having more than one account, that person will be excluded permanently from the Cutting Club. |
| 3.7 | Privacy is one of our most important duties, therefore we assert you that we will not pass your details onto third parties or publicate them elsewhere.(Exceptions can be made if a member asks for doing so) - we will stick to German privacy regulations. |
| 4. | Descriptions of membership grades |
| 4.1 | Immediately after signing up to the Cutting Club, each member receives his free BASIC-membership. BASIC members can freely use many areas and functions (later to be called "services") of the Cutting Club website.BASIC accounts are free accounts. |
| 4.2 | To have unlimited access to all services of the Cutting Club, members have to become PREMIUM members, which will be charged accordingly to our current tariffs. Upon turning a PREMIUM member, our users enable us to direct-debit the membership charges from your bank their bank accounts. Transferring the money yourself is only accepted for the first year of your membership. Should a member not have access to a german bank account or should he wish to stay anonymous, we provide different ways of payment via third parties (which will be charged higher fees due to higher costs). Upgrading from a BASIC to a PRemium account is possible at all times. You can have access to our tariffs and services at all times. All payments will be done and charged in EURO. |
| 4.3 | Each member is responsible for his bank account, should we not be able to debit our membership fees from your account or should the account no longer exist, all extra costs will be paid for by the member himself. We will therefore charge a lump sum of 25,00 Euro. Additionally the Cutting Club is allowed to cancel accounts if debiting fees is impossible. |
| 4.4 | Members are only entitled to sum up costs if its claims have been established on a legal basis. |
| 4.5 | Using PREMIUM features is possible from the moment only, when your fees have been transferred and booked to our account correctly, members also have to certify being above 18 years of age. Clearing of accounts will be done withing five weekdays after all other conditions have been fulfilled. |
| 5. | External Accounts |
| 5.1 | Should the Cutting Club enable users of external accounts to have access to the Cutting Club, these users agree to the fact that we will save your user data, especially username & password, to the Cutting Club database. We will not pass those information onto others. |
| 5.2 | Th Cutting Club is not responsible for the availability of external provider's accounts. Ceteris paribus, concern regulations provided in number 8 of our ToS. |
| 5.3 | Members are self responsible to meet an external provider's regulations. |
| 5.4 | The Cutting Club is entitled to end external account's access to our pages at any time without giving specific reasons. Members will not have any claims for compensation in this case. |
| 6. | Cancelling your account |
| 6.1 | BASIC memberships are valid for unlimited time, but members are to log in at least once in six months. Should members fail to do so, the Cutting Club may cancel those accounts without prior information. BASIC memberships can be cancelled by deleting your account at any time. |
| 6.2 | Each PREMIUM membership starts at the moment of paying for your membership fees and will last until the 31st of december of each year. Memberships will automatically extend for one more year, shouldn't you send in a cancellation at least three months prior to the end of the year. Cancelling can only be done via "My Account" -> "Cancel Account". You will then receive an affirmation which you must keep and show upon demand. |
| 6.3 | The Cutting Club may cancel accounts without a certain time limit for important reasons. Those important reasons may for example be, that a member has lied upon registration (or any later period in time) about his personal information, if a user goes financially bankrupt or should we not be able to withdraw our membership fees from a user's account. |
| 6.4 | After an account has expired, we will retrict your access to our website. The Cutting Club is entitled to delete all of the user's data. Users do not have any claims of receiving copies of any data created at our sites. |
| 6.5 | Should a PREMIUM member's account be ended before the end of a year, a user is not entitled to receive a refund of his membership fees, even though they have to be paid for in advance. (pro rata temporis). |
| 7. | Rules of Conduct |
| 7.1 | All members are to be treated with respect and politeness. |
| 7.2 | Members must comply with the instructions and decisions of the administrators where necessary to ensure the proper operation of the platform and to uphold its intended purpose. |
| 7.3 | Members are prohibited from promoting or advertising any goods or services within the Cutting Club. In particular, members may not advertise competing services or deliberately solicit other members for external offers. In the event of a violation, we reserve the right to remove the relevant content and to suspend or permanently terminate the member's access to the Cutting Club. Any further legal claims remain unaffected. |
| 7.4 | Conduct that fundamentally conflicts with the purpose of the platform or seriously disrupts the community is prohibited. This includes, in particular, deliberately influencing other Members in a manner that is contrary to the purpose of the platform. Cutting Club may issue a warning, remove the Member's content, or suspend or terminate the Member's access to the platform. |
| 8. | Availability, Liabilities & Final Orders |
| 8.1 | The Cutting Club is always bothered to have our websites available, but this cannot be guaranteed due to external problems that may occur. Members are not entlitled to receive any refund, except for cases in which the Cutting Club has intentionally or negligently caused this site to not be available or malfunction. The Cutting Club may also restrict its services or to discontinue its services completely; users will not have any titles to receive paybacks though. |
| 8.2 | Any further liability is excluded to the extent permitted by applicable law. Mandatory statutory liability shall remain unaffected. |
| 8.3 | The Cutting Club website contains links to other external websites and resources whose contents we do neither control nor supervise. Therefore we distance ourselves from all linked pages' contents.This declaration is to be effective for all links leading away from the Cutting Club as well as for all links our banners lead to. |
| 8.4 | Our Terms of Service may be changed by the Cutting Club at any given time. We will inform our members about this at an adequate point in time, informing members about the changes that are about to be made as well as about the fact taht any member that does not contradict will accept our new terms. Should a member contradict to our changes, his account will be cancelled. |
| 8.5 | Violations against our Terms of Service can lead to the exclusion from our Cutting Club as well as penal or civil right prosecution.Any fees paid for in advance will not be refunded. |
| 8.6 | Should some of these clauses be invalid,all other clauses will not be affected. This goes for a gap in our ToS as well. |
| 8.7 | All business relations between the Cutting Club and its members are based on laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, except for regulations linked to the implementation of other states' rights. Adress for service and place of fulfillment are the domicile of the Cutting Club. |
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