Terms of Service

Site: uksocials.club
Operator: CMP Technologies Ltd
Last updated: 30 April 2026
Version: 1.0

1. Welcome and acceptance

Welcome to UK Socials. These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) set out the legal agreement between you and us when you use the website at uksocials.club and any service provided through it (the “Service”).

The Service is operated by CMP Technologies Ltd (“we”, “us”, “our”), a company registered in England and Wales Company registration number to be added on completion of Companies House lookup, with registered office at Registered office address: this is being procured. In the meantime, please contact us at info@uksocials.club for any postal correspondence.. You can contact us at info@uksocials.club.

By creating an account, or by using any part of the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

A separate Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Refund and Cancellation Policy, and Community Guidelines apply to your use of the Service. They form part of this agreement and you should read them too.

2. Who can use UK Socials

You may use the Service if all of the following are true:
– You are aged 13 or over
– You are a real person (not a bot, automated tool, or organisation account except as expressly allowed for the Organiser and Venue tiers)
– You have not previously had a UK Socials account suspended for breaching these Terms or our Community Guidelines
– You can lawfully enter into binding contracts in your country of residence (under-16s contract through their parent/guardian for our purposes — your parent or guardian’s permission is implied where you have set up the account)

The Service is aimed at users in the United Kingdom. We do not currently market the Service outside the UK and we may restrict access from other jurisdictions.

3. Your account

3.1 Setting up

• You must give accurate information when you sign up — particularly your real name (or display name), email address, postcode, and date of birth.
• Your password is your responsibility. Don’t share it.
• You can have only one account at a time.

3.2 Account security

• Tell us immediately at info@uksocials.club if you suspect someone else has accessed your account.
• We may ask you to change your password if we suspect a security incident.

3.3 Account deletion

• You can delete your account at any time from your account settings.
• When you delete your account: your public profile and login are disabled immediately, your subscription (if any) is cancelled at the end of the period you have already paid for, and your data is retained for the period set out in the Privacy Policy §7.
• Deleting your account does not delete messages you have sent to other users — those stay in the recipients’ inboxes (the recipient is the data controller for messages they have received).

4. Subscriptions and payments

UK Socials offers different membership tiers. The current tiers and their prices are:

About these prices. Prices are inclusive of VAT where applicable. We may change them in future, but if we do, the change will only apply to your subscription from the start of your next billing period after we have given you at least 30 days’ notice.

Auto-renewal. Paid subscriptions renew automatically each month until you cancel them. You can cancel at any time from your account settings. Your access continues until the end of the period you have already paid for.

Payments. All payments are processed by Stripe. We do not store your full card details. By paying, you also agree to Stripe’s terms (https://stripe.com/legal).

14-day cancellation right and refunds. Detailed in the separate Refund and Cancellation Policy.

5. Stripe Connect for organisers and venues

If you are on the Organiser or Venue tier and you sell event tickets through UK Socials, you sell those tickets directly to attendees through Stripe Connect — you are the merchant of record for the ticket, not us. We charge a 5% platform fee on each sale, deducted by Stripe at the point of sale.

By using Stripe Connect through us, you also agree to Stripe Connected Account Terms (https://stripe.com/connect-account/legal). Stripe handles KYC/AML checks on your Stripe Connect account.

You are responsible for:
– Refunding ticket buyers in line with their consumer rights under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 and Consumer Rights Act 2015
– The accuracy of your event listings
– Compliance with all UK laws applicable to the events you run (licensing, health and safety, age restrictions, advertising standards)

We are not party to your sale contract with the ticket buyer and we accept no liability for the event itself. Our role is limited to providing the platform.

6. Your content

6.1 What “your content” means

Anything you post, upload, send, or display on UK Socials — your profile photos and videos, your bio, messages you send, reviews of events and venues, peer reviews of other members after group events (see §6.5), comments, custom widget contents, and so on.

6.2 You keep ownership

You own your content. We never claim ownership of it.

6.3 The licence you give us (intentionally narrow)

By posting your content on UK Socials you give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use it only as needed to operate the Service for you and the people you choose to share it with. That includes:
– Storing it on our servers
– Displaying it to people who view your profile or whom you message
– Resizing or transcoding it for technical reasons
– Backing it up
– Showing it within moderation tools to our admins where reports require review
– Allowing the sub-processors listed on our Sub-Processors page (hosting provider, payment processor, image-safety scanner, etc.) to handle your content only as needed to deliver their part of the Service — they cannot use your content for their own purposes

We do not use this licence to:
– Train AI or machine-learning models on your content (ours or anyone else’s)
– Sell your content
– License your content to third parties for their own marketing
– Display your content outside UK Socials except where you have explicitly chosen to share it (e.g. by setting a profile element to “Public”)

6.3a When the licence ends and what we keep afterwards

The licence ends when you delete the content or close your account, except for the following narrow residual rights that are necessary to make the deletion process work properly and to comply with the law:

• Backups. Copies of your content may exist on our backup systems for up to 30 days after deletion (the time it takes for the next normal backup-cycle rotation to overwrite them). We do not access these backups except to restore the platform from a major outage.
• Moderation records. If your content was the subject of a Report or moderation action, we keep the relevant copies for 6 years per Privacy Policy §7.3 — this is to defend against legal claims and to detect repeat patterns.
• Payment records. If your content related to a payment we took (e.g. an event description an organiser sold tickets to), we keep the transaction copy for 6 years per HMRC requirements.
• Copies received by other users. If you sent content to another member as a message, that recipient holds their own copy in their inbox — we cannot reach into someone else’s inbox to delete it on your behalf, and the recipient becomes a separate data controller for their copy.
• Legal holds. If a regulator, court, or law-enforcement agency has required us to preserve specific data, we keep it as long as legally required.

We do not retain your content for any purpose outside this short list. Once these conditions no longer apply, the residual copies are deleted or fully anonymised.

6.4 You are responsible for what you post

You must own or have permission to use everything you post. Don’t post content that infringes someone else’s copyright, trademark, or privacy. If we get a valid takedown notice we will act on it.

If you believe someone has infringed your IP on UK Socials, email info@uksocials.club with sufficient details for us to investigate.

6.5 Peer reviews and the reputation system

After a group event (where you and other members mutually invited each other and attended together) you may be asked to leave a private peer review of the other people in the group. By using UK Socials you agree that:

• Other members in your group can leave reviews about you in the same way
• Reviews are private — visible to UK Socials administrators only, never to other members
• Reviews you receive are aggregated into a reputation score that is shown on your profile to other members
• The reputation score is public; the underlying reviews and reviewer identities are not
• Reviewers are not anonymised in our internal records — we can see who left what — to allow us to police review-bombing and retaliation
• Honest reviews are protected. Fake reviews, retaliatory reviews, traded reviews, and review-bombing are breaches of the Community Guidelines and we will act on them
• You can ask us about reviews held about you under your data-access rights — see Privacy Policy §8

The reputation system is one of the few things on UK Socials that members rely on to decide who to invite to future events. We treat the integrity of the system as a serious obligation.

6.6 Behavioural monitoring of patterns

We monitor patterns of platform use that suggest misconduct — for example: repeatedly accepting event invites and then ignoring the inviters, repeatedly attempting to message under-16 members from a 21+ account, suddenly switching profile photos after building contacts, soliciting money from members, mass-messaging for off-platform contact details.

• Pattern detection runs in aggregate, not on a real-time message-by-message basis.
• A flag against your account from pattern detection does not result in automatic punishment — it triggers admin review by a human.
• Flags are not shown publicly. They influence your internal reputation score and may trigger admin investigation. They do not affect your ability to use the platform unless an admin actions them after review.

Behavioural monitoring is a key part of how we keep the platform safe at scale. Consenting to these Terms means consenting to this monitoring on the basis set out in the Privacy Policy.

7. Things you must not do

These are the things you must not do on UK Socials. Doing any of them may result in your account being suspended or terminated, content being removed, and in serious cases being reported to the police or other authorities. Our Community Guidelines explain these rules in plain language with examples.

You must not:
– Post content that is illegal under UK law — including but not limited to: child sexual abuse material, terrorism content, content that incites racial or religious hatred, threatening communications, or fraud
– Harass, bully, threaten, stalk, or impersonate any other user or person
– Post sexually explicit content of any kind (UK Socials is not an adult platform)
– Use the Service to promote scams, get-rich-quick schemes, pyramid schemes, or pirated content
– Pretend to be someone you are not, including by setting up a fake profile or impersonating a member
– Upload images you do not own or have permission to use
– Scrape, harvest, or systematically collect data about other members
– Attempt to access the Service through automated means (bots, crawlers) other than authorised search-engine indexing of public pages
– Try to circumvent our age-pairing rules (the 21+ ↔ 16– block) by lying about your age or using Family Link in bad faith
– Try to break, exploit, or interfere with the Service or its security
– Use the Service to send spam or unsolicited commercial messages
– Off-platform contact-info harvesting — sending messages whose primary purpose is to extract a member’s phone number, email, or other off-site contact details for commercial use
– “Creep” behaviour — making members feel watched, hunted, or pressured; repeatedly messaging people who haven’t responded; making sexualised comments; repeatedly engineering being at the same events as a member who hasn’t signalled interest in you
– “Invite-fishing” / using members for free event access — repeatedly accepting invites with no intention of staying connected afterwards, particularly where the events involve someone else paying or providing the attendance; constructing your profile to attract members likely to invite you to events you’d otherwise pay for. Soliciting money, gifts, expensive dates, “investments”, or financial favours from members; pitching commercial schemes, MLMs, or affiliate offers
– “Accept-attend-ghost” — repeatedly accepting event invites and then attending events without engaging with the people who invited you, particularly where this looks like a pattern of free-attendance abuse
– Act in any way that is unlawful, dishonest, or likely to bring UK Socials into disrepute

We do not list every rule here — full rules are in the Community Guidelines, which you also agree to.

8. Moderation, reporting, and enforcement

8.1 How moderation works

• Most content is published immediately and reviewed only on report.
• Every photo, video, message, profile element, review, and comment has a Report button visible to viewers.
• Reports are reviewed by a UK Socials administrator. We aim to respond within 24 hours, faster for urgent safety reports.
• We hope to subscribe to the Internet Watch Foundation’s CSAM Hash-Matching Service once the platform reaches a scale that makes the membership cost (around £1,000 per year) sustainable. Until then, suspected child sexual abuse material reaching us via reports is removed immediately and reported manually to the IWF and the National Crime Agency in line with the Online Safety Act 2023 s.66.

8.2 What happens if you breach these Terms

We may, depending on the seriousness of the breach, do any of the following:
– Remove the content
– Issue a warning
– Restrict features on your account (e.g. suspend your ability to post)
– Suspend your account temporarily
– Terminate your account permanently
– Where required by law, refuse to delete data even if you ask us to
– Report you to the police or another regulator

We try to be proportionate. For one-off minor breaches we usually warn first. For serious breaches (e.g. illegal content, threats to other users, repeat offences) we act immediately.

8.3 Your right to complain

If we take action against your account or your content, and you think we got it wrong, tell us. The Complaints Procedure explains how. Per the Online Safety Act 2023 s.21 we have an obligation to handle complaints promptly and fairly, and we will.

8.4 Reporting content that worries you

• For most concerns: use the Report button next to the content, or email info@uksocials.club.
• For child-safety concerns: email info@uksocials.club with subject “URGENT — child safety”. For imminent danger, call 999.
• For illegal content: report to UK Socials AND, if appropriate, to the police via 101 or Action Fraud.

9. Termination

9.1 By you

You can stop using the Service at any time. Delete your account from your settings.

9.2 By us

We may suspend or terminate your account where:
– You breach these Terms or the Community Guidelines
– We are required to do so by law or by a regulator
– Continuing to provide the Service to you would put us, other users, or the wider public at risk
– We discontinue the Service entirely (in which case we’d give you advance notice and a way to export your data)

We will tell you when we take action, except where doing so is unsafe (e.g. an active criminal investigation), and we will give you a route to appeal it.

9.3 Effect of termination

• You lose access to the Service.
• Where you have a paid subscription, our Refund and Cancellation Policy sets out what (if any) refund applies.
• Your data is retained per the Privacy Policy §7.

10. Changes to the Service and to these Terms

10.1 Service changes

The Service is under active development. We may add, change, or remove features at any time. We will not remove a feature that you have specifically paid for during a billing period without giving you a refund or alternative.

10.2 Changes to these Terms

• For substantial changes (new restrictions on what you can do, new fees, change of operator, change of jurisdiction), we will notify you at least 30 days in advance via internal message and where possible by email. You can close your account before the change takes effect if you don’t agree.
• For minor changes (clarifications, typo fixes, contact details), we will update the Terms and the “Last updated” date.

If you continue to use the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the new version.

11. Disclaimers and limitations of liability

11.1 Service provided “as is”

We provide the Service with reasonable care and skill (as required by the Consumer Rights Act 2015). However, we don’t guarantee that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure against every possible attack, or always available. Bugs happen. Outages happen.

11.2 We are not responsible for what other users do

We don’t pre-screen content. We don’t vet members. While we do moderate, and we comply with our duties under the Online Safety Act 2023, we are not responsible for the accuracy, lawfulness, or quality of content posted by other users — or for what other members do at events you attend.

11.3 We are not the merchant for event tickets

Where you buy a ticket to an event listed on UK Socials, your contract for that ticket is with the organiser, not with us. We are not responsible for the event being held, or for refunds — see §5.

11.4 Limits on our liability

We will be liable for losses you suffer as a direct result of our breach of these Terms, but our total liability to you is capped:
– For paid subscribers: at the amount you have paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the liability
– For free users: at £100

We are not liable for:
– Loss of profit, business, business opportunity, or goodwill
– Loss caused by events beyond our reasonable control
– Loss that wasn’t reasonably foreseeable when you signed up
– Loss caused by content posted by other users

Nothing in these Terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded under UK consumer law. Your statutory rights as a consumer are not affected.

12. Indemnity

If a third party brings a claim against us because of something you did on UK Socials that breached these Terms, you agree to compensate us for our reasonable costs in dealing with that claim (including reasonable legal fees), provided we tell you about the claim, give you the chance to defend it, and don’t settle it without your agreement.

This indemnity does not apply where you are a consumer and the claim arises from us doing something wrong.

13. Privacy and personal data

How we handle your personal data is set out in the Privacy Policy. By using UK Socials you confirm you have read it.

14. Notices

When we need to send you a formal notice (e.g. about your account or these Terms), we will use the most recent contact details we have for you — your account email and your in-platform messaging inbox. Make sure your contact details are up to date.

When you need to give us a formal notice, send it to info@uksocials.club.

15. Governing law and how to resolve disputes

15.1 Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.

15.2 Court jurisdiction

• For UK consumers: you can bring any claim in the courts of the part of the UK where you live, or in the courts of England and Wales. We can only bring claims against you in the courts of the part of the UK where you live.
• For business users (organisers, venues acting in the course of business): the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction.

15.3 Try to talk to us first

If something has gone wrong, please tell us first via the Complaints Procedure or by emailing info@uksocials.club. Most issues are resolved this way.

16. Your statutory rights

Nothing in these Terms takes away any rights you have under UK consumer law that cannot be excluded by contract — including rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015, the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, the Data Protection Act 2018, or the UK GDPR.

If anything in these Terms conflicts with those rights, your statutory rights win.

17. Other points

• Severability. If any part of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest still applies.
• No waiver. If we don’t enforce a right or rule one time, that doesn’t mean we’ve given it up.
• Entire agreement. These Terms (with the documents they reference) are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service.
• Assignment. You can’t transfer your account or your rights under these Terms to anyone else without our consent. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another company in our group or to a buyer of our business — we will tell you if this happens.
• No third-party beneficiaries. No one other than you and us has rights under these Terms (Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 disapplied).
• Languages. These Terms are written in English. If translated, the English version prevails.

18. Contact

Email: info@uksocials.club
Post: CMP Technologies Ltd, Registered office address: being procured (contact info@uksocials.club for postal correspondence)