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Last updated June 08, 2026

AGREEMENT TO OUR LEGAL TERMS

We are Cosmo Society ("Company," "we," "us," "our"). We operate the website https://demo.cosmosociety.org (the "Site"), as well as any other related products and services that refer or link to these legal terms (the "Legal Terms") (collectively, the "Services").

Cosmo Society is a social network and online platform that allows users to create accounts, post and share content, and interact with other users.

You can contact us by email at contact@cosmosociety.org or by mail to Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.

These Legal Terms constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity ("you"), and Cosmo Society, concerning your access to and use of the Services. You agree that by accessing the Services, you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these Legal Terms. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM USING THE SERVICES AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY.

We will provide you with prior notice of any material changes to these Legal Terms. Changes will become effective fourteen (14) days after notice is given, except where a shorter period is required by law or the change relates to a new feature or a legal or security requirement, in which case the change may take effect sooner. By continuing to use the Services after changes take effect, you agree to be bound by the revised Legal Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Services and may close your account.

The Services are intended for users who are at least 18 years old. Persons under the age of 18 are not permitted to use or register for the Services.

We recommend that you print or save a copy of these Legal Terms for your records.

Our Services
Intellectual Property Rights
Your Content and Licence to Us
User Representations
User Registration
Purchases, Subscriptions, and Payment
Right of Withdrawal and Refunds
Prohibited Activities
Content Moderation
Reporting Illegal or Infringing Content (Notice-and-Action)
Copyright Complaints and Repeat Infringers
Third-Party Websites and Content
Services Management
Privacy Policy
Term and Termination
Modifications and Interruptions
Governing Law
Dispute Resolution
Corrections
Disclaimer
Limitation of Liability
Indemnification
User Data
Electronic Communications, Transactions, and Signatures
Miscellaneous
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1. OUR SERVICES

The information provided when using the Services is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Those who access the Services from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, to the extent local laws are applicable.

The Services are a social platform that hosts content created and shared by users. We provide the tools and the platform; the content is created by users. We do not pre-screen or actively monitor user content and are not the author of, and do not endorse, content posted by users.

2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

Our intellectual property

We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Services themselves, including all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, and the text, graphics, and other materials we create and provide (collectively, the "Content"), as well as our trademarks, service marks, logos, and the "Cosmo Society" name (the "Marks"). This does not include content created by users, which is addressed in Section 3.

Our Content and Marks are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted in these Legal Terms, no part of our Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, republished, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without our express prior written permission.

Your use of our Services

Subject to your compliance with these Legal Terms, including the "Prohibited Activities" section, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access the Services and use them for your personal, non-commercial use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.

3. YOUR CONTENT AND LICENCE TO US

You own your content. When you create, post, upload, or share any content through the Services — including text, photos, video, audio, comments, profile information, and other materials ("Your Content") — you retain ownership of all intellectual property rights you hold in Your Content. We do not claim ownership of Your Content.

Licence you grant to us. To operate the Services, we need permission to host and display what you post. By posting Your Content, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, modify (for technical purposes such as formatting and resizing), publish, publicly display, and distribute Your Content solely for the purposes of operating, providing, promoting, and improving the Services. This licence ends when you delete Your Content or close your account, except that (a) it survives where Your Content has been shared with others who have not deleted it, and (b) we may retain copies in backups for a limited period or where required by law. We will not sell Your Content to third parties.

Promotion. We may use Your Content that you have made public to promote the Services (for example, featuring a public post), unless you tell us not to. Where required by law, we will seek your consent first.

Our commitments to you. We believe your content belongs to you. We will not use Your Content to train artificial intelligence or machine-learning models, and we will not sell, rent, or license Your Content to any third party, in each case unless you have given us your separate, explicit, opt-in consent. We will not change this commitment to your disadvantage without giving you clear advance notice and, where the law requires it, your consent.

You are responsible for what you post. By posting Your Content, you represent and warrant that: you own it or have all necessary rights and licences to post it and grant the licence above; Your Content does not infringe the intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights of any third party; and Your Content complies with these Legal Terms and applicable law. You agree to be solely responsible for Your Content and to reimburse us for any losses we suffer as a result of Your Content breaching these Legal Terms or the rights of any third party or any law.

Feedback. If you send us suggestions, ideas, or feedback about the Services ("Feedback"), you agree we may use it without restriction or compensation to you. Feedback is not treated as confidential.

4. USER REPRESENTATIONS

By using the Services, you represent and warrant that: (1) all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete; (2) you will maintain the accuracy of such information and update it as necessary; (3) you have the legal capacity and agree to comply with these Legal Terms; (4) you are at least 18 years old; (5) you will not access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise, except as expressly permitted; (6) you will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorised purpose; and (7) your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we may suspend or terminate your account and refuse any current or future use of the Services.

5. USER REGISTRATION

You are required to register to use most features of the Services. You agree to keep your password confidential and are responsible for all use of your account and password. You must notify us immediately of any unauthorised use of your account. We reserve the right to remove, reclaim, or change a username you select if we determine, in our reasonable discretion, that it is inappropriate, obscene, infringing, or otherwise objectionable.

6. PURCHASES, SUBSCRIPTIONS, AND PAYMENT

We may offer paid subscriptions and other paid features. All payments are processed through our payment processor, Stripe; we do not store your full payment card details. You agree to provide current, complete, and accurate purchase and account information and to keep it updated.

All prices are listed in Euros (€) unless stated otherwise, and include applicable taxes where required by law.

Billing and renewal. Paid subscriptions continue and automatically renew for the same period unless cancelled before the renewal date. You authorise us (through Stripe) to charge your payment method on a recurring basis until you cancel. The length of your billing cycle depends on the plan you select.

Cancellation. You can cancel your subscription at any time by logging into your account. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid period, and you retain access until then. We do not provide pro-rata refunds for the unused portion of a billing period except where required by law (see Section 7).

Price changes. We may change subscription fees. We will give you reasonable advance notice of any price change in accordance with applicable law, and the new price will apply from your next billing period. If you do not agree to a price change, you may cancel before it takes effect.

7. RIGHT OF WITHDRAWAL AND REFUNDS

Consumers in the EU/EEA. If you are a consumer resident in the EU/EEA, you normally have the right to withdraw from a purchase of digital services within fourteen (14) days without giving a reason.

Because our paid features are supplied digitally and immediately, by purchasing you expressly request that we begin providing the paid service immediately and you acknowledge that you lose your right of withdrawal once the service has been fully performed, and that where the service is partially performed during the withdrawal period you will pay for the portion provided. Where the right of withdrawal still applies, you may exercise it by contacting us at contact@cosmosociety.org, and we will refund you in accordance with applicable law.

Other than the statutory rights described above, payments are non-refundable. Nothing in this section limits any mandatory refund or withdrawal rights you have under the consumer law of your country of residence.

8. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make them available. As a user of the Services, you agree not to post content or engage in conduct that:

is illegal, or promotes or facilitates illegal activity;
is harassing, hateful, bullying, abusive, threatening, defamatory, or that incites violence or hatred against any person or group;
is obscene, sexually explicit, or pornographic, or that sexualises or endangers minors;
infringes the intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights of any third party;
is false, deceitful, or misleading, or impersonates another person or entity;
discloses another person's private or personal information without their consent ("doxxing");
contains viruses, malware, or other harmful code, or interferes with the operation of the Services;
is unsolicited advertising, spam, pyramid schemes, or chain letters.

You also agree not to:

systematically retrieve data or content to create a collection, database, or directory without our written permission;
circumvent, disable, or interfere with security-related features of the Services;
use any automated system (bots, scrapers, spiders) to access the Services, except standard search-engine indexing or as we expressly permit;
attempt to bypass measures designed to restrict access to the Services;
copy, decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble any of the software comprising the Services, except as permitted by law;
collect usernames or email addresses of other users for the purpose of sending unsolicited communications, or create accounts by automated means or under false pretences;
sell, rent, or otherwise transfer your account or profile;
harass, intimidate, or threaten our staff or agents.

9. CONTENT MODERATION

We want the Services to be safe and respectful. We may, but are not obliged to, monitor, review, or moderate content. We reserve the right, in our reasonable discretion and in accordance with applicable law, to remove, restrict, edit the placement of, or disable access to any content that we consider to breach these Legal Terms or applicable law, or to be otherwise harmful, and to suspend or terminate accounts that do so.

Where we take action against your content or account, we will, where required by applicable law (including the EU Digital Services Act), give you a statement of reasons and information about how to challenge the decision. We aim to apply our rules consistently and proportionately.

10. REPORTING ILLEGAL OR INFRINGING CONTENT (NOTICE-AND-ACTION)

If you believe content on the Services is illegal, infringes your rights, or breaches these Legal Terms, you can notify us at contact@cosmosociety.org. To help us act, please include: a description of the content and where it is located (for example, a link); an explanation of why you believe it is illegal or infringing; and your contact details.

We will review valid reports and take appropriate action, which may include removing or disabling access to the content, in accordance with applicable law. We will keep you informed of our decision where required to do so. We act as a hosting provider in respect of user content and rely on the protections available to intermediary service providers under applicable law, including the EU Digital Services Act. We are not liable for user content unless we fail to act expeditiously to remove or disable access to it once we obtain actual knowledge that it is illegal.

11. COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS AND REPEAT INFRINGERS

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect users to do the same. If you believe that content on the Services infringes a copyright you own or control, please send a notice to contact@cosmosociety.org including: identification of the copyrighted work; identification of the allegedly infringing content and its location; your contact information; a statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorised; and a statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act on their behalf. You may be liable for damages if you make a material misrepresentation in a notice.

We operate a repeat-infringer policy and may, in appropriate circumstances, suspend or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe the rights of others.

12. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND CONTENT

The Services may contain links to third-party websites, as well as content originating from third parties. We do not investigate or monitor third-party websites or content and are not responsible for their accuracy, legality, or policies. Links are not endorsements. If you access third-party websites or use third-party content, you do so at your own risk and subject to the third party's terms and policies. Any transactions with third parties are solely between you and the third party.

13. SERVICES MANAGEMENT

We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to: (1) monitor the Services for violations of these Legal Terms; (2) take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our reasonable discretion, violates the law or these Legal Terms, including reporting to law enforcement; (3) refuse, restrict, or disable access to any content or any portion of the Services; (4) remove or disable content that is excessively large or burdensome to our systems; and (5) otherwise manage the Services to protect our rights and property and facilitate their proper functioning.

14. PRIVACY POLICY

We care about data privacy and security. Please review our Privacy Policy at https://demo.cosmosociety.org/compliance/privacy-policy, which explains how we handle your personal data and is incorporated into these Legal Terms by reference. Our Services are operated from the Netherlands and use service providers located in the EU and the United States; by using the Services you understand your information may be processed in those locations, subject to the safeguards described in our Privacy Policy.

15. TERM AND TERMINATION

These Legal Terms remain in effect while you use the Services.

Your right to close your account. You may stop using the Services and close your account at any time through your account settings.

Our right to suspend or terminate. We may, in our reasonable discretion and in accordance with applicable law, suspend or terminate your access to the Services — including removing content and deleting your account — if you breach these Legal Terms or any applicable law, if required to do so by law, or to protect the Services or other users. Where reasonable and lawful, we will give you notice and an opportunity to address the issue. We will not exercise these rights in an arbitrary or discriminatory way against consumers.

If your account is terminated for breach, you may not re-register under another name without our permission.

16. MODIFICATIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS

We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove features of the Services at any time, and we may modify or discontinue all or part of the Services with reasonable notice where it affects paid features. We cannot guarantee the Services will be available at all times and may experience downtime for maintenance or technical reasons. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss caused by the Services being unavailable, but this does not exclude liability that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

17. GOVERNING LAW

These Legal Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Netherlands, and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is excluded. If you are a consumer resident in the EU/EEA, you additionally benefit from the mandatory protections of the law of your country of residence, and nothing in these Legal Terms deprives you of those protections.

18. DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Informal resolution. If you have a dispute with us, please contact us first at contact@cosmosociety.org so we can try to resolve it informally. Most concerns can be resolved this way.

Courts. If we cannot resolve a dispute informally, it may be brought before the competent courts of the Netherlands. If you are a consumer resident in the EU/EEA, you may also bring proceedings in the courts of your country of residence, and you retain the right to rely on the mandatory consumer-protection laws of that country.

EU online dispute resolution. If you are an EU consumer, the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform may be available to you for resolving disputes out of court.

19. CORRECTIONS

There may be information on the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions. We reserve the right to correct any errors and to update information at any time, without prior notice.

20. DISCLAIMER

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Services are provided on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis, and your use of the Services is at your own risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We make no warranties about the accuracy or completeness of the Services or of any user content, and we assume no liability for (1) errors or inaccuracies of content; (2) loss or damage resulting from your use of the Services; (3) unauthorised access to our servers or your personal information; (4) interruption of transmission to or from the Services; (5) bugs, viruses, or harmful code transmitted by any third party; or (6) loss or damage arising from content posted or transmitted via the Services.

Nothing in this section excludes or limits any warranty or right that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including the mandatory rights of consumers.

21. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event will we or our directors, employees, or agents be liable to you for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages, including lost profit, lost revenue, or loss of data, arising from your use of the Services.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability to you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Services will be limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you paid to us in the six (6) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred euros (€100).

Nothing in these Legal Terms excludes or limits our liability for: death or personal injury caused by our negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; gross negligence or intentional misconduct; or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including mandatory consumer-protection rights. If you are a consumer, some of the above limitations may not apply to you, and you may have additional rights.

22. INDEMNIFICATION

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our officers, agents, partners, and employees, from any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of: (1) Your Content; (2) your use of the Services; (3) your breach of these Legal Terms; (4) your breach of your representations and warranties; (5) your violation of the rights of a third party, including intellectual property rights; or (6) any harmful act toward another user. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defence of any matter for which you must indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate. This indemnity does not apply to the extent a loss results from our own breach, negligence, or wrongdoing, and does not apply to consumers except to the extent permitted by applicable law.

23. USER DATA

We maintain certain data that you transmit to the Services in order to provide and manage the Services. Although we perform routine backups, you are responsible for keeping your own copies of content that is important to you. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for loss or corruption of such data, except where the loss results from our breach of our obligations to you, including our data-protection obligations.

24. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSACTIONS, AND SIGNATURES

Visiting the Services, sending us emails, and completing online forms constitute electronic communications. You consent to receive communications electronically, and you agree that all agreements, notices, and other communications we provide electronically satisfy any legal requirement that they be in writing, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You agree to the use of electronic signatures, contracts, and records.

25. MISCELLANEOUS

These Legal Terms and any policies posted by us on the Services constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Services. Our failure to enforce any right or provision will not be a waiver of that right or provision. If any provision is found to be unlawful or unenforceable, that provision is severed and the remaining provisions remain in effect. We may assign our rights and obligations at any time, provided this does not reduce the protections you have as a consumer. There is no joint venture, partnership, or employment relationship created by these Legal Terms. We are not responsible for any failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

26. CONTACT US

To resolve a complaint regarding the Services or to receive further information, please contact us at:

Cosmo Society Amsterdam, Noord Holland Netherlands contact@cosmosociety.org

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