These are some general terms and conditions you’re agreeing to if you participate in this website.
Please also refer to our privacy policy page and also please see our Frequently Asked Questions page as we may provide more information there as well.
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Shop Terms and Conditions
Our shop is subject to the privacy policy for our website as a whole.
Payment Methods
We accept Visa, Mastercard, Google, and Apple Pay. We use WooCommerce payments as our payment processor, which uses Stripe. We also accept PayPal and Venmo payments, which are processed via PayPal. We do not store your credit card information on our website. That is stored off-site with the payment processor.
We do not accept personal checks or e-checks. Payment must be received before we ship an item. For downloadable items, you can download the item from your account right away once the payment has gone through.
Shipping
Please refer to our shipping page for shipping methods and estimated delivery times.
Shipping is calculated in the cart based on your location and the weight of the item.
Currently, we are offering free shipping on orders over $35 to Washington State residents and orders over $100 to the rest of the continental US.
Refunds and Returns
We accept returns on most physical goods. If we offer downloadable items, we do not accept returns on those. Please refer to our refunds and returns page for information about our returns and refunds policy and how to start a return.
Registration Terms and Conditions
We allow user registration on our website for the purposes of being able to submit and edit events, submit guest posts, create groups, and track and respond to comments.
However, with great power comes great responsibility. By registering on this website you acknowledge and agree to the following:
- Participating on this website by adding information to your profile, participating in comments, or adding events or guest posts means that you are divulging some personal information. You can control levels of privacy for your user profile on your account page. Currently, new member profiles are not private by default on the member directory but you may change the privacy settings in your account. Customers purchasing items are not shown on the member directory by default — if you want to make sure, check the “customer” box when registering. You can change your privacy level in your profile later if you would like.
- You will not abuse the messaging system on the website or the groups feature. Members are allowed to create groups, especially ones somewhat related to the topic of this website, but please do not create a bunch of extraneous groups that you do not plan to manage. Groups are for discusion. Please don’t create groups that are entirely intended to sell products or that are misleading and spread false information, hateful, or that purport to offer services that should be left to trained professionals. If you wish to create a photography group to discuss and teach photography skills…great. But please do not try to use a group for offering mental health counseling or try to charge for entry to a private group. Admin on this website reserves the right to join any group and to take down any group.
- We’ve set up moderation systems on our website. You can block a member from a button on the member directory or that member’s profile and you may report groups, activity, or members that violate terms. We cannot keep tabs on everything all of the time and items that get reported enough may be auto-moderated.
- You will refrain from hateful speech (or, rather, writing, in this case), name-calling, flaming, trolling, or otherwise bothersome behavior.
- You acknowledge the privacy policy of this website and that we use some data processors such as Google and Facebook for analytics and advertising purposes.
- The admin and any potential moderators on this website reserve the right to take down any content posted at any time or to block members for abusive behavior.
- You can delete your user account whenever you want in your account.
- You can also add two-factor authentication to your account. Our 2fa system uses the Google Authenticator app.
- New members will start off with “member” status which allows you to submit posts for review, add events linked to your account, create groups, and use profile features. For some event organizers who regularly submit events with the correct details, we may upgrade them to a status where they can publish and edit their own events.
- You warrant that you are over 13 years of age.
- Please keep any photos posted in member profiles or albums at the “safe” level.
Post And Event Submission Terms and Conditions
We encourage community post submissions and contributions from community event organizers.
So we can keep everything in one place and current, please refer to our writers’ guidelines in our FAQ section for terms and conditions relevant to post and event submissions.
Photography Terms of Use
Please see this page for our photography terms of use.
Newsletters
We have gone from using an outside provider for newsletters (mailchimp) to hosting our own email newsletters. We use double opt in to ensure that only people who want to subscribe do so and will add an unsubscribe link to any email that we send to our list. Please note that the Newsletters page in the user profile sometime does NOT connect a users email with their newsletter subscriber profile even when logged in. The best way to unsubscribe or to change your preferenes to a newsletter is to use the links provided with emails that we send.
Cookies
You may refer to our privacy pages, which list specific cookies used on this website. We’ve currently gone back to using Google reCaptcha v3 — the invisible kind — which does collect some user data to distinguish real users from bad bots. We’ve found that it was less intrusive than a “verify you’re a human” checkbox and that the v2 checkbox wasn’t quite as effective at keeping the bad bots at bay. However, if you are a real human and find that you cannot log in, please let us know so we can change our reCaptcha settings.