Welcome to KinkKal. By accessing or using our website, database, or associated tools, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use the site.
1. Age Restriction (18+)
KinkKal is an adult-oriented platform designed to catalog events related to kink, BDSM, and alternative lifestyles. You must be at least 18 years of age (or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction) to access or use this website. By using this site, you formally represent and warrant that you meet this age requirement.
2. Nature of the Service & Liability Waiver
KinkKal is strictly an informational directory. We aggregate, organize, and display publicly available information regarding community events.
- We do not host or endorse events: KinkKal does not organize, sponsor, vet, or endorse any of the events, venues, or individuals listed on this platform.
- Attend at your own risk: You assume all risks associated with attending any event listed on KinkKal. We are not liable for any injury, loss, damage, or dispute that occurs as a result of attending an event found through our directory.
- Accuracy of Information: While our Editors strive for accuracy, event details (times, locations, costs, rules) change frequently. We do not guarantee the accuracy of any listing. Always verify details with the official event organizer.
3. User Submissions & Public Data
When you submit an event or correction to KinkKal, you are actively contributing to a public database.
- Public Visibility: You acknowledge that any event details submitted will be publicly visible on the internet. Do not submit private, invite-only, or residential events without the explicit permission of the organizer.
- Right to Moderate: KinkKal and its Editors reserve the right to edit, modify, reject, or delete any submission at our sole discretion, for any reason, without notice.
- No Spam or Solicitations: Submissions must be genuine community events. Commercial spam, irrelevant advertising, or malicious links will be removed immediately.
4. Editor Accounts & Gamification
KinkKal utilizes gamification elements (Experience Points (XP), Trust Multipliers, Titles, and Trophies) to reward community contribution.
- No Monetary Value: XP, badges, and rankings have absolutely no real-world monetary value and cannot be exchanged, cashed out, or transferred.
- Editor Privileges: Editor roles are granted on a volunteer basis. We reserve the right to revoke Editor access, reset XP, or remove badges if we detect abuse of the system, malicious editing, or violation of community trust.
5. Paid Event Promotions
A paid promotion purchases time-limited featured placement for an existing KinkKal event listing. It does not purchase event admission, transfer money to an organizer, alter ownership of a listing, or mean that KinkKal endorses the event.
- Community sponsorship: Any person may fund featured placement for an eligible existing listing without creating a KinkKal account. A community sponsor does not become an organizer, cannot edit the listing, cannot represent the event, and receives no admission or organizer proceeds.
- Organizer control: Assigned event owners may disable future community-sponsored checkouts or stop a community-sponsored placement. KinkKal notifies assigned owners after a community-funded purchase. Organizer-requested stops do not automatically issue a refund; KinkKal reviews the undelivered service with the purchaser.
- Scheduling: Placement begins on the dates shown before checkout. If existing coverage is already scheduled, a new purchase follows that coverage and never extends beyond the event. The signed payment-provider webhook, not the browser return page, activates placement.
- Moderation: Payment does not prevent KinkKal from correcting, suspending, or removing a listing that violates these Terms or the Inclusion and Removal Policy.
- Refunds and disputes: Contact KinkKal promptly if we cannot deliver the purchased placement. We will provide replacement placement or refund the undelivered service as appropriate. A full refund revokes the associated promotion. A payment dispute suspends the promotion while the dispute is handled.
- Organizer changes: If an organizer cancels or materially changes an event, contact us before the promotion begins. Refund or replacement requests after placement has begun are reviewed based on the undelivered portion and applicable law.
6. Security, Scraping, and "The Sentinel"
We take the security and stability of our platform seriously. You agree not to:
- Use automated scripts, bots, spiders, or scrapers to extract data from KinkKal.
- Attempt to bypass our security measures, probe for vulnerabilities, or execute attacks (e.g., SQL injection, DDoS) against our infrastructure.
Enforcement: Our Cloudflare-backed security system ("The Sentinel") may challenge, rate-limit, temporarily block, or permanently block requests associated with abusive activity. Enforcement is based on traffic behavior and security signals rather than a promise that every address will be banned forever.
As we are a community project and we believe in sharing what we've collected, we provide open JSON and RSS feeds that other services can extract data from.
7. Intellectual Property & Third-Party Links
KinkKal contains links to third-party websites (such as FetLife, venue pages, and ticketing platforms). We do not control and are not responsible for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites.
The KinkKal name, logo, custom graphics, and proprietary codebase are the property of KinkKal. You may not copy, reproduce, or distribute our proprietary assets without explicit permission.
8. Modifications to the Terms
We reserve the right to update or modify these Terms of Service at any time. Changes will be effective immediately upon posting to this page. Your continued use of the site following any updates constitutes your acceptance of the revised terms.
Contact Administration
If you have questions regarding these terms, please contact us at:
[email protected]