Hosting & Event Sharing

Host something you would enjoy, welcome other members, and help people make real connections. These guidelines keep our community useful for personal invitations while giving businesses and organized groups a clear way to promote through a partnership.

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Personal Invitations: What You Can Share

You do not need a partnership to organize an informal outing as an individual member or invite others to join you at an established physical business whose offering is not a competing social group or organized meet-new-people activity. You must genuinely plan to attend, welcome members, and make it easy to find you.

• Yes: “I am going for wings at a restaurant on Thursday. Would anyone like to join me? We will meet at the entrance at 6:30.”
• Yes: “I am planning a hike this weekend. Here is the trail, difficulty, meeting point, and plan.” This must be your own informal outing, not a promotion for a hiking business, outside club, instructor, or influencer brand.
• Yes: Inviting members to bowl, visit a museum, or watch a film with you at an established venue, without a promotional arrangement.

Describe your plan in your own words. Include when and where members will meet you, how to recognize you, costs, and what to expect. A copied advertisement, flyer, event link, or “I am going” added to a promotional post is not enough.

Ordinary venue charges do not make a genuine personal invitation commercial. If you own, work for, represent, or receive a benefit from the promoted business or organizer, disclose that relationship and use the partnership route.

When a Partnership Is Required

An active partnership is required for any of the following:

• Event or business shares when you are not attending: This includes forwarding an event, recommending that members attend without you, or posting a business promotion.
• Other clubs and organized social communities: Dance clubs, language-exchange groups, dog-walking clubs, networking groups, friendship meetups, and similar organizations.
• Classes and organized group activities: Fitness classes, dance sessions, instructor-led groups, and externally organized hikes or outings.
• Branded social events: Activities promoted by a business, outside club, instructor, influencer, or branded page where people come together to meet others or join that organizer's community.
• Other commercial or organizational promotion: Advertising, customer or member recruitment, referral offers, and promotion for a business or brand that does not qualify for the genuine personal-invitation exception above.

These requirements still apply if the activity is free, the organization is nonprofit, you are only volunteering, or you personally plan to attend. A physical address does not exempt a dance social, fitness class, or another club's meetup. Using a personal account instead of a business page does not change the nature of the promotion.

For example, sharing a dance club's social night requires a partnership. Organizing your own unbranded hike as a fellow member does not. Inviting people to have wings with you at a restaurant is welcome; advertising that restaurant's organized social mixer or networking night requires a partnership.

These rules apply to event listings and promotional posts, comments, links, and flyers shared in our club communities. Please do not ask another member to post a promotion on your behalf to bypass them.

Partner With Our Community

A partnership provides a clear, supported way to introduce your business or organization to members who are looking for activities, places to go, and people to meet. Depending on the option you choose, benefits can include reviewed partner announcements, directory visibility, member offers, and collaboration opportunities.

The partnership must be active and cover the business or organizer being promoted. A regular account, VIP membership, expired partnership, or an unrelated person's partner status is not a substitute. Partnerships explicitly granted by our administration also count while active.

Partner promotion must be relevant, reasonable in frequency, and consistent with club rules. Posts and events remain subject to review. A partnership does not guarantee publication, attendance, sales, or an exception to prohibited-event rules.

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Unsure which category applies? Contact us before posting with the organizer's name, your connection to them, and the event details. Our administrators decide whether a post is a personal invitation or promotion. Posts that do not meet these guidelines may be removed; repeated attempts to disguise promotion may lead to posting restrictions.

Events We Do Not Allow

These restrictions apply to members and partners alike:

• Sales or investment presentations, financial recruitment meetings, realtor open houses, and similar sales-led events.
• Affiliate or direct-sales merchandise parties, including multilevel-marketing recruitment.
• Dating or sexual events, including speed dating, fetish, kink, swingers, and sexual-lifestyle recruitment events.
• Events involving illegal drugs. Legal alcohol, cannabis, or tobacco use must follow venue rules and applicable law, and must never be pressured or required.
• Political rallies or events focused on political or controversial topics.
• Casino or gambling activities involving real money, including cash-stakes poker nights.
• Promotion of pseudoscience or unproven therapies.
• Culturally insensitive or appropriative events.
• Deeply personal or sensitive discussion groups, such as discussions of sexual abuse or eating disorders, without an appropriate professional moderator.
• High-risk activities without proper planning, safeguards, and any required qualifications.

Planning, Venues, and Costs

• Plan clearly: Set a purpose, date, meeting point, approximate duration, group size, and any equipment or ability requirements. Describe accessibility and foreseeable hazards honestly.
• Choose an appropriate venue: Public or rentable spaces are preferred. Private residences and apartment common rooms require prior approval. To host at a private residence, you must have been a member for at least one year and attended at least 10 events; meeting these minimums does not replace approval.
• No pressure to consume: Frat-style house parties and events that pressure or require people to consume alcohol or cannabis are not allowed. Illegal recreational drugs are not permitted.
• Self-pay activities: No financial preapproval is needed when each person pays the venue directly for their own meal, admission, or activity, provided the event otherwise meets these guidelines.
• Collecting money or pre-purchasing: Get approval before collecting upfront payments from members or reselling reserved places. For example, buying 10 tickets and asking members to reimburse you for the other nine requires approval. Explain the price, payment arrangements, and cancellation or refund terms before anyone commits.
• Risk and responsibility: Participation in, or hosting, any event is at your own risk. The club cannot vouch for the conduct of any members or the conditions of external venues. By hosting or attending, you acknowledge that you are assuming all risks associated with these activities and agree to not hold the club or its organizers liable for any incidents. You accept full responsibility and liability for your event and its attendees.

Posting and Communicating Your Event

• Say who is organizing it: Distinguish your member-led outing from a partner event or an event run by another organization. Do not describe it as an official club event without authorization.
• Be transparent: Name the venue and organizer, disclose your relationship to them, and state all known costs. Do not conceal commissions, complimentary admission, referrals, or business interests.
• Make the meetup practical: Tell people exactly where to meet, how to find you, and how to reach you if plans change. Do more than copy an organizer's description.
• Keep the invitation genuine: If you can no longer attend, update the listing promptly. Arrange an approved replacement host or cancel your member meetup; do not leave it up as an unattended advertisement.
• Welcome members: Be respectful and inclusive, describe the activity's practical requirements, and follow our club rules.

During and After the Event

• Be an available host: Greet arrivals, look for people trying to find the group, and make introductions. Being occupied as the performer, vendor, or instructor usually does not leave you available to host a personal member meetup.
• Help people connect: Encourage conversation and consider name tags or an icebreaker for larger groups.
• Keep people informed: Use the event's communication tools or an optional attendee chat for changes. Respect members' privacy when sharing contact details or photos.
• Follow up: Thank attendees, invite feedback, and report concerns to the administration. You are welcome to send us suitable photos and a short event summary for possible sharing.

Good member events start with a real invitation and an available host. If your goal is to promote an organization, grow an audience, or attract customers, a partnership is the right place to start.