Member terms

1. What Plectra is

Plectra is the platform that curators use to host private member communities — group conversation, a member dashboard, and subscription billing. You arrive at a community through an invitation from an existing member or a curator’s link.

Your community’s curator sets its standards, moderates its conversation, and is the merchant of record for your subscription. The charge appears on your card statement under the curator’s business name. Plectra is not the seller of your subscription.

2. Your account

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account on Plectra. The information you give Plectra — your email address, display name, and profile details — must be accurate and current. You are responsible for keeping your password secure and for everything that happens on your account.

Founding members with a comp’d membership are not charged; all other memberships involve a subscription paid to the curator.

3. Subscription, renewal, and cancellation

Subscriptions renew automatically each month until you cancel. The renewal terms — price, billing date, and cancellation path — are shown to you at checkout and in your confirmation email before any charge is made. This is the disclosure California’s Automatic Renewal Law (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17600 et seq.) and other applicable subscription statutes require.

You may cancel at any time through the Stripe Customer Portal accessible from your member dashboard. After cancellation, your access continues through the period you have already paid for. Refund decisions belong to the curator, who is the merchant of record.

The price of your subscription is set by the curator of your community. Plectra will tell you of any price change at least 30 days before it takes effect.

4. Acceptable use

You may not use Plectra to post or transmit content that is unlawful under the laws of the United States or the jurisdiction where you are located; that harasses, threatens, or abuses another person; that is fraudulent or intended to mislead; or that infringes another party’s intellectual-property rights.

You may not use automated means to access the platform (“scraping”), circumvent technical controls, or abuse Plectra’s billing or invitation systems. Plectra may suspend your account for material violations of this section.

5. Your content

You own the content you post. By posting it in a Plectra community, you give Plectra and the curator a limited license to store, display, and transmit it as part of operating the community. You do not give Plectra the right to sell your content or use it for advertising.

You are responsible for the content you post. If your content infringes another party’s copyright, the process for notice-and-takedown is in Section 9.

6. Payments and Stripe

Payment processing is provided by Stripe. Card details and payment-method data are held by Stripe under Stripe’s privacy policy. Plectra does not hold your card number.

7. Suspension and termination

You may close your account at any time by cancelling your subscription and contacting Plectra at dom@dom.net.

Plectra may suspend or terminate your account if you materially breach these terms, if a court or regulator orders it, or if Stripe closes the account associated with your community. Where the cause is one you can correct, Plectra will give you reasonable notice — at least ten days — before acting, unless immediate action is required.

A curator may also remove you from their specific community independently of Plectra.

8. Disclaimer of warranties

Plectra works to keep the platform maintained and available. Within that commitment:

THE PLATFORM AND PLECTRA’S SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE EXTENT THE LAW PERMITS, PLECTRA DISCLAIMS THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

Nothing in this section limits a warranty or protection that the law gives you and that cannot be disclaimed.

9. Copyright — notice and takedown

Plectra hosts user-generated content and responds to notices of copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512). The designated agent for receiving infringement notices is:

Axle Radar LLC c/o Dom Sagolla
dom@dom.net

A valid notice must include: (1) a signature of the copyright owner or authorized agent; (2) identification of the copyrighted work; (3) identification of the infringing material with enough detail to locate it; (4) contact information for the complaining party; (5) a statement of good-faith belief that the use is not authorized; and (6) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information is accurate and the complaining party is authorized to act.

If your content is removed and you believe that was a mistake, you may send a counter-notification under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g). If you do, we may restore the content 10 to 14 business days later, unless the person who complained first files a court action to keep it down. Repeat infringers may have their accounts terminated.

10. Limit of liability

TO THE EXTENT THE LAW PERMITS, PLECTRA’S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF PLECTRA IS LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND US DOLLARS ($1,000). PLECTRA IS NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST DATA.

This section does not limit Plectra’s liability for fraud, willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by Plectra’s negligence, or any other liability that cannot be limited under applicable law.

11. Changes to these terms

Plectra may revise these terms. If a revision is material, Plectra will tell you by email at least 30 days before it takes effect. If you do not accept a revision, you may close your account before the effective date. Continuing to use Plectra after a revision takes effect is your acceptance of it.

12. Governing law and dispute resolution

These terms are governed by the law of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. If a dispute arises, you and Plectra will first try to resolve it directly, in good-faith conversation, for at least 30 days. A dispute not resolved that way will be settled by binding arbitration administered by JAMS under its commercial arbitration rules, before a single arbitrator, in San Francisco, California. Either party may bring a qualifying claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief where arbitration is not practical.

You and Plectra each agree to bring claims only on an individual basis, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any class or representative action.

You can opt out of arbitration. Email dom@dom.net within 30 days of first accepting these terms, and the arbitration and class-waiver provisions above will not apply to you.

13. How to reach us

Questions about these terms: dom@dom.net.

Plectra is operated by Axle Radar LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, with its principal place of business in California.