Tat2Portal Membership Agreement

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Tat2Portal
Membership Agreement
Version 2 — [Effective Date TBD]
1. Tat2Portal and This Agreement
Tat2Portal is a private, membership-based platform built for the tattoo, piercing, and body art industry. It provides continuity and operational infrastructure connecting clients and independent professionals — simplifying identity, scheduling, consent, communication, records, and payment coordination within a single membership experience.
Tat2Portal is not a tattoo or piercing provider, employer, medical provider, licensure authority, regulatory agency, or guarantor of legal compliance. It does not supervise, direct, or control procedures performed by independent professionals. All procedures are independently performed by professionals operating under their own judgment, training, and applicable law.
Participation in Tat2Portal does not create an employment, agency, partnership, franchise, or joint venture relationship between Tat2Portal and any participating member.
By creating an account or using Tat2Portal, you agree to be bound by this Membership Agreement.
2. Membership Structure
Tat2Portal is a private membership network limited to registered members. Members participate in one of the following roles:
Client Members
A Client Member is an individual who participates in Tat2Portal as a recipient of tattoo, piercing, or body art services. Client Members use Tat2Portal to communicate with professionals, schedule appointments, participate in consent workflows, and preserve continuity across sessions and interactions. Client Members are responsible for providing truthful and accurate information connected to appointments, consent, health-related disclosures, and dependent participation. Dependent participation is governed by Section 4.
Professional Members
A Professional Member is an independent tattoo, piercing, or body art professional participating in Tat2Portal as part of their independent practice. Professional Members use Tat2Portal to manage appointments, communicate with clients, coordinate services, document professional interactions, and utilize consent and workflow systems.
Professional Members remain fully independent and are solely responsible for professional judgment, procedural decisions, lawful operation, sanitation practices, licensure and permit requirements, and compliance with applicable law. Tat2Portal does not supervise, direct, or control independent professional practice.
Participating Locations
Tat2Portal supports tattoo and piercing establishments as participating locations associated with professional members. Establishments are recognized as operating locations — not as membership identities. Tat2Portal does not own, supervise, or operate establishments. Operational responsibility remains with the applicable owner, permit holder, or operator.
3. Payment Facilitation
Tat2Portal provides payment coordination infrastructure to support transactions between members. Tat2Portal is not a payment processor, merchant of record, bank, or financial institution.
Transactions for tattoo, piercing, or body art services are transactions between clients and independent professionals. Tat2Portal provides infrastructure to facilitate payment coordination but does not become a party to services performed by independent professionals. Tat2Portal does not control processor approval decisions, processor terms or policies, processor fees, payout timing, or processor availability.
Professional Members are responsible for payment processor configuration, tax obligations, refund decisions, compliance with processor requirements, and lawful financial operation.
Tat2Portal separately charges membership fees associated with platform participation. Membership fees are not payment for tattoo or piercing services.
4. Eligibility and Membership Creation
To create and maintain a Tat2Portal account, a member must:
be at least eighteen (18) years of age;
create an account for themselves or for the lawful management of a minor dependent;
provide truthful and materially accurate information;
maintain a valid membership account in good standing; and
agree to participation requirements.
Minors do not independently create Tat2Portal accounts. Where permitted by applicable law and participating professional requirements, a parent or lawful legal guardian may manage dependent participation through their own Tat2Portal account. Dependent participation may be subject to applicable law, guardian authorization, professional discretion, establishment requirements, and additional documentation.
To complete membership creation, members must acknowledge this Membership Agreement, the Tat2Portal Privacy Policy, that they are eighteen (18) years of age or older, and that the account is being created for themselves or for the lawful management of a minor dependent.
5. Member Identity and Conduct
Members agree to maintain truthful and accurate account information and to participate in Tat2Portal in a lawful, honest, and respectful manner.
Members may not:
impersonate another individual;
misrepresent credentials or licensure;
knowingly provide false information;
create deceptive or fraudulent accounts;
create duplicate accounts to bypass restrictions or manipulate platform systems;
engage in fraud or abuse of platform systems;
misuse communication tools;
harass, threaten, or exploit other members;
interfere with platform functionality; or
misuse payment or continuity systems.
Tat2Portal reserves the right to request reasonable verification where necessary to protect member safety, platform integrity, or operational trust.
Professional Members remain independently responsible for lawful professional conduct and independent practice standards.
6. Records, Continuity, and Retrieval
Tat2Portal is a continuity and retrieval platform. Its purpose is to preserve records and provide authorized retrieval pathways when normal continuity is disrupted by real-world events — including artist departures, shop closures, business failures, disasters, or loss of access to records.
Record Ownership
Professional Members own the records connected to work they independently performed. Clients hold continuity rights connected to their own body art history and consent participation. Tat2Portal does not own member records. Tat2Portal provides the infrastructure through which records are preserved and retrieved.
What Tat2Portal Preserves
Records connected to platform participation may include appointment history, consent acknowledgements, communications between members, dependent participation records, professional interactions, payment coordination, and membership activity.
Record Retention
Records are retained for two years from the date of record creation. Records remain retrievable by authorized members throughout the retention period, regardless of account standing.
Access and Retrieval
Normal access to records is available to members through standard platform tools, consistent with membership role and relationship to the record. Retrieval in recovery circumstances — including artist departure, shop closure, business failure, or similar disruptions — is subject to identity verification, relationship verification, authorization review, and audit logging. Access is not automatic or blanket. It is verified and scoped.
Dependent continuity records are retrievable by the parent or lawful legal guardian account holder through the established guardian-member relationship.
Legal Compulsion
Legal compulsion — including subpoenas, court orders, warrants, or other lawful compelled process — operates separately from ordinary member access and retrieval. Tat2Portal complies with lawful compelled disclosure as required by law. This process is not subject to membership privilege or standard retrieval procedures.
Scope Limitations
Tat2Portal does not provide unverified access to records. Tat2Portal does not permit establishments to browse professional records, permit professionals to access unrelated records, or grant access to parties outside the established membership relationship. Tat2Portal does not assume legal ownership of member records or serve as a regulated records custodian.
Tat2Portal does not replace independent professional or establishment recordkeeping obligations under applicable law. Members are responsible for the truthfulness and accuracy of information they submit.
7. Membership Access and Availability
Tat2Portal continuously evolves and improves. Features, tools, and membership experiences may change as the platform grows. Feature availability may vary based on membership role, subscription level, platform maturity, or operational limitations. Tat2Portal makes reasonable efforts to maintain system availability but does not guarantee uninterrupted access at all times.
8. Account Standing and Enforcement
Membership in Tat2Portal is a conditional privilege. Tat2Portal reserves the right to suspend, restrict, or disable membership where reasonably necessary to protect member safety, platform integrity, operational continuity, lawful operation, or community trust.
Violations of this Agreement, fraud, misuse, deceptive conduct, harassment, or conduct that materially undermines platform trust may result in account action. Where appropriate, Tat2Portal may apply warnings, remediation opportunities, or graduated enforcement measures before taking action on an account.
Accounts subject to suspension or disabling are not deleted. Records associated with a suspended or disabled account are retained and remain retrievable in accordance with the retention terms in Section 6.
9. Privacy and Information Use
Tat2Portal collects, stores, organizes, and protects information connected to participation within the network. Use of Tat2Portal is also governed by the Tat2Portal Privacy Policy, which explains what information is collected, how it is used, continuity and preservation practices, communication practices, security measures, and member privacy expectations.
Members agree to review and comply with the Tat2Portal Privacy Policy.
10. Limitation of Responsibility
Tat2Portal provides membership infrastructure and continuity systems. Tat2Portal is not responsible for independent professional decisions, tattoo or piercing outcomes, establishment practices, sanitation practices, legal compliance failures of professionals or establishments, disputes between members, payment processor failures, or professional conduct outside Tat2Portal’s control.
Members understand that body art services involve independent decisions between professionals and clients. Tat2Portal does not supervise, guarantee, or validate those decisions.
11. Updates to This Agreement
Tat2Portal may update this Membership Agreement as the platform evolves. Where material updates occur, Tat2Portal will make reasonable efforts to notify participating members. Continued use of Tat2Portal following updates constitutes acceptance of revised terms.
12. Governing Law
This Agreement is governed by applicable law in the jurisdiction in which Tat2Portal operates unless otherwise required by law. Any unenforceable provision of this Agreement will not invalidate the remaining provisions.
Tat2Portal Membership Agreement — Version 2
Effective Date: [To Be Determined]
This document is pending attorney review prior to implementation.