Terms of Service
Trumpets 4 Christ
Updated Wednesday, January 20, 2021.
Article I – Membership
As a member or moderator, you agree that:
1. Trumpets 4 Christ is a community online-based platform for persons ages
13 and older;
2. YOU are 13 years or older; with adult permission
3. A valid account represents membership;
4. Membership is free unless the member chooses a paid account type;
5. Membership is valid only if ALL of the following are true:
a. The user is 13 years of age or older;
b. The user identifies as male or female;
c. The user is recognized by Trumpets 4 Christ as “eligible”;
d. A valid, legally accurate date of birth was entered upon registration
and/or is present within their account details -or- the member was verified
by Legal ID; and
e. A valid email address was entered upon registration
6. To promote member health and safety, membership will be voided and
terminated where any of the following conditions are met:
a. The user is “ineligible” - meaning their membership is invalid and/or
they are blacklisted from any current or prior Trumpets 4 Christ site;
b. The user bypassed entering his DOB (date of birth) upon registration, or
intentionally entered an invalid/erroneous DOB - and refused to respond
after multiple unsuccessful contact attempts to validate it;
c. The user failed to register with a valid, working email address;
d. The user attempted to register with an email address from a temporary
email service, which Trumpets 4 Christ does not recognize as valid
7. Trumpets 4 Christ reserves the right to disable or terminate memberships
that have been inactive for an extended period of time;
8. A valid Trumpets 4 Christ membership grants provisional access to
Trumpets 4 Christ - via Trumpets 4 Christ Network (https://
Trumpets4Christ.com) and Trumpets 4 Christ Videonet (https://www.
Trumpets4Christ.com);
9. Trumpets 4 Christ reserves the right to ultimately disable and/or
terminate your membership/account for any reason at any time.
Article II – Moderators
Moderators are trusted members who are granted the power to delete posts,
comments, photos, video, and other media that threaten member
privacy/safety and breach our Terms of Service. They are clearly labeled
“Site Mod” for visibility.
As a member you understand, and as a moderator you agree that:
1. Moderators are authentic and respectful toward the community they help
defend;
2. Moderators never break the rules, which they have the power to uphold;
3. Members can not reach Moderator status without being verified, and
verification is optionally requested via Settings using legal
identification;
4. Moderators never abuse their controls to silence or harass their peers;
5. Moderators are not Administrators, but Administrators do moderate. This
is important in denoting their limited access, and means:
a. Moderators can NEVER see your private messages;
b. Moderators can NEVER sign into your account or otherwise view personal
data secured by your username, password, or two-factor authentication (if
enabled);
c. All of Article II [The Moderator’s Code] applies to Moderators, but not
necessarily Administrators, whose elevated accesses are backed by a legally
binding Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) that universally protects the
information you share with this website.
d. Moderators are given freedom of discretion to take immediate action if
they believe a member’s safety/privacy is at risk or the rules have been
breached;
e. Moderators’ actions must be based on these Terms of Service;
f. Moderators will not operate a “strikes system” in dealing with
harassment, abuse, illegal/unacceptable content, or other damaging behavior
across our website. Instead, we act thoroughly, swiftly, and fairly as a
team to maintain the trust of our peers and the health of our platform;
g. Moderators reserve the right to recommend the removal of a profile that
is “blank”, missing critical information (such as a member’s date of birth)
or has misleading, random, exploitative or illegal material;
h. A moderator who is found to breach his code at the expense of a member
will not be allowed to become one again.
Article III – Content
In order to maintain the INSERT COMPANY experience, we define our rules by
the needs of our members but operate in sync with the rule of United States
law. Article III applies universally to the Trumpets 4 Christ Network and
Trumpets 4 Christ Videonet.
As a member or moderator, you agree that:
1. Trumpets 4 Christ is a website for an online community that is
faith-based of - seeing inspiring content should be fully expected during
membership;
2. Article III applies to the Trumpets 4 Christ Network & Trumpets 4
Christ Videonet;
3. Content rules are made in lockstep with United States law, and Trumpets
4 Christ has no obligation to accommodate differences in law of other
countries. Compliance with local law is your responsibility;
4. Absolutely no content against US law is permitted on Trumpets 4 Christ -
ever. You agree that violating this rule forfeits your membership, and will
be reported to the appropriate authorities where necessary;
5. Content (such as writing, artwork, photography, or videography)
referencing or depicting persons below the legal age (18+ for Trumpets 4
Christ ) is forbidden. You agree that violating this rule forfeits your
membership, and will be reported to the appropriate authorities where
necessary:
6. Written content in which it’s reasonably clear that personal experiences
are being discussed is the only exception to this rule
A. In matters of content, members will uphold common decency and obey the
DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) by:
B. Never uploading content, to our server, that could compromise the
identity of someone else - member or not - unless explicit permission has
been granted to share this content;
C. Never re-uploading content, to our server, actively shared elsewhere by
its originator - unless explicit permission has been granted to share this
content;
D. Never re-uploading content, to our server, actively being sold by its
originator, watermarked, or otherwise intended for sale;
E. Never re-uploading the content of another Trumpets 4 Christ member
without their consent
7. Members who intentionally duplicate content belonging to someone else,
whether for sale and not for sale, to our server, and without explicit
permission understand that they may lose their membership and not be
allowed to return;
8. Requests, from members or non-members, invoking the DMCA’s protections
take ultimate priority with our moderation actions;
a. Too many copyright strikes will lead to losing your access to Trumpets 4
Christ Network and Trumpets 4 Christ Videonet, restricted privileges, or
your membership entirely;
b. Content found to violate a claimed copyright will be removed immediately
upon validation
9. Any content uploaded to Trumpets 4 Christ servers must involve sexual or
bad language content is prohibited by Trumpets 4 Christ, with few
exceptions:
a. Posts within explicitly non- discussion forums; and
b. Posts within forums where the content is said to be allowed in the
description
10. Nudity and sex are not permitted on the site so long as the content
sufficiently relates to
11. Restrictions on what can be practiced on the platform are dissolved.
All content, however, must obey United States law and not be in violation
of our Terms of Service;
12. Degrees of separation are henceforth in place - you will only see
content from those you’ve friended, pages you’ve liked, and groups you’ve
joined - with few exceptions - to enforce relevance and goodwill amongst
ists through the Global Feed system;
13. Moderators will remove content believed by Trumpets 4 Christ to be out
of scope of our website’s focus, or our interests, with or without notice.
Article IV - Liability & Appeals
As a member or moderator, you agree that:
14. Trumpets 4 Christ may disable, terminate your membership, or cease
providing you with all or part of our services at any time for any or no
reason, as reserved in Article I, Rule No. 9;
15. Trumpets 4 Christ may especially exercise this right if we believe:
a. A member violated our Terms of Service;
b. A member creates risk or possible legal exposure for Trumpets 4 Christ
or its members;
c. A member should be removed due to unlawful conduct;
d. A member should be removed for prolonged inactivity; or
e. The provision of our services to you is no longer commercially viable
16. Trumpets 4 Christ reserves the right to use its controls in order to
meter/halt site traffic, usage of our resources, registration, and whatever
it deems necessary to ensure continuity of the website;
17. Trumpets 4 Christ exercises its right to terminate your membership, we
will automatically notify you via the email address associated with your
account;
a. In such a case that your membership is terminated by you or us, the
Terms of Service shall terminate for you as well. This includes, without
limitation, your license to use our services;
b. If you believe that your membership was DISABLED in error, you can file
an appeal using the steps found in our footer, labeled “Appeals”;
c. If you believe that your membership was TERMINATED in error, we cannot
recover it - however, you can file an appeal using the steps found in our
footer, labeled “Appeals”, if you find yourself blocked from being able to
register again;
d. You agree that a user is not guaranteed their desired result just for
filing an Appeal;
e. Trumpets 4 Christ is not responsible for a membership termination
message that fails to reach you due to your own violation of our Terms of
Service - not registering with a valid email address
18. Any use/reliance on Trumpets 4 Christ content posted via our services
(or obtained by you through the service we offer) is at your own risk;
19. We don’t endorse, represent, or guarantee the completeness,
truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any content or communications
posted using our services;
20. Best as we try to maintain our feeds, you may still be exposed to
content that is offensive, harmful, inaccurate, or otherwise inappropriate
while using the services provided by Trumpets 4 Christ;
21. All content is the sole responsibility of the person who originated it.
Outside of our ongoing moderation practices intended to defend the site, we
cannot take responsibility for the content belonging to someone else,
uploaded against our rules.
Article V - Profile
As a member or moderator, you agree that:
22. 1. A “profile”, by Trumpets 4 Christ terms, is the front-facing element
of valid membership to our website;
23. 2. A “quality” member profile contributes fairly to the community’s
interests:
a. It answers “who you are”, “what you want”, and, for that intent on
networking, “where you’re based”;
b. It has a set avatar and/or cover;
c. It chips in with quality posts over time
24. A “blank” member profile:
a. Addresses little to none of the questions of a quality member profile;
b. Has no set avatar/cover -or- an irrelevant, arbitrary image set as its
avatar/cover;
c. Has no quality posts over time
25. Blank profiles are considered a nuisance and an indication of lurking
behavior, and maybe erased - with or without notice, which is a reserved
power per Article I, Rule #8;
26. You will maintain a quality profile to the best of your ability for the
duration of your membership;
27. You will never place intentionally misleading, illegal, defamatory, or
exploitative content on your profile, avatar, or feed;
28. You will never impersonate other members or people in any way through
any part of your profile, avatar, or feed;
29. You will never “catfish” or otherwise misrepresent yourself
intentionally to other members using our platform;
30. Members that impersonate others will lose their membership;
31. Members that “catfish” or otherwise misrepresent themselves
intentionally to other members will lose their membership;
Article VI - The Verification Code
As a member or moderator, you understand and agree that:
32. 1. “Verification” is a VOLUNTARY process, found in Settings, by which
any member may request us to authenticate that:
a. 1. He is a “real person” by reviewing his Legal ID / Passport
b. 2. He Is 18 years old or older
33. A member’s Legal ID / Passport is erased from the server IMMEDIATELY
after a decision is made if this was the means of verification;
34. While a verification request is pending, any Legal ID / Passport is
encrypted at rest on our server;
35. Each verification is documented by the Managing Director, who retains a
record of:
a. 1. Each verified user’s unique Member #;
b. 2. The verified user’s DOB as it reflects on their ID/Passport;
c. 3. The verified user’s legal First Name;
d. 4. Whether the verification was accepted and applied
36. The Managing Director, under no circumstances, retains Legal IDs /
Passports as part of documentation - those are, as stated earlier, erased
from the server immediately after a decision is made;
37. Members whose verification requests are accepted are given a “trust”
mark, a highly visible checkmark used on many social media websites
already, which denotes their verified status across the site;
38. Verification is in no way mandatory for you to use our website;
39. Verification can only be granted by a site administrator - and all
administrators sign an enforceable Non-Disclosure Agreement;
40. If there is no internal record on file to account for how a
verification decision was made, the verification will be revoked until it
is performed again;
41. Verification is a proactive feature that enables members to:
a. Safely separate themselves from non-verified users while maintaining
total control of their privacy;
b. Distinguish members who are age verified from members that are not
42. 11. Verification is NOT:
a. A guarantee of personal safety;
b. A background check of any kind;
c. An excuse not to ask for ID when meeting a member in person to ensure
they’re of legal age;
d. An assurance that should be relied upon for offline engagements
43. Verification IS:
a. A trust mark that indicates a member was authenticated to be 18 years or
older by an NDA-backed administrator based on best available information;
b. An indicator that the person behind a profile was vetted to the best of
an administrator’s ability
44. Administrators, including the Managing Director, reserve the right to
accept or refuse alternative means of verification proposed in lieu of
privacy reservations, given the process is not mandatory;
45. The Managing Director retains the sole authority to issue or revoke
verification to/from any member for any reason