Draft, pending legal review
This document was written in-house and has not been reviewed by a lawyer. Anything in square brackets is a blank that has to be filled in before it stands: the registered entity, its address, and the addresses to write to. Read it as a statement of how we intend to run things, not as a final agreement.
Last updated 9 September 2026
What you agree to when you join, what we owe you, and what happens to your money and your membership when you leave.
The Man Cave Project ("the Man Cave", "we", "us") is operated by [registered entity name], [registered address], United Arab Emirates. These terms govern your use of our apps, our website and everything we run through them: membership, gatherings, Man Cave circles, chat, coaching bookings and the points and ranks that sit on top of them.
By creating an account, taking a seat at a gathering or paying for a membership, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree to them, do not use the service.
You must be at least 18 years old. Membership is by application, and we may accept or decline any application without giving a reason. We may also require a referral or a vouch from an existing member.
You agree that the details you give us are true, that the account is yours alone, and that you will not let anyone else use it. Keep your sign-in secure. Tell us as soon as you think someone else has access to it.
Membership tiers, what each one opens and what each one costs are set by us and shown in the app before you pay. Prices are in UAE dirhams (AED) and include any applicable VAT unless stated otherwise.
Paid memberships renew automatically at the end of each billing period, monthly or yearly as you chose, until you cancel. We take payment through Stripe on the card you gave us, on or around the renewal date shown on your membership card.
We may change the price of a tier. A change never applies to a period you have already paid for, and we will tell you before it applies to you. Where a member is held at an older rate, the rate his own subscription charges is the one shown on his membership card, and it is the one we take.
If a payment fails, we may retry it and we may suspend the parts of the service your membership pays for until it clears.
You can freeze a paid membership for up to three months from your profile. While it is frozen, billing pauses and so do posting, reservations and joining new Chambers. You can resume at any time.
You can cancel at any time from your profile. Cancelling stops the next renewal. You keep everything your membership opens until the end of the period you have already paid for, and the date is shown to you before you confirm.
Cancelling does not, by itself, return any money. See the next section.
Payments are not returned automatically. Cancelling a membership, giving up a seat at a gathering or cancelling a coaching session releases what you are holding, but it does not trigger a refund.
If you believe you are owed money back, write to us at [contact email] with what you paid for and what happened. We look at every request, and we issue refunds by hand where we agree one is due. Refunds are returned to the card that paid.
We will normally refund you in full if we cancel a gathering you have paid for and cannot offer you a place at a replacement. Nothing here limits any right you have under UAE consumer law.
A seat is held for you personally. Seats are not transferable and cannot be resold. Where a seat has to be paid for, it is only yours once the payment has gone through, and an unpaid hold may be released so somebody else can take it.
Turning up matters. Repeatedly booking a seat and not arriving may cost you the ability to book, and we say so in the app at the point it applies.
We may change the time, the venue or the host of a gathering, and we may cancel one. If we cancel, we will tell everyone holding a seat.
What is said in a Man Cave circle stays in the room. Do not record it, do not repeat it outside the room, and do not bring anyone into it who has not been seated by a host.
Coaches listed in the app are independent. They set their own availability, their own prices and the content of their sessions. We provide the place to find them, the booking and the payment rail, and we take a platform fee from what you pay.
The coaching relationship is between you and the coach. We are not responsible for the advice given in a session, and coaching is not medical, psychological, legal or financial advice.
If you cannot make a session, cancel it in the app so the coach can use the time. As above, a cancellation does not automatically return the money.
This is a room of men who have to be able to trust each other. The following will get you removed:
You keep ownership of what you write and the photographs you upload. You give us permission to store, display and distribute them inside the service so it works: your post in the Fire, your photograph on your profile, your message in a chat.
You are responsible for what you post, and you confirm you have the right to post it. We may remove anything that breaks these terms, and we may suspend or close an account that keeps doing it. Members can report a post or a member from inside the app, and we look at every report.
Points, ranks, badges and vouches are a record of standing inside the Man Cave. They have no cash value, they cannot be exchanged for money, and they cannot be transferred to another member. We may adjust or remove them where they were awarded in error or earned by gaming the system.
Payments are processed by Stripe. We do not see or store your full card number. Coaches are paid out through Stripe Connect. Chat runs on Stream. Sign-in, file storage and push notifications run on Google Firebase. Each of those has its own terms, and using this service means those parts of it run through them.
You can delete your account from your profile. Deleting it erases your profile, your photograph and your contact details, cancels your membership and stops billing.
What you wrote stays. Posts, comments, reservations and attendance records remain, attributed to a former member, because removing them would tear holes in other men’s conversations and in our own records. We also keep what we have to keep for tax, accounting and legal reasons.
We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms. Where we close a paid membership for a breach, we do not refund the remainder of the period.
We work to keep the service running, but we do not promise it will be available without interruption. We may change features, add them or take them away, and we may stop offering the service entirely, in which case we will give members notice and deal fairly with any period already paid for.
The Man Cave is not a medical, psychological or therapeutic service. Nothing in a circle, a chat, a post or a coaching session is a substitute for professional help. If you are in crisis, contact the emergency services or a qualified professional.
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for loss of profit or opportunity, or for what another member, host or coach does or says. Our total liability to you for anything arising out of these terms is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.
Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for fraud.
We may update these terms. If a change matters to you, we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the updated terms. If you do not, you can cancel.
These terms are governed by the laws of the United Arab Emirates and the Emirate of Dubai, and the courts of Dubai have jurisdiction over any dispute. Talk to us first: most things are settled faster that way.
Write to [contact email], or to [registered entity name], [registered address], United Arab Emirates.