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Function is operated by We make the function LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company, at 1183 University Drive, Ste 105 #2292, Burlington, NC 27215, United States. In these terms, "Function", "we" and "us" mean that company.
These terms govern your use of Function and the function.cx website and application (together, "the platform"). By creating an account, RSVPing to an event, buying a ticket, hosting an event, or otherwise using the platform, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use Function.
When you buy a ticket, you are buying it from us. Function is the merchant of record for every paid ticket sold through the platform: we take the payment, the charge on your statement is ours, we issue any refund, and we are the party you contract with for the purchase itself. The event is run by its host, not by us — section 6 sets out what that means and what we are not responsible for.
These terms incorporate, and you also agree to, our Community Guidelines, Refund Policy, Copyright & DMCA Policy and Privacy Policy. Each forms part of the agreement between you and Function. Where they conflict, these terms govern, except on the specific subject each of those documents addresses.
You must be at least 13 years old to use Function. By creating an account you represent that you are 13 or older.
If you are under 18, you may use Function only with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian, and that parent or guardian must read and agree to these terms on your behalf. A parent or guardian who allows a minor to use Function accepts these terms for that minor and is responsible for the minor's use of the platform, including any purchase made through it and any event the minor attends.
You must be at least 18 to host an event that sells tickets. Selling tickets requires completing Stripe's onboarding, which Stripe makes available only to adults and which verifies identity. Until that is complete, a paid event cannot sell tickets.
Function is not for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 13, we terminate it and delete the information associated with it. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, email hello@function.cx.
Some events are restricted by age by law or by their host — an event serving alcohol is the common case. A host sets the age limit; Function enforces it at the point of sale. When an event is marked 18+ or 21+, we compare it against the date of birth on your account and refuse the ticket if you do not meet it. That check is only as good as what you told us — we do not verify anyone's age, and we do not check ID — so a host may still check ID at the door, and holding a ticket does not entitle you to enter an event you are not old enough to attend. Giving a false date of birth to get into an age-restricted event is a breach of these terms.
You may not use Function if you are barred from doing so under applicable law, or if Function has previously terminated your account.
You must provide accurate information when creating an account and keep it accurate. You are responsible for everything that happens under your account and for keeping your password secure. Tell us promptly at hello@function.cx if you believe someone else is using it.
One person, one account. Do not create an account for someone else without their permission, share your account, or create a new account to evade a termination.
Function is a platform that lets hosts list events and lets other people find, RSVP to, and buy tickets for them. That is the whole of what Function does.
Function does not organise, run, supervise, staff, insure, inspect, or attend any event listed on the platform. Every event is planned and run by its host. Function is not a promoter, producer, venue, employer, agent, or partner of any host, and is not a party to the arrangement between a host and their guests.
Function does not screen, vet, interview, or run background checks on hosts or attendees, and does not verify anyone's identity, criminal history, references, qualifications, insurance, or licences. Function does not inspect venues, check permits, assess capacity or fire safety, or evaluate whether an event is safe or lawful.
Function does not review event listings before they appear and does not verify that anything in a listing is true — including the price, the time, the address, the age limit, who is performing, what is provided, or who the host says they are.
What the "Verified" badge means — and what it does not. Some hosts show a purple verified seal. It marks an early host on the platform. It is not a background check, an identity check, a safety check, or an endorsement by Function. Function awards it, and awarding it involves none of the screening described above, because Function does none of that screening for anyone. A badged host has not been vetted, and you should not treat the badge as a reason to be less careful than you would otherwise be.
Function may remove listings, respond to reports, and enforce these terms. Doing any of that does not mean Function has taken on a duty to review, supervise, or vet anything, and it does not make Function responsible for an event or for anyone at it.
If you host an event, you are solely responsible for it. That includes everything below, and you agree to each of them as a condition of using Function to host.
You represent that you have the right to host the event at the place you have listed, and that holding it there does not breach a lease, mortgage, insurance policy, HOA rule, or any other agreement you are bound by.
Events are gatherings of real people in real places. Some are in private homes.
You attend events at your own risk. By RSVPing to or buying a ticket for an event, you acknowledge and voluntarily accept the risks of attending a gathering organised by someone else — including, without limitation, bodily injury, illness or communicable disease, disability, emotional distress, assault, sexual misconduct, theft, damage to or loss of property, harm caused by alcohol or drugs, harm caused by other attendees or by the host, unsafe premises, traffic and vehicle incidents, and death.
You accept those risks whether they arise from an accident, from someone's negligence, from the condition of a venue, or from anything else — and you accept them knowing that Function does not screen hosts or attendees, does not inspect venues, and is not present at any event.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release Function and its officers, employees, contractors and agents from all claims, demands, damages and liabilities of every kind arising out of or connected to any event you attend, host, or are prevented from attending — including claims for personal injury, wrongful death, assault, property damage, and economic loss — whether the claim arises from the conduct of a host, of another attendee, of a venue, of a third party, or from your own conduct.
This release does not apply to liability that cannot lawfully be released, and does not cover Function's own gross negligence, wilful misconduct, or fraud, or death or personal injury caused by Function's own negligence. It also does not apply to any claim by or on behalf of a person under 18 — a parent or guardian cannot give up a child's own claim for their injuries, and this release does not attempt to. See section 18, whose carve-outs are the same.
You are responsible for your own conduct at events, for following the host's rules and the venue's rules, and for meeting any age or entry requirement. A host or venue may refuse you entry or remove you — for breaking their rules, for intoxication, for conduct, or under a right they hold as the occupier of the premises. Function is not involved in that decision and is not responsible for it, and being refused entry or removed does not by itself entitle you to a refund. Refunds are governed by the Refund Policy.
But that right has a limit, and it is not a licence to discriminate. Hosts are forbidden by section 5 from refusing entry or ejecting anyone on the basis of a protected characteristic, and from refusing a service animal or a personal-care aide. If that happens to you, tell us at hello@function.cx. We cannot undo what happened at the door, but we can and do remove hosts for it.
If you are ejected, injured, or in danger at an event, Function cannot help you in the moment. Function has no staff at events, no emergency line, and no ability to contact anyone on your behalf. In an emergency, call your local emergency number.
Function is not a party to any arrangement between a host and a guest, or between two users. If you have a dispute with a host, a guest, a venue, or anyone else you meet through Function, that dispute is between you and them.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release Function and its officers, employees, contractors and agents from all claims, demands and damages of every kind arising out of or connected to any such dispute. Function may, but is not obliged to, help resolve it, and anything Function does or declines to do in that direction creates no liability and no duty to do the same again.
Paid tickets are processed by Stripe. Card details are entered on Stripe's own checkout page and are never received or stored by Function. Your use of Stripe is also subject to Stripe's own terms and privacy policy, and Function is not responsible for Stripe's services.
Function charges a 5.5% + $0.99 service fee per paid ticket, added at checkout on top of the ticket price. The host receives the full ticket price; the fee is Function's. A $10.00 ticket is therefore charged as $11.54 — $10.00 to the host and $1.54 to Function. The fee is shown before you pay.
Function is the merchant of record for ticket sales and appears as such on your statement. Refunds follow a single platform-wide schedule rather than terms set by each host, and the service fee is returned in full with any refund. See the Refund Policy for the full rules, including when a ticket cannot be refunded.
Chargebacks. If something has gone wrong, contact us before disputing a charge with your bank — a refund under the Refund Policy is issued immediately, while a dispute locks the payment for weeks. Filing a chargeback for a ticket you used, or that was refundable and could have been refunded, is a breach of these terms, and Function may terminate the account behind it and refuse future sales to it.
All amounts are in US dollars.
A ticket is a limited, revocable licence to attend a specific event, issued to your account by the host through Function. It is not a security, not property, and not a guarantee that the event will happen or will be as described.
You may pass a ticket to another Function account using the transfer code shown on it. Claiming a transfer issues the recipient a new QR code and permanently voids yours. A ticket cannot be transferred once it has been scanned at the door, after it has been refunded, or after the event has ended. A transfer also cannot be claimed by someone who already holds a ticket to that event — the three-ticket allowance below applies to tickets you get yourself, not to ones handed to you.
Check-in has a window. A QR code will admit you from two hours before the event's start time until 24 hours after it ends, and not outside that. Arriving earlier than the window opens means the scanner will not let you in yet, even though your ticket is perfectly valid.
A ticket that has been transferred can no longer be refunded by anyone. A refund can only ever be returned to the card that paid, so once the person holding the ticket is not the person who paid for it, Function refuses the refund rather than send one person's money to another. Consider that before transferring a ticket you might want to refund instead.
Each ticket carries a QR code that is checked against our records when it is scanned, and it admits one person once. A screenshot, a copy, or a code that has already been scanned or refunded will not grant entry. Only the event's host can check guests in.
Where a host sets a capacity, tickets stop being issued once it is reached.
You may hold up to three tickets for the same event. Each is a separate ticket with its own QR code, and each is transferred, scanned and refunded independently of the others. Function also limits how many tickets can be bought for one event from a single internet connection in a day, to keep one person from taking a whole event's supply.
Do not resell tickets. Tickets may be passed on only through the in-app transfer feature, and may not be sold, auctioned, or exchanged for anything of value. Function may void a ticket that has been resold, without a refund, and may terminate the accounts involved.
Hosts cancel, postpone, move and change events. Function does not control any of that and does not guarantee that an event will take place, will take place at the advertised time or venue, or will be anything like its listing.
If you cancel an event you host, you must tell your guests. If an event is cancelled, or is removed from Function, the ordinary refund schedule does not apply — contact hello@function.cx and we will sort out the refund. Function may refund buyers of a cancelled or removed event and recover the corresponding amount from the host under section 11.
Hosts: deleting an event deletes every ticket held for it, including paid ones. Deleting an event, or deleting your account while you have events, permanently removes that event and every ticket, RSVP, review and post attached to it. Your guests' QR codes stop working immediately. Nobody is refunded automatically when this happens — the money for tickets already sold has already moved, and unwinding it is a manual process.
If you have sold paid tickets, do not delete the event. Email hello@function.cx and we will cancel it properly and refund your buyers. Deleting it instead does not release you from the obligation to refund them: Function may refund them anyway and recover the amount from you under section 11, and you are responsible to your buyers for the rest.
For an event that is cancelled, postponed, moved, cut short, or not as described, Function will return at least what you paid for the ticket, including the service fee — and that is also the limit of what Function is responsible for. Function is not responsible for anything else you spent or lost — travel, accommodation, time off work, or any other cost or disappointment.
Force majeure. Neither Function nor a host is liable for failing to perform because of something outside their reasonable control — including severe weather, natural disaster, fire, flood, epidemic or pandemic, public-health order, act of terrorism, civil unrest, war, strike, power or network failure, or the act of any government or venue.
To sell paid tickets you must complete Stripe's onboarding, which collects the identity and bank details Stripe requires by law. Function never sees your bank details. Until that is complete, your paid events cannot sell tickets. Your payouts are also governed by Stripe's connected-account agreement, which you enter into with Stripe directly.
You receive the full face value of every ticket sold. Function's service fee is charged to the buyer on top and is never deducted from your takings.
Payouts release 24 hours after an event ends, once that event's card payments have settled with Stripe, and are sent to the bank account you gave Stripe. Money for an event that has not finished is held until then. Card payments take a few days to settle, so a payout can release later than 24 hours — and the first payout on a new Stripe account commonly arrives a week or more after the event while Stripe verifies it. That hold is Stripe's, not ours. Once a payout is sent, the time it takes to arrive is between Stripe and your bank.
A refund takes back your share. When a buyer is refunded, the ticket price you received for that ticket is reversed out of your Stripe balance. Function's service fee is returned to the buyer out of Function's own share — you are never charged for that part — but the face value comes back from you. A refund issued after your payout has already been sent leaves your Stripe balance short, and Function may recover the difference from your next payout or by charging the account you gave Stripe.
The same applies to a chargeback, to an event that is cancelled or removed, and to a sale Function reasonably believes to be fraudulent.
Function may withhold, delay or reverse a payout where it reasonably believes there is fraud, a pattern of disputes, a breach of these terms, or a legal requirement to do so, and may hold funds for as long as reasonably needed to resolve it.
You keep ownership of the photos, clips and text you upload. You grant Function a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable licence to host, store, cache, reproduce, resize, re-encode, generate thumbnails and preview frames from, publicly display and distribute that content, for the purpose of operating, securing and promoting the platform.
Function serves images and clips from long, unguessable public web addresses. That means anyone holding such a link can view the file, and it may appear in link previews outside Function. Treat a shared image link as public.
This licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except that copies other people have already made are outside Function's control, and Function may retain copies in backups and in the records described in section 16 until they age out.
By posting anything, you represent that you created it or have permission from whoever did; that you have any permission needed from people who are identifiable in it; and that it is not defamatory, does not invade anyone's privacy or right of publicity, and does not otherwise break the law or these terms.
If you send Function feedback or suggestions, we may use them without obligation or payment to you.
Events, listings, reviews, posts, comments and profiles on Function are created by users, not by Function. Function is not the publisher or speaker of user content, does not adopt, verify or endorse it, and is not responsible for it. Any reliance you place on it is at your own risk. Function's removal of content, or its decision not to remove content, does not make Function the publisher or speaker of anything, and does not waive any protection available to Function, including under 47 U.S.C. § 230.
Reviews may only be left by people who actually attended — that is, who were scanned in at the door. This is enforced by the platform, not by request.
Photos and clips about an event may be posted by attendees who have been scanned in, and by the event's own host. The window for posting closes 24 hours after the event ends. A post stays on your profile, and on the page of the event it was taken at, until you delete it. It appears in the For You feed for 24 hours after you post it and then leaves the feed — but leaving the feed is not deletion. Anyone signed in who opens your profile, or the event's page, can see it for as long as it exists. Before you post, understand that you are publishing to your profile, not to a feed that forgets. You can delete your own post at any time, and deleting it removes it everywhere at once.
Events stay on their host's profile after they finish, together with the photos and clips posted at them. A host can delete an event; the posts made at it are not deleted with it — they stay on their authors' profiles, no longer attached to an event. Only the person who posted something can delete it, and Function may remove it under the Community Guidelines. If an event is removed by Function, the posts made at it stop being shown.
Where an event is link-only, posts made at it show on the poster's profile as photos or clips without naming the event, except to the host and to people who currently hold a ticket to it or have saved it.
Reviews are the personal opinions of the attendee who wrote them. Function does not verify, endorse or adopt them and does not arbitrate disputes about them. Function will not remove a review because a host disagrees with it, and does not sell or offer the removal of reviews. Function may remove a review that breaches these terms or the Community Guidelines.
Hosts must not condition entry, tickets, refunds or any other benefit on leaving a review or on what a review says, must not offer anything of value in exchange for a review, and must not write or solicit reviews of their own events. Function may remove such reviews and terminate the accounts behind them.
A rating or review is one attendee's experience. It is not a safety rating and not an endorsement by Function, and a well-reviewed host is not a vetted one.
Any signed-in user can report an event, review, post, or profile. Reports go to Function and a person decides what to do about them; nothing is screened or actioned automatically.
Function has no obligation to monitor, screen or pre-review anything, and does not review content before it is published. Function may, but is not required to, look at any report, any content, or any account. Function does not guarantee that a particular report will be reviewed, that it will be reviewed within any period, or that any action will follow. Reviewing or acting on one thing creates no duty to review or act on anything else.
Function may, at its sole discretion and with or without notice, remove or refuse to display any content, unpublish or cancel any event, and terminate any account — for breach of these terms or the Community Guidelines, for conduct Function reasonably believes creates a legal or safety risk, or for any other reason. Function is not required to establish that a breach occurred before acting, and is not liable to you or to anyone else for removing content, for declining to remove content, or for the consequences of either. An event Function has taken down cannot be republished by its host.
An event's exact address, where a host has marked it private, is revealed only to confirmed guests and only close to the event's start time.
Function has zero tolerance for child sexual abuse material and for any sexual content involving a minor. Function reports apparent child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children as 18 U.S.C. § 2258A requires, preserves the material and the associated account records as that section requires, and terminates the account. This obligation overrides any deletion right you have under these terms or the Privacy Policy.
Function terminates, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyright or other intellectual property rights. Our Copyright & DMCA Policy forms part of these terms and sets out how notices are handled and how repeat infringement is assessed.
You may delete your account at any time in the app. Function may terminate an account that violates these terms or the Community Guidelines, or where Function reasonably believes it is necessary to protect users, Function, or a third party. There is no suspended or restricted account state — an account is either open or terminated — and terminating one is a manual decision rather than something the platform does automatically.
Function will tell you at the email address on your account when it terminates it, and will say which term it acted on, unless doing so would compromise an investigation, someone's safety, or a legal obligation. If you believe the decision was wrong, reply to that email within 30 days and a person will look at it again. Function's decision on review is final.
Money does not disappear with the account. Terminating a host does not by itself cancel tickets already sold. Function may cancel your upcoming events and refund their buyers, and may withhold, delay or reverse any payout not yet released, to the extent needed to fund those refunds and to cover disputes, chargebacks and the fees on them.
Termination removes the account and the content attached to it, the same as deleting your own account does; the Privacy Policy covers exactly what that clears. Function may keep a limited record of content it removed, of reports and notices it received, and of the accounts involved — held separately from your account and after it is gone — where it needs to for its repeat-infringer policy, to enforce these terms, to investigate safety or fraud, to comply with a legal obligation or preservation duty, or to defend a claim.
Sections 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 23, and any obligation that accrued before termination, survive it.
The platform and everything on it are provided "as is" and "as available", with all faults and without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Function disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, and any warranty arising from a course of dealing or usage of trade.
Function does not warrant that the platform will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that any content or listing is accurate, complete, or current. Function has no guaranteed uptime and provides no 24-hour support.
Function makes no warranty of any kind about any event — that it will happen, that it will happen when or where it says, that it will be safe, lawful, permitted, insured, supervised, accessible, or as described, or that anyone at it is who they claim to be.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above may not apply to you.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Function will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost goodwill, or the cost of substitute services, arising out of or connected to these terms, the platform, or any event — whether the claim is framed in contract, tort, strict liability, or anything else, and even if Function has been told such damages are possible.
Function's total liability to you for all claims arising out of or connected to these terms or the platform will not exceed the greater of (a) the total service fees Function actually earned from you in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) one hundred US dollars ($100).
These limits do not apply to Function's own gross negligence, wilful misconduct or fraud; to death or personal injury caused by Function's own negligence; or to any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so some of the above may not apply to you.
These limits apply in addition to, not instead of, the releases in sections 6 and 7, and they survive any failure of an essential purpose of a limited remedy.
You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Function and its officers, employees, contractors and agents from any third-party claim, demand, investigation, loss, liability, damage, cost or expense (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or connected to: content you post; your use of the platform; your breach of these terms, the Community Guidelines, or any law; or your violation of anyone's rights.
If you host an event, you additionally indemnify Function against any claim arising out of or connected to that event — including claims for personal injury, wrongful death, assault, property damage, alcohol-related harm, breach of a permit, licence, occupancy or accessibility requirement, or any dispute with an attendee, a venue, a neighbour, or an authority.
Function may take over the defence of any matter you are indemnifying, at your expense, and you will not settle anything that imposes an obligation on Function without our written consent.
Please read this section carefully. It requires most disputes to be resolved by individual arbitration, gives up your right to a jury trial and to participate in a class action, and gives you 30 days to opt out.
Before starting arbitration or any other proceeding, email hello@function.cx describing the dispute and what you want. We will do the same if we have a dispute with you. Both sides agree to try in good faith to resolve it informally for 60 days from that email. Most things end here.
If it is not resolved, you and Function agree that any dispute arising out of or connected to these terms or the platform will be settled by binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, before a single arbitrator, in the county where you live or by video or telephone at your choice. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction. The arbitrator decides all issues except those in 20.4, which a court decides.
Where the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules apply, Function pays the filing and arbitrator fees they require it to pay, and will not seek its legal fees from you unless the arbitrator finds your claim frivolous.
You and Function each waive the right to a jury trial and the right to bring or participate in a class, collective, consolidated or representative action. The arbitrator may award relief only to the individual party seeking it, and only to the extent needed by that party's own claim.
Sexual assault and sexual harassment are never forced into arbitration. If your dispute is a sexual-assault or sexual-harassment claim, you alone choose whether it goes to arbitration or to court, and nothing in this section — including the class-action waiver — limits that choice. This is your right under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (9 U.S.C. §§ 401–402), and it is written here so you do not have to know the statute to use it. Given what section 6 says about the risks of gathering with strangers, this is not a theoretical carve-out.
Either side may bring an individual claim in small-claims court if it qualifies. Either side may also ask a court for an injunction to protect intellectual property or to stop unauthorised access to the platform. A claim for public injunctive relief — an order to stop conduct affecting the general public — may be brought in court, and the waiver in 20.3 does not apply to it. Nothing here prevents you from reporting a matter to a government agency, and nothing here waives any right you cannot lawfully waive.
If the class-action waiver in 20.3 is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim proceeds in court and the rest of this section still applies to everything else.
You can opt out of arbitration. Email hello@function.cx with the subject line "Arbitration opt-out", including your name and the email address on your account, within 30 days of accepting this version of these terms. The window runs from your acceptance of this version, not from whenever you first joined Function — so if we update the terms and ask you to accept again, you get a fresh 30 days. That is all it takes. Opting out costs you nothing, changes nothing else about your account, and we will not treat you differently for it. If you opt out, section 21 governs where disputes are heard.
Any claim must be brought within one year of when it arose, or it is permanently barred, unless applicable law does not allow that limit. This limit does not apply to a claim by or on behalf of a person under 18, whose time to sue runs from their 18th birthday under the law of most states including North Carolina, nor to any other claim the law does not permit to be shortened.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules, and by the Federal Arbitration Act as to section 20. For any dispute not subject to arbitration, you and Function submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in North Carolina, and waive any objection to venue there. Nothing in this section removes a protection given to you by the mandatory law of the place you live.
Function may update these terms. When a change is material, we will give notice — by email to the address on your account, by a notice in the app, or both — before it takes effect. Continuing to use Function after a change takes effect means you accept it. If you do not accept it, stop using Function and delete your account. The "last updated" date at the top of this page always reflects the current version.
Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, it is modified to the minimum extent needed to make it enforceable, or severed if it cannot be, and the rest stays in force.
No waiver. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it.
Assignment. You may not assign these terms. Function may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
No agency. Nothing here creates a partnership, joint venture, employment, franchise, or agency relationship between you and Function.
Entire agreement. These terms and the documents they incorporate are the entire agreement between you and Function about the platform, and replace anything said or written before.
Electronic communications. You agree to receive communications from Function electronically — by email to the address on your account, or through the app — and that they satisfy any requirement that a communication be in writing.
Third parties. The releases, disclaimers, limitations and indemnities in sections 6, 7, 17, 18 and 19 apply for the benefit of Function's officers, employees, contractors and agents, who may rely on them.
Questions about these terms: hello@function.cx
Written notices to Function must be sent to: We make the function LLC, 1183 University Drive, Ste 105 #2292, Burlington, NC 27215, United States.