Rules & Policies
Version 1.0 · Last updated 27 September 2026.
The short version: pay monthly or every six months, leave whenever you like and get your unused time back. The one exception is trust. Share your access or leak what happens inside, and that ends immediately, with no refund.
Membership
Member and Regular are the same membership at the same price. Regular is standing, not a product. It is earned by attendance and granted by the host. It cannot be bought, and not being made a Regular is never a billing matter.
Once granted, Regular standing is not lost just for a quiet stretch. It can be revoked by the host, but it does not lapse on its own.
Refunds
Full detail is in the Refund & Cancellation Policy. In short: cancel within 7 days of a payment, having attended nothing since, and you get everything back. After that, your unused time is refunded pro-rata by day, less a small cancellation fee. This applies whether you leave on your own or the club ends your membership for a no-fault reason, like relocating out of Bengaluru.
Nothing else is refundable. The fee is not broken into perks used and unused, so skipping a Room night or missing a Table sitting does not generate a partial credit.
The one exception is a trust violation. That is the only case with no refund at all.
Trust violations, the one hard line
This club works because everyone inside has been met and admitted by a person, and because what happens inside stays inside. Two things break that.
1. Sharing or reselling your access. Letting someone who isn't a member use your group membership or app account, forwarding an invitation as your own, having someone attend in your place, or otherwise extending your membership to someone who hasn't been admitted.
2. Leaking private content. Screenshotting or forwarding the Digest, the member directory, event details, or group conversation to anyone outside the club, in any form.
If confirmed, the consequence is immediate: removal the same day, no refund, no appeal.
Other misconduct
Not everything is a trust violation. Being disruptive at an event, harassment, or a pattern of no-shows after RSVPing damages the room without breaching confidentiality, and is handled case by case.
Turning up, and not turning up
The club only works if the same people keep appearing, so attendance is taken seriously, but the rule is about telling us, not about never missing anything.
If you can't make something you've RSVP'd for, tell us. A message before the event, with the reason, and that is the end of it. There is no limit on how often life gets in the way.
Three no-shows without notice, and your membership goes on hold, pending a conversation. It is not a removal and is not punitive. A held place at a twenty-seat Table is a place someone else wanted, and three unexplained absences is worth a conversation.
Go quiet for more than a month, and we'll check in. Not to chase you or threaten your membership, but to find out what is getting in the way.
Guests and invitations
Regulars may bring one guest to The Table, approved by the host.
Invitations fast-track a candidate to the front of the queue; they do not skip the process. The invitee's application is still read and they still have the short call, and can be turned down like anyone else. Members get one invitation a year, Regulars two.
Using invitations to let outsiders sample the club with no intention of joining is a misuse of the privilege rather than a trust violation. First time, it is a conversation. If it continues, the invitation quota is revoked, with no effect on your own membership.
Disputing a refund amount
If you are leaving and think the refund maths is wrong, you can raise it once. The calculation is mechanical, based on your payment date, your plan and the days remaining, and the decision after that review is final. This does not apply to trust-violation or severe-misconduct removals, which have no appeal by design.
Consent
These rules and the Refund & Cancellation Policy are accepted explicitly before your first payment, and that acceptance is stored.