Terms of Service

By using CF at thecf.online you accept these terms and our Privacy Policy. If you don't accept them, please don't use the service.

CF is a library of Christian teaching — video gathered from YouTube and shown here in order, written pathways, and ebooks — together with channels for the teachers who make it. Creators may also offer business tools: bookings, one-to-one sessions, quotes, invoices, and contracts signed on the platform, and campaigns that receive support from others.

We may change, suspend, or discontinue any part of CF. Where a change matters to you, we will give reasonable notice.

To hold an account on CF you must:

• Be at least 16 years old, and at least 18 to be paid through CF;
• Give accurate registration details and keep them current;
• Keep your sign-in credentials to yourself;
• Take responsibility for what happens under your account.

Sending a booking request or signing a document does not require an account. When you do either as a guest, these terms still apply to that act.

You agree not to:

• Use CF for anything unlawful, or break the law where you are;
• Infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy, or other rights;
• Post material that is abusive, harassing, deceptive, or targets a person or group with hatred;
• Post, sell, or solicit payment for adult material — nudity, explicit sexual acts, or sexual services of any kind — including behind a membership, a paywall, or in a private session;
• Engage in, encourage, promote, or celebrate unlawful violence, or hate speech toward any group on the basis of race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other immutable characteristic;
• Misrepresent who you are, or claim a channel, ministry, or credential that is not yours;
• Disrupt the service, evade its limits, or try to reach any part of it you have not been given;
• Scrape, resell, or bulk-extract CF's content or other people's information.

Publishing here is not open by default. Applying involves affirming CF's published doctrinal statement, and may involve vouches from existing creators. Approval is at our discretion, and a channel may be reviewed, suspended, or removed if its teaching turns out to depart from what was affirmed, or if these terms are broken.

Creators keep ownership of what they make. By publishing on CF you grant us a non-exclusive licence to host, display, embed, and promote that material on CF and in describing CF elsewhere. You confirm you have the rights to everything you publish, including any YouTube channel you claim — which we verify before importing.

In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all things, charity. Disagreement over secondary matters is not, by itself, cause for removal.

6.1 CF is not a party to the engagement

When you book a creator, or a creator accepts your request, the agreement is between the two of you. CF provides the tools — the calendar, the request, the quote, the contract, the invoice — and nothing more. We do not vet, guarantee, supervise, or insure any engagement, and we are not responsible for whether it happens, how it goes, or whether either side is paid what they expected.

6.2 Electronic signatures

Documents signed on CF are signed electronically, and both sides intend them to be binding. With each signature we record the signer's name and email, the time, the IP address, and the browser used, and we freeze a copy of the document as it stood at signing, with a hash so that later alteration would show. That record is evidence of the agreement and is kept accordingly. Whether a particular document is legally enforceable is a matter of the law that governs it, not of CF.

6.3 Slots and holds

Requesting a time slot holds it for a limited period so two people cannot claim it at once. A hold is not a confirmed booking: the creator still has to accept. Unaccepted holds are released automatically.

6.4 Cancellation

Cancellation and refund terms for an engagement are whatever the creator and the client agreed, ordinarily in the contract signed here. CF does not set them and does not arbitrate them.

7.1 How money moves

Payments are processed by Stripe, and micro-payments by Trickl. CF does not hold, escrow, or take custody of anyone's money. Funds go to the creator's connected payment account, less the platform fee and the processor's own fees. How quickly they land is a matter for the processor and the creator's bank, not for us.

Who you are buying from depends on what you are buying. A gift, a membership, a pledge to a campaign, or a booked session is paid straight to the creator's own account: they are the seller of record, their name is what appears on your statement, and CF takes only its fee. An ebook or a course is different — that is material CF stores and delivers, so CF is the seller of record for it and passes the price to the creator less its fee. Either way, the creator is responsible for delivering what you paid for and for agreeing any refund (see 7.3).

7.2 Giving is giving

Support given to a creator or a campaign is a gift to that creator, not a purchase, an investment, a deposit, or a pre-order, and CF is not a bank or a money transmitter. Anything a creator promises in return — access, materials, thanks, an outcome — is promised by them, not by CF. We do not verify or guarantee it.

7.3 Refunds

Because funds pass to the creator, CF does not refund from platform money. Ask the creator; they may refund from their own balance through their processor. You keep whatever rights you have to dispute a card charge with your card issuer, and those disputes are settled by the card networks under their own rules. Repeated or unfounded chargebacks may cost you your account.

7.4 Fees and tax

CF charges a platform fee, shown before you confirm, which we may change with notice. Creators are responsible for their own taxes on what they receive, and for the accuracy of what they invoice.

7.5 What may not be monetised

No payment on CF — membership, tip, gift, campaign, ebook sale, booking, session, quote, or invoice — may be taken for content or services of these kinds:

• Adult content and services: material containing nudity or explicit sexual acts, and paid sexual services (for example subscriber-only nude images, or adult audio or video live chat);
• Intellectual property or proprietary rights infringement.
• Copyright-infringing content — music, books, or video offered without the rights holder's permission.
• Violent extremism: material that engages in, encourages, promotes, or celebrates unlawful violence, or hate speech toward any group based on race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other immutable characteristic.
• Anything our payment providers prohibit: drugs and drug paraphernalia, weapons, tobacco, gambling, counterfeit or unauthorised goods, unlicensed financial or medical offers, and schemes that promise a return. Their published lists of restricted and prohibited businesses apply here in full.

This applies to everything CF hosts, embeds, or helps sell, whichever processor the payment runs through. We refuse, reverse, or withhold payouts on such content, and remove the channel.

7.6 We check for this automatically

Everything published or sold here is screened by our own system: a book, a course, a campaign, a service listing, a channel profile, a comment, and the title and description of every video imported into the library. It runs when something is published, again whenever it is edited, and on a regular sweep of everything already here.

What it refuses is not published. What it doubts stays up with payments on it stopped — no sale, no gift, no pledge, no booking, and no payout — until a person has looked and written down what they decided. If we were wrong, we say so and release it; if we were right, section 7.5 says what follows. Material involving children is not queued at all: the channel stops immediately.

The check reads what is written, not what is believed. It has no view on doctrine, and never will: a concern about someone's teaching is a matter for the process in section 5, raised by a person and answered by people.

CF respects copyright and expects the same of everyone here. Some of what you see we do not hold at all: the video library embeds YouTube, so it plays from YouTube under its terms and its rights holders' settings, and a video removed there disappears from here automatically. Ebooks, courses, written pathways, and the material creators upload we do host, and we remove that ourselves.

8.1 Anyone may report, account or not

Every public page carries a report link — a video, a book, a channel. You do not need an account to use it: leave an email address instead and we will tell you what we did. Reports go to a queue a person reads, and cover copyright and other rights, adult material, violence or hate, impersonation, and anything unlawful. Concerns about what is taught have their own route, and their own published process — see section 5.

8.2 Copyright notices

If you believe material on CF infringes your copyright, use the report link or write to support@thecf.online identifying the work, where the material is on CF, your contact details, and a statement that you hold the rights or act for whoever does. Where a notice is valid we will remove or disable the material, tell the creator, let them answer, and remove channels that infringe repeatedly.

CF works alongside YouTube, Google, Clerk, Stripe, Trickl, and Amazon Web Services. Using those parts of CF also means accepting their terms. Our use of Google APIs is described in section 5 of the Privacy Policy, and follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.

The CF name, design, written pathways, doctrinal map, and software are ours or our licensors', and are protected by copyright and trademark law. These terms give you no licence to them beyond using CF as it is meant to be used.

CF is provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind beyond those the law will not let us exclude. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free, that the teaching published here will suit your situation, or that any creator will perform as you hoped.

To the extent the law allows, CF is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, nor for lost profits, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of or inability to use the service. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the greater of the fees you paid CF in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred United States dollars. Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

You may close your account at any time. We may suspend or end access where these terms are broken, where the law requires it, or where continuing would put others at risk — with notice when circumstances allow, and immediately when they do not. Obligations already incurred, contracts already signed, and payments already made survive the ending.

We may revise these terms. Where a revision is material we will give at least 30 days' notice before it takes effect. Continuing to use CF after that is acceptance; if you would rather not, close your account.

Questions about these terms, or a copyright notice: support@thecf.online.