Host Terms
Last updated 28 October 2026
These terms apply when you host a ritual on Rituals, in addition to the Terms of Use and the Community Guidelines. They are an agreement between you and the operator of Rituals named on the Contact page ("Rituals", "we").
1. Your role
You run your sessions as an independent provider, in your own name and at your own risk. You are not an employee, agent or partner of Rituals. Rituals provides the platform where guests find and book your sessions and, for sessions paid in the app, collects payment on your behalf and pays your share to you.
2. Kinds of hosts
- Individual hosts run sessions that are free, split the costs among the crew, or are paid to you at the venue. No money for your session passes through Rituals.
- Business hosts (coaches, studios, clubs, schools) can also take a deposit or the full price in the app. To do so you must set up payouts with Stripe (see section 6).
3. Your listings
- Describe each session truthfully: the activity, level, place, time, what is included, the price and what guests must bring or know. Use photos you have the right to use.
- Set the free-cancellation deadline for your sessions. It is shown to guests before they book. Guests who cancel after it get their price back only if someone from the waitlist takes the seat.
- Do not list sessions you cannot run, and do not use Rituals to advertise or sell anything other than the session.
4. Running a session
- Run the session as listed. You are responsible for the venue, the activity, equipment you provide, and the group's safety, including a safety briefing where the activity needs one.
- Have the qualifications, licences, permits and insurance that the law and the activity require. We recommend public liability insurance for every session.
- You may ask guests to accept your waiver in the app before their first session with you. You are responsible for its content and for it being valid where you run sessions; Rituals is not a party to it.
- Check guests in with their QR code or in the app, so their attendance counts.
- Report any accident or incident at a session to us without delay at hello@rituals.team, after calling emergency services if needed.
- Business hosts must not pick or approach guests romantically through Rituals. Individual hosts take part in picks like any guest of their own session, and may choose "more than friends" for at most one guest per session. No host may offer guests private sessions outside the app, or ask for payment outside the app for a session listed as paid in the app.
5. Your guests' information
You receive information about your guests (name, photo, sports level, check-in, request notes, signed waivers, and, for paid seats, names in your earnings) only to run your sessions. Keep it confidential and secure, do not use it for marketing or share it with anyone else, and delete what you no longer need. You are responsible for your own use of it under data protection law.
6. Payments in the app
- Payments are processed by Stripe. To receive payouts you open a Stripe connected account through the app, give Stripe the information it asks for (identity, address, bank account) and accept the Stripe Connected Account Agreement, which includes the Stripe Services Agreement. Stripe may verify your identity and refuse or close an account under its own rules.
- You authorise Rituals to collect payments from guests for your sessions, to issue refunds under these terms, and to instruct Stripe to transfer your share to your connected account and, where these terms allow, to take part of a transfer back.
- A paid session can be published once your payouts are active; you can choose "pay on site" in the meantime.
7. Fees
| Item | Who pays | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Commission | You | 15% of the price you keep for a seat, only when the guest found the session through Explore and had not attended any of your sessions at the time they booked. Guests who come through your own link or an invite, or who have attended your sessions before: 0%. |
| Processing fee | You | 1.5% of the price you keep for each paid seat plus 0.25 in the session's currency (€0.25 in euro), a set fee that covers card processing costs. |
| Booking fee | The guest | 0.99 in the session's currency (€0.99 in euro) per seat paid in the app, none for Pass members. It is Rituals' and does not come out of your price. |
| Listing, free, split-cost and pay-on-site sessions | Nobody | Free |
Your Earnings screen shows, for each date, the seats paid, the commission and card fees, and what you get. We may change fees for the future by telling you at least 30 days in advance.
8. Payouts
- Your share for a date is transferred to your Stripe account the day after the date, at 09:00 local time. Stripe then pays it out to your bank on your Stripe payout schedule; this usually takes a few working days.
- If your payouts are not active (for example Stripe needs more information), transfers wait until they are.
- We may hold transfers for a reasonable time while we look into a complaint, a dispute, a safety incident, or signs of fraud, and release them when that is resolved.
9. Cancellations and refunds
- Guests' cancellations follow your cancellation deadline, as described in Refunds and Cancellations.
- If you decline a request, do not answer it in time, cancel a date, or a date is cancelled because too few people booked or because the conditions make it unsafe, the guests get everything back, including the booking fee, and you receive nothing for those seats.
- If you need to cancel a date that has guests, tell us at hello@rituals.team as early as possible; repeated last-minute cancellations can lead to your listings being limited.
- We may refund a guest, in full or in part, where a session did not take place as listed or the guest was treated in breach of the Community Guidelines. Such a refund comes out of your share for that seat, and if your share was already transferred, we take that part back from your Stripe account. Goodwill refunds that are not your responsibility are paid by Rituals.
10. Disputes and chargebacks
If a guest's bank disputes a payment, Rituals answers the dispute with Stripe, using the booking, waiver, check-in and chat records; please help with any information we ask for. If the dispute is lost because the session did not take place as listed, we may take your share for that seat back from your Stripe account.
11. Taxes and legal duties
You are responsible for declaring your income and for any taxes, social contributions and invoices that apply to your sessions, and for complying with the laws that apply to your activity. Where the law requires, we collect information about hosts and their earnings and report it to the tax authorities (for example under EU Council Directive 2021/514, known as DAC7).
12. Suspension and ending
You can stop hosting at any time; sessions with guests booked must still be run or cancelled under section 9. We may limit, suspend or end your hosting, and hold transfers under section 8, if you break these terms, the Terms of Use, the Community Guidelines or the law, or if guests' safety is at risk. We tell you why and you can appeal as described in the Terms of Use. Payouts for sessions you ran properly remain yours.