Terms of Use

1. Operator

InkRadar is operated by Nick Marien.

Contact email: info@inkradar.eu

Business address: Rue Piquet 12, 7500 Tournai, Belgium

2. The Service

InkRadar is a platform that helps users discover tattoo studios and artists, view portfolios, follow shops, send messages, and interact with content. Tattoo shops and artists may create profiles, upload images, publish posts, and manage their presence on the platform.

InkRadar may update, improve, suspend, or limit parts of the service at any time where reasonably necessary for technical, legal, or security reasons.

3. Eligibility

InkRadar is intended exclusively for users who are 18 years of age or older, consistent with the minimum legal age for tattooing in Belgium and most EU member states. By creating an account, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old. InkRadar reserves the right to terminate accounts found to belong to minors.

4. Accounts

• You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials.
• You must provide accurate information and keep it reasonably up to date.
• You may not impersonate another person, artist, or business.
• You may not create multiple accounts to circumvent a suspension or platform restriction.
• InkRadar may suspend or terminate accounts involved in abuse, fraud, or repeated policy violations.

5. Tattoo Shop and Artist Profiles

Shops and artists are responsible for the accuracy of the information they publish on their profile. Profile information, images, and posts are visible to other platform users.

Claim requests for shop profiles must be honest and submitted only by people who are genuinely authorized to represent the relevant business. InkRadar may review, reject, or revoke ownership claims where fraud, error, or insufficient proof is identified.

Where InkRadar requires verification documents such as hygiene diplomas, these must be genuine. Submitting false documents may result in permanent account termination and may be reported to relevant authorities.

6. User Content

You remain responsible for the images, text, posts, and profile information you upload or publish. By submitting content to InkRadar, you confirm that you have the rights needed to publish it and that it does not infringe third-party intellectual property rights.

By posting content, you grant InkRadar a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, revocable license to host, store, display, format, and distribute that content solely for operating, promoting, and improving the platform. This license ends when you delete the content or close your account, subject to any operational backup retention period.

7. Prohibited Conduct

You may not:

• upload unlawful, defamatory, hateful, violent, sexually exploitative, or copyright-infringing content;
• submit false shop claims or misleading business information;
• publish fake reviews, manipulate engagement, or artificially inflate metrics;
• attempt to hack, scrape, overload, or disrupt the platform or its infrastructure;
• circumvent security controls or access data you are not authorized to access;
• use the service for spam, harassment, fraud, or illegal commercial activity;
• use automated tools to access or extract platform data without prior written permission.

8. Search Ranking Integrity

InkRadar's search and discovery results are based on objective factors including distance, selected tattoo style, experience, and profile completeness. Premium subscription status does not purchase search rank placement or guaranteed visibility above non-premium profiles, unless this is explicitly and transparently changed in the future with advance notice to users.

9. Paid Subscriptions

InkRadar offers optional paid plans for shops (€5.00/month) and artists (€1.00/month) that unlock additional platform features. Payments are processed securely by Stripe.

• Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled before the renewal date.
• You may cancel at any time through the billing portal in your account settings.
• InkRadar does not offer refunds for partial billing periods unless required by applicable Belgian consumer law.
• Paid features do not guarantee business results, leads, bookings, or revenue.
• InkRadar reserves the right to change subscription pricing with reasonable advance notice to existing subscribers.

10. Intellectual Property

The InkRadar brand, platform design, software, and original platform content are owned by or licensed to InkRadar's operator, except for user-generated content which remains owned by its respective creators. Nothing in these terms transfers ownership of InkRadar's intellectual property to users.

11. Availability and No Warranty

The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. InkRadar does not guarantee uninterrupted availability, error-free operation, or that all listings, posts, claims, or interactions will always be accurate or complete. InkRadar is not responsible for third-party outages (including Supabase, Stripe, or mapping providers) that affect platform availability.

12. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent allowed by applicable Belgian and EU law, InkRadar is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or loss-of-profit damages arising from use of the platform. InkRadar's total liability for any claim shall not exceed the amount paid by the user to InkRadar in the 12 months preceding the claim, or €100, whichever is greater. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded under Belgian consumer protection law or EU law.

13. Third-Party Services

InkRadar relies on third-party services including Supabase (authentication and database), Stripe (payments), Plausible (analytics), Leaflet/OpenStreetMap (maps), and Google (OAuth sign-in). InkRadar is not responsible for outages, policy changes, or failures caused by those third-party services.

14. Termination

InkRadar may suspend or terminate access where reasonably necessary for safety, legal compliance, fraud prevention, or violation of these terms. Users may delete their account at any time from account settings. Upon account deletion, user-generated content and personal data will be removed in accordance with the Privacy Policy.

15. Governing Law and Disputes

These terms are governed by Belgian law. Any dispute arising from the use of InkRadar that cannot be resolved amicably shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Belgium, without prejudice to mandatory consumer protection rights you may have under the law of your country of residence within the EU.

EU consumers may also use the European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.

16. Changes

InkRadar may update these Terms of Use from time to time. The latest version will be posted at inkradar.eu/terms.html with a revised update date. Continued use of the platform after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated terms. For significant changes, InkRadar will notify registered users where reasonably practicable.