The ground rules.

A place for touring crew, creatives, artists and the business side to find each other, hold dates and talk. We are not a party to any booking, we don’t handle payments, and we don’t employ or vouch for anyone listed. Any agreement you reach is between you and the other person.

Strobecall is run by its founder, based in Hong Kong, as an individual while the company that will take it over is being formed. The company's name, registration and address will be listed here the day it is registered.

• You must be 18 or over.
• Use your real identity or the professional name you actually work under. One person, one account.
• Keep your password to yourself. You’re responsible for what happens under your account.
• Keep your profile honest: your own work, your real skills, your actual whereabouts.

Sending requests, posting gigs and responding to gigs needs a verified account. Verification means a person looked at what you sent and found it plausible. It is not a background check, an endorsement or a guarantee of anyone’s work or conduct. We can decline or remove verification at our discretion.

• Pretending to be someone else, or claiming to represent an artist you don’t.
• Harassment, threats, hate or sexual content.
• Spam, scraping the Directory or mass unsolicited requests.
• Uploading work that isn’t yours or that you don’t have the right to show.
• Anything illegal, or using the site to get around someone’s block.

You keep all rights to your photos, text and everything else you upload. You give us permission to store it and show it on Strobecall in line with your visibility setting, and nothing more. We don’t sell it, license it on or use it for advertising. Delete it and it’s gone from the site.

Notes you keep about other people on your Shortlist are private to you. Keep them factual and civil: they are about a real person, and the law in some places lets that person ask what is held about them.

A hold on Strobecall (a request, a soft hold or a confirmed date) is a way of reserving a date and keeping the conversation in one place. It is not a contract. Fees, deposits, cancellations, travel and everything else are for you and the other person to agree, ideally in writing. We can’t mediate disputes about work or money.

You can block anyone and report any profile, post or agency from its page. Someone without an account can report content through the contact page (choose “Report content” and include the link). A person on our team reads every report.

What can happen: nothing, if the report doesn’t hold up; a post taken down; verification removed; or an account closed, after a warning for repeated misuse and without one for anything serious or illegal. If your post is taken down you get an email saying why. If you think a decision was wrong, reply to that email or write to contact@strobecall.com within 30 days and say why; a person will look at it again and tell you the outcome.

If something on Strobecall infringes your copyright or other rights, email contact@strobecall.com with the link and what you claim. We remove on a plausible notice and tell the member, who can contest it the same way. Repeat infringers lose their account.

You can delete your own account at any time from Account.

contact@strobecall.com is the single point of contact for members, for anyone with a notice about content, and for authorities, in English. We answer by email.

Strobecall is provided as it is. We work to keep it running and accurate, but we don’t promise it will always be available or error-free, and profile information comes from the people who wrote it. To the extent the law allows, we aren’t liable for losses arising from bookings, from other members’ conduct, or from the site being unavailable. Nothing here limits rights you have under consumer law that can’t be limited.

These terms are governed by the laws of Hong Kong, and disputes go to the courts of Hong Kong, except that nothing here takes away the protection of laws in the place you live that apply regardless of this choice.

If these terms change in a way that matters, we’ll update the date at the top and tell signed-in members before it takes effect. Carrying on using the site after that means you accept the new version.