Listing rules

Every listing must:

• be for adults aged 18 or over;
• be a real event with a date, a location or a stated online format, and a way to attend;
• have an organiser page, ticket page, or contact route we can link to;
• state its entry rules, dress requirements, and price where the organiser publishes them; and
• be lawful, and comply with its venue’s rules and any licensing requirements.

• Anything involving, or appearing to involve, anyone under 18. There is no exception to this and no context that makes it acceptable.
• Commercial sexual services, escorting, or anything presenting sex as the paid-for product.
• Events whose promotion depends on explicit sexual imagery. We do not host adult media.
• Events that discriminate unlawfully.
• Anything that appears to be unlawful, or that is being used to coerce, traffic, or harm.
• Events that are unsafe on their face, or that publish no consent or conduct arrangements where the format plainly needs them.
• Listings placed by someone with no authority to place them.
• Duplicate listings for the same occurrence.

We describe what the organiser publishes and nothing more.

A costume or cosplay night is not labelled sex-positive, kink-friendly, or play-permitted unless the organiser says so. A listing separates what the organiser states from what we have checked, and labels each.

Where a detail is missing, the listing says “Not stated” rather than dropping the field. An absent answer is information.

For each listing we record the source, the date we saw it, and what we could confirm. Where we have confirmed something ourselves, the listing says so and gives the date. For an accessibility fact it also names how we checked, such as a venue visit or a call to the venue. The freshness line at the top of a listing gives the date without the method. Where we have not confirmed something, the listing attributes it to the organiser.

Checking means the detail matched the organiser’s own published information on the date shown. It does not mean:

• that the event will happen;
• that the information is still current;
• that we have visited the venue or attended the event;
• that we have assessed the event’s safety, consent arrangements, or accessibility; or
• that we endorse the organiser.

The organiser’s own page is always the final word.

Sources

We index events from organisers’ own pages, from ticketing platforms, and from listings organisers submit directly. A source stays switched off until someone has read its robots file and its terms and turned it on by hand. Where the terms are unclear, or refuse it, the source stays off. Closed groups and private social accounts are recorded but never fetched.

If a source stops responding, or its robots file refuses us, the run records the failure and we stop fetching it. We check that record by hand rather than being alerted automatically, and a change to a source’s terms is something we have to notice ourselves. A failed fetch does not delete anything. A listing we can no longer confirm is marked as out of date and stays visible, because a listing that quietly disappears tells you less than one that says when it was last checked.

Images

We publish a photograph only where we have a record of the right to use it, and a person approves it before it goes public. Where there is no such photograph, the listing carries generated artwork made from its own details instead. That artwork is decoration. It is not a picture of the event or the venue.

Corrections

The fastest way to fix a listing is to tell us. Organisers can claim a listing and then send a correction from their dashboard, which a person reads and applies by hand. Anyone else can use the report page, or write to report@othernights.com. Where the organiser’s own page supports the correction we make it without argument. Our target for a wrong or out-of-date listing is 5 working days.

When using the site, do not:

• attempt to identify other users, or to work out who has saved or viewed anything;
• scrape or copy the directory in bulk;
• submit false listings, false claims, or malicious reports;
• use the site to harass, out, or expose anyone; or
• use listings to contact organisers or attendees for anything other than the event.

Discretion runs in both directions. This site is built so that what you look at stays yours. Do not use it to compromise anyone else’s.

Anything wrong, unsafe, unlawful, or infringing goes through the report page or straight to report@othernights.com. Our target for a safety report is 1 working day. The full terms are at terms of use.