Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms 🤝

By accessing, browsing, registering on, or submitting digital folders through the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame (IMAHOF) website, you express your legal agreement to comply with these Terms of Service.

If you do not accept or agree to any of the specifications detailed herein, you must immediately discontinue your use of our website and administrative operations.

2. About IMAHOF 🥋

The International Martial Arts Hall of Fame provides informational indices, official recognitions, candidate nomination channels, physical event registration, merit awards, and historical recordkeeping to preserve the heritage of all traditional and modern martial arts disciplines globally.

3. Eligibility & User Responsibilities 👤

You agree to submit only verified, accurate, truthful, and complete details across our application profiles.

As a platform user, you are responsible for:

• Providing accurate registration and nomination metadata.
• Promptly maintaining and correcting submitted candidate timelines.
• Confirming you have received legal permission and power of attorney before submitting a profile of another person.
• Complying fully with applicable statutory laws and organizational regulations.
• Interacting within professional, respectful standards with our review boards.

If acting on behalf of an academy, school, federation, or historical association, you warrant that you hold authorized legal power to represent and bind that organization.

4. Website Use 🌐

Our digital platforms may only be accessed to facilitate genuine legal, informational, and historical honors submissions.

Users are strictly prohibited from:

• Using portal records, databases, or content directories for any illegal or deceptive actions.
• Attempting to bypass security systems, exploit parameters, or execute injection scripts.
• Uploading, injecting, or routing malicious software, worms, spyware, or harmful tracking code.
• Copying, capturing, or scraping website tables, candidate profiles, or rosters without written authority.
• Interfering with connection routing, load balancing, or server processing infrastructure.
• Filing deliberately false, malicious, or deceptive profiles.
• Impersonating grandmasters, federation judges, delegates, or other practitioners.
• Engaging in actions that degrade, compromise, or damage the brand reputation and operations of IMAHOF.

5. Nominations, Applications & Awards 🏆

Submitting a nomination form, historical application, martial arts biography, rank history, or supporting documents does not establish, promise, or guarantee final selection, induction, or receipt of an award.

IMAHOF reserves the discretionary right to:

• Systematically audit and review all submitted credentials and supporting material.
• Request additional certification, reference validations, or verification from federation entities.
• Verify biographical details through global practitioners or historical records where possible.
• Accept, reject, table, or freeze nominations or applications without providing public explanation.
• Alter, delete, or introduce award categories when necessary.
• Withdraw, reconsider, or revoke recognition if significant false or misleading metrics are identified post-selection.

All decisions regarding applications, evaluations, and selections remain subject exclusively to the internal protocols of the IMAHOF Governing Board.

6. Event Registration 🎟️

Users registering for IMAHOF ceremonies, seminars, dinners, or functions must submit correct personal information and follow all guidelines established by localized physical host venues.

Scheduled rosters, venues, programs, presenters, and logistical arrangements may change to accommodate administrative needs.

IMAHOF may modify, postpone, reschedule, or cancel a physical gathering due to safety conditions, force majeure incidents, governmental restrictions, or events beyond our reasonable control.

7. Fees & Payments 💳

Certain processing procedures, banquet ticketing, certification credentials, or registration services may require the payment of administrative fees, which will be communicated prior to execution.

You are responsible for reviewing price structures and details before authorizing transactions.

All financial processing is securely handled by authorized third-party payment gateways. Refunds, transfer protocols, and cancellation details are governed by our separate **Refund and Cancellation Policy** or event-specific parameters.

8. User Content 📁

You may upload or submit martial arts biographies, certificates, rank credentials, references, photographs, video files, and historical portfolios to our systems.

You warrant that you hold the legal copyright permissions to upload and distribute these files.

You grant IMAHOF a worldwide, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, display, reproduce, and archive your approved materials to facilitate:

• Publication on our official web rosters.
• Permanent recordkeeping in physical or digital archives.
• Presentations at physical induction ceremonies.
• Ceremony programs, directories, and award brochures.
• Official digital posts, social directories, and promotional archives.

The uploader retains the copyright of original materials where applicable.

9. Public Information & Recognition 🌍

Because IMAHOF is dedicated to the public preservation of martial arts achievements, select biographical records of inducted candidates will be displayed publicly in our honors registry.

This public display includes details such as:

• Full Name, title, and country of representation.
• Verified Martial Arts styles, ranks, and organizational details.
• Biographical outlines, photographs, and historical achievements.
• Assigned award categories and induction years.

Do not upload private contact details or sensitive personal documents unless specifically requested for secure verification.

10. Intellectual Property Rights 🛡️

The design elements, typographic layouts, graphics, branding logos, text, official trademarks, and original publications on this site belong to IMAHOF and are protected by applicable trademark and copyright laws.

You may not copy, repurpose, distribute, modify, sell, or commercially exploit any material belonging to IMAHOF without receiving prior, explicit written permission.

The **International Martial Arts Hall of Fame (IMAHOF)** logo and corporate titles must not be utilized for unauthorized commercial promotions, school endorsements, or false certifications.

11. Third-Party Links & Services 🔗

Our web portal contains hyperlinks pointing to external websites, payment portals, and social networks.

IMAHOF does not run, maintain, govern, or check these outside properties. We are not liable or responsible for their content, performance, safety parameters, or data policies.

12. Privacy Policy 🔒

The gathering, storage, and processing of personal identifiers is governed strictly by the official IMAHOF Privacy Policy.

13. General Disclaimer ⚠️

The contents of this website are presented exclusively for general informational, educational, and honor registry purposes.

While we make reasonable efforts to maintain the accuracy of our records, IMAHOF does not guarantee that the portal contents will always remain complete, error-free, corrected, or current.

14. Limitation of Liability ⚖️

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable laws, the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame (IMAHOF), its Governing Board, directors, officers, or administrative agents shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your access to, use of, or inability to use this website, services, registry listings, or physical ceremonies.

15. Indemnification 🛡️

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame, its board members, and volunteers from and against any claims, losses, liabilities, costs, or damages resulting from your unlawful use of this site, violation of these Terms, or your infringement of any copyright of any third party.

16. Suspension & Termination 🚫

IMAHOF reserves the right to suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the portal or digital databases without prior notice if we identify:

• Deliberate falsification of biographical and martial arts rank data.
• Fraudulent transaction actions or chargebacks.
• System abuse, harassment of board members, or server threats.
• Direct breaches or violations of these Terms of Service.

17. Changes to the Website 🔄

IMAHOF reserves the right to update, modify, suspend, or discontinue any feature, service option, registry list, event plan, or content database at our discretion and without liability.

18. Changes to These Terms 📝

We may update, modify, or rewrite these Terms of Service periodically to adapt to legal changes or changes in award procedures. All updates will be published directly on this page with a revised "Effective Date" at the top.

19. Governing Law 🏛️

These Terms of Service shall be governed by, construed, and interpreted in accordance with applicable laws and regulations governing organizational operations, without regard to conflict of law principles.

20. Contact Information 📞

For general inquiries regarding these Terms of Service, legal audits, permissions, or registry listings, please reach out to our administrative secretariat using the contact card below.