Terms of Services
Introduction
Époque (the “Club” or “we” or “us” or “our”) is a member’s club established as an unincorporated association in Gibraltar, and is governed by the provisions of the Club Rules and Gibraltar law. Our registered office is 30/3 Cornwalls Lane, Gibraltar, GX11 1AA
Definitions
Club
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Époque, being an unincorporated association formed under Gibraltar law
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Club Administrator
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Contemporary Art Services Ltd, incorporated in Gibraltar, being the treasurer and the administrator of the Club, or such other entity as appointed by the Club from time to time
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Club Services
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The services provided by the Club from time to time, including, without limitation member events, education and access to our Participation Cars.
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Custodian
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means the appointed entity that owns the Participation Cars on behalf of the Club, or any other Custodian that the Club may appoint from time to time
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Free Equity Entitlements
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Free allocation of Participation Shares to Members, at the Club’s discretion
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Introductory Services
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A referral of new paying Members to the Club
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Member
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A member of the Club
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Nominee
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Premium Nominees Limited
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Participation Cars
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A car in which the Club’s appointed Custodian, is the legal owner in the furtherance of the Club’s business model, on behalf of the Club
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Participation Shares
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The division of the ownership of a Participation Car as determined by the Club Administrator
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Share Allocation
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Discretionary monthly free allocation of Share Entitlements, determined by type of membership and made by the Club Administrator to Members
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Share Entitlement
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A right, which entitles the holder to the ultimate beneficial ownership of an underlying Participation Share.
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Purpose of these Terms
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are for registered Members of the Club and it contain important material regarding the way in which we will provide our services to you and important information on your legal position. These Terms cover the provision of our services to you, which may be updated from time to time without prior notice to you.
Important Information
Please keep in mind that the Club is unregulated by any financial authority and no advice of whatever nature, financial or otherwise, is given or should be implied.
This website does not provide or purport to provide an investment opportunity, investment advice, investment management services of any description or kind.
By engaging in the Club, Members acknowledge that they may be one of a group of other Club Members who may receive free Share Entitlements from time to time and on the Club’s discretion.
Please review the Club Rules and the below information prior to proceeding any further.
Services
The Club's objective is to pool the expertise of Members to exchange knowledge on specific business matters to affect business growth in the Club’s carefully curated collection of Participation Cars. The Club is not carrying out any investment or asset management activities on behalf of its Members. Participations in Participation Cars shall in general be transferred to the Club in the form of remuneration as consideration for investments as principal.
The Club also provides the following associated services: a private peer to peer bulletin board for its Members to trade their Share Entitlements, regular insights, seminars, education in the field of classic cars, and Club events.
The Club provides active curation of Participation Cars with the purpose to maintain and increase the value of the Participation Cars.
The Club and the Club Administrator make all decisions at their own discretion on behalf of the Members in relation to investments and, the disposal of or any other transaction involving Participation Cars.
Charges and Commissions
Members will pay a monthly membership fee to the Club. Membership fees are non-refundable and will be used to cover the costs of running the Club and service providers who themselves render services to Club. The Club will also use membership fees to acquire the Participation Cars. Such participations may result in a free allocation exposure to Members (free Share Entitlements) via their accounts with the Club, per their contributions level on a monthly basis.
The Club's appointed Custodian will retain legal title of all the underlying Participation Shares in Participation Cars and Members will be the ultimate beneficial owners of such Participation Shares.
Members may be entitled to receive introductory benefits in the form of Share Entitlements or commission in respect of new paying members they introduce to the Club.
Please note that your membership fee is a payment for access to the services of the Club and does not necessarily entitle you to receive allocations of Share Entitlements. Membership fees should therefore be regarded as an expense only. You should only pay the Club an amount that you are willing to pay to obtain access to the Services. The cost of membership may be offset by the proceeds from sale of Share Entitlements, which may be allocated to you, at the Club Administrator’s maagement discretion.
If a Participation Car in which you hold a Participation Share loses part or all of its value, neither the Club nor any of its advisors or partners will provide any compensation.
Limited Marketability of Share Entitlements
Participation Shares are not currently transferable through the Club and may have limited marketability. There can be no guarantee that you will be able to sell your Share Entitlements at an acceptable price, or at all.
Valuation of Share Entitlements
From time to time the Club working with the Club Administrator will review the value it places on its underlying Participation Cars. Allocations will be made on a basis, which reflects this valuation, which may be higher or lower than the price at which the Club originally acquired such Participation Shares. If you cease to be a Member, your Equity Entitlements may, at the Club’s discretion be purchased from you at a fair value which will be determined by the Club in its absolute discretion, acting reasonably or, where possible and permitted as determined at the sole discretion by the Club Administrator, the underlying Participation Shares may be transferred to you.
Compliance with Laws and Regulations
As a Member of the Club, you are reminded that you must not post anything on this website or elsewhere relating to the Club, which could constitute a breach of the regulations in your country. Breaches of this can constitute criminal offences with penalties ranging from fines to imprisonment. Considering the real-time nature of any discussion forum on this website, it is impossible for the Club to review messages or confirm the validity of any information posted. Please remember that the Club do not actively monitor the contents of and are not responsible for any messages posted. The Club do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message.
The messages express the views of the author of the message alone, and not any entity associated with the Club. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact the immediately by email. Any such concerns should be emailed to support@epoque.club. The Club has the ability to remove objectionable messages and will make every effort to do so within a reasonable timeframe, if the Club determines that removal is necessary.
This is a manual process, however, so please realise that the Club may not be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use the discussion forum or any other publicly accessible areas of the site to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violation of any law in the region you and this site operates within. You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless, the copyright is owned by you or by the Club. Although the Club does not and cannot review the messages posted on the discussion forums and is not responsible for the content of any of these messages, the Club reserve the right to delete any message for any or no reason whatsoever. You remain solely responsible for the content of your messages, and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Club, and their agents with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your message(s). The Club also reserves the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information the Club know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you. Any breach of your obligations hereunder or as a Member of the Club will entitle the Club to cancel your membership with immediate effect.
Please note that advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, MLM schemes, and solicitations are inappropriate to the content of this website and such postings will be removed. Please note that you may not repost content outside the Club site.
You will as a registered Member be a full Member of the Club, although you may be restricted to certain services according to your membership level. Please treat other website Members with the same respect that you would expect to receive from them.
The Club prohibits the publication in any form of its materials in third party websites, social media platforms and any form of unregulated non-compliant public domain unless expressly approved the Club and its advisers. Misuse of Club materials will be taken very seriously.
Please observe that the Club by law is obligated to prevent money laundering and financing of terrorism by complying with governing regulations, recommendations and general guidelines. This invokes supervision and investigation of transactions, which fall under the regulatory definitions. You, as a Member, are obliged to participate and reveal all information that is demanded in such investigations. While the Club does not prohibit private transactions, the Club is unable to assist in such transactions using the online platform for regulatory reasons. Abuse may lead to the suspension of your account.
Data Protection
The Club abides by all relevant legislation in relation to data protection and in relation to Member’s privacy. Please refer to the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy on the website. With your permission, the Club and its partners may contact you from time to time via email with details of website news, and details of products that the Club believe may be of interest to you. The option to receive such emails is user selectable and is selected during the registration process, and can be changed by the user at any time thereafter, by selecting the relevant option in their user profile screen, or by contacting the Club by e-mail on support@epoque.club.
Leaving the Club
If you wish to terminate your membership with the Club and close your account, you are required to give the Club a one month’s notice in writing. Notices should be sent to support@epoque.club. Your account with all Share Entitlements (not the ownership) can be offered to existing Members at the Club’s internal peer-to-peer trading platform. There is, however, no guarantee that you will be able to sell your Share Entitlements on this platform. The Club is not obligated in any way to acquire member entitlements on closure of an account. All entitlements are issued to members free of charge.
Taxation
Any income or capital gains which you derive from sale of Participation Shares may be subject to direct or indirect taxation depending on the jurisdiction in which you are based.
All Members are responsible for their own tax declarations and payments. The Club expressly does not offer any advice to its Members on their personal tax liabilities or declarations. Members are therefore wholly responsible for their own tax declarations be it income tax or capital gain.
Risk Warning
The Club is not suitable for everyone: The Club is intended for individuals with an interest in learning more about owning classic cars, which carry with them a high degree of risk, and who wish to exchange information and market knowledge about this form of investment model.
Membership of the Club is not an investment: The Club is a private members’ club whose members pay a non-refundable membership fees for its Services only. Your membership fee is a payment for access to the services of the Club and does not entitle you to receive allocations of Share Entitlements. Membership fees should therefore be regarded as an expense only and not as an investment.
Participation Shares carry a high level of risk: As a Member, you may be allocated an entitlement to Participation Shares held by the Club, which can include shares classic cars of different value and condition. Participation Shares in such Participation Cars involve risks, including loss of value and illiquidity:
- Loss of value: Owning classic cars may involve significant risk. It is therefore possible that Participation Cars may lose all, or part of, their value.
- Lack of liquidity: Liquidity is the ease with which persons can sell Participation Shares. Participation Cars acquired by the Club may not be sold easily.
Purchase of additional Share Entitlements: Should you decide to acquire additional Participation Shares in addition to your share allocations on the Club’s peer-to-peer trading platform you are reminded that Share Entitlements are a high risk investment and that you should only purchase Share Entitlements if you can afford to lose the money invested. Furthermore, the value of investments, and the income from them, can go down as well as up and a Member may get back less than the amount invested. Past performance is not a guide to future results.
Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms of Services is governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of Gibraltar and the Parties hereby irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Gibraltar courts.
Member Consent
By accepting these Terms, I hereby confirm that:
- I understand that my monthly payments constitute my membership fees. I also understand that such memberships are non-refundable and, therefore, I have no right to claim these memberships back.
- I hereby authorise the Club to charge my account depending on my membership level.
- I understand that, as part of my membership with the Club, I may be allocated free Share Entitlements and that the Club, its Custodian, as appointed from time to time, will remain as the legal owner of Participation Shares. The allocations to my account with the Club are made in accordance with the Club Rules and these Terms of Services, and the amounts and levels will vary.
- I understand and acknowledge that the Club and/or the Club Administrator are entitled to unilaterally sell, loan or otherwise dispose of any Participation Cars held by the Club or the Custodian on behalf of the Members in so far as any ultimate benefit from such transaction will be allocated to the Member being the ultimate beneficial owner of such Participation Share.
- I understand that the only terms that apply to my membership and its benefits are those officially communicated on the Club’s website: www.epoque.club and nothing else. The Club will not take responsibility for misrepresentation or representation made by its Members or other parties that deviate from this.
- I have read and understood the terms for my membership with the Club in Gibraltar. I therefore fully agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and any supplementary rules appearing on the Club website, and as amended from time to time.