Terms of Use

Who owns what is here

The Season (theseason.vip) and its contents are owned by Katrina Thunem, Norway. That includes every event description, dress code note, cost range, booking window, insider tip and travel note on this site, together with the way the calendar is selected, categorised, arranged and presented.

These are original works protected by copyright under the Norwegian Copyright Act (åndsverkloven) and the corresponding law of every other country in which they are published. No licence to reproduce them is granted except as set out below.

The catalogue is a protected database

The event catalogue behind this site is the result of substantial investment in obtaining, verifying and presenting its contents. Every entry was researched individually, checked against primary sources, and rejected where it could not be verified. That investment is asserted, and the catalogue is protected as a database in its own right under section 24 of the Norwegian Copyright Act and the equivalent sui generis database right across the European Economic Area, independently of copyright in the individual entries.

Extraction or re-utilisation of the whole or a substantial part of the catalogue, whether measured by quantity or by the value of the investment it represents, is prohibited. So is the repeated and systematic extraction of insubstantial parts where it amounts in effect to taking a substantial part.

What you are welcome to do

Read it, plan your year around it and use it for your own personal or household purposes. Link to any page. Quote a passage with attribution and a link back. Share a page with a friend.

Search engines and AI answer engines are welcome to crawl, index, summarise and cite this site, and to quote from it in answers, provided the answer credits The Season and links to the page it came from. That permission is given deliberately: we would rather be the source that gets cited than the site nobody can read. It is a permission to cite, not a permission to copy the catalogue.

What you may not do

Without written permission you may not:

What we do not promise about event details

Read this part properly, because it matters more than the rest.

Dates, ticket arrangements, dress codes, prices, hotels and booking windows are researched carefully and stated honestly, but they change, and organisers change them without notice. Where an edition has finished we say so rather than showing a stale date, and where a date cannot be verified we say that instead of inventing one. Even so, everything on this site is provided for planning purposes only and without any warranty that it is current, complete or correct.

Always confirm dates, prices, entry requirements and dress codes directly with the organiser before you book travel, tickets or accommodation. We are not an agent, a ticket seller, a travel provider or an organiser of any event listed, and we are not responsible for any cost or loss arising from a booking made in reliance on what is written here. Nothing in these terms limits liability for anything that cannot lawfully be limited, and nothing here affects the statutory rights of a consumer.

Links to official event sites are offered for convenience. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for them.

Writing about an event

Members will be able to record what an event was actually like, and those accounts are the point: what the room was, who was there, whether it was worth it. They are more useful than anything a brochure will tell you, and they only stay useful if they are written by people prepared to be measured.

Be as critical as the event deserves. If it was overpriced, badly run, a poor crowd or simply not worth the airfare, say so. An honest negative account is worth more than a polite one, and we would rather publish it than lose it. What we ask is that it reads like it was written by someone whose judgement you would trust.

Anything falling under the above is removed when we find it, without notice and without an appeal. Repeated or deliberate breaches end the account, and the subscription is not refunded. We may remove a contribution for any of these reasons alone, and we are not obliged to explain which. That standard is not there to protect events from criticism. It is there because an account full of invective is worth nothing to the person deciding whether to spend four thousand pounds and a week of their year on a trip, and because the organisers whose events are listed here deserve to be written about by adults.

You keep ownership of what you write. By posting it you give us a licence to display it on The Season, to show it alongside the event it concerns, and to edit it for length or clarity without changing its meaning. Ask us to remove your contributions at any time and we will, as set out in the privacy policy.

If something published here is inaccurate or should not be there, write to hello@theseason.vip and we will look at it properly. That includes organisers: if a member has written something about your event that is untrue, tell us and we will deal with it.

The waitlist and early access

Joining the waitlist places you on a list to be told when The Season opens. It is not a purchase, it does not reserve anything, and it does not create a contract. We may change, delay or discontinue the product. How we handle your email address is set out in the privacy policy.

Changes, law and contact

These terms may be updated, and the date at the top will change when they are. They are governed by Norwegian law, and the courts of Oslo have jurisdiction, save that a consumer keeps any right to bring proceedings in their own country of residence.

For permission to use anything here beyond what is allowed above, write to hello@theseason.vip. We are usually happy to say yes if you ask.