Community & Participation Code

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The Interlude Café
Updated: 11 August 2026

This Code explains the standards of participation expected in The Interlude Café ("The IC") when someone reads, subscribes, responds, completes an assessment, attends an event, contributes material, or otherwise interacts with The IC. It is intended to support a serious, respectful and useful environment for people aged 45 to 75 building longer, postlinear lives.

1. Who Operates The IC

The IC is a public-facing brand and project operated by Midlennial Ventures Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 15913892.

Registered Office:
71-75 Shelton Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9JQ
United Kingdom

For questions about this Code, contact hello@midlennial.com.

2. What The IC Is For

The IC is a media and learning platform for people aged 45 to 75, built around recognition, reframing, structured exploration and meaningful next moves. It is not coaching, therapy, financial planning, investment advice, retirement advice, medical advice, legal advice, tax advice or emergency support.

The IC is currently focused on publishing, email audience-building, structured assessment and learning activity. It does not currently operate as a full membership community, social network, app, forum or peer-support service.

3. The Participation Standard

When participating in The IC, you should:

  • engage in good faith and treat other people with respect;
  • recognise that readers, subscribers and participants may be at different life stages, financial positions and levels of confidence;
  • avoid harassment, bullying, intimidation, personal attacks, hateful conduct or discriminatory behaviour;
  • avoid submitting deliberately false, misleading, unlawful, defamatory, abusive or infringing material;
  • respect confidentiality where a workshop, event, assessment, interview or research activity makes that expectation clear;
  • avoid using The IC spaces to promote unrelated products, services, political campaigns, fundraising, spam or commercial offers without permission; and
  • make your own decisions and seek qualified professional advice where your circumstances require it.

4. Assessment Participation

The IC may offer the Work-Money-Life Snapshot or another structured assessment, research or reflection activity. Participation must be voluntary, accurate to the best of your knowledge, and limited to information you are comfortable providing.

Assessment outputs are for general reflection and learning only. They are based on limited information and are not a diagnosis, decision, recommendation, suitability assessment, financial plan, therapy intervention, legal opinion, employment assessment or regulated professional advice.

When completing an assessment or structured form, you should not:

  • submit information about another person unless you have a lawful basis and their authority;
  • submit health information, special-category data or highly sensitive personal information unless The IC specifically requests it and provides appropriate privacy information;
  • use an assessment for urgent, crisis, safeguarding, medical, legal, financial or other high-stakes support; or
  • treat an output, score, prompt, report or follow-up as a substitute for your own judgement or for qualified professional advice.

Assessment data is handled under The IC Privacy Notice and any assessment-specific notice or consent wording shown before collection.

5. Comments, Contributions and User Material

If The IC enables comments, replies, testimonials, questions, community contributions, event chat, interviews, research responses or other user-submitted material, participants remain responsible for what they submit.

The IC may moderate, edit, refuse, remove, archive or decline to publish material where reasonably necessary to protect people, the integrity of the platform, legal rights, privacy, intellectual property, security or the quality of the environment.

The IC is not obliged to host, publish, respond to or preserve any contribution. Where a product, event or research activity has additional submission rules, those rules also apply.

6. Events, Workshops and Group Activity

If The IC offers events, workshops, interviews, research sessions or group activities, participants may be asked to follow additional rules about attendance, recording, confidentiality, respectful conduct and cancellation.

Unless expressly permitted, participants should not record, reproduce, publish, quote or identify another participant from an event or group activity without permission.

7. Boundaries and Safety

The IC is not directed at children, and should not be used to submit a child's personal data unless The IC has specifically requested it and the person submitting it is legally entitled to do so.

The IC does not provide crisis support. If you or someone else may be at immediate risk, you should contact emergency services or an appropriate professional support service. The IC may decline, pause or redirect engagement where a request falls outside its role.

8. Intellectual Property and Fair Use

The IC's articles, assessments, frameworks, prompts, reports, tools, visual materials, branding and other content are protected by copyright, trade mark and other intellectual property rights. Unless separate terms permit it, materials are for personal, non-commercial use only.

Do not copy, sell, license, republish, adapt, scrape, train models on, or use The IC materials to create a competing commercial service without written permission. Fair quotation and ordinary sharing of links are allowed where lawful and properly attributed.

9. Reports, Concerns and Complaints

If you are concerned about conduct, content, assessment handling, privacy, accessibility or another issue connected with The IC, contact hello@midlennial.com with enough information for us to understand the matter.

We will try to handle concerns fairly and proportionately. Depending on the issue, we may ask for more information, remove or correct content, restrict access, update guidance, refer to the relevant legal terms or privacy notice, or decide that no action is required.

10. Updates to This Code

This Code may be updated as The IC develops. A fuller community or participation policy should be created before The IC introduces a genuine member community, public comments, peer circles, recurring group discussions or other sustained participant-to-participant activity.

The effective date above will show when this Code was last materially updated.

This Code should be read alongside the documents that apply to the relevant activity:

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