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The Association offers two memberships: Standard Membership at $10 per month and Premium Membership at $100 per month. Each is a monthly subscription, paid in advance, that renews automatically every month until you cancel it, and each renewal is charged to the payment method on file. We may change the price of a membership. Existing members receive 30 days' notice by email before a new price applies to them, and a new price never applies to a month already paid for.

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Member discussion areas are for substantive engagement with the research. We may remove content or suspend memberships for harassment, spam, or misrepresentation of Association work. Work you submit for review remains yours; accepted submissions are published in the archive with full attribution under the license you agree to at submission.

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We may update these terms; material changes are announced to members with notice before taking effect. Questions: members@catastrophism.org. Governing law: Wyoming, USA.